Senior Manager Special Projects

Department: Commercial
Reports To: General Manager, Commercial

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage and design special projects initiatives from conception to completion, ensuring timely and within-budget delivery
• Collaborate to identify and design project requirements and objectives, e.g., promos, synopsis, and overall look and feel, with internal stakeholders, including sales, marketing, and operations teams.
• Work with the team to ensure that Next Media earns sales from government, civil society organizations, the manufacturing sector, construction, embassies, and any other special projects assigned to you.
• Proactively work with clients to ensure continuous value addition and repeat business from Next Media.
• Participate in client pitches from beginning to end while building relationships to enable business development in the market.
• Provide on-air support to potential and existing clients to ensure they receive appropriate support from all areas of the Next Media business.
• Ensure to provide an updated master list of all assigned client spending potentials.
• Always ensure to perform excellently any other duties as may be assigned by your supervisor in line with your position.
• Ensure that your supervisor(s) receive weekly performance reports to track the progress of targets on your portfolio.
• Perform all other duties as assigned by your supervisor in line with your duties

Key Competencies:

Qualifications and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Project Management, or a related field.
• Minimum 4 years of experience in project management, preferably in a commercial or business development environment. (Experience in media will be an added advantage.)
• Proven track record of successfully managing projects from start to finish.
• Excellent project management, organizational, and time management skills.
• Strong communication, interpersonal, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced environment and prioritize multiple projects simultaneously.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to work under extreme deadline pressure.
• Demonstrated passions to provide exceptional service to meet our customers’ business needs
• Graphic design and content creation skills.

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