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We are seeking a dynamic and experienced individual to join our Vietnam office as the Head of External Affairs. In this role, you will be responsible for leading and overseeing the media strategy and external relationships for our clients looking to enhance their reputation in Vietnam. As the Head of External Affairs, you will play a crucial role in shaping and executing effective communication plans, building and nurturing key relationships, and providing strategic guidance to our clients.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Leadership over media strategy: Take charge of developing comprehensive media strategies for clients seeking to enhance their reputation in Vietnam. Provide strategic guidance and direction to the team to ensure effective execution of media plans.

Relationship management: Take ownership of cultivating and maintaining key relationships with senior journalists, editors, and opinion leaders in Vietnam. Proactively engage with them to build mutually beneficial partnerships and opportunities for our clients.

Media strategy support: Offer active support in media strategy and media engagement for ongoing client accounts, whether it involves managing media crises or executing communication campaigns. Provide guidance and counsel to clients and internal teams on media engagement best practices.

Media landscape monitoring: Stay updated on critical movements and trends in the media landscape in Vietnam. Regularly monitor news outlets, social media platforms, and industry publications to identify opportunities and potential challenges for our clients. Brief business teams on relevant updates.

Partnership establishment: Support the establishment of partnerships between media outlets, the agency, and our clients. Identify and pursue collaboration opportunities that align with our clients’ objectives and enhance their reputation in the market.

Team management: Lead and manage the media and influencer engagement team, ensuring they provide effective support to business teams. Oversee relationship-building activities, provide insights and guidance on media and influencer engagement strategies, and ensure the team delivers on-site support when needed.

REQUIREMENTS

• Proven experience in media strategy development and execution, preferably in a communications consultancy or PR agency.
• Strong network and relationships with senior journalists, editors, and opinion leaders in Vietnam.
• Excellent understanding of the media landscape in Vietnam, including emerging trends and key players.
• Experience in crisis communications and managing media relations during challenging situations.

• Demonstrated ability to lead and manage a team, fostering collaboration and delivering exceptional results.
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build and maintain relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to provide strategic insights and recommendations.
• Fluency in both Vietnamese and English, with excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• If you are a strategic thinker, a relationship builder, and have a passion for driving impactful media strategies, we would love to hear from you. Join our team and make a significant contribution to our clients’ reputation enhancement efforts in Vietnam.

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, the 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 take pride in creating deeply simulating flexible workplaces that are informal and inspiring.

We also invest in a comprehensive set of employee benefits, including but not limited to:

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 team 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 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 in 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.

Home office budget: one company laptop, subscriptions to relevant industry media, a budget for you to enhance your home office, as well as to social sentiment analysis and business intelligence tools and dashboards.

Working days: from Monday to Friday

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.

Wellness Day off: 1 paid day per quarter for you to take time off, unplug, and treat yourself to something nice.

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.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Develop social media content plans for always-on projects and ad-hoc campaigns.
• Write and edit engaging posts for various social networks, including Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, etc.
• Optimize social media posts (language, tone, message) based on the target audience’s insights.
• Working closely with designers to develop visual ideas to complement the text.
• Localize documents in other industries for the Vietnam market.

ABOUT YOU

• Hands-on experience in hospitality and real estate-related fields is a must.
• Proven work experience in social media content planning and writing, especially dual language content.
• Excellent copywriting skills in Vietnamese and English.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office applications.
• The ability to work in a fast-paced environment and to handle multiple projects concurrently.
• Effective communication skills in Vietnamese and English.
• Experience in Healthcare/FMCG/Tech is a plus.

TRAVEL & PLACE TO WORK

Your usual location for work will be the company’s office in Vietnam. Your place of work may vary depending on the Company’s needs, including Thailand, Indonesia, Myanmar, the Philippines, 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:

• 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.
• Sick Leave: The number of sick leaves is not monitored by the company as we believe that you should take a rest when you are unwell and unfit to work.
• Extended weekends: 1 extra day per month for you to take on a Friday or a Monday and enjoy a long 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 – and of course this would apply to Vietnam too.

We’re looking for IMC Account Executives in Myanmar. At Vero, we believe that creativity and trust are at the heart of great communication campaigns. If this resonates with you and you have the following experience and skills, please apply here.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Manage and support client activity in social, digital, and influencer engagement.
• Work with the team to provide creative solutions to client challenges.
• Embrace upcoming trends and marketing technology for the betterment of the agency and client business.
• Work with the team to meet client KPIs and generate positive business results for the agency.
• Report directly to the Account Manager to support the whole team.

EXPECTED WORK EXPERIENCE

• Content development
• KOL management
• Insights & Research
• Account management & client relations
• Event planning and management

QUALIFICATIONS

• 3-4 years of working experience in a communication-related field, managing external accounts and an internal team.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Strong organizational and client-facing skills
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office
• Proficiency in at least Burmese and English

OTHER BENEFITS

•  You will be a member of a multicultural family of communication specialists spread across the region and brought together by their love for creative and efficient strategies. We take pride in creating workplaces that feel like home, are informal, and deeply stimulating.
• 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 on a yacht in the Pacific Ocean.
• Tech set-up: one company laptop, subscriptions to relevant industry media, social sentiment analysis, and business intelligence tools and dashboards.
• Working days: Monday to Friday, 10 am to 7 pm (including a 1-hour lunch break). Vero doesn’t clock in and –out, and rhythm is entirely flexible, while teams are trusted to be well synchronized.
• Unlimited annual leave: We’re committed to supporting our team members and their mental and physical wellness so they have enough time off to unplug and treat themselves
• Thought Leadership and training: We sponsor team members with internal and external training tools and resources; 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 and specialized programs that our executives may come across and feel are needed for their development.  For example, this could be a program organized by a group such as PR WEEK, PRCA, or a training program focusing on general business.  Across the Vero group, we seek 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 therapy with internationally trained psychologists. The access to this budget and the content of your therapy is 100% confidential; only you and your therapist know what is being said during sessions, of course.

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, the 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.

We’re looking for Account Support Interns to join Vero Myanmar and assist several teams working on client accounts, communication campaigns, and event management. Here are a few of the things you can expect to take part in as support interns:

• Event Planning and Execution: brainstorming theme ideas, taking part in budget planning and management, negotiating with the agency’s vendors, supporting the execution and coordination of various campaigns, booking venues, liaising with suppliers and clients, managing logistics, and presenting post-event reports.
• Community Engagement: taking care of client communities, monitoring social conversations, and tracking sentiments, analysis, and reporting.
• Content Development: brainstorming content directions and critical narratives, developing compelling content, and copywriting for client accounts.
• Digital marketing: monitoring accounts’ social media channels and activities.
• Research & Insights: conducting market research and surveys regularly to share updates with groups and clients, sending reports to your team leader(s).

And here are a few things we’re looking for (not necessarily requirements):

• Proficiency in at least Burmese and English.
• Good written and verbal communication skills.
• Good organizational and interpersonal skills.
• Confidence in external communication with clients and vendors.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office.

At Vero, we believe that #trust, #kindness, and #curiosity are at the heart of our culture. If this resonates with you and you think you’re a good fit for this position at our company, please apply here.

OTHER BENEFITS

•  You will be a member of a multicultural family of communication specialists spread across the region and brought together by their love for creative and efficient strategies. We take pride in creating workplaces that feel like home, are informal, and deeply stimulating.
• 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 on a yacht in the Pacific Ocean.
• Tech set-up: one company laptop, subscriptions to relevant industry media, social sentiment analysis, and business intelligence tools and dashboards.
• Working days: Monday to Friday, 10 am to 7 pm (including a 1-hour lunch break). Vero doesn’t clock in and –out, and rhythm is entirely flexible, while teams are trusted to be well synchronized.
• Unlimited annual leave: We’re committed to supporting our team members and their mental and physical wellness so they have enough time off to unplug and treat themselves
• Thought Leadership and training: We sponsor team members with internal and external training tools and resources; 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 and specialized programs that our executives may come across and feel are needed for their development.  For example, this could be a program organized by a group such as PR WEEK, PRCA, or a training program focusing on general business.  Across the Vero group, we seek 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 therapy with internationally trained psychologists. The access to this budget and the content of your therapy is 100% confidential; only you and your therapist know what is being said during sessions, of course.

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, the 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.

RESPONSIBILITIES

As a part of the regional new business team, you will be a focal point for the production and delivery of high-impact brand assets, including project credentials, visuals for blog posts, and for strategic communications delivered to brands across Southeast Asia. You will be a part of a fast-paced, high-engagement team, coordinating new business for industry-leading brands across Southeast Asia.

Reporting-line: VP for Strategy, ASEAN.

ABOUT  YOU

• Ability to interact, communicate and present ideas in English
• Ability to prioritize and effectively manage multiple projects.
• Excellent knowledge of Photoshop, Illustrator, Sketching, and practical knowledge of animation is a plus.
• Good teamwork spirit & attention to detail.
• “Can do” attitude, able to work under pressure & tight deadline.

OTHER BENEFITS:

• Unlimited Leave: Your allocated holiday time at Vero will be unlimited. We trust our people to use good judgement when given guidelines for making decisions about taking 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 team take 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 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 of January.
• Flexible Office: All our employees can choose where they want to work from on any given day, should it be from the office, from home, from a coffee shop, or from a yacht in the Pacific Ocean.
• Home office budget: one company laptop, subscriptions to relevant industry media a budget for you to enhance your home office, as well as to social sentiment analysis and business intelligence tools and dashboards.
• Working days: from Monday to Friday
• 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.
• Wellness day off: 1 paid day per quarter for you to take time off, unplug, 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 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 – and of course this would apply to the Philippines too.
• Health Insurance: The Company will provide a 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.

