Description:
The Global team is a dedicated unit to drive value creation and monitor and deliver media buying commitments to our well established and growing client base. It is built around experienced media traders, auditors and analysts whose job is to share and apply best practice across our global network and ensure that our clients always receive the best media value and guidance.
The team play a vital role quantifying and tracking media buying performance across all Omnicom Media Group markets for global clients. We strive to define new ways of measuring media value to ensure we continue to lead the industry in this area.
Your principal responsibilities will include:
- Monitor and influence media buying performance/value improvements across global markets to ensure delivery against commitments.
- Be responsible for day-to-day management of a portfolio of global clients and fulfilment of Media Investment Brief objectives.
- Develop and maintain strong relationships with the global media community, external media auditors and our clients.
- Media Auditing tracking and alignment with external Media Auditors like Ebiquity and MediaSense.
- Support team on global pitches in market communications and updates to the rest of the pitch team
- Assist with local markets with any queries on a daily and weekly basis as well as contract confirmations with these markets.
- Manage processes, design reporting templates and be the expert on deliverables, targets, methodology, value optimisation and delivery.
- Compile buying results and ad hoc reporting to present to clients and auditors.
- Support associate directors and business directors to refine and craft media KPIs for clients and manage their delivery.
- Create project builds on a monthly basis like new inflation models.
- Line manages analysts and senior analysts including training and on-boarding.
- Track and capture use of Media products across client portfolio
- Support your directors in active value management and optimisation of results to deliver commitments whilst limiting over delivery.
- Weekly face to face meetings with your team.
- Work with systems like Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint and sometimes Tableau and GMP360.
Your success will be measured based on your people leadership skills (training, mentoring and developing your direct report(s)), your ability to resolve issues that arise or identify appropriate escalation routes, you will be viewed as a technical expert, showing mastery of methodologies, improvement of processes and development of quality control systems. You show leadership within the Community of Excellence and can deliver clear and accurate reports and presentations to clients.
Desired Skills & Experience
- Strong understanding and interest in media measurement metrics, KPIs and market pricing dynamics across all media
- Enquiring mind to push boundaries and create new approaches.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills, able to explain complicated concepts with clarity.
- Experience of supervising or managing one or more junior team members.
- International media experience ideal but not essential
- Experience at a media auditor, in a local market agency media buying (any medium and does not have to be UK) or within an International Media Investment/Trading/Accountability team.
- Excellent attention to detail and well established organisational and analytical skills
- You will be highly numerate, expert in value methodology and highly competent on excel.