Account Executive, Singapore
Overview:
As an Account Executive, you will be an integral part of our client services team, supporting various accounts and assisting team members in executing strategy communications plans for our clients.
We are looking for passionate and creative individuals who want to hone their skills in communications, and work with industry experts to help brands and clients navigate the complex world we live in today.
You should be an amazing team player, someone who is not afraid to try new things, fail at these things and learn from mistakes. If you are ambitious, driven by excellence and inspired by creativity we want to speak with you! Give us a call.
Responsibilities:
Supporting the team to build the Vero business in Singapore and across ASEAN. This includes supporting client work, client counsel and supporting new business development and, in general, ensuring clients and stakeholders are satisfied with Veros work.
Client Management
Serve as primary point of contact for clients, ensuring timely responses to requests and maintaining professional, positive relationships to foster trust and confidence in the agencys abilities.
Attend meetings with clients, take notes, be responsive in client communication channels (emails or group chats), and ensure you stay up-to-date with your accounts activities, and help to keep track of deadlines and timelines.
Be prompt in providing support to senior members of the team.
Assist in preparing plans, reports and proposals ensuring these deliverables are relevant, insightful and presented in a clear and concise manner.
Help to manage administrative duties such as scheduling meetings, organizing files and maintaining project documentation.
Research & Analysis
Conduct research on industry trends, clients competitors and target audiences to inform communication strategies.
Analyse media coverage and social media metrics to evaluate campaign performance, and provide insights/recommendations based on findings.
PR Strategy and Execution
Support team in developing PR strategies and plans for clients
Help to develop media lists, media landscape deep-dives, and maintain media databases.
Draft press releases, media pitches, advisories, feature articles, opinion editorials and other related materials.
Support media outreach efforts, including pitching stories, coordinating interviews etc.
Social Media & Content Development
Support team in developing social media strategies and plans for clients.
Develop compelling content for various platforms, including but not limited to social media, websites, newsletters, blogs etc.
Community management for clients social media pages.
Track and analysis clients social media performance metrics and provide recommendations for improvement.
Stay up to date with industry trends, platform updates and emerging social media technologies to inform strategy development and implementation.
Influencer Management
Help to develop and curate influencer lists, and profiles and maintain influencer databases, tracking key metrics such as reach, engagement and audience demographics.
Support team in developing influencer outreach strategies and plans for clients.
Initiate and manage outreach efforts to influencers, negotiating partnerships, securing collaborations for clients.
Manage influencer partnerships/collaborations such as reviewing content, managing approval processes etc.
Monitor influencer campaign performance, analyse data to assess the effectiveness and identify opportunities for improvement.
Criteria:
1-2 years of working experience in an agency environment or similar (candidates with internship experience will be prioritised)
Highly motivated, flexible, reliable, honest, and able to work under pressure
Structured, detail-oriented, responsible, and independent
Resourceful: You are a creative problem-solver, you know how to surround yourself with critical resources and research approaches (on and offline), and you can apply these approaches to uncover breakthrough insights for client work
Strong communications and presentation skills
Excellent written and spoken English
Comfortable working in a young, multicultural environment
Keen to develop a stellar career in the PR industry
Bonus Criteria
Experience (and/or passion) in sustainability is a bonus
Experience (and/or passion) in esports is a bonus
Ability to speak/write in another ASEAN language is a bonus
- *This is a hybrid role, with some travel required. You will be reporting to Team Leads within Vero Singapore.
Working at Vero:
You will be a member of a multicultural team of communication specialists spread across the region and brought together by their love for creative and efficient strategies and positive conversations. We pride ourselves in creating workplaces that feel like home, informal, and intensely stimulating.
Other Benefits:
Unlimited Leave: Your allocated holiday time at Vero will be unlimited. We trust our people to use good judgment when given guidelines for making decisions about taking a holiday, and we know that our teams work better when they can rest and take a proper break from work. Our goal is that every one takes an average of 15 days (minimum!) per person a year.
Annual Bonus: An enhanced 13th month through which you will receive an annual extra sum of money equal to your salary (pro-raated) in the preceding month plus a fraction of yearly company benefits. The year-end bonus is determined by the Company and at its sole discretion.
Flexible Office: All our employees can choose where they want to work on any given day, whether from the office, from home, from a coffee shop, or a yacht in the Pacific Ocean.
Working days: Monday to Friday, 9:00 am to 6:00 pm (including 1 hour of lunch break). This may be flexible depending on workload and client needs.
International Travel: We push our teams to travel for events/client work as much as possible. On any given year (non-pandemic), manager-level team members can visit some of our other offices, attend industry events, and follow their clients if they handle regional projects.
Wellness day off: One paid day per quarter for you to take time off, unplug, and treat yourself with something nice.
Thought Leadership and training: We sponsor team members with training tools and resources, both internal and external, and we even incentivise employees to complete classes. Details of training programs and incentives will be shared upon your onboarding. This includes training and development investments organised by the company and specialised programs that our executives may come across and feel are needed for their development. For example, this could be a programme organised by a group such as PR WEEK PRCA or a training programme focusing on general business. Across the Vero group, we are seeking new and better ways to help people develop careers.
Medical and Wellness Budget: We will provide an allowance of SGD 1,000 per person per year for any medical, dental or mental health consultations that you might want or need.
About Vero
Vero is an award-winning communications consultancy advising some of the worlds leading brands, corporations, and non-profit organizations across Southeast Asia.
Vero designs integrated marketing and communications strategies that resonate in the regions digital ecosystems and fast-growing economies.
Vero is based in Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam and maintains a partnership in Myanmar. With a diverse team of over 200 professionals specializing in PR, social media, digital marketing, influence, data-powered consumer research, media buying, and creative services, Vero offers comprehensive solutions for businesses looking to grow their brand presence in Southeast Asia. In 2022, Veros commitment to fostering a positive and empowering work culture was recognized as the Best Independent Agency to work for in APAC at the PRovoke Media Awards. In 2023, Vero enters PRovoke Medias Global Top 250 PR Agency Ranking as Southeast Asia's second-largest independent firm.
Additionally, Veros campaigns and services have also been recognized, winning Marketing Interactives Gold Award for Best Health and Pharmaceutical campaign, PR Awards Asias Best Use of Digital (COVID-19), SABRE Awards Best Influencer Programs Endorsements, and the 2023 Travel & Lifestyle Award from PRCA APAC. Vero has a distinctive approach to earned media, putting digital technology at the core of its business and championing stories of progress. In 2021, Vero was named Southeast Asias Agency of the Year by PRovoke.
Vero regularly produces research papers examining relationships between brands and audiences, digital trends, and emerging cultural impact. Vero produces playbooks for brands on topics such as, but not limited to, food and health in Southeast Asia, management of disinformation threats, and the media ecosystem of esports.