ABOUT VERO

Vero is an award-winning communications consultancy that partners with some of the world’s leading brands, corporations, and non-profit organizations across Southeast Asia. Vero is dedicated to creating stories for companies and brands, which resonate authentically within the region’s unique digital ecosystems and fast-growing economies.

Vero presence spans across Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam, as well as an established partnership in Myanmar. With a dedicated team of over 200 professionals specializing in PR, social media, digital marketing, influence, data-powered consumer research, media buying, and creative services, we offer comprehensive solutions for businesses seeking to advance their brand’s footprint in Southeast Asia.

Vero takes immense pride in our commitment to fostering a positive and empowering work culture, which was acknowledged in 2022 when Vero was recognized as the Best Independent Agency To Work For in APAC at the PRovoke Media Awards. In 2023, Vero further solidified its position in the industry by ranking among PRovoke Media’s Global Top 250 PR Agencies, securing the title of the second largest independent firm in Southeast Asia.

Vero’s most recognized campaigns garnered Marketing Interactive’s Gold Award for Best Health and Pharmaceutical Campaign, PR Awards Asia’s Best Use of Digital (COVID-19), SABRE Awards Best Influencer Programs Endorsements, and the 2023 Travel & Lifestyle Award from PRCA APAC. Vero believes in the power of earned, so our communication work is crafted to be talkable for the right reasons.

In 2021, Vero was named Southeast Asia’s Agency of the Year by PRovoke Media. In 2023, Vero Vietnam office won PRWeek’s PR Awards Asia Best Consultancy (Medium Size).

Vero goes beyond conventional PR and comms practices by regularly producing research papers that explore the relationships between brands and audiences, digital trends, and emerging cultural impacts. Vero’s playbooks for brands cover various topics, including but not limited to food and health in Southeast Asia, managing disinformation threats, navigating the pitfalls of greenwashing and understanding the media ecosystem of esports.

Vero, a regional, award-winning brand communications agency, is opening an opportunity for Senior IMC Account Executive who wants to join a creative, collaborative, and progressive team focused on serving the best brands in Myanmar and Southeast Asia.

The successful candidate will work with the team focused on digital marketing, creative online campaigns, influencer campaigns, online and offline activation activities and events, report and analysis, and coordination as part of the Agency’s scope of work for Clients from Myanmar and sometimes with other key markets as part of the client’s regional hub, based in Myanmar.

The ideal candidate should be an agency professional with experience in integrated communications, including digital and social media, advertising, digital performance, offline and online activation campaigns, and account management to drive and manage brand communication assignments at the highest industry standards.

In return, Vero will provide a high-quality, rewarding professional experience focused on kindness, curiosity, and trust.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Client Service

• Assist the client service lead for the accounts your team oversee, being the second PIC for client management and support the team to provide the utmost level of client service.
• Attend meetings, being responsive in group chats with clients, ensuring you are on top of your accounts’ activities, and providing prompt help for accounts associated to your clients are all examples of this.
• Liaise with clients daily to ensure that they receive the best possible guidance and support
  from you and the relationships with the clients remain intact.

Account Management

• Support in digital account, influencer relations, event management, media relations and content preparation and need to be responsible for supporting account team to ensure smoothness of workflow
• Collaborate with the team to generate ideas for content, create a plan for organizing the content, and ensure timely delivery to the client.
• Work together with a team to fulfil client KPIs while also aiding other departments as needed and delivering excellent business results for the agency.
• Collaborate with the support teams and provide your all in the marketing and advertising initiatives for your clients and prospects.
• Develop effective campaigns plans using appropriate strategies tactics, organize and coordinate client activities, analyse results of campaigns of efforts, checking and reporting on the campaign’s progress, negotiate with clients and solving any problems.
• Accurately assess that the deliverables are completed on schedule and to the client’s satisfaction, as well as that the work is of excellent quality.
• Build relationships and networks with key influencers, media as well as suppliers.

ABOUT YOU

• Bachelor’s in communications or marketing-related degree (or equivalent)
• Two or more years of proven experience in the advertising and marketing fields is preferred
• Proven strong critical thinking
• Strong verbal and written skills in both English and the mother tongue language
• Creative, open-minded, and understanding personality
• Ability to interact and present confidently in front of teams and executives
• Ability to understand client’s business issues and requirements
• Able to make successful and smooth negotiations with related parties
• Ability to complete and delegate work effectively and support market research and analysis
• Detail-oriented, able to work under pressure, and able to meet tight deadlines

OTHER BENEFITS

•  You will be a member of a multicultural family of communication specialists spread across the region and brought together by their love for creative and efficient strategies. We take pride in creating workplaces that feel like home, are informal, and deeply stimulating.
• 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 on a yacht in the Pacific Ocean.
• Tech set-up: one company laptop, subscriptions to relevant industry media, social sentiment analysis, and business intelligence tools and dashboards.
• Working days: Monday to Friday, 10 am to 7 pm (including a 1-hour lunch break). Vero doesn’t clock in and –out, and rhythm is entirely flexible, while teams are trusted to be well synchronized.
• Unlimited annual leave: We’re committed to supporting our team members and their mental and physical wellness so they have enough time off to unplug and treat themselves
• Thought Leadership and training: We sponsor team members with internal and external training tools and resources; 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 and specialized programs that our executives may come across and feel are needed for their development.  For example, this could be a program organized by a group such as PR WEEK, PRCA, or a training program focusing on general business.  Across the Vero group, we seek 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 therapy with internationally trained psychologists. The access to this budget and the content of your therapy is 100% confidential; only you and your therapist know what is being said during sessions, of course.

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, the 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.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Vero is seeking a data and insights consultant to join our regional Data Innovation Unit. This role is designed to work with the agency’s teams and clients in Vietnam while also supporting the agency’s regional data and intelligence unit. The unit’s role is to bring strong views and expertise on data and insights to campaign creation at Vero.

• Your principal responsibility will be to deliver expertise on data and digital insights to Vero teams and clients as we create PR, social, influencer and digital campaigns.
• You will equip the agency, and its consulting teams with tools and internal services so they are empowered by industry-leading insights about the agency’s client’s target customers and communication ecosystems
• This may include the purchasing, management, and benchmarking of Insights and analytics tools, the internal promotion of such tools among consultants, the development of training/onboarding programs for teams, the management of ad-hoc research projects for brands and for the agency as well as the potential sourcing, management, and optimization of the agency’s proprietary data sources
• The role is both internal and external facing, as you will also participate in client pitching and you will support Consulting teams in specific research projects for brands.
• Overall, you would be working with a team to meet client KPIs, assisting other departments and management if need be and generating positive business results for the agency
• You will be reporting to the Regional Director of Data and Insights department.

To succeed in the role, you should have a strong understanding of research and insights and media.

ABOUT  YOU

• At least three years in a research-related role, for a research firm or in-house; experience managing datasets and pulling and formulating insights for brands; experience in social-sentiment analysis or social listening is a plus.
• Excellent in data analytics as well as project management skills.
• Experience and interest in media and tools are a plus, the agency will also invest in competitive training on that front, if beneficial.
• Excellent Vietnamese and English language communications skills, and ability to work in an international ecosystem.

TRAVEL & PLACE OF WORK

Your usual location for work will be the company’s office in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Your place of work may vary depending on the Company’s needs, including Thailand, Myanmar, Singapore, Indonesia, the Philippines, 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.

OTHER BENEFITS:

• Unlimited Leave: Your allocated holiday time at Vero will be unlimited. We trust our people to use good judgement when given guidelines for making decisions about taking 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 team take 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 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 of January.
• Flexible Office: All our employees can choose where they want to work from on any given day, should it be from the office, from home, from a coffee shop, or from a yacht in the Pacific Ocean.
• Home office budget: one company laptop, subscriptions to relevant industry media a budget for you to enhance your home office, as well as to social sentiment analysis and business intelligence tools and dashboards.
• Working days: from Monday to Friday
• 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.
• Wellness day off: 1 paid day per quarter for you to take time off, unplug, 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 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 – and of course this would apply to the Philippines too.
• Health Insurance: The Company will provide a 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.

Apply today to discuss this new opportunity.

Due to the high volume of applications, we are experiencing, our team will only be in touch with you if your application is shortlisted.

About Vero Public Relations https://vero-asean.com/

ABOUT VERO

Vero is an award-winning communications consultancy that partners with some of the world’s leading brands, corporations, and non-profit organizations across Southeast Asia. Vero is dedicated to creating stories for companies and brands, which resonate authentically within the region’s unique digital ecosystems and fast-growing economies.

Vero presence spans across Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam, as well as an established partnership in Myanmar. With a dedicated team of over 200 professionals specializing in PR, social media, digital marketing, influence, data-powered consumer research, media buying, and creative services, we offer comprehensive solutions for businesses seeking to advance their brand’s footprint in Southeast Asia.

Vero takes immense pride in our commitment to fostering a positive and empowering work culture, which was acknowledged in 2022 when Vero was recognized as the Best Independent Agency To Work For in APAC at the PRovoke Media Awards. In 2023, Vero further solidified its position in the industry by ranking among PRovoke Media’s Global Top 250 PR Agencies, securing the title of the second largest independent firm in Southeast Asia.

