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Wavemaker is an agency of GroupM, the world’s largest media investment company and are a part of WPP. In fact, we are responsible for one in every three ads you see globally. We are currently looking for a Regional Media Manager to join us. In this role, you will be responsible for operating as a key member of a client team, working closely with specialist units such as strategic planning, performance and digital team to develop integrated communication solutions for clients.

At GroupM APAC, our people are our strength, which is why fostering a culture of diversity and inclusion is important to us.


Reporting of the role

This role reports to Regional Business Director


3 best things about the job:

1. Working with a high-performance integrated media team to deliver best-in-class value for clients.
2. On-job training to be a self-starter and flex entrepreneurial skills in accelerating value-added services.
3. Honing business acumen across full spectrum of media channels/platforms, including digital, through sparring with our team of specialists.

In this role, your goals will be:

In three months:

• Immediate immersion on the accounts/brands and getting to know the clients, business partners and internal working teams.
• Learn and apply Wavemaker proprietary planning tools in deriving insights to deliver sound media recommendations and set appropriate measurement metrics.
• Able to lead campaign briefs with minimal supervision, providing strategic recommendation with strong insights (collaboration with Strategic team) and channel tactics.
• Good time management and able to follow through on process and delivery timelines.
• Develop strong bond and working relationship with the team, and be able to coach and groom direct report(s).
• Demonstrate good collaboration with various stakeholders.

In six months:

• Established strong team and client relationship, and to be the first port of call by client.
• Identify new opportunities and innovative media ideas for regional
• Identify bottlenecks and propose effective solutions.
• Facilitate quarterly revenue projections for financial reporting

In 12 months:

• Build trusted advisor relationship as business partner.
• Deliver good campaigns with strong business results worthy of case study/awards submission.
• Conduct annual business review for growth planning
• Achieve positive assessment from clients

What your day job looks like at Wavemaker:

Client Development

• Ownership of media strategy and campaign delivery across regional designated clients.
• Support relationship development with key regional clients – be the go-to for marketing opinion and advice.
• Up-selling of diversified products, including proprietary media.

Talent Management & Development

• Manage career development of team members in all relevant aspects: to educate and equip.

What you’ll bring:

• A meticulous and organized integrator who can prioritise and manage tasks with minimal supervision. You are also an independent manager and at the same time strong team player who collaborates well with a team.
• An effective communicator with strong interpersonal skills is an important prerequisite, as you will be working with stakeholders including clients, media vendors and internal cross-functional teams. Your eagerness to build good rapport and cultivate “trusted advisor” relationship will be an important attribute to success.
• Being a member of the team, you will be jointly responsible for delivering best-in-class work to clients in driving growth for Wavemaker. We seek an individual with inquisitive and analytical mind, who is rigorous in work approach and delivery. Not afraid to push envelope or challenge the norm; and have a keen interest to improve operational efficiency.
• You must be highly motivated to drive success not only for the team but for agency as well. You will help bring to life Wavemaker’s culture of positive provocation with a growth mindset and a can-do attitude. You will seek to actively contribute/support agency-wide initiatives outside your immediate team scope when required.

Minimum qualifications:

• 5 + years of managerial experience in integrated Media.
• Media agency experience preferred.
• Knowledge in cross-functional planning across SEO, SEM and Social & Performance media is an advantage.

About Wavemaker


We always believe there is a better way to grow our clients and our people.
We do this by positively provoking growth for our clients and people. We work with clients to help them grow and shape their consumers’ brand decisions and experiences through media, content, and technology. We have one single attitude – Positive Provocation.

Our name is our mission and our method. To make waves, you need to be provocative, even fearless. We always make sure we have each other’s backs through our inclusive culture. We do our best work for brave brands and people who want to be challenged to go further and faster. We know it’s not easy, but if it’s in you, we will get it out of you.

Our attitude of Positive Provocation is enabled by:
• The deep Knowledge we have of our clients’ business
• The confidence to Challenge what’s gone before
• The Support to go further than we thought possible

We are a part of GroupM, WPP’s global media investment management company. Discover more on wavemakerglobal.com, Twitter and LinkedIn

About GroupM Singapore

GroupM Singapore operates in one of the most dynamic and exciting environments in the world. Although it is a small domestic market, there is a vibrant media industry which is undergoing rapid evolution as digital technology reshapes the way marketing supports advertisers’ needs. Being at the crossroads of Asia means, that aside from the local clients and media owners, we also have a high proportion of multi-national clients, renowned brands and media owners. Making GroupM Singapore the Number One organisation to join and develop your career in media investment.

GroupM is an equal opportunity employer. We view everyone as an 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 clients we work with.

Overview of the Job

This is hybrid role that gives you exposure to both performance media and ecommerce strategies, which is a promising opportunity as APAC continues to make fast progress in this direction. You will be responsible for performance channel planning, lead implementation and help drive digital best practices for our clients. You will be the go-to digital person for clients and agency partners for your accounts and proactively lead presentations and meeting discussions.

You must possess excellent working knowledge of paid digital channels driving traffic to ecommerce marketplaces and familiar with paid search on marketplaces like Lazada and Shopee.
It is a multi-market regional role, where you will be leading regional strategies and execution, and work with global HQ and local markets.

At GroupM APAC, our people are our strength, which is why fostering a culture of diversity and inclusion is important to us.

