Vero, a regional, award-winning communications agency is opening an opportunity for Senior Media Relations professional who wants to join a creative, collaborative and progressive team focused on serving the best brands in Indonesia and Southeast Asia.
The ideal candidate will be a team-player with a passion for media, emerging media trends, and a desire to help clients meet their goals.
In return, Vero will provide a high-quality and rewarding professional experience focused on kindness, curiosity and trust.
Responsibilities:
- Manage day to day media relations for brands
- Manage high quality media relationships
- Provide strategic insights on the media landscape
- Develop media lists, media invitation and follow up
- Monitor coverage across different media types
- Attend media events and ensure high quality engagement
- Stay alert with all issues that affect the company or client’s brand
- Build relationship with key media contacts and identify opportunities pitch brand.
- Cultivate and enhance collaborative working relationships within the press and publicity community
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Communications, Journalism, Public Relations or related field
- 3 + years of agency experience in media relations or PR role
- Fluent in English and Bahasa, both verbal and written
- Must have excellent verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills
- Must have excellent communication skills and ability to provide sound counsel and recommendations to clients
- Have an ability to create an analysis of media coverage and recommendations
- Have the ability to work effectively in a team with positive mindset
- Results oriented and able to work under pressure and tight deadlines to solve problems
- General understanding of agency protocols, procedures, and processes
- Organized, with a passion to learn
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 in creating workplaces that feel like home, informal and deeply stimulating.
Vero, a regional, award-winning communications agency is opening an opportunity for Finance and Accounting Manager who wants to join a creative, collaborative and progressive team focused on serving the best brands in Indonesia and Southeast Asia.
The ideal candidate should be a detail-oriented team player with passion to do finance and accounting also desire to help company to run good financial procedure.
In return, Vero will provide a high-quality and rewarding professional experience focused on kindness, curiosity and trust.
Responsibilities:
Accounting Role:
- Manage accounting operation, month end closing, quarterly closing, and annual closing activities including general ledger maintenance, balance sheet reconciliations and corporate/overhead cost allocation.
- Prepare asset, liability, and capital account entries by compiling and analyzing account information.
- Obtain and maintain a thorough understanding of the financial reporting and general ledger structure.
- Help Head of Regional Finance to do reconciliation of balance sheets accounts
- Manage to ensure the timely reporting and filing of all monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reporting and tax filing.
- Support and facilitate with Head of Regional Finance/Audit Firm for all internal and external audits
- Dealing with external parties, banks, external auditors, tax authorities to resolve financial/ accounting issues.
- Daily petty cash control.
- Vouching and keeping the finance related documents in the proper box files
Finance Role: Help Regional Finance Manager in the areas
- Handle day-to day finance and accounting activities such as account payables, account receivables, company’s petty cash and payments.
- Participate and ensure the proper financial planning and budgeting process.
- Ensure with local tax compliance and report to the line manager for any update relating to the local tax law that Vero needs to know
- Produce timely management reports with business insights and recommendations to the management.
- Supervise proper verification and documentation of invoices, tax invoices and others
- Responds to inquiries from the Managing Director, Finance, Administrative, and other managers regarding financial results and special reporting requests (if any)
Report to : Country Manager and Head of Regional Finance
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in accounting
- Adequate skill in computer program (Microsoft Office, such as Microsoft Excel, Microsoft word, etc.), skill in relevant accounting programs is advantage (such as Quickbook, MYOB, other accounting software useful in Indonesia).
- At least 5 years in a related field is required.
- Good interpersonal skills, energetic, high responsibility, and diligence.
- Able to communicate in English.
- Independent and time management skills are also needed.
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 in creating workplaces that feel like home, informal and deeply stimulating.
Vero is a regional PR, social and digital agency for clients across the ASEAN region. We are seeking a high potential Senior Account Manager or Associate Director to join our team in Indonesia for collaboration with clients and team members across the ASEAN region.
The candidate will lead a team focused on supporting international clients looking to expand their presence in Indonesia.