Vero’s most recognized campaigns garnered Marketing Interactive’s Gold Award for Best Health and Pharmaceutical Campaign, PR Awards Asia’s Best Use of Digital (COVID-19), SABRE Awards Best Influencer Programs Endorsements, and the 2023 Travel & Lifestyle Award from PRCA APAC. Vero believes in the power of earned, so our communication work is crafted to be talkable for the right reasons.

In 2021, Vero was named Southeast Asia’s Agency of the Year by PRovoke Media. In 2023, Vero Vietnam office won PRWeek’s PR Awards Asia Best Consultancy (Medium Size).

Vero goes beyond conventional PR and comms practices by regularly producing research papers that explore the relationships between brands and audiences, digital trends, and emerging cultural impacts. Vero’s playbooks for brands cover various topics, including but not limited to food and health in Southeast Asia, managing disinformation threats, navigating the pitfalls of greenwashing and understanding the media ecosystem of esports.

POSITION REVIEW

We are seeking a dedicated and detail-oriented Procurement Officer to join our team. The Procurement Officer will play a pivotal role in vendor management, account administration, and business intelligence initiatives. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in procurement processes, negotiation, vendor relationship management, and data analysis. The successful candidate will contribute to streamlining procurement operations and enhancing vendor relationships to drive operational efficiency and cost savings.

RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Vendor Management:

• Source, negotiate, and contract with vendors to ensure favorable terms and conditions.
• Facilitate the liquidation process and oversee timely vendor payments.

2. Account Administration:

• Serve as the primary point of contact for account-related logistics.
• Coordinate travel arrangements and oversee the timely delivery of packages as required.

3. Business Intelligence:

• Collaborate with the Vietnam Finance Manager to build and maintain a comprehensive vendor database to track vendor performance and facilitate efficient procurement processes.
• Provide strategic insights and recommendations to optimize procurement processes and enhance overall efficiency.
• Devise a robust vendor program, including supplier ranking and incentivizing beneficial payment terms and reporting standards.
• Contribute to the development of a vendor ranking system and implement strategies to incentivize favorable payment terms and reporting standards.

4. Data Entry and Reporting:

• Handle accurate data entry into relevant systems and databases.
• Assist in compiling data for Campaign reporting (coverage clipping, data entry)

ABOUT  YOU

• Bachelor’s degree in business, finance, or a related field
• 2+ years experience in procurement, contract management, or supply chain
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written in Vietnamese and English
• Demonstrated ability to synthesize information from many sources.
• Proficient computer skills, including Microsoft Office Suite (Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Excel)
• Ability to analyze problems and strategize for better solutions.
• Ability to negotiate, establish, and administer contracts.
• Ability to multitask, prioritize, and manage time efficiently.
• Accurate and precise attention to detail
• Goal-oriented and an excellent organized team player

TRAVEL & PLACE OF WORK

Your usual location for work will be the company’s office in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Your place of work may vary depending on the Company’s needs, including Thailand, Myanmar, Singapore, Indonesia, the Philippines, 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.

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 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 team 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 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 of 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.
• Home office budget: one company laptop, subscriptions to relevant industry media a budget for you to enhance your home office, as well as to social sentiment analysis and business intelligence tools and dashboards.
• Working days: from Monday to Friday
• 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.
• Wellness day off: 1 paid day per quarter for you to take time off, unplug, 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 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 – and of course this would apply to the Philippines too.
• Health Insurance: The Company will provide a 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.

Apply today to discuss this new opportunity.

Due to the high volume of applications, we are experiencing, our team will only be in touch with you if your application is shortlisted.

About Vero:  https://vero-asean.com/

ABOUT VERO

Vero is an award-winning communications consultancy that partners with some of the world’s leading brands, corporations, and non-profit organizations across Southeast Asia. Vero is dedicated to creating stories for companies and brands, which resonate authentically within the region’s unique digital ecosystems and fast-growing economies.

Vero presence spans across Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam, as well as an established partnership in Myanmar. With a dedicated team of over 200 professionals specializing in PR, social media, digital marketing, influence, data-powered consumer research, media buying, and creative services, we offer comprehensive solutions for businesses seeking to advance their brand’s footprint in Southeast Asia.

Vero takes immense pride in our commitment to fostering a positive and empowering work culture, which was acknowledged in 2022 when Vero was recognized as the Best Independent Agency To Work For in APAC at the PRovoke Media Awards. In 2023, Vero further solidified its position in the industry by ranking among PRovoke Media’s Global Top 250 PR Agencies, securing the title of the second largest independent firm in Southeast Asia.

Vero’s most recognized campaigns garnered Marketing Interactive’s Gold Award for Best Health and Pharmaceutical Campaign, PR Awards Asia’s Best Use of Digital (COVID-19), SABRE Awards Best Influencer Programs Endorsements, and the 2023 Travel & Lifestyle Award from PRCA APAC. Vero believes in the power of earned, so our communication work is crafted to be talkable for the right reasons.

In 2021, Vero was named Southeast Asia’s Agency of the Year by PRovoke Media. In 2023, Vero Vietnam office won PRWeek’s PR Awards Asia Best Consultancy (Medium Size).

Vero goes beyond conventional PR and comms practices by regularly producing research papers that explore the relationships between brands and audiences, digital trends, and emerging cultural impacts. Vero’s playbooks for brands cover various topics, including but not limited to food and health in Southeast Asia, managing disinformation threats, navigating the pitfalls of greenwashing and understanding the media ecosystem of esports.

POSITION REVIEW

Pitching, managing and supporting client activity in the realm of PR, social, digital & influencer engagement. Includes coordinating the teams to develop comprehensive communication strategies for prospects, providing creative solutions to client’s challenges and embracing emerging marketing technology for the betterment of the agency and client business. You will also be in direct contact with clients and will develop strategies for prospects as well as for some of the agency’s current accounts. On top of this, you will get involved in the agency’s own communication, pushing our brand to attract a wider number of potential clients and employees online. Finally, you will be responsible for building, training, managing and retaining your own team of communication professionals within the agency.

Overall, you would be working with a team to meet client KPIs, cooperating with clients and media in daily basis to grow brands and spread our client’s messages, building strong relationships with stakeholders, assisting other departments and management if need be and generating positive business results for the agency. You will be reporting to your department lead.

ABOUT  YOU

• You have at least 3-5 years of working experience in a PR/communication/marketing-related field, managing both external accounts and an internal team.
• You communicate effectively, and you believe efficient communication is sparked by active listening, tactical empathy, and positive conversations.
• You trust that creativity and empathy are at the heart of great communication strategies.
• You have experience consulting corporate brands from inside or outside, with a track record of coordinating multiple stakeholders to execute complex projects in either public relations, digital communication or brand strategy.
• You have good English speaking and writing skills and you are comfortable working in a young, multicultural environment.
• You have the adaptability to handle rapidly changing requirements and priorities and multiple ongoing projects at once.
• You are highly organized, a solution-oriented critical thinker, and you are able to work well under pressure and time constraints.

TRAVEL & PLACE OF WORK

Your usual location for work will be the company’s office in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Your place of work may vary depending on the Company’s needs, including Thailand, Myanmar, Singapore, Indonesia, the Philippines, 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.

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 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 team 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 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 of 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.
• Home office budget: one company laptop, subscriptions to relevant industry media a budget for you to enhance your home office, as well as to social sentiment analysis and business intelligence tools and dashboards.
• Working days: from Monday to Friday
• 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.
• Wellness day off: 1 paid day per quarter for you to take time off, unplug, 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 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 – and of course this would apply to the Philippines too.
• Health Insurance: The Company will provide a 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.

Apply today to discuss this new opportunity.

Due to the high volume of applications we are experiencing, our team will only be in touch with shortlisted applicants.

About Vero:  https://vero-asean.com/

ABOUT VERO

Vero is an award-winning communications consultancy that partners with some of the world’s leading brands, corporations, and non-profit organizations across Southeast Asia. Vero is dedicated to creating stories for companies and brands, which resonate authentically within the region’s unique digital ecosystems and fast-growing economies.

Vero presence spans across Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam, as well as an established partnership in Myanmar. With a dedicated team of over 200 professionals specializing in PR, social media, digital marketing, influence, data-powered consumer research, media buying, and creative services, we offer comprehensive solutions for businesses seeking to advance their brand’s footprint in Southeast Asia.

Vero takes immense pride in our commitment to fostering a positive and empowering work culture, which was acknowledged in 2022 when Vero was recognized as the Best Independent Agency To Work For in APAC at the PRovoke Media Awards. In 2023, Vero further solidified its position in the industry by ranking among PRovoke Media’s Global Top 250 PR Agencies, securing the title of the second largest independent firm in Southeast Asia.

Vero’s most recognized campaigns garnered Marketing Interactive’s Gold Award for Best Health and Pharmaceutical Campaign, PR Awards Asia’s Best Use of Digital (COVID-19), SABRE Awards Best Influencer Programs Endorsements, and the 2023 Travel & Lifestyle Award from PRCA APAC. Vero believes in the power of earned, so our communication work is crafted to be talkable for the right reasons.

In 2021, Vero was named Southeast Asia’s Agency of the Year by PRovoke Media. In 2023, Vero Vietnam office won PRWeek’s PR Awards Asia Best Consultancy (Medium Size).

