OpenMind Investment Executive

Position at Mindshare

OpenMind by WPP is an integrated agency model drawing on talent from across WPP. It has been created to accelerate the global transformation for Nestlé’s media function. Core to the solution is the best data and technology capabilities, fuelled by WPP’s investment in AI, to maximise the impact of Nestlé media investment. The Open Team model has been designed for Nestlé to leverage the best of WPP through a simple and flexible, easy to navigate model.

OpenMind was recently awarded Nestle’s media agency of record in Australia & New Zealand, commencing June 2024. In January 2024, OpenMind commenced working across 47 countries in Europe, joining our colleagues who have been working across North America for a number of years. This is a truly global model, with deep specialist expertise and scale.

What we offer

At OpenMind Oceania, we offer a competitive salary package, with 20 days holiday increasing with service to a maximum of 25 days, with the option to purchase extra leave of up to 4 weeks per year. We also offer a flexible working environment, paid parental leave, flexible public holidays, birthday leave and early finishes during the summer months. These are just some of the great perks we offer.

Responsibilities

 People:          

• Work with the Investment Manager to learn and develop buying, trading and most importantly investment skills across all media channels.
• Prioritise workflow and deliverables – internal and external.
• Upwardly manage internal stakeholders through relevant, transparent, consistent, regular, accurate, insightful, meaningful and easily digestable information flow
• Contribute to a ‘constantly learning and improving’ culture that encourages co-operation and an atmosphere of a working and learning partnership with the other specialist units
• Be flexible and open to other specialism’s ideas and proposals
• Ensure the Investment Manager is continually informed in current operational status by customer to ensure a consistent ‘stop, less of, more of, start’ philosophy of customer service is in place
• Take personal and team responsibility to operate to all of groupm’s compliance mandates
• Be an active and valuable participant in the company’s developing entrepreneurial, career building, outcome driven culture
• Over time, grow commercial and communication acumen, presentation and document writing skills based in storytelling

Customer:          

Maintain strong and effective relationships with customers (where relevant), media owners, other team members, other company members and, any other company contacts. The customer is everyone 

 

Media owners          

• Create sustainable, mutually respectful relationships based on integrity with all media owners appropriate to the team’s customers current and future requirements
• Ensure that all relevant media owners are briefed simultaneously, in a timely manner, with integrity, in a clear, unambiguos and consistent manner with all the information to create the best value response for the team’s customers
• Each media owner’s proposition needs to be evaluated from a non partisan perspective with each value offering assessed on the basis of contribution to the customer’s required outcomes, both individually and collectively
• Before any contact with the media owners, the executive must liaise with their manager to ensure that any information relayed is in keeping with other previous and future team, agency and group interactions and what is the most approriate line of conversation to take

Product      

With the Investment Director’s and Manager’s leadership and support, help develop the investment capability to a market leading level as viewed by the team’s customers and media owners          

The executive is required to have an excellent working knowledge of the Agency’s relevant tools and systems including, but not exclusive to;          

• Microsoft Office (especially Excel)
• Pegasus
• Arianna/eTam
• TV Map

The executive should be able to demonstrate a deep knowledge and passion for each part of the chain from implementational planning, media owner negotiation, execution, reporting to billing    

 

Commercial          

• Deliver to all investment KPI’s set by the Investment Director and Investment Manager
• Be accountable for the spend, day to day quality and volume delivery on the customers the Manager has assigned the executive across all media channels
• Ensure all invoice queries are resolved within 5 days
• Be accountable in ensuring any contracted media agreements are upheld by all parties and if not the Manager is alerted in a timely manner

Analytical Judgment          

• Demonstrate a significant level of initiative and resourcefulness
• Constantly re-appraise investment briefs and campaign performances and evolve and improve output
• Previous experience in media planning and buying (1 year or more)
• Knowledge of media channels and tools
• Passion for the media industry and specifically the importance of investment in the process

Experience

You will have some Marketing or Agency career experience applying the core marketing competencies, utilizing your formal education in a practical setting. This will be underpinned by 1 Years experience in Media Agencies

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