The ideal candidate should be an agency professional with deep experience in not only leading accounts, but managing a team and delivering on creative PR or integrated campaigns and assignments at the highest industry standards.
Responsibilities:
- Leadership: able to lead, advise and coach.
- People management: Inspire your team to deliver. Manage their time and workload across your accounts, offering on the job training.
- Client counsel: ability to work as a partner with the client. Be their senior counsel, advise them, and demonstrate our value as their agency partner. Build strong relationships rooted in trust.
- Communications skills: Presentation, communication, selling and negotiation skills are important and required. You will need to be able to pull together budgets, and ensure that we’re not over servicing or under servicing any accounts to maintain profitability.
- Strategic planning and new business: help grow the business in Indonesia by supporting new business pitches, and identifying new business opportunities with existing clients
- Maintaining Vero standards: this includes taking ownership of client work, upholding agency standards and quality, reviewing and approving deliverables from your juniors.
- High level of collaboration: be comfortable working with an extended team of communication professionals in Indonesia and abroad.
Requirements:
- 5-6 years of agency experience in a client servicing or account management role, leading and delivering on PR driven or integrated campaigns.
- Fluent in English and Bahasa, both verbal and written
- Proven experience in media relations, developing and executing successful public relations strategies and communication programs
- Strong understanding of advertising, public relations, marketing principles, interactive, media, and production including the latest industry trends
- Has excellent communication skills and ability to provide sound counsel and recommendations to clients
- Has leadership and management experience to mentor and grow juniors
- Good communication and presentation skills in English, as well as negotiation skills and experience managing budgets
- Results oriented and able to work under pressure to solve problems
- General understanding of agency protocols, procedures, and processes
- Organized, witha passion to learn
We are looking for a seasoned Influencer Marketing Manager to join our growing digital team in Indonesia. The candidate should have a mix of influencer marketing experience, social media planning and campaign execution, and understanding of social media analytics with a passion to learn. This person will be responsible for leading the day-to-day execution of our influencer marketing programs, tracking trends and upcoming talent, tracking insights and analytics, managing influencer deliverables and overall social media campaigns.
The ideal candidate should be either an agency professional or influencer themselves with deep experience in digital content and social media and influencer marketing. Other responsibilities for this role include supporting new business opportunities, managing briefs, building and managing client relationships, presenting concepts and developing proposals, delivering clear POVs on digital trends, maintaining relationships with social media influencers, managing contracts and deliverables and ensuring that we deliver at the highest industry standards.
Responsibilities:
- Guide the agency and clients in strategic thought leadership about the most effective best practices and trends in the field of influencer marketing.
- Help to lead multiple influencer campaigns, from one-off executions to long term, relationship-based programs
- Work with influencers to create engaging, authentic, branded content
Maintain strong relationships with influencers across a variety of consumer, tech and lifestyle topics - Keep abreast of emerging technologies, influencers and trends
- Promote influencer posts via earned and paid social; managing budgets and optimization
- Leverage data and analytics to drive optimization and continuously sell in new services
- Knowledge of managing and running social media campaigns across all social platforms with a strong understanding of platform updates and trends
In This Position, You Must:
- Be hungry: Show you want to be here and give 100% every day.
- Be a self-starter: Love taking on new challenges and learning new things.
- Be resourceful: Demonstrate the ability to find quick and clever ways to overcome challenges and find solutions.
- Be detail-oriented: Live for the details and stay on top of deadlines.
- Be a team player: Be collaborative and solution-oriented; willing to raise your hand.