Vero goes beyond conventional PR and comms practices by regularly producing research papers that explore the relationships between brands and audiences, digital trends, and emerging cultural impacts. Vero’s playbooks for brands cover various topics, including but not limited to food and health in Southeast Asia, managing disinformation threats, navigating the pitfalls of greenwashing and understanding the media ecosystem of esports.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Working to build the Vero business in Vietnam and across ASEAN. Includes supporting client accounts, counseling clients, supporting new business development – and, in general, ensuring clients and stakeholders are satisfied with Vero’s work. Also includes responsibility for business development activities. You will assist your account managers in pitching and supporting client activity in the realm of PR & influencer engagement, social, and digital. Includes providing creative solutions to client’s challenges and embracing emerging marketing technology for the betterment of the agency and client business.

Overall, you would be working with a team to meet client KPIs, assisting other teams if need be, and generating positive business results for the agency. You would be reporting to your team leaders.

CLIENT SERVICE

• Assist the client service lead for the accounts your team oversees, serving as the point of contact for client management. Support the team in providing the highest level of client service and work closely with them to ensure that all client needs are met. 
• Attend meetings with clients, be responsive in group chats, and ensure that you stay up-to-date with your account’s activities. Be prompt in providing help for accounts associated with your clients. 
• Proactively liaise with clients daily to ensure they receive the best possible guidance and support from you. Maintain strong relationships with clients, working to foster trust and confidence in the agency’s abilities. 
• Actively seek out opportunities to add value to client relationships by identifying potential areas for growth or improvement. 
• Regularly review account performance, identify opportunities for improvement, and make recommendations to the client service lead and the account team. 
• Provide timely and accurate reporting to clients, ensuring that all data is relevant, insightful, and presented in a clear and concise manner.

ACCOUNT MANAGEMENT

• You will be responsible for managing influencer relations, event management, media relations, and content preparation. You will support the account team to ensure a smooth workflow. 
• Work collaboratively with your team to fulfill client KPIs, aid other departments as needed, and deliver excellent business results for the agency. 
• Collaborate with support teams and actively participate in marketing and advertising initiatives for your clients and prospects. 
• Develop effective campaign plans by utilizing appropriate strategies and tactics. Organize and coordinate client activities, analyze the results of the campaign efforts, check and report on the campaign’s progress, negotiate with clients, and resolve any problems. 
• Accurately assess that all deliverables are completed on schedule and to the client’s satisfaction, ensuring the work is of excellent quality. 
• Build strong relationships and networks with key influencers, media, and suppliers. 

ABOUT YOU

• You have at least 2-3 years of working experience in a communication-related field, working with brands across digital communication, public relations, and/or brand strategy.
• You have proven work experience in excellent social content planning and writing, especially dual language and content in both Vietnamese and English and are proficient in Microsoft Office applications.
• You have experience consulting brands in either public relations, digital communication or brand strategy.
• You believe efficient communication is sparked by positive conversations.
• You trust that creativity, openness to new experiences and others’ opinions, and empathy are at the heart of great communication strategies.
• You have good English speaking and writing skills, and you are comfortable working in a young, multicultural environment.
• You are highly organized, curious, and creative, and your friends rely on you to organize crazy parties/activities.
• You can work in a fast-paced environment and handle multiple projects concurrently.
• You trust that a good sense of teamwork with a highly supportive and well-mannered attitude will create great productivity in the team
• Your experience in Healthcare/Tech/Hospitality is a plus.

TRAVEL & PLACE TO WORK

Your usual location for work will be the company’s office in Vietnam. Your place of work may vary depending on the Company’s needs, including Thailand, Indonesia, Myanmar, the Philippines, 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.

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:

• 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, 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.
• Sick Leave: The number of sick leaves is not monitored by the company as we believe that you should take a rest when you are unwell and unfit to work.
• Extended weekends: 1 extra day per month for you to take on a Friday or a Monday and enjoy a long 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 – and, of course, this would apply to Vietnam, too.

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 180 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, the 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. 

RESPONSIBILITIES

Building, overseeing, and growing Vero’s Integrated Marketing Communications, especially the digital and social media practice in the Philippines.

ACCOUNT SUPERVISION:

Pitching, managing, and supporting client activity in the realm of social, digital & influencer engagement. Includes coordinating teams to develop comprehensive communication strategies for prospects, providing creative solutions to client’s challenges, and embracing emerging marketing technology for the betterment of the agency and client business.

You will also be in direct contact with clients and will develop strategies for prospects as well as for some of the agency’s current accounts.

Leading and growing an Account Team, your team will be managing local and international IMC/ Digital/ Social Media accounts, and you will be providing Client Servicing and Communication strategy guidance to your clients, Account Managers/ Executives and Creative teams.

Mainly involved in Philippine-based projects, you will also contribute to Vero’s regional offices (Thailand, Vietnam, Myanmar, and Indonesia) when your help and expertise are required. You will support the international pitching efforts along with creative and planning teams.

Overall, you would be working with a team to meet client KPIs, assisting other departments and management if need be, and generating positive business results for the agency. You would be reporting to the Vero Philippines’ Operations Director.

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT

You will drive the agency’s reputation in Manila with existing and new client relationships. As one of the lead representatives, you will ensure excellent communication with clients and partners both directly and through your account teams. You will also support new business opportunities and the agency’s local strategic planning effort, working together with teams to develop industry-leading communication proposals.

Includes taking client briefs, challenging them, and developing them into inspiring and informative internal briefs. Keeping abreast of new trends and developments and sharing those with the rest of the team and company on a regular basis. You will be responsible for turning ideas into well-rounded, strategically sound, deliverable plans that you lead and write, collaborating with others in the team to encompass audience insights, trend analysis, marketing/media executions, timings, and budgets.

Includes bringing strategic input to group-level conversations on culture, recruitment, business strategy, thought leadership, key investments, and regional expansion.

ABOUT YOU

• Minimum 7 years working experience in an IMC or digital and social media communication agency
• Highly motivated, flexible, reliable, honest, and able to work under pressure
• Excellent leadership, team building and organizational skills
• Structured, responsible, and independent – capacity to organize a business development roadmap to access pre-defined business goals.
• Proven experience in communication planning. You are a creative problem-solver, you know how to surround yourself with critical resources and research approaches (on and offline), and you are able to apply these approaches to uncover breakthrough insights that can drive our client business forward.
• Experienced in leading campaign development, execution and measurement
• Deep understanding and hands-on experience in strategizing and managing various digital and social media platforms; involved in audience engagement on social media
• Strong analytical & performance optimization skills with the ability to identify, interpret, and use digital and social media marketing analytics and tools
• Believes efficient communication is sparked by positive conversations
• Trusts that creativity and empathy are at the heart of great communication strategies
• Outstanding English and Tagalog listening, writing, and presentation skills
• Comfortable working in a young, multicultural environment

TRAVEL AND PLACE OF WORK:

Your usual location for work will be the company’s office in Manila. Your place of work may vary depending on the Company’s needs, including Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, or other locations as instructed from time to time. Additional expenses incurred by you because of the Company directing that you work from a location other than your usual location will be reimbursed by the Company. Standard working hours are flexible, Monday through Friday. This may vary depending on workload and client needs.

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 take pride in creating workplaces that feel like home, informal, and deeply stimulating.

OTHER BENEFITS:

• 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.
• Flexible Office: All our employees can choose where they want to work on any given day, whether 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, subscriptions to relevant industry media, as well as to social sentiment analysis and business intelligence tools and dashboards.
• Communication allowance: P1,500 monthly allowance paid in the same monthly paycheck
• Working days: from Monday to Friday, 9 am to 5:30 pm (including 1 hour of lunch break). This may be flexible depending on workload and client needs.
• International Travel: As much as possible, we push our teams to travel for events/client work. In any given year,  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.
• 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 team takes an average of 15 days (minimum!) per person a year.
• Wellness day off: 1 paid day per quarter for you to take time off, unplug, and treat yourself to something nice.
• 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 are needed for their development. For example, this could be a program organized by a group such as PR WEEK or 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 – and, of course, this would apply to the Philippines, too.
• 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.

ABOUT VERO
Vero is an award-winning communications consultancy advising some of the world’s leading brands, corporations, and non-profit organizations across Southeast Asia. Vero designs integrated marketing and communications strategies that resonate in the region’s 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, Vero’s commitment to fostering a positive and empowering work culture was recognized as Best Independent Agency to work for in APAC at the PRovoke Media Awards. In 2023, Vero enters PRovoke Media’s Global Top 250 PR Agency Ranking, as the second largest independent firm in Southeast Asia.

Additionally, Vero’s campaigns and services have also been recognized, winning Marketing Interactive’s Gold Award for Best Health and Pharmaceutical campaign, PR Awards Asia’s 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 Asia’s 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.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Building, overseeing, and growing Vero’s PR practice and key PR clients in the Philippines. Large client assignments include a leading global content platform and a significant development sector actor.

ACCOUNT SUPERVISION:

Building, overseeing, and growing Vero’s PR practice in Vietnam and supporting Vero’s regional PR practice in ASEAN.

Overseeing your team’s P&L through direct access to business data. Advising team-level strategy in terms of recruitment, key investment, culture, and business development.

Participation in the executive management of the agency’s growth, bringing strategic input to group-level conversations on culture, recruitment, business strategy, thought leadership, key investments, and regional expansion.