Reporting of the role:

This role reports to the Regional Digital Director

3 Best Things About The Job:

1. Working with a high performing integrated media team to drive best in class digital channel planning and ROI
2. Hone leadership skills through building and leading operation excellence for the team
3. Work with counterparts across all of APAC

Measures of Success

In three months:
• Fully up to speed with the platform analytics and strategy frameworks for existing clients at Wavemaker
• Be the point person for clients’ ecommerce consultation
• Take on maintenance of proprietary Wavemaker tool on marketplace competitive intelligence
• Actively participating in agency updates, GroupM working group on analytics, data and tech

In six months:
• Be seen as the go-to person for ecommerce on-platform tools from the Wavemaker local teams
• Actively support APAC Ecommerce lead on tools and capabity developments for the region
• Support in deployment of Wavemaker’s proprietary Wavemaker Illuminate with the business leads
• Recommend processes and innovative ways to improve existing ways or working or streamline workflow

In twelve months:
• Actively steering the ecommerce pitches and credentials to clients
• Work with APAC Ecommerce lead to drive new projects and revenue on analytics and tech
• Have the ability to lead client projects and meetings independently
• Be an active member of Wavemaker’s consultancy hub offering

Key Areas of Responsibilities

• Competent in planning all digital channels and managing digital integration within the bigger communication plan.
• Own project management, ensure smooth workflow and get clients and team members up to speed on all tasks.
• Formulate performance media plans based on campaign objectives and GMV targets, working with paid social, paid search and programmatic specialists
• Responsible for planning and executing on-platform marketplace paid search campaigns with team support, including end to end setup, optimizations and reporting
• Tracks performance in reporting and dashboards
• Analysis and optimization of the campaigns
• Works with global ecommerce client practice lead to update on regional performance and share best practices
• Identifies long-term trends and insights, connecting it to the wider touchpoint planning approach
• Leads WIPs and quarterly business review, providing analysis and recommendations
• Main point of contact for regional clients, media partners and agency partners

Required Competencies

• Experience in conversion-led campaigns for ecommerce
• Understanding of digital platforms across paid search (Google Ads, Google Shopping, Google Shopping with Shopee), paid social (Facebook Collaborative Ads), programmatic (DV360) and other relevant digital channels
• Experience in paid search for Lazada and Shopee. Will be an advantage if candidate has familiarity with other marketplaces and D2C ecommerce.
• Knows know to use MSP and seller center for marketplaces
• Be up to date with new and upcoming performance and ecommerce formats
• Possesses strong analytical skills to analyze data and turn them into actionable insights
• Proven ability to independently manage multiple priorities in a fast paced and deadline driven environment
• Shows strategic ownership of key projects or topics and works across channels to find key points of success
• At least 4-5 years of overall experience in managing performance campaigns, of which 1-2 years of experience in the ecommerce marketplace space

More about Wavemaker

We believe there always is a better way to grow. We positively provoke growth for our clients by reshaping consumer decision-making and experiences through media, content and technology. The Wavemaker way is globally consistent. Fueled by the world’s most powerful consumer data, we understand where and how marketing can intervene decisively to help brands win more sales.
Our name is our mission and our method. To make waves, you need to be provocative, even fearless. We do our best work for brave brands and people who want to be challenged to go further and faster. We know it’s not easy, but if it’s in you, we will get it out of you.
Our 7,600 people across 90 markets provoke growth for some of the world’s leading brands and businesses. Our attitude of Positive Provocation is enabled by:
• deep knowledge we have of our clients’ business
• confidence to challenge what’s gone before
• the support to go further than we thought possible
We are a part of GroupM, WPP’s global media investment management company. Discover more on wavemakerglobal.com, Twitter and LinkedIn

About Singapore

GroupM Singapore operates in one of the most dynamic and exciting environments in the world. Although it is a small domestic market, there is a vibrant media industry which is undergoing rapid evolution as digital technology reshapes the way marketing supports advertisers’ needs. Being at the crossroads of Asia means, that aside from the local clients and media owners, we also have a high proportion of multi-national clients, renowned brands and media owners. Making GroupM Singapore the Number One organisation to join and develop your career in media investment.

GroupM is an equal opportunity employer. We view everyone as an 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 clients we work with.

Overview of job

Essencemediacom is an agency of GroupM, the world’s largest media investment company and are a part of WPP. In fact, we are responsible for one in every three ads you see globally. We are currently looking for a Senior Media Manager to join us.

Reporting of the role

This role reports to the Associate/Account director

3 best things about the job:

1. You get to work across a well-established global B2B brand that is the leading provider of key computer storage products and top makers of servers and personal computers.

2. You will be mentally stimulated, as you will work across a variety of campaigns and be at the forefront of executing strategies across the APJ market and will have plenty of opportunities to shine.

3. Immersion will keep you at the forefront of the industry, with opportunities to hone and sharpen your existing digital media skill sets.

The role requires you to

· Manage end to end in the media planning development for mid funnel campaign process across APJ market.

· Management of the implementation of plans through to their delivery and quality control of all buys.

· Manage deliveries from specialist services within the agency

· Ensuring all media goals and strategies are delivered by all managed and executed within budgets.

· Complete oversight on planning, execution, quality checks and processes and the day-to-day project management of media solutions

· Ensure due diligence on media budgets

· Management and development of key client relationships for the accounts

· Work closely with the local team when needed to ensure quality of the work and meets guidelines

Key Responsibilities:

1) Client relationship management

· Day to day account management of key local clients

2) Strategic media development

· Oversee media strategy development across client categories in line with global/regional guidance.

3) Origination of the Media