Summary:
Responsible for the overall media planning process. Supervises personnel assigned to those accounts. This person is required to have a solid understanding of the client's business and apply their media recommendation to deliver against the client's objectives.
Job Responsibilities:
- Manage and be the guardian of the media plans and budgets.
- Ensure work delivered to the client is of the highest standard; review all key documents and presentations before distribution
- Be an active contributor presenting to clients and agency meetings
- Develop close relationships with clients and agency partners
- Work with the team to actively improve the optimization of campaigns and procedures
- Support with campaign briefing providing comments on target, channel, budget, timeline
- Ensure media plans comply with the client's long-term brief and strategy. Be able to confidently challenge and question assumptions and recommendations that have been made to ensure the best possible delivery for the client
- Ensure standard processes are rolled out across campaigns
- Champion innovative media solutions in every media plan and push the boundaries of conventional communication thinking
- Work with internal specialist units to deliver the best response/service to clients
- Create and maintain relationships with external agencies and key media partners
- Have a solid understanding of both offline and digital media channels
- Any additional ad-hoc tasks as assigned by the superior.
Leadership and Management
- Ensure successful financial reconciliations successfully
- Assume day-to-day responsibility for the entire account, working with individual client teams
- Support the Associate Director in managing the team
- Identify organic growth via incremental revenue opportunities
- Inspire the team, leading by example, providing clear direction, feedback, and support
Job Requirements:
- At least 3 years of managerial experience working agency-side in an international or local media agency role, with an understanding of Media Markets
- Must have strong digital knowledge, both across planning and activation
- Strong Excel skills and experience writing media plans
- Able to produce strong insights
- Able to present to senior-level clients and also peers
- Able to work under pressure and multiple deadlines
- Excellent communicator
