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Overview

• As a Senior Account Manager at MSL, you are on top of everything happening in your portfolio of clients – you know what needs to happen when and ensure it gets done. You identify any potential issues early on and display problem-solving skills to rectify any issues alongside your AD. You are the primary point of contact for clients and they trust you. With the help of your team (Intern/SAD), you ensure reporting is slick and accurate. You own the editorial plans for clients and are involved in strategy development with your AD/SAD. You ensure monthly billing is done effectively and work with your AD/SAD to ensure profitability for your stream.

Responsibilities

Core capabilities

• Account management: Demonstrate real-time knowledge of all client activities, ensure status documents are updated, run client status meetings, and take ownership for initiatives.
• Delegation: Demonstrate ability to effectively delegate tasks, ensuring timeous completion and quality.
• Project management skills: Take responsibility for specific projects from start-to-finish
• Selling ideas: Demonstrate advanced presentation and influencing skills.
• Strategy: Develop, alongside your AD/SAD, strategic and tactical client proposals, plans and calendars.
• Writing: Demonstrate an ability to write effective content for your full client portfolio and display proficient editing skills; effectively brief the content team when specialist help is needed.
• Media relations: Drive journalist relationship-building initiatives within the team, across your full client portfolio, display an excellent knowledge of the South African media landscape (and an interest in the broader African media landscape), develop solid media relationships, and oversee the effective running of your team’s entire media relations process.
• Pitching skills: Write and pitch excellent quality, relevant story angles to targeted media, displaying creativity and an understanding of newsworthiness.
• Research: Demonstrate strong research skills, and assimilation and presentation of information
• MSL Newsdesk: Participate in daily newsdesk/media meetings and ensure relevant news and angles are marked and shared with clients.
• Media lists: Ensure your team regularly updates media lists, informs the broader agency of media changes, compiles tailored media lists per client content piece, and ensures that master client media lists are kept updated.

Qualifications

Personal attributes

• Quality: Consistently deliver quality work to professional, MSL standards, and ensure quality output from team prior to submitting to AD/SAD for final approval.
• Detail-orientated: Execute unwavering attention to detail in all aspects, including documents, presentations, emails and all other communiques.
• Proactive upskilling: Constantly work to ensure an excellent understanding of content for all clients (even beyond your portfolio), your client’s industry, staying abreast of the broader news environment and spotting opportunities for media conversation building.
• Proactive learning: Demonstrate use of the Marcel Classes portal and other internal training sessions to upskill yourself, taking initiative and responsibility for your learning journey.
• Taking initiative: Demonstrate consistent self-starter approach as well as ability to solve problems effectively.
• Time management: Display impeccable time management skills, while ensuring team is managing time effectively.
• Media lists: Ensure your team regularly updates media lists, informs the broader agency of media changes, compiles tailored media lists per client content piece, and ensures that master client media lists are kept updated.
• Profile: Manage and build your own profile within your team and the broader agency.
• Respect: Acknowledge and respond to instructions from senior staff as soon as possible (email, instant message or spoken).

Client services

• Client relations: Demonstrate excellent client relationships and ability to manage their expectations.
• Client meetings: Drive participation in client meetings, managing meeting protocols, agendas, etc.
• Understanding: Perfect a detailed, thorough and informed understanding of your clients’ businesses and knowledge of their competitors, for effective idea generation. Demonstrate value to your clients by keeping them abreast of competitor news.
• Reviews: Overall responsibility for planning, compiling and editing of client review documents/ presentations/ reports, and participate in client review meetings with your team.

Agency operations

• Billing: Accurately review billing arrangements for clients and ensure monthly billing is done timeously.
• Budgeting: Work with your AD/SAD to ensure your stream is profitable.
• Timesheets: Demonstrate effective time recording and reporting (daily, accurate data logged on Chase, as per Groupe deadlines).
• Coverage: Ensure daily coverage tracking, regular reports and timeous client coverage updates are executed.
• Reporting: Ensure quality, timeous monthly reports are delivered, and drive new reporting ideas and processes wherever improvements can be made.
• Know the agency and the Publicis Groupe Africa (PGA): Demonstrate familiarity with both MSL and PGA's organisational structures and offerings.
• Profile: Actively look to maintain and build positive working relationships with colleagues.

Business development

• Demonstrate an ability to identify opportunities for new business and organic growth of existing business and business retention.
• Display an ability to draft excellent proposals and pitch presentation skills, in conjunction with your AD/SAD.

People development

• Assist your AD/SAD with key staffing decisions.
• Demonstrate an ability to act as a role model and mentor for junior staff, and be seen as an ambassador for the company.
• Conduct appraisals for junior staff.
• Contribute to, and participate in, personal development activities for junior staff (i.e. coaching, workshop development, etc.).

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• Publicis Groupe is looking for a Public Affairs Manager (SA) (full-time or part-time).
• The Public Affairs Manager (South Africa) will serve as our client’s on-the-ground public affairs POC, supporting all stakeholder engagement activities in the country.
• The role is responsible for providing strategic public affairs counsel, stakeholder intelligence, political and regulatory insight, and execution support to ensure effective engagement with government, regulators, industry bodies, business leaders, community stakeholders and strategic partners.
• The Public Affairs Manager will help build trusted relationships, anticipate stakeholder risks, coordinate engagement activities, and support successful regulatory engagement.

