eporting of the role
This role reports to (Line Manager’s position).
2 best things about the job:
- Oversee plan negotiations and media team activities.
- Build a comprehensive media knowledge base and synthesizes information into innovative ideas.
Measures of success –
In three months:
- Take responsibility for planning, buying, and reporting for assigned accounts.
- Develop and foster strong working relationships with internal teams.
- Mentor, train, and build the team effectively.
In six months:
- Manage vendor relationships efficiently.
- Collaborate with the Associate Director/Director to create strategic and efficient media plans.
- Contribute to setting the overall direction for program planning and negotiating strategies.
In 12 months:
- Initiate creative and business-building ideas.
- Build a comprehensive media knowledge base and synthesize information into innovative ideas.
- Supervise, train, and develop staff while serving as a positive role model with a strong work ethic, and diligently reviewing all work to ensure high-quality output.
Responsibilities of the role:
- Assist the Associate Director/Director in creating strategic and efficient media plans.
- Support the Associate Director/Director in setting the overall direction for program planning and negotiating strategies.
- Develop and foster strong working relationships with internal teams and manage vendor relationships.
- Take responsibility for mentoring, training, and team building.
- Oversee plan negotiations and media team activities.
- Maximize the buying power of every dollar spent.
- Maintain status reports to ensure efficient workflow and meet deadlines and write reports of key meetings.
- Lead internal meetings with other departments and leverage agency resources to strengthen ideas.
What you will need:
- More than 5 years of experience (experience working in an Interactive/Digital environment is preferred).
- Bachelor’s degree and above.
- Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills.
- Ability to work successfully with teams, handle multiple projects, and meet tight deadlines under pressure.
- Strong negotiating skills and excellent attention to detail.
- Strong relationship-building skills, including maintaining positive client relationships.
- Demonstrated critical thinking and problem-solving abilities.
- Strong analytical abilities and quantitative skills, including math proficiency.
- Ability to effectively utilize media research and reporting resources.
- Technical proficiency, particularly with media systems and MS Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
More about Mindshare
We were born in Asia in 1997, a start up with a desire to change the media world. Now we are a global agency with more than 7,000 employees in 116 offices across 86 countries, operating as one team – #teammindshare. We believe that in today’s world, everything begins and ends in media. We aim to be our clients’ lead business partner, to grow their business, and drive profitability through adaptive and inventive marketing. We do this through speed, teamwork and provocation and by operating as a network of networks rather than a rigid hierarchy. We create new things and have fun doing it. Whenever and wherever you join us, you open a door to opportunities in any and of all aspects of media, technology and innovation. We will support you, recognize you and reward you, making Mindshare the place where you do the best work of your career.
Mindshare APAC has won 500 awards in the last year alone, including “Agency Network of the Year 2017” by both the MMA SMARTIES™ and Campaign Asia for the fifth and third consecutive year, respectively. Mindshare is part of GroupM, the media investment management arm of WPP, the world’s leading communications services group. To learn more about Mindshare and our philosophy of Original Thinking, visit us at www.mindshareworld.com and follow us on Twitter @mindshare and facebook.com/mindshareapac and linkedin.com/company/mindshare.
About GroupM China
GroupM is WPP’s media investment group and the world’s leading media investment company with a mission to shape the next era of media where advertising works better for people. The company is responsible for more than $60 billion in annual media investment, as measured by the independent research bureau COMvergence. Through its global agencies Mindshare, Wavemaker, EssenceMediacom, and mSix&Partners, and cross-channel performance (GroupM Nexus), data (Choreograph), entertainment (GroupM Motion Entertainment) and investment solutions, GroupM leverages a unique combination of global scale, expertise, and innovation to generate sustained value for clients wherever they do business.
In GroupM, we view everyone as an unique individual and we understand that inclusion is more than just diversity – it’s about belonging. We celebrate the fact that everyone is unique and that’s what makes us so good at what we do. We pride ourselves on being a company that embraces difference and truly represents the global diverse clients we work with.
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