Maria Hillegaart

Maria Hillegaart

Senior Account ManagerLondon, United Kingdom
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Maria Hillegaart

Maria Hillegaart

Senior Account ManagerLondon, United Kingdom
About me
A production-savvy Senior Account Manager with over 5 years of experience in planning and delivering complex campaigns involving multiple workstreams and stakeholders. Demonstrable knowledge of the translation/transcreation and the production process (TV, print, digital, (D)OOH, radio) in the marketing/advertising industry across global brands in the commercial and the charity sector.
Work history
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    Senior Account ManagerHogarth
     - London, United KingdomFull Time
    Built solid relationships with internal and external teams to successfully manage large campaigns to usually very tight deadlines, e.g., campaigns promoting season starts or new product launches. Led weekly client meetings to discuss ongoing and upcoming scope of work, identified risks and challenges and resolve project related/scope issues. Prepared accurate estimates against rate cards. Reviewed and approved all estimates from the London and Brazil Account Management team. Accurate budgeting and billing of projects in Hogarth‘s finance software Maconomy. Assessed and commented finance reports, prepared spend reports to receive PO‘s, and ensured the team is on track with monthly revenue admin. Managed a team of 3x Account Managers, conducted performance reviews to help them achieve their goals. Hired and trained new team members. Improved briefing processes, estimate templates, and ways of working as needed to increase efficiencies. Clients: DAZN (UK, DE, ES, IT, CA, US, AUS, JP), Schroders (UK) DAZN (sports streaming provider) projects: direct response advertising and integrated campaigns across TV, print, digital, (D)OOH, radio, and translations. Worked mainly from supplied footage and graphics, adaptation/localization of press ads, video assets and website banners.
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    Account ManagerHogarth
     - London, United KingdomFull Time
    Managed small to large campaigns from initial brief to final delivery. Included briefing TV, print, digital, content production teams, creating timelines and estimates to manage client expectations, perform quality control on all assets before delivery. Assisted with the onboarding of new starters including creating training documents on best practices, ways of working, and company/account specific software. Clients: Johnson & Johnson (DE, CEE, Nordics), Janssen (UK, DE), Mundipharma (DE, AT), Revlon (UK), Dunelm (UK) Johnson & Johnson consumer projects: ATL campaign management included adaptations of existing TV spots and online videos, press material and digital banners as well as long copy translations for Vision Care across the EMEA and APAC regions. Janssen pharmaceutical projects: PI updates, resizes and logo updates of existing leave pieces, certificates, meeting invitations, booklets, videos (therapy areas: Oncology, Immunology)
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Skills
  • Client Communication
  • German
  • Project Management
  • Account Managment
  • Basic French
  • Fluent English
  • Advertising
  • Advertising Communications
  • ATL Advertising
  • Campaign Management
  • Advertising Campaign
  • Campaign Organisation
  • Customer Focused
  • Basecamp
  • Localisation
Education
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    PG CertLondon Metropolitan University
     - London, United Kingdom
    PGCert in Translation & Technology included the following subjects: Translation Tools Software & Website Localization Subtitling
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    Masters of ArtsLeuphana University Lüneburg
     - Lüneburg, Germany
    Cultural studies: Language and Communication Business administration Media and public relations Law and economics Grade:1.72 (upper 2.1 in the UK)