Responsibilities

Strategic Public Affairs

• Provide strategic advice on South Africa’s political, regulatory and stakeholder landscape.
• Advise leadership on stakeholder sentiment, engagement opportunities and reputational considerations.
• Identify emerging political, policy and regulatory developments that may impact
• Input into public affairs strategies to support regulatory approvals.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Build and maintain trusted relationships with key government ministries, regulators, public agencies, industry associations, business leaders and other influential stakeholders in alignment with the marketing/comms team.
• Coordinate and facilitate meetings leadership and senior government or regulatory officials.
• Support relationship management before, during and after formal engagements.

Stakeholder Intelligence

• Conduct comprehensive stakeholder mapping across government, regulatory bodies, industry associations, business organisations, labour representatives and community stakeholders.
• Continuously monitor stakeholder positions, priorities and influence.
• Provide regular intelligence reports highlighting emerging issues, risks and opportunities.
• Track changes in the political and regulatory environment that could impact the client.

Executive Support

• Prepare executive briefing books, stakeholder profiles, biographies and meeting packs.
• Develop key messages, speaking points and engagement objectives for senior leadership.
• Produce post-meeting reports, action trackers and stakeholder engagement summaries.
• Ensure follow-up actions are completed in a timely manner
• Identify opportunities to build constructive relationships with industry associations, chambers of commerce and strategic business networks.

Issues and Risk Management

• Identify political, regulatory and stakeholder risks early and recommend mitigation strategies.
• Support the development of engagement plans for sensitive or high-profile stakeholders.
• Escalate material issues to leadership as appropriate.
• Monitor public policy developments that may affect the business.

Programme Governance

• Maintain stakeholder engagement databases, relationship trackers and issues logs.
• Produce regular reporting dashboards for project leadership.
• Track engagement outcomes against agreed objectives and milestones.
• Support governance processes for public affairs activities

Qualifications

• Degree in Public Policy, Political Science, Communications, International Relations, Law, Business, or a related field

Additional information

• Knowledge of an African language is preferable as well as experience in:
• Governmental affairs
• Energy or resources sector
• South African market knowledge

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• The Groupe Executive Production Lead is responsible for leading and evolving the agency's end-to-end production capability across film, video, digital content, social media and emerging platforms. This role combines creative production leadership, operational excellence, financial stewardship, and team development with a tech focussed mindset to deliver world-class content at scale.
• The role drives the successful execution of integrated campaigns from concept through to delivery, ensuring creative ambition is balanced with commercial effectiveness, production innovation, and exceptional client service. The Groupe Executive Production Lead serves as a strategic partner to creative, strategy, client leadership and brand teams while fostering a high-performing, future-fit production department.

Responsibilities

PRODUCTION LEADERSHIP

• Lead the end-to-end production of film, content, social, digital, experiential and integrated campaigns.
• Oversee all production phases including pre-production, production, post-production and delivery.
• Ensure the highest standards of production craft, quality and creative execution.
• Drive consistency in production processes, workflows and governance across all projects, instilling & enforcing clear ways-of-working that successfully navigate complex global agency mandatories.
• Champion innovation in production methodologies, tools and emerging technologies, including AI-enabled workflows.

STRATEGIC CONTENT & CREATIVE PARTNERSHIP

• Partner with Creative, Strategy and Client Leadership teams to shape production solutions that maximise creative impact.
• Contribute to pitch development, production strategy and integrated campaign planning.
• Identify opportunities to improve content effectiveness, scalability and production efficiencies.
• Provide strategic counsel on content ecosystems, platform-specific requirements and production innovation.

COMMERCIAL & FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT

• Own production revenue, profitability and financial performance.
• Lead budgeting, scoping, forecasting and cost management processes.
• Ensure efficient resource allocation across projects and business requirements.
• Maintain strong supplier negotiations and procurement standards.
• Drive operational efficiency while protecting production quality and creative ambition.

TEAM LEADERSHIP & CAPABILITY BUILDING

• Lead, mentor and develop producers, production managers and production specialists.
• Build a high-performing culture focused on collaboration, accountability and continuous learning.
• Ensure succession planning, capability development and talent retention across the production department.
• Foster an inclusive, innovative and commercially aware team environment.

CLIENT & STAKEHOLDER MANAGEMENT

• Build trusted relationships with senior clients and agency stakeholders.
• Ensure seamless collaboration across creative, strategy, account management and external production partners.
• Act as the senior escalation point for production matters and complex problem-solving.
• Maintain high levels of client satisfaction and delivery excellence.

VENDOR & PRODUCTION ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT

• Develop and maintain a strong network of directors, production companies, post-production partners, talent and specialist suppliers.
• Source innovative production partners and technologies.
• Ensure compliance with procurement policies, legal requirements and production best practices.
• Drive strategic supplier relationships that deliver quality, efficiency and value.

Qualifications

• Relevant tertiary qualification in Film, Production, Communications, Marketing, Business or related discipline.
• 10+ years of production experience across film, content and integrated campaigns.
• Minimum 5 years in a senior production leadership role.
• Proven experience managing complex multi-channel campaigns.
• Strong financial acumen with experience managing large production budgets and P&L responsibilities.
• Deep understanding of content production, post-production, content ecosystems and emerging technologies.
• Exceptional leadership, stakeholder management and communication skills.

Additional information

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

BUSINESS PERFORMANCE

• Production revenue growth
• Gross margin performance
• Resource utilisation rates
• Budget accuracy and financial control

DELIVERY EXCELLENCE

• On-time project delivery
• Production quality scores
• Client satisfaction ratings
• Reduction in production risk and rework

INNOVATION

• Adoption of new production technologies and workflows
• Efficiency improvements delivered
• Pilot initiatives successfully implemented

PEOPLE & CULTURE

• Team engagement and retention
• Capability development and succession planning
• Cross-functional collaboration effectiveness
• Leadership and coaching impact