Senior Consultant– Marketing Agency - Parktown North – R40 000.00
We have a new exciting vacancy for a consultant to join its client service, aka consulting, team. Interested parties need to have a minimum 7 years’ experience as a project manager, campaign manager and/or account manager within the Marketing industry.

A bit about the company
This dynamic company is a specialist internal marketing agency. The structure consists of the following areas:
• Creative
• Client service (Consultants)
• Strategy
• Business support
The culture is considered to be extremely performance driven, fun, flexible, and quirky.

A day in the life of a consultant:
A typical day for a consultant assistant involves managing key projects from strategy to implementation. This means:
• Attending client meetings
• Preparing meeting contact reports
• Booking and coordinating diaries for meetings and reviews
• Liaising with the operations manager and ensuring that Chase list deliverables are being completed within the agreed timelines
• Preparation and management of CE process, costs and budgets
• Collating data for cost reconciliations
• Sourcing supplier quotes on minor production where necessary
• Capturing and collating notes from workshops to inform client briefs
• Doing research for briefs and/or communication plans
In a nutshell the consultant must be excellent with clients, be a team player and a problem solver of note.

Requirements:
Education
• Preferably a degree but a diploma will suffice if the person has compelling experience and is a good cultural fit

Experience
• Minimum 7 years working experience in a communications, media or project management field
• Must have own transport
• Good previous employment references and a drive to succeed

Knowledge and skills set
• Computer literacy (MS Office – Word & Excel; Internet and Email)
• Excellent writing skills (must be able to articulate him/herself in written English)
• Excellent communication skills
• Organisational skills
• Project and/or campaign management skills
• Attention to detail essential

Attitude and behaviour
• Self driven and motivated
• Able to take direction and run with things
• Willing and able to work independently without much supervision
• Can and will work long hours
• Flexible and able to adapt easily
• Enjoys working with people
• Resilient
• Able to take and give feedback
• Solution oriented
• Can get stuff done

A lot of growth potential and excellent career prospects for the successful candidate.