Edify is looking for an Account Director to lead the PR team at the most reputable companies in Myanmar,. Ideal candidate has a minimum of 6-8 years progressive PR agency experience with strong strategic thinking, leadership and communications skills — with a hunger to integrate the best of traditional and digital/emerging communications possibilities.
Position Responsibilities: Public relations directors develop and execute strategies that are intended to create and uphold a positive public image for clients. By working and forming relationships with various members of the media, government, and public, director generate new business opportunities. These professionals may hire and direct public relations specialists and other staff. This may include assigning activities and accounts, as well as approving and reviewing their work. In addition to supervising public relations specialists and staff, these professionals manage company or department goals and strategies.

Essential Duties and Aptitudes

Client Service

• Ability to interact with and gain the trust of key clients.
• Own client relationships and work with exceptional organizational and relationship skills.
• Serve as point for client-service philosophy; ensuring quality work from team in order to meet/exceed client expectations.
• Translate client business needs into communications action steps with solution-oriented focus.
• Responsible for budget management on accounts and stays ahead of budget issues and is proactive to ensure account profitability.
• Provide overall strategic PR counsel to clients.
• Ability to provide counsel and strategy for branding, reputation management and integrated marketing; embraces and understands the principles of integrated marketing communication.
• Aptitude for thinking creatively and sharing those creative ideas with clients.
• Stays abreast of emerging technology and recognizes opportunities to apply the technology to meet client goals.
• Demonstrates commitment to industry, agency and clients by mastering industry knowledge and trends and understanding and clients’ business in “off time.”


Operations

• Shows ability to lead others; remains calm under pressure.
• Supervisory responsibilities; identifies staffing issues and needs, adopts or creates processes, documentation, and templates to meet those needs.
• Identifies/Integrates new communications capabilities and solutions and engages others.
• Helps lead cultural values; strong, active, advocate of culture.
• Instills confidence and motivates/inspires clients and colleagues.
• Effectively manages projects using resources across PR capabilities and effectively participates in cross teams.
• Collaborative spirit to work towards the best outcome for clients and the agency.
• Effectively resolves conflict with clients and within teams.
• Actively contributes to the management of the PR agency.
• Embrace cultural values; active participation and advocacy.
• Maintaining acceptable profit margin within accounts managed and exceeds billable goals.

New Business

• Participates in business development by increasing business with existing clients.
• Demonstrated ability to successfully network and outreach for agency.
• Actively participates in new business development, presentations and proposals and identifying prospects, and represents in new business meetings.
• Identifying opportunities to expand client relationship through cross-servicing.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in public relations, communications, journalism or related studies.
• Minimum of 6 years of public relations with progressive job responsibilities.
• Agency experience or the equivalent experience with an agency model.
• Demonstrated results in public relations work, client service and account leadership.
• Stellar writing and editing skills required.
• Passion for both traditional and digital communications.
• Ability to balance strategic thinking with plan execution.
• Strong presentation and interpersonal skills.
• Excellent at thinking on your feet.
• Highly accountable and organized with excellent time management skills.