Supporting the image and role of Vero’s PR practice in the Philippines PR industry by becoming an active contributor to industry events, industry coverage, and industry capacity building and training.

Leading and growing a PR Account Team, your team will manage local and international PR accounts, and you will provide Account Servicing and Communication and PR strategy guidance to your clients, Account Directors/Managers/Executives.

PR strategy input on new PR business planning, held by you, with the support of the Strategy team and the Philippines country lead, depending on your pipeline.

PR strategy input on new IMC business planning held by Strategy teams.

Mainly involved in Philippine-based projects, you will also contribute to Vero’s regional offices
(Thailand, Vietnam, Myanmar, Singapore, and Indonesia) when your help and expertise are required. You will support the international pitching efforts along with creative and planning teams.

Overall, you would be working with a team to meet client KPIs, assisting other departments and
management if need be, and generating positive business results for the agency. You would be
reporting to the Vero Philippines’ Operations Director.

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT

You will drive the agency’s reputation in Manila with existing and new client relationships. As one of the lead representatives, you will ensure excellent communication with clients and partners both directly and through your account teams. You will also support new business opportunities and the agency’s local strategic planning effort, working together with teams to develop industry-leading communication proposals.

Includes taking client briefs, challenging them, and developing them into inspiring and informative internal briefs. Keeping abreast of new trends and developments and sharing those with the rest of the team and company on a regular basis. You will be responsible for turning ideas into well-rounded, strategically sound, deliverable plans that you lead and write, collaborating with others in the team to encompass audience insights, trend analysis, marketing/media executions, timings, and budgets.

Includes bringing strategic input to group-level conversations on culture, recruitment, business strategy, thought leadership, key investments, and regional expansion.

ABOUT YOU

• Minimum 7 years working experience in a PR role
• Highly motivated, flexible, reliable, honest, and able to work under pressure
• Excellent leadership, team building, and organizational skills
• Structured, responsible, and independent – the capacity to organize a business development roadmap to access pre-defined business goals.
• Proven experience in communication planning. You are a creative problem-solver, you know how to surround yourself with critical resources and research approaches (on and offline), and you are able to apply these approaches to uncover breakthrough insights that can drive our client business forward.
• Experienced in leading campaign development, execution, and measurement
• Deep understanding and hands-on experience in strategizing and managing various digital and social media platforms; involved in audience engagement on social media
• Strong analytical & performance optimization skills with the ability to identify, interpret, and use digital and social media marketing analytics and tools
• Believes efficient communication is sparked by positive conversations
• Trusts that creativity and empathy are at the heart of great communication strategies
• Outstanding English and Tagalog listening, writing, and presentation skills
• Comfortable working in a young, multicultural environment

TRAVEL AND PLACE OF WORK:

Your usual location for work will be the company’s office in Manila. Your place of work may vary depending on the Company’s needs, including Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, or other locations as instructed from time to time. Additional expenses incurred by you because of the Company directing that you work from a location other than your usual location will be reimbursed by the Company. Standard working hours are flexible, Monday through Friday. This may vary depending on workload and client needs.

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 take pride in creating workplaces that feel like home, informal, and deeply stimulating.

OTHER BENEFITS:

• 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.
• Flexible Office: All our employees can choose where they want to work on any given day, whether 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, subscriptions to relevant industry media, as well as social sentiment analysis and business intelligence tools and dashboards.
• Communication allowance: P1,500 monthly allowance paid in the same monthly paycheck
• Working days: from Monday to Friday, 9 am to 5:30 pm (including 1 hour of lunch break). This may be flexible depending on workload and client needs.
• International Travel: As much as possible, we push our teams to travel for events/client work. In any given year,  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.
• 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 team takes an average of 15 days (minimum!) per person a year.
• Wellness day off: 1 paid day per quarter for you to take time off, unplug, and treat yourself to something nice.
• 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 are needed for their development. For example, this could be a program organized by a group such as PR WEEK or 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 – and, of course, this would apply to the Philippines, too.
• 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.

ABOUT VERO
Vero is an award-winning communications consultancy advising some of the world’s leading brands, corporations, and non-profit organizations across Southeast Asia. Vero designs integrated marketing and communications strategies that resonate in the region’s 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, Vero’s commitment to fostering a positive and empowering work culture was recognized as Best Independent Agency to work for in APAC at the PRovoke Media Awards. In 2023, Vero enters PRovoke Media’s Global Top 250 PR Agency Ranking, as the second largest independent firm in Southeast Asia.

Additionally, Vero’s campaigns and services have also been recognized, winning Marketing Interactive’s Gold Award for Best Health and Pharmaceutical campaign, PR Awards Asia’s 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 Asia’s 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.

RESPONSIBILITIES

You will be working with the Creative and Accounts teams in developing creative concepts and graphic design requirements. You will also contribute to regional projects when your help/expertise is required.  

You will visualize concepts and create graphics, including design, layout, illustration, photo manipulation, and basic motion graphics. You’ll be part of a team that shapes the visual aspects of digital, social media, and e-Commerce content for Vero clients. 

For this role, you must have the knowledge and skills in conceptualization, design trends, and creative opportunities in digital and social media touch points. A creative flair and a strong ability to translate requirements into design.  

The role is a monthly retainer post, which can be renewed as deemed necessary for the requirement.  

ABOUT  YOU

• Minimum 1-year working experience as a designer. Fresh graduates are welcome to apply. 
• Confident and comfortable working alongside Creative Leads and Project Managers. 
• Strong creative thinking, direction, conceptualization, and design execution for digital media, including designing and executing motion graphics for content. 
• Trusts that creativity and empathy are at the heart of great communication strategies  
• Outstanding English and Tagalog listening and writing skills 
• Comfortable working in a young, multicultural environment  
• Creative, curious, flexible, and highly motivated 
• You have your own device capable of producing graphic and basic motion design requirements. 
• It’s a plus if you have a keen interest in technology and food brands! 
• Must have a creative design portfolio available for submission. 

PLACE OF WORK

The team is currently in a work-from-home setup. We mostly engage and update tasks online through collaboration tools such as Microsoft Office and Teams.  

Standard working hours are flexible, Monday through Friday. This may vary depending on workload and client needs. However, as a freelancer, we’ll require at least three times a week active presence with the team for online collaborations. 

BENEFITS:

• Flexible Office: All our employees can choose where they want to work on any given day, whether it’s from home, from a coffee shop, or from a yacht in the Pacific Ocean. 
• Working days: Monday to Friday, 9 am to 6 pm (including 1 hour lunch break). This may be flexible depending on workload and client needs.  

ABOUT VERO

Vero is an award-winning communications consultancy that partners with some of the world’s leading brands, corporations, and non-profit organizations across Southeast Asia. Vero is dedicated to creating stories for companies and brands, which resonate authentically within the region’s unique digital ecosystems and fast-growing economies.

Vero presence spans across Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam, as well as an established partnership in Myanmar. With a dedicated team of over 200 professionals specializing in PR, social media, digital marketing, influence, data-powered consumer research, media buying, and creative services, we offer comprehensive solutions for businesses seeking to advance their brand’s footprint in Southeast Asia.

Vero takes immense pride in our commitment to fostering a positive and empowering work culture, which was acknowledged in 2022 when Vero was recognized as the Best Independent Agency To Work For in APAC at the PRovoke Media Awards. In 2023, Vero further solidified its position in the industry by ranking among PRovoke Media’s Global Top 250 PR Agencies, securing the title of the second largest independent firm in Southeast Asia.

Vero’s most recognized campaigns garnered Marketing Interactive’s Gold Award for Best Health and Pharmaceutical Campaign, PR Awards Asia’s Best Use of Digital (COVID-19), SABRE Awards Best Influencer Programs Endorsements, and the 2023 Travel & Lifestyle Award from PRCA APAC. Vero believes in the power of earned, so our communication work is crafted to be talkable for the right reasons.

In 2021, Vero was named Southeast Asia’s Agency of the Year by PRovoke Media. In 2023, Vero Vietnam office won PRWeek’s PR Awards Asia Best Consultancy (Medium Size).

Vero goes beyond conventional PR and comms practices by regularly producing research papers that explore the relationships between brands and audiences, digital trends, and emerging cultural impacts. Vero’s playbooks for brands cover various topics, including but not limited to food and health in Southeast Asia, managing disinformation threats, navigating the pitfalls of greenwashing and understanding the media ecosystem of esports.

Vero, a regional, award-winning communications agency, is offering an exciting opportunity for accomplished PR professionals at the Director level who want to join our vibrant, collaborative, and progressive team dedicated to servicing the best brands across Indonesia and Southeast Asia.

 In this role, you will lead a team dedicated to assisting international clients in expanding their presence within Indonesia and contribute to the overall business growth.

The ideal candidate will be a seasoned agency professional with a proven track record of not only leading client accounts but also adeptly managing teams and consistently delivering creative PR and integrated campaigns at the highest industry standards.