Be charismatic: Able to work with all types of talent with the ability to network and build connections across multiple industries
About You
- 5 years of digital/social marketing experience with consumer brands either working at an agency, or through your own experience as a social media influencer
- Bachelor’s degree
- Fluent in English and Bahasa
- Proficiency in using social media platforms
- Organization, managing time effectively, managing multiple projects simultaneously and a results-driven mentality
- A strong understanding of influencer marketing by topic area and social media platforms including contracting with influencers, content development and measurement
- Expert knowledge of both paid and organic influencer marketing
- Good knowledge of influencer marketing platforms and software
- Excellent project management skills with an eye for detail, including drafting contracts, negotiating fees, collaborating with team members to execute, and following through
- Seamlessly able to work closely with planning and creative internal teams to drive business outcomes
- Expert grasp of social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Snapchat and TikTok plus up and coming platforms o Basic knowledge of paid social and optimization
- A master creator and presenter in PowerPoint
Vero is a regional PR, integrated communication agency for clients across the ASEAN region. We are seeking a high potential Digital Director to join our team in Indonesia for collaboration with clients and team members across the ASEAN region.
The candidate will lead a team focused on supporting international clients looking to expand their presence in Indonesia especially in Digital Area.
The ideal candidate should be an agency professional with deep experience in not only leading accounts, but managing a team and delivering on creative Digital or integrated campaigns and assignments at the highest industry standards.
Responsibilities:
- Leadership: able to lead, advise and coach.
- People management: Inspire your team to deliver. Manage their time and workload across your accounts, offering on the job training.
- Client counsel: ability to work as a partner with the client. Be their senior counsel, advise them, and demonstrate our value as their agency partner. Build strong relationships rooted in trust.
- Communications skills: Presentation, communication, selling and negotiation skills are important and required. You will need to be able to pull together budgets, and ensure that we’re not over servicing or under servicing any accounts to maintain profitability.
- Strategic planning and new business: help grow the business in Indonesia by supporting new business pitches, and identifying new business opportunities with existing clients
- Maintaining Vero standards: this includes taking ownership of client work, upholding agency standards and quality, reviewing and approving deliverables from your juniors.
- High level of collaboration: be comfortable working with an extended team of communication professionals in Indonesia and abroad.
Requirements:
- 9+ years of agency experience in a client servicing or account management role, leading and delivering on Digital driven or integrated campaigns.
- Fluent in English and Bahasa, both verbal and written
- Proven experience with all major social media networks including Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok and YouTube.Excellent understanding of digital practices such as SEO, SEM, SMO, and PPC.
- Adaptable, versatile, and the ability to keep up to date with consumer and marketing trends and advancements in technology.
- Has excellent communication skills and ability to provide sound counsel and recommendations to clients
- Has leadership and management experience to mentor and grow juniors
- Good communication and presentation skills in English, as well as negotiation skills andexperience managing budgets
- Results oriented and able to work under pressure to solve problems
- General understanding of agency protocols, procedures, and processes
- Organized, with a passion to learn
RESPONSIBILITIES
You will collaborate with account managers and directors to supporting the agency’s English-language copywriting, research, and content strategy efforts throughout the ASEAN region by developing compelling narratives for both client assignments and internal agency projects. This will include developing press releases and stories for the agency’s clients, supporting a sustained content strategy for the agency blog, and producing agency publications such as reports and white papers.
As a support unit for local account teams, you will be involved from time to time in the strategic development of creative copywriting, branded journalism projects, proposing content opportunities, taglines, and suggesting creative angles that carry our client’s brand messages. Regarding projects that are published in English, you will often be the final editor and proofreader before publication.
For in-house agency projects such as blog articles, white papers, newsletters, and agency social media posts, you will report to the agency’s regional Head of Culture. For client work such as press releases, editorials, and branded social media posts, you will work directly with the account teams for their respective clients and report to the COO and CEO as needed.
CRITERIA
- Excellent technical and stylistic proficiency in English-language writing. You have a degree from an English-language university and/or a minimum of two years working experience in a word-based content development related field such as journalism, creative writing, or brand copywriting.
- While knowledge of local Southeast Asian languages is not required, you should have a sensitivity and willingness to adapt your communication style to local cultural norms. Experience in translation/localization is helpful.
- You believe efficient communication is sparked by positive conversations.
- You trust that creativity and empathy are at the heart of great communication strategies.
- You are comfortable working in a young, multicultural environment and communicating professionally across multiple cultures.
- You are self-directed and can manage your own projects, goals, and deadlines.
