About WPP Media
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WPP Media is WPP’s global media collective. In a world where the media is everywhere and in everything, we bring the best platform, people, and partners together to create limitless opportunities for growth. For more information, visit wppmedia.com
At WPP Media, we believe in the power of our culture and our people. It’s what helps us to deliver exceptional experiences for both our clients and each other. In this role it will be critical to embrace WPP & WPP Media’s shared core values:
- Be Extraordinary by Leading Collectively to Inspire Transformational Creativity.
- Create an Open environment by Balancing People and Client Experiences by Cultivating Trust.
- Lead Optimistically by Championing Growth and Development to Mobilize Enterprise.
Reporting of the role
This role reports to: Director
3 best things about the job:
- A great client/agency that already exists built around mutual trust and creating solutions right for the business.
- A category with great opportunities for quality thinking and opportunities beyond spots and dots.
- An opportunity to have a leadership role in a progressive, fast-moving business.
In this role, your goals will be:
In three months:
- Build relationships with the key decision makers at client side and within the company
- Be an expert on the client’s business proactively engaging with senior clients and actively shaping the quality of the WPP Media delivery.
- Developed a deep understanding and began to use the WPP Media planning product and tool
In six months:
- Proactively delivering additional value to the client, leading the team to successfully implement ideas that will improve the WPP Media delivery and client’s business outcomes.
- Established as the lead by both clients and the internal team alike; strong client service ways of working established with strong team communication.
In 12 months:
- Considered a ‘business’ leader for the client and for WPP Media, providing solutions that deliver a tangible business benefit for both client and agency.
- Activating a business plan that delivers success to the client and secures WPP Media's client relationship, leading client, product, people, commercial and profile initiatives
What your day job looks like at WPP Media:
- Manage the functioning of the entire strategy planning team
- Provide strategy communications and planning leadership on the client’s business across categories
- Partner with the GM, to define clear briefs, Target Audiences with clearly articulated campaign KPIs
- Demonstrate strong understanding of consumers and consumer segmentation to derive insights
- Infuse best in class media practices, both from domestic as well as international learnings
- Communicate embedded learning to increase impact of insights into action
- Communicate complex ideas/insights in a way that all understand and apply
- Integrate relevant multimedia opportunities into campaign plans
What you’ll bring:
- Passionate – brings a genuine thrill and excitement to the role
- Agile – is able to be nimble in thought and action and overcome obstacles to achieve great things
- Collaborative – works well with others, and can align behind a shared purpose
- Entrepreneurial – is open to new ideas and will challenge old ones.
- Diverse – is proud of the difference they can bring
Minimum qualifications:
- 5-7 years’ experience in managing media planning/communication strategy & client relationships
- Strong understanding of brands & consumers
- Highly passionate, collaborative, outgoing, creative media leader and thinker
- Strong presentation skills
- Highly articulate, story-telling capability
- Business acumen
- Ability to understand mediums beyond ATL
- Excellent communication/presentation/client management skills
- Deep understanding of all media especially Digital. Experience in Mobile Marketing preferred
Life at WPP Media & Benefits:
Our passion for shaping the next era of media includes investing in our employees to help them do their best work, and we’re just as committed to employee growth as we are to responsible media investment. WPP Media employees can tap into the global WPP Media & WPP networks to pursue their passions, grow their networks, and learn at the cutting edge of marketing and advertising. We have a variety of employee resource groups and host frequent in-office events showcasing team wins, sharing thought leadership, and celebrating holidays and milestone events.
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