We are in search of an experienced PR Account Director who can provide expert guidance and mentorship to our dynamic and young team of PR practitioners.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Leadership: Demonstrate strong leadership by providing strategic guidance and coaching to the team. Offer insights into content creation, media relations, and communication strategies. Share industry best practices and trends to enhance team expertise, utilizing local, regional, or global case studies as illustrative examples.
• People management: Inspire and manage the team to deliver exceptional results. Effectively allocate time and workloads across client accounts and provide on-the-job training.
• Mentorship: Mentor team members in developing both their soft and hard skills and provide constructive feedback on their work. Review the team’s latest efforts and offer specific advice and guidance for improving pitch materials, presentation decks, and other various content. Assign clear tasks and action points with defined goals and timelines.
• Client counsel: Collaborate closely with clients, serving as their senior counsel. Provide strategic advice and demonstrate the agency’s value as a trusted partner. Foster strong client relationships built on trust.
• Communications skills: Exhibit excellent presentation, communication, selling, and negotiation skills. Ensure accurate budgeting to maintain profitability while avoiding over or under-servicing client accounts.
• Strategic Planning and New Business: Demonstrate strategic thinking and contribute to business growth in Indonesia by actively supporting new business pitches, identifying growth opportunities with existing clients, and employing analytical thinking to develop innovative solutions.
• Strong media relations: Cultivate and nurture strong relationships with local media journalists and outlets to secure media coverage and build a robust media network.
• Maintaining Vero standards: Take ownership of client work and uphold agency standards and quality. Review and approve deliverables from junior team members.
• High level of collaboration: Collaborate effectively and be comfortable working with an extended team of communication professionals in Indonesia and abroad.
• Additional Skills (ideal but not required): Experience in advising and facilitating government relations and building relevant networks with similar organizations such as NGOs would be a plus.

ABOUT  YOU

• Extensive experience (minimum ten years) in Public Relations, Media Relations, or a related field.
• Bachelor’s degree in public relations, Communications, Journalism, or a related field.
• Fluent in both English and Bahasa, with excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• In-depth knowledge of the local media landscape, encompassing public relations, advertising, marketing, and industry trends—proficiency in integrated communications and production principles and practices. Familiarity with digital PR and social media trends is a plus.
• Exceptional strategic thinking and problem-solving abilities.
• Proven track record of successfully securing high-profile media coverage and maintaining strong media relations.
• In-depth experience in developing and executing successful public relations strategies and communication programs and campaigns.
• Demonstrated expertise in crisis communications and issues management.
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to inspire, advise, and mentor a young team.
• Excellent writing and storytelling skills, with the ability to craft compelling PR materials.
• Previous experience in mentoring and guiding junior PR professionals.
• Results-oriented and able to work under pressure to solve problems.
• General understanding of agency protocols, procedures, and processes.
• Attention to detail, organizational skills, flexibility, and a passion for continuous learning.

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 deeply stimulating. 

If you have a passion for PR and nurturing young talent, we invite you to apply and make a significant impact on our growing organization. 

Please submit your detailed resume and a cover letter outlining your experience and approach to mentoring PR teams. We look forward to hearing from you!

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 team 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 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 in January.
• Flexible Office: All our employees can choose where they want to work from on any given day, should it be from the office, from home, from a coffee shop, or from a yacht in the Pacific Ocean.
• Home office budget: one company laptop, subscriptions to relevant industry media a budget for you to enhance your home office, as well as to social sentiment analysis and business intelligence tools and dashboards.
• Working days: from Monday to Friday
• International Travel: As much as possible we push our teams to travel for events/client work. On any given year, 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.
• 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 are needed for their development. For example, this could be a program organized by a group such as PR WEEK, or 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 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.

ABOUT VERO

Vero is an award-winning communications consultancy that partners with some of the world’s leading brands, corporations, and non-profit organizations across Southeast Asia. Vero is dedicated to creating stories for companies and brands, which resonate authentically within the region’s unique digital ecosystems and fast-growing economies.

Vero presence spans across Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam, as well as an established partnership in Myanmar. With a dedicated team of over 200 professionals specializing in PR, social media, digital marketing, influence, data-powered consumer research, media buying, and creative services, we offer comprehensive solutions for businesses seeking to advance their brand’s footprint in Southeast Asia.

Vero takes immense pride in our commitment to fostering a positive and empowering work culture, which was acknowledged in 2022 when Vero was recognized as the Best Independent Agency To Work For in APAC at the PRovoke Media Awards. In 2023, Vero further solidified its position in the industry by ranking among PRovoke Media’s Global Top 250 PR Agencies, securing the title of the second largest independent firm in Southeast Asia.

Vero’s most recognized campaigns garnered Marketing Interactive’s Gold Award for Best Health and Pharmaceutical Campaign, PR Awards Asia’s Best Use of Digital (COVID-19), SABRE Awards Best Influencer Programs Endorsements, and the 2023 Travel & Lifestyle Award from PRCA APAC. Vero believes in the power of earned, so our communication work is crafted to be talkable for the right reasons.

In 2021, Vero was named Southeast Asia’s Agency of the Year by PRovoke Media. In 2023, Vero Vietnam office won PRWeek’s PR Awards Asia Best Consultancy (Medium Size).

Vero goes beyond conventional PR and comms practices by regularly producing research papers that explore the relationships between brands and audiences, digital trends, and emerging cultural impacts. Vero’s playbooks for brands cover various topics, including but not limited to food and health in Southeast Asia, managing disinformation threats, navigating the pitfalls of greenwashing and understanding the media ecosystem of esports.

ABOUT VERO ADVOCACY

Vero Advocacy (VA) is a public policy advocacy and government relations advisory under Southeast Asia’s leading communications consultancy, Vero. We are dedicated to helping organizations understand and navigate the dynamic and complex public policy and regulatory development in Southeast Asia. 

Our mission is to empower our clients to access local expertise and insights and create meaningful conversations, collaborations, and institutional relationships with key stakeholders in a way that drives positive changes for the business and the broader industries and society. 

With a team of trusted experts and a deep understanding of public policy, we offer a comprehensive range of consultancy services tailored to the unique needs of our clients. From conducting in-depth policy analysis and providing strategic advice to facilitating stakeholder engagement and embarking on strategic advocacy, we leverage our expertise and network to deliver actionable advice and tangible results.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Manages Vero Advocacy’s public policy clients and internal teams independently and leads day-to-day client communication and coordination in Vietnam 
• Provides high-standard client service and produces excellent written deliverables, mostly in English. Deliverables include client reports, analyses, proposals, briefing documents, PowerPoint presentations, etc
• Initiates strategically sound plans and recommendations for clients 
• Engages and coordinates with government and non-government stakeholders in the fields related to clients’ issues
• Conducts research and stays up to date on new political, economic, policy, and regulatory trends and developments that impact clients
• Leads, mentors, and empowers junior team members while promoting a healthy and respectful work working environment 
• Supports leadership on new business development, participating in new business pitches, and contributing ideas and strategy 

ABOUT  YOU

• Minimum of 5 years of full-time work experience in a consulting firm, corporation, government organization, industry association, or academic institution 
• Bachelor’s degree in political science, economics, law, social science, journalism, or a related field. A master’s degree in a related field is strongly preferred 
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to work in an international environment using English (advanced level) and Vietnamese languages (native is preferred). Strong persuasive communication skill is preferred. 
• Keen understanding of the Vietnamese political system, political culture, environment, and institutions 
• Proficient in interacting with internal and external stakeholders 
• Curious, ambitious, driven, creative, outspoken, and motivated individual 
• Highly organized, logical, and attentive to details 
• Possesses an analytical and problem-solving mindset with a can-do attitude 

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 deeply stimulating. 

It’s hybrid work and will require you to work remotely from Hanoi; however, you can travel to the office in Ho Chi Minh City, Bangkok, or across ASEAN as requested.

BENEFITS:

• Annual bonus: The year-end bonus is determined by the Company and at its sole discretion 
• Flexible office & remote work: You can work from home, from a coffee shop, or from a yacht in the Pacific Ocean. This may vary depending on workload and client needs. 
• Working days: Monday to Friday, 9 am to 5:30 pm (including 1 hour of lunch break).  This may be flexible depending on workload and client needs 
• International travel: As much as possible, we push our teams to travel for events/client work. On any given year, 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 
• Leave: Your allocated holiday time at Vero Advocacy 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 team take an average of 15 days (minimum!) per person a year 
• 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. This includes training and development investments organized by the company as well as specialized programs that our executives may come across and feel are needed for their development 
• 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, so we provide the Counseling by the Professional Psychologist to the team since day 1 as the Verosquad 

ABOUT VERO

Vero is an award-winning communications consultancy that partners with some of the world’s leading brands, corporations, and non-profit organizations across Southeast Asia. Vero is dedicated to creating stories for companies and brands which resonate authentically within the region’s unique digital ecosystems and fast-growing economies.

Vero presence spans Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam, as well as an established partnership in Myanmar. With a dedicated team of over 200 professionals specializing in PR, social media, digital marketing, influence, data-powered consumer research, media buying, and creative services, we offer comprehensive solutions for businesses seeking to advance their brand footprint in Southeast Asia.

Vero takes immense pride in our commitment to fostering a positive and empowering work culture, which was acknowledged in 2022 when Vero was recognized as the Best Independent Agency To Work For in APAC at the PRovoke Media Awards. In 2023, Vero further solidified its position in the industry by ranking among PRovoke Media’s Global Top 250 PR Agencies, securing the title of the second largest independent firm in Southeast Asia.

Vero’s most recognized campaigns garnered Marketing Interactive’s Gold Award for Best Health and Pharmaceutical Campaign, PR Awards Asia’s Best Use of Digital (COVID-19), SABRE Awards Best Influencer Programs Endorsements, and the 2023 Travel & Lifestyle Award from PRCA APAC. Vero believes in the power of earned, so our communication work is crafted to be talkable for the right reasons.