Travel And Place of Work
Your usual location for work will be the company’s office. Your place of work may vary depending on the Company’s needs, including Thailand, Indonesia, Myanmar and Vietnam, or other locations as instructed from time to time. Additional expenses, incurred by you as a result of the Company directing that you work from a location other than your usual location, will be reimbursed by the Company.
ABOUT VERO
Vero is an award-winning communications consultancy serving clients in Southeast Asia.
Vero designs integrated marketing and communications strategies for brands to tap into the region’s digital ecosystems and fast-growing economies.
With offices in Indonesia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam, Vero is a collective of over 130 industry PR, social, digital, influencer and creative experts.
Winners of PRovoke 2021 Southeast Asia Consultancy of the Year Award, Vero has a distinctive approach to earned media, putting emerging technology at the core of its business and championing stories of progress.
Vero regularly produces research papers examining relationships between brands and audiences, digital trends, and emerging cultural impact. Vero also produces playbooks for brands on topics such as but not limited to management of fake news and disinformation threats.
Vero advises some of the world’s leading brands, corporations, trade groups and non-profit organizations. Vero is the 2021 winner of the PRCA Southeast Asia awards program for crisis communications.
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. We pride in creating deeply simulating flexible workplaces informal and inspiring.
We also invest in a comprehensive set of employee benefits, including but not limited to:
- Annual Bonus: An “enhanced 13th month” through which you will receive an annual extra sum of money equal to your salary in the preceding month plus a fraction of annual company benefits. The year-end bonus is determined by the Company and at its sole discretion. The Year-end Bonus is paid in the same paycheck as January.
- Flexible Office: All our employees can choose where they want to work on any given day, should it be from the office, from home, from a coffee shop, or from a yacht in the Pacific Ocean.
- Tech set-up: one company laptop, a budget to build your home office, subscriptions to relevant industry media as well as to social sentiment analysis and business intelligence tools and dashboards.
- Working days: from Monday to Friday, 9 am to 5:30 pm (including 1 hour of lunch break).
- International Travel: As much as possible we push our teams to travel for events/client work. On any given year (non-pandemic that is) manager-level team members have the opportunity to visit some of our other offices, attend industry events and follow their clients if they handle regional projects.
- Unlimited Leave: Vero is a creative business, and the output of its teams’ doesn’t only depend on the number of hours it worked. Stress and overwork are the strongest factors affecting a team’s output, they are also the two main factors driving people away from Vero, and from the industry in general. We encourage you to take more time off, unplug, and recharge
- Sick Leave: The number of your leaves is not monitored by the company as we believe that you should take a rest when you are unwell and unfit to work.
- Wellness day off: 1 paid day per quarter for you to take time off, unplug, treat yourself with something nice.
- Extended weekends: 1 extra day per month for you to take on a Friday or a Monday and enjoy a longer weekend.
- Thought Leadership and training: We sponsor team-members with training tools and resources, both internal and external, and we even incentivize employees to complete classes. Details of training programs and incentives will be shared upon your onboarding. This includes training and development investments organized by the company as well as specialized programs that our executives may come across and feel is needed for their development. For example, this could be a program organized by a group such as PR WEEK, PRCA or a training program that focuses on business in general. Across the Vero group we are seeking new and better ways to help people develop careers.
- Health Insurance: The Company will provide private medical insurance as a benefit. The actual package and structure of the insurance may be determined by the Company and at its sole discretion.
- Mental Health Budget: We understand the importance of access to proper mental health support, all our employees can access a minimum budget of $500 USD per year for therapy with internationally trained psychologists. The access to this budget and the content of your therapy are 100% confidential, only you and your therapist know what is being said during sessions, of course.
Account Manager, Metaverse
As we seek to maintain our positioning as a future-oriented consultancy, Vero is opening roles for communications professionals with a passion for technologies and platforms that will shape the future. If you excel in taking new, emerging technologies and making them relevant, relatable, and inspiring through PR, social media, and influencer marketing campaigns, then this role may be right for you.
