NESCAFE

NESCAFE is one of the key brands in the Nestlé portfolio at Publicis Conseil and the Strategic Business Unit (SBU) is key to the global ambition of the NESCAFE brand. The brand is operating a massive strategic and creative shift, and the team is responsible for creating, launching, and managing the brand platform and following up on local developments in a collaborative manner. Publicis Conseil has a key role in local developments, especially as the client SBU does not have any brand governance in place.

The markets are divided into 5 regions: Greater China, LATAM, AOA, North America, and Z-Europe. The Z-EU is the only area that is centralized and therefore not managed by this SBU but by another team at Publicis Conseil.

We are currently looking for a hybrid bilingual Account Director can manage projects across a variety of topics (International network, platform, 360 campaign, social, etc.)

whose duration can vary between approximately 2 and 6 months, which all call on several areas of expertise, within a methodological framework existing or to be created.

EXPERTISE

• Prior experience of managing within a network and/or international network digital, ATL and potentially CRM projects.
• Organization & Project management:
  • Build and regularly monitor the timelines on the basis of the validated esti-mate with the appropriate agency / partners
  • Interact regularly with traffic and Creative resource for the booking and planning of resources (staffing)
  • Develop the brief with the experts and know how to communicate and fol-low it internally
  • On-board and orchestrate the transversal team (internally: Strategy, Crea-tive. Externally: Tech supplier, CRM, SEO team, local or regional agency) and organize/present internal & client kick-offs
  • Follow the scope (scope of engagement) and be able to identify changes having an impact on the schedule and/or budget
  • Monitor the production of deliverables, their quality and their performance (creative & production). Agile project management experience is an advan-tage
  • Identify and escalate alerts to management and client
  • Identify the risks and propose a mitigation plan
  • Contribute / develop certain deliverables (reports / synthesis, etc.)
  • Contact and maintain the relationship with external partners
• Reporting:
  • Prepare operational steering bodies (worklist, weekly report, etc.)
  • Formalize and distribute the agendas, reports, assessments

MANAGEMENT

• At ease managing international Mid to Senior level clients in English. Other lan-gages a bonus.
• Day to day management of a small team internally as well as day to day manage-ment of the client across a variety of subjects – in constantly evolving situations
• Coordinate internally, facilitate and monitor interventions by the Agency's experts in and/or external partners the different phases of the project
• Market coordination – providing onboarding support to global markets, supervise strategic and creative development the delivers the brand strategy consistently. This includes constant monitoring ensruign work is on track and aligned to central to mitigate risks across any project/campaign development.
• Understand the technical issues of projects and know how to work in good collabo-ration with all expertises

• 4/5 years in a communication or business school, with at least 5 years’ experience in an advertising agency or a communication group (FMCG experience is a plus).
• Fluent English (oral and written)
• Highly developed strategic and organizational skills with a strong sense of priorities to ensure effective project management.
• Interpersonal skills, ability to listen, willingness to push ideas and to be resilient if necessary to adjust them.
• Team spirit and “drive”.

SOFT SKILLS

• Fluent English is mandatory.
• Rigor
• Curiosity - desire to progress
• Reactivity and (above all) proactivity
• Autonomy
• Team spirit
• Solution oriented for the client
• Clear, rigorous, concise, and exemplary oral and written communication (spelling, content, frequency)