In 2021, Vero was named Southeast Asia’s Agency of the Year by PRovoke Media. In 2023, Vero Vietnam office won PRWeek’s PR Awards Asia Best Consultancy (Medium Size).

Vero goes beyond conventional PR and comms practices by regularly producing research papers that explore the relationships between brands and audiences, digital trends, and emerging cultural impacts. Vero’s playbooks for brands cover various topics, including but not limited to food and health in Southeast Asia, managing disinformation threats, navigating the pitfalls of greenwashing, and understanding the media ecosystem of esports.

Vero is a regional PR, social, and digital agency for clients across the ASEAN region.  We are seeking a high-potential storyteller to join our team in Bangkok to collaborate with clients and team members across the ASEAN region.

The successful candidate will lead a team focused on storytelling and content creation. 

The ideal candidate should be a journalist, writer with editorial experience or agency professional with deep expertise in research, interviewing, writing, digital storytelling, and developing story ideas.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Working to support teams to develop industry-leading content across topics related to consumer goods, finance, business, and public affairs.
• Main responsibilities include leading a team of writers and editors to create newsworthy, impactful earned and owned awareness for our clients.  This includes producing high-quality social media content, blog posts, articles, press releases, speeches, white papers, and any other written assignments.
• This role will require extensive collaboration with Vero’s account service, creative, media relations, and planning teams to help translate creative ideas into impactful messages. 
• Suggest stories and generate headline ideas in alignment with client goals.
• Oversee layout (artwork, design, photography) and check content for accuracy and errors.
• Proofread, edit, and improve stories or pieces.
• Conduct and lead bi-annual reviews of team members.
• Motivate team members to achieve excellence.
• Win awards for great writing and storytelling.
• Comply with legal and ethical guidelines.
• Be comfortable working in an extended team of communication professionals, in Thailand and abroad, and position as a driving force for exceptional project delivery and collaborative spirit.
• Meet deadlines, budget requirements and manage the team’s bandwidth.
• Be able to lead, advise, and coach team members.
• Be able to work under pressure, and likely to find solutions to challenges.
• Embrace AI and actively learn about how it can support content creation. Consider ways to “productize” AI for content creation.
• Stand up for quality – and ensure that all content produced by Vero meets the highest standards of quality.
• Develop an incentive program to reward writers and editors for success.  For example, the incentive program could provide financial rewards based upon big, positive, impactful coverage in Tier 1 media of a 1/2 page or larger, 1000 words, high engagement rates, and wire service coverage. 

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 deeply stimulating. 

BENEFITS:

• Annual bonus: The year-end bonus is determined by the Company and at its sole discretion 
• Flexible office & remote work: You can work from home, from a coffee shop, or from a yacht in the Pacific Ocean. This may vary depending on workload and client needs. 
• Working days: Monday to Friday, 9 am to 5:30 pm (including 1 hour of lunch break).  This may be flexible depending on workload and client needs. 
• International travel: As much as possible, we push our teams to travel for events/client work. On any given year, 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. 
• Leave: Your allocated holiday time at Vero Advocacy 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 team take an average of 15 days (minimum!) per person a year. 
• 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. This includes training and development investments organized by the company as well as specialized programs that our executives may come across and feel are needed for their development. 
• 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, so we provide the Counseling by the Professional Psychologist to the team since day 1 as the Verosquad 
• Incentives:  Vero provides a robust client referral program that is eligible to all team members and is published at the start of every calendar year.
• EBITDA goals:  As a member of management, you would be open to receiving an incentive tied to annual EBITDA targets.  The details of this would be confirmed in the contracting process.

ABOUT VERO

Vero is an award-winning communications consultancy that partners with some of the world’s leading brands, corporations, and non-profit organizations across Southeast Asia. Vero is dedicated to creating stories for companies and brands that resonate authentically within the region’s unique digital ecosystems and fast-growing economies.

Vero presence spans Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam, as well as an established partnership in Myanmar. With a dedicated team of over 200 professionals specializing in PR, social media, digital marketing, influence, data-powered consumer research, media buying, and creative services, we offer comprehensive solutions for businesses seeking to advance their brand footprint in Southeast Asia.

Vero takes immense pride in our commitment to fostering a positive and empowering work culture, which was acknowledged in 2022 when Vero was recognized as the Best Independent Agency To Work For in APAC at the PRovoke Media Awards. In 2023, Vero further solidified its position by ranking among PRovoke Media’s Global Top 250 PR Agencies, securing the title of the second largest independent firm in Southeast Asia.

Vero’s most recognized campaigns garnered Marketing Interactive’s Gold Award for Best Health and Pharmaceutical Campaign, PR Awards Asia’s Best Use of Digital (COVID-19), SABRE Awards Best Influencer Programs Endorsements, and the 2023 Travel & Lifestyle Award from PRCA APAC. Vero believes in the power of earned, so our communication work is crafted to be talkable for the right reasons.

In 2021, Vero was named Southeast Asia’s Agency of the Year by PRovoke Media. In 2023, Vero Vietnam office won PRWeek’s PR Awards Asia Best Consultancy (Medium Size).

Vero goes beyond conventional PR and comms practices by regularly producing research papers that explore the relationships between brands and audiences, digital trends, and emerging cultural impacts. Vero’s playbooks for brands cover various topics, including but not limited to food and health in Southeast Asia, managing disinformation threats, navigating the pitfalls of greenwashing, and understanding the media ecosystem of esports.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Building, overseeing, and growing Vero’s business in Singapore, and key clients in the ASEAN region.  

Building teams                                            

• Participation in the executive management of the agency’s growth, bringing strategic input to group-level conversations on culture, recruitment, business strategy, thought leadership, key investments, and regional expansion.
• Building and managing teams who will effectively serve international and local brands with industry-leading PR and communications consulting, integrating the future of data, creativity, culture and impact into award winning communication work.

Client management and account supervision                               

• Advise industry-leading brands, in the realms of sustainability, technology, FMCG, health and luxury in strategic communications.
• Build, nurture, and grow client relationships, serving as a trusted resource and advisor.
• Lead and independently manage multiple integrated communications programs.
• Lead the development of communications strategies for client brands and projects; and translate these strategies into tactical, executional plans.
• Lead the production of high-quality, client-ready deliverables, including but not limited to communications proposals, strategies, and tactical plans, media and influencer relation plans and related content (press releases, feature articles, whitepapers, playbooks, reports, social media posts etc.)
• Keep apprised of clients’ brands/products/services and industry developments – understanding key issues facing the client’s industries, and trends.
• Manage team resources.

Business development and agency growth                                                  

• Support Vero’s growth in Singapore and the region by becoming an active contributor to industry events, industry coverage, and industry capacity building and training.
• Support the agency’s reputation in Singapore with existing and new client relationships.
• Lead new business development, including taking client briefs, challenging them, and developing them into inspiring and informative internal briefs, keeping abreast of new trends and developments, and sharing those with the rest of the team and company regularly.
• Turn ideas into well-rounded, strategically sound, deliverable plans that you lead and write, collaborating with others in the team to encompass audience insights, trend analysis, marketing/media executions, timings, and budgets.
• Manage new business pitching process, and ensure timelines and deadlines are met.

ABOUT YOU

• Minimum seven years (or more) of working experience in an agency environment or similar
• Experience (and/or passion) in sustainability is a bonus
• Highly motivated, flexible, reliable, honest, and able to work under pressure           
• Excellent leadership, team building and organisational skills                                       
• Structured, detail-oriented, responsible, and independent – capacity to organise a business development roadmap to access pre-defined business goals.
• Proven experience in a communications function/role: 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 that can drive our business forward
• Experienced in leading campaign development, execution and measurement
• Possess in depth media relations in Singapore and the region
• Deep understanding and hands-on experience in strategising and managing various digital and social media platforms; involved in audience engagement on social media
• Strong analytical performance optimisation skills with the ability to identify, interpret, and use digital and social media marketing analytics and tools
• Believes that positive conversations spark efficient communication
• Trusts that creativity and empathy are at the heart of great communication strategies
• Excellent writing skills
• Comfortable working in a young, multicultural environment 

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 deeply stimulating. 

 **This is a hybrid role, with some travel required. You will be reporting to Vero Singapore’s Managing Director.

BENEFITS:

• Annual bonus: The year-end bonus is determined by the Company and at its sole discretion 
• Flexible office & remote work: You can work from home, from a coffee shop, or a yacht in the Pacific Ocean. This may vary depending on workload and client needs. 
• Working days: Monday to Friday, 9 am to 5:30 pm (including 1 hour of lunch break).  This may be flexible depending on workload and client needs. 
• International travel: As much as possible, we push our teams to travel for events/client work. On any given year, 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. 
• Leave: Your allocated holiday time at Vero Advocacy 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 team takes an average of 15 days (minimum!) per person a year. 
• 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. This includes training and development investments organized by the company as well as specialized programs that our executives may come across and feel are needed for their development. 
• 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, so we provide the Counseling by the Professional Psychologist to the team since day 1 as the VeroSquad.

ABOUT VERO

Vero is an award-winning communications consultancy that partners with some of the world’s leading brands, corporations, and non-profit organizations across Southeast Asia. Vero is dedicated to creating stories for companies and brands that resonate authentically within the region’s unique digital ecosystems and fast-growing economies.