This is a start-from-scratch opportunity to build a practice group dedicated to emerging tech. The objective is to help colleagues and clients identify new market opportunities, and develop and roll out brand and marketing strategies and campaigns that incorporate and celebrate the metaverse, Web 3, and emerging financial technologies.
The ideal candidate will help to make Vero the most sought-after brand consultancy in Southeast Asia for campaigns inside and outside the Metaverse and to help tell the stories of progress on behalf of our clients.
Principal Responsibilities
- Primary accountability is to drive the development and implementation of brand campaigns in Web3 (Metaverse, NFTs)
- Delivery of innovative marketing – by unlocking market opportunities through insights, marketing science, data, and analytics, creativity, and collaboration
- The geographical remit includes potential for impact across all Vero markets in Southeast Asia
- Accountable to the head of consumer communications.
- Responsible for thought leadership within the consultancy on the topics such as the Metaverse, Web3, and NFTS with a specific focus on how these technologies apply to brands and stakeholders in Southeast Asia.
- The candidate must be aligned to the Vero vision, values, goals, and culture in personal behavior, actions, and decision making
- The ideal candidate should reside in Southeast Asia.
Requirements:
- 4+ years of experience in a PR / communications role with experience serving clients at multinational brands in technology, FMCG, fashion and beauty, gaming, entertainment, or other industries with the potential to launch campaigns within the Metaverse.
- A strong point of view on how PR and communications professionals can best service companies in the cryptocurrency and financial technology industry.
- Adaptable, versatile, and the ability to keep up to date with consumer and marketing trends and advancements in technology.
- Excellent communication skills and ability to provide sound counsel and recommendations to clients.
- Leadership and management potential to mentor and grow junior colleagues.
- Good communication and presentation skills in English, as well as negotiation skills and experience managing budgets.
- Results-oriented and able to work under pressure to solve problems.
- General understanding of agency protocols, procedures, and processes.
- Organized, with a passion to learn.
As we seek to maintain our positioning as a future-oriented consultancy, Vero is opening roles for communications professionals with a passion for technologies and platforms that will shape the future. If you excel in taking new, emerging technologies and making them relevant, relatable and inspiring through PR, social media and influencer marketing campaigns, then this role may be right for you.
This is a start from scratch opportunity to build a practice group dedicated to emerging financial technologies, including but not limited to crypto currencies. The objective is to help clients in the financial technology and crypto currency industry achieve their communications and business goals through creative, compelling, relatable PR, social, influencer marketing campaigns.
The ideal candidate will help to make Vero the most sought-after brand consultancy in Southeast Asia for campaigns related to the financial technology industry and, and to help tell the stories of progress and innovation on behalf of our clients.
Principal Responsibilities
- Primary accountability is to drive the development of a practice focused upon brands in the financial technology and crypto currency industry.
- Delivery of innovative marketing communications – by unlocking market opportunities through insights, marketing science, data and analytics, creativity and collaboration
- Geographical remit includes potential for impact across all Vero markets in Southeast Asia
- Accountable to the head of consumer communications.
- Responsible for thought leadership within the consultancy on the topics such as but not limited to communications for brands in crypto currency, payments, fin-tech, blockchain. Thought leadership shall include a focus on how these technologies apply to brands and stakeholders in Southeast Asia.
- The candidate must be aligned to the Vero vision, values, goals and culture in personal behavior, actions and decision making
- The ideal candidate should reside in Southeast Asia.
Requirements:
- 4+ years of experience in a PR / communications role within the banking, fin-tech, payments, crypto currency or related industries.
- Strong point of view on how PR and communications professionals can best serve companies in the crypto currency and financial technology industry.
- Adaptable, versatile, and the ability to keep up to date with consumer and marketing trends and advancements in technology.
- Excellent communication skills and ability to provide sound counsel and recommendations to clients
- Leadership and management potential to mentor and grow junior colleagues
- Good communication and presentation skills in English, as well as negotiation skills and experience managing budgets
- Results oriented and able to work under pressure to solve problems
- General understanding of agency protocols, procedures, and processes
- Organized, with a passion to learn