Business Development and Project Manager

Job description

Who are we looking for?

We are looking for a client service rockstar (Snr Acc Manager -Account Director level) to join our team and manage a portfolio of global client, mostly in the EU and UK.

Location

Ideally based in Cape Town (primarily working remotely if desired)


Line Manager

Managing director


Key duties include:

• Managing client relationships
• Identifying new opportunities and growing your portfolio
• Project Management:
• Financial Administration:
• Management and driving of new deals:

Requirements:

• Has experience is managing delivery of digital platforms (websites, apps etc…)
• High performing and ambitious individual
• 6+ years client service and project management experience
• Able to “hold their own” with senior level clients
• Experience in driving large complex projects
• Ideally has experience with global clients
• Ideally has experience in managing employee/internal communications/campaigns
• Highly organised with excellent project management skills
• Ability to prepare professional presentations
• Excellent email etiquette
• Skilled in excel and powerpoint
• Ideally experienced in use of magnetic or similar workflow system
• Not being afraid of getting close to highly technical content
• Understand the urgency of meeting agreed deadlines
• Good people skills
• Being able to work under pressure
• Ability to take initiative

Requirements

• Managing client relationships
• Identifying new opportunities and growing your portfolio
• Project management:
• Briefing of new jobs
• Debriefing client changes (timeously and clearly)
• Reviewing studio work before it goes to client
• Keeping track of jobs/timings and actively driving delivery of work through the studio
• Actively managing client expectations (keeping them updated and responding promptly)
• Actively driving client review/approval of work
• Drive client status reports (mail updates and/or calls)
• Attend all internal status meetings
• Financial administration:
• Raising new CEs
• Seeking approval of CEs (internally and with client)
• Billing timeously 
• Working with finance to ensure billing pipeline is accurate and billings are actively driven
• Tracking profitability of jobs (hrs costed versus hours used) and client scope (pages/frames/rounds of changes etc…)
• Management and driving of new deals:
• Keeping new deals updated in pipeline management platform
• Actively driving conversion of new deals
• Supporting CEO/MD in developing proposals for new/existing clients
• Identifying new deals with existing clients
• Scoping and costing on new projects

Company Description

Jincom is a world-leading specialist HSE communications agency with a mission to help our clients save lives. As an award-winning full-service agency, we strive to improve our clients’ safety performance by simplifying, visualising and digitising their critical HSE information and transforming their Critical Risk Management Systems.


Having partnered with leading multinational companies in the construction, mining, petrochemicals, fabrication and utilities sectors, our team of technical writers, designers, illustrators and animators have 20 years of unrivalled specialist experience in HSE communications.


By delivering a variety of digital solutions (which include visual standards, 3D animation, apps, e-learning and Virtual Reality training), we can ensure large and diverse workforces receive and understand critical safety information where and when they need it most.


Our vision is to become the global leader in visual workforce communications.


Our values include:

We grow our people
We always move forward
We strive to be world class
We put the people we serve at the centre of what we do
 

Although most of our team is based in Cape Town, most of our clients are based in Europe and the Middle East.

Posted on 19 Jun 08:32, Closing date 17 Aug