Freelance Brand Director

Responsibilities: Administrative / Operational - Risk management of projects in execution and delivery phases - Anticipate potential issues and proactive in finding effective solutions, mitigations, or contingencies. - Strong organisational skills and oversight of project and asset management, and finance tracking. Business Acumen - Manage profitability of project costs against resource utilisation, able to provide solutions when required. - Responsible for P&L - sustaining account growth, diversification and profitability - Constantly and creatively looking for opportunities to grow the business - Aware of how to be effective in SOWs, including for social and digital projects. Client Management - Pro-active client development - drive business conversations to expand business/relationships and anticipate potential strategic & business issues and challenges - Establish strong partnership connections with mid to senior clients as the go to senior person for solutions and platform for transparency in raising off record ad-hoc issues. Strategy - Gatekeeper for strategic input, ensuring work and creative briefs align with client objectives - Foresee and solve strategic problems and challenges for clients - Act as an escalation point for the team in resolving issues. Supports the team in confidently navigating through problems. - In-depth understanding of industry trends and their impact on client and company’s businesses - In-depth understanding of social / digital trends and best practices; know what works, how to incorporate these into projects and how to evaluate their effectiveness. Creative - Partner to the creative team, collaborate confidently, responsible for pushing and selling the best creative solution and quality of work to solve the clients business problem - Cognisant of recent award winning works/industry best practices especially relevant to the client industry People Management - Lead effective cross functional interaction and create a conducive environment / culture for the team and client - Supervise, train, and manage performance of team members - Provide clear and nurturing feedback to reporting team. Leadership - Positive influencing skills, building up your own brand. - Demonstrate ability for creative problem solving in how they approach every task – whether that’s identifying a way to improve the internal process, or co-creating an inspiring way to sell in the work. Knowledge Required - At least 7 years relevant experience with a sound knowledge of print, digital and content production processes - Leadership experience in managing an account servicing team - Sound financial planning and budget management experience Skills Required - Excellent communication skills - Excellent relationship management and presentation - The ability to multi-task and provide holistic leadership support across a range of clients Attributes - Team player with a ‘hands-on’ approach - Responsible, with a ‘Can do’, willing and positive attitude to be a support system for our clients - Ability to work under tight deadlines with multiple projects - An ability to prioritise workload as well as an ability to pre-empt, identify and respond to problems - Reliability, i.e. resilience, confidence, tenacity and maturity - Personal, enthusiastic and committed – capable of gaining trust and respect from colleagues - Experience working across the tourism, travel, luxury and/or automotive industry, an advantage

• Freelance Brand Manager

  Singapore, Singapore