Vero presence spans Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam, as well as an established partnership in Myanmar. With a dedicated team of over 200 professionals specializing in PR, social media, digital marketing, influence, data-powered consumer research, media buying, and creative services, we offer comprehensive solutions for businesses seeking to advance their brand footprint in Southeast Asia.

Vero takes immense pride in our commitment to fostering a positive and empowering work culture, which was acknowledged in 2022 when Vero was recognized as the Best Independent Agency To Work For in APAC at the PRovoke Media Awards. In 2023, Vero further solidified its position by ranking among PRovoke Media’s Global Top 250 PR Agencies, securing the title of the second largest independent firm in Southeast Asia.

Vero’s most recognized campaigns garnered Marketing Interactive’s Gold Award for Best Health and Pharmaceutical Campaign, PR Awards Asia’s Best Use of Digital (COVID-19), SABRE Awards Best Influencer Programs Endorsements, and the 2023 Travel & Lifestyle Award from PRCA APAC. Vero believes in the power of earned, so our communication work is crafted to be talkable for the right reasons.

In 2021, Vero was named Southeast Asia’s Agency of the Year by PRovoke Media. In 2023, Vero Vietnam office won PRWeek’s PR Awards Asia Best Consultancy (Medium Size).

Vero goes beyond conventional PR and comms practices by regularly producing research papers that explore the relationships between brands and audiences, digital trends, and emerging cultural impacts. Vero’s playbooks for brands cover various topics, including but not limited to food and health in Southeast Asia, managing disinformation threats, navigating the pitfalls of greenwashing, and understanding the media ecosystem of esports.

RESPONSIBILITY

Accountant (80%)

• Performing daily accounting tasks: following and checking on bank transactions, payment transfers, receivable and payable; issuing VAT invoices; collecting invoices; storing documents and inputting data into accounting software.
• Reconciling financial discrepancies by collecting and analyzing account information.
• Preparing accurate and timely monthly financial statements in accordance with VAS and all other prevailing laws including Tax laws, government laws, and other regulations, such as rolling cashflow statements/forecasts, project status reports of actual vs budget, yearly balance sheets, profit and loss statements, and other periodic and ad-hoc internal reports to BOM.
• Checking and ensuring all contracts with vendors and clients are consistent; keep track of all the contracts in filling properly
• Following and controlling the revenue and cost of each project; ensuring it is within budget
• Performing monthly reconciliation of debtors, creditors, and bank balances, audit schedule report. Investigate possible discrepancies and if needed, follow up on outstanding items.
• Preparing Tax declaration and finalization (VAT, CIT, FCT, PIT, WHT, …)
• Coordinating with other departments and internal audits from Head Office and external parties.
• Managing external relationships with external auditors, tax authorities, banks, and relevant government organizations relating to accounting and finance matters
• Keeping policies and procedures up to date and in line with Vietnamese changes in laws related to tax/vat/etc. Develop new ones if required and ensure FS complies with company procedures related to finance/accounting

C&B Support (15%):

• Being in charge of monthly salary payments, SHUI, Labor report, and Tax Report (quarterly/annually)
• Proceeding and fulfilling salary’s relevant paperwork: Labor Contract, Salary Adjustment Decision,
• Being in charge of registration for Bao Viet insurance and supporting employees in claiming Bao Viet insurance
• Coordinating with other providers relating to employee benefits including extra health insurance
• (Bao Viet), Mental health vendor to keep track of employee’s onboarding/offboarding

HR-Admin support (5%):

• Providing logistic support for staff travel: booking accommodation, air tickets, etc.
• Support for ex-pat staff relating to Visa, work permit (WP), residence card and shipping clearance

About you

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, or other analytical disciplines.
• Highly responsible, and mature, with great communication and writing skills in both Vietnamese and English
• Advanced knowledge of Vietnamese Accounting Standards and the prevailing tax regulations.
• Minimum 3-4 years of experience in tax accounting, general accounting, or a similar position.
• Experience in the accounting/audit service company is a strong plus.
• Understanding of accounting procedures and standards.
• Proficient in the use of accounting software and excellent in computer skills, especially MS Excel.
• Chief Accountant certificate is preferred.

Personalities

• Careful, patient, have a great sense of high responsibility in work
• Can-do attitude and integrity
• Well-organized, detailed, and good at planning
• Well-coordinating with different stakeholders
• Passion for learning about new people, places, and things

TRAVEL AND PLACE OF WORK

Your usual location for work will be the company’s office in Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam. Your place of work may vary depending on the Company’s needs, including Thailand, Myanmar, Singapore, Indonesia the Philippines, 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.

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 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 team 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 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 of 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.
• Home office budget: one company laptop, subscriptions to relevant industry media a budget for you to enhance your home office, as well as to social sentiment analysis and business intelligence tools and dashboards.
• Working days: from Monday to Friday
• 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.
• Wellness day off: 1 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 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 are 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 – and of course, this would apply to the Philippines too.
• 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 is 100% confidential, only you and your therapist know what is being said during sessions, of course.

ABOUT VERO

Vero is an award-winning communications consultancy advising some of the world’s leading brands, corporations, and non-profit organizations across Southeast Asia.

Vero designs integrated marketing and communications strategies that resonate within the region’s digital ecosystems and fast-growing economies. We have worked with respected brands for different markets such as Dell, Intel, Duolingo, Netflix and many more!

With offices in Indonesia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam, Vero is a team of approximately 150 PR, social, digital, influence, and creative professionals.

Winner of PRovoke 2021 Southeast Asia Consultancy of the Year Award, Vero has a distinctive approach to earned media, putting digital 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 produces playbooks for brands on topics such as but not limited to management of disinformation threats, and the media ecosystem of esports.

As an Account Manager at Vero, your role encompasses diverse responsibilities aimed at supporting the success and growth of our clients. Your tasks will span PR account support, media relations, event management, content preparation, and translation, all with the overarching goal of The Clients and Vero.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Demonstrated ability to discern both expressed and latent client needs, ensuring work aligns seamlessly with expectations.
• Proficiency in providing initial client direction independently, informed by your strong engagement with website and application developments.
• Capacity to envision projects holistically while effectively integrating detailed tasks within the broader context.
• Active involvement in new business pitches, offering research support and coordination to establish Vero as a preferred long-term partner for marketing and communication services.
• Tracking and reporting media activities, encompassing client and competitor coverage analysis.
• Proficiency in leading meetings to distill comprehensive client requirements for the involved team members.
• Skill in project management, encompassing goal-setting, action planning, sub-task delegation, and departmental coordination.
• Efficient follow-up with stakeholders and clients to ensure project timelines are met.
• Strong leadership acumen, including mentoring and guiding junior team members, thriving under pressure, and troubleshooting daily challenges effectively.

TRAVEL AND PLACE OF WORK 

Your primary work location will be Vero’s office at Amarin Tower, Bangkok. However, your work setting may vary based on the Company’s needs, including travel to locations such as Vietnam, Indonesia, the Philippines, or other designated areas. Any additional expenses incurred due to work from non-standard locations will be reimbursed by the Company.

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 team 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 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 of January. 
• Flexible Office: All our employees can choose where they want to work from on any given day, should it be from the office, from home, from a coffee shop, or from a yacht in the Pacific Ocean. 
• Home office budget: one company laptop, subscriptions to relevant industry media a budget for you to enhance your home office, as well as to social sentiment analysis and business intelligence tools and dashboards. 
• Working days: from Monday to Friday  
• 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. 
• 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 are needed for their development. For example, this could be a program organized by a group such as PR WEEK, or 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 – and of course, this would apply to the Philippines too. 
• 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 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. 

ABOUT VERO  

Vero is an award-winning communications consultancy that partners with some of the world’s leading brands, corporations, and non-profit organizations across Southeast Asia. Vero is dedicated to creating stories for companies and brands, which resonate authentically within the region’s unique digital ecosystems and fast-growing economies.  

Vero presence spans across Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam, as well as an established partnership in Myanmar. With a dedicated team of over 200 professionals specializing in PR, social media, digital marketing, influence, data-powered consumer research, media buying, and creative services, we offer comprehensive solutions for businesses seeking to advance their brand’s footprint in Southeast Asia.   

Vero takes immense pride in our commitment to fostering a positive and empowering work culture, which was acknowledged in 2022 when Vero was recognized as the Best Independent Agency To Work For in APAC at the PRovoke Media Awards. In 2023, Vero further solidified its position in the industry by ranking among PRovoke Media’s Global Top 250 PR Agencies, securing the title of the second largest independent firm in Southeast Asia.   

Vero’s most recognized campaigns garnered Marketing Interactive’s Gold Award for Best Health and Pharmaceutical Campaign, PR Awards Asia’s Best Use of Digital (COVID-19), SABRE Awards Best Influencer Programs Endorsements, and the 2023 Travel & Lifestyle Award from PRCA APAC. Vero believes in the power of earned, so our communication work is crafted to be talkable for the right reasons.   

In 2021, Vero was named Southeast Asia’s Agency of the Year by PRovoke Media. In 2023, Vero Vietnam office won PRWeek’s PR Awards Asia Best Consultancy (Medium Size).  

Vero goes beyond conventional PR and comms practices by regularly producing research papers that explore the relationships between brands and audiences, digital trends, and emerging cultural impacts. Vero’s playbooks for brands cover various topics, including but not limited to food and health in Southeast Asia, managing disinformation threats, navigating the pitfalls of greenwashing and understanding the media ecosystem of esports.