This is an exciting time to join this global integrated agency and you will have the opportunity to develop their media planning and account management offering for a range of brands, working on existing remits and new business.
As you’d no doubt hope, they’ve fully embraced hybrid working, with the additional flexibility of core hours to enable you to balance life and work.
Requirements
You will be responsible for:
- Being a key point of contact for clients, you will drive the day-to-day business forward, coordinating and collaborating with various stakeholders and partners.
- Planning, buying, and implementing media campaigns across all UK media,
- Preparing detailed and accurate media schedules and ensure quality and consistency across all channels.
- Assisting with developing, recommending, and implementing accountable, successful and innovative media strategies,
- Keeping the client up to date with developments within relevant areas of the media marketplace and of new media opportunities, how these may influence future client media strategy and planning
- Playing a key role in regular meetings with the client
- Delivering accurate billings and revenue management, including forecasting
- Meeting regularly with media publishers and platforms to cultivate strategic relationships and sourcing opportunities that proactively deliver on client business objectives
- Ensuring strong media marketplace knowledge
- Preparing PowerPoint presentations for client meetings
- Being a key contact for our cross-channel teams and be at the forefront of all inter-company co-ordination
- Monitoring and reconciling campaigns, inc. PCA responsibility
Ideal experience and attitude (minimum requirements):
- Experience of client management, confident to handle day to day discussions
- Understanding of the media planning process, from taking a brief, through channel selection and evaluation of performance
- Experience in working with a range of offline media channels, including (but not limited to) OOH, press, radio, cinema and door drop/DM
- Good knowledge of understanding of online channels and the role they play within the media mix
- Confident in understanding of the role individual channels can play, how they complement each other and how success can be measured
- Aware of latest developments in key channels and have a good understanding of the range of formats available
- Experience in working with industry-standard media planning tools such as GWI, DDS, Ad-Dynamix and understanding of media operational tech and processes
- High standards when it comes to preparation of client-facing documents and presentations
- Curious, motivated proactive and entrepreneurial
- Organized with a forensic attention to detail
- We are looking for someone who embraces an agile, fast-paced work environment and is keen to progress their career
- Be able to communicate with multiple stakeholders, both internal and external
- Experience with planning and buying of local, regional media is preferable
Benefits
In addition to a competitive salary, they are committed to creating a brilliant environment for all people. This includes benefits such as 28 days holiday, plus the opportunity to take additional fully paid leave, enhanced pension contributions, life assurance and much more. A core hours policy and hybrid working benefits, which has already been rolled out and is being fully embraced by the senior leadership team.
A culture of learning and development is also central to their ethos, so you’ll have access to industry leading training and development programmes, plus you’ll get to work closely with the world’s biggest media partners to access exclusive features and products.
Most importantly, you’ll be part of a fun and collaborative team and you’ll work in an environment where you are supported and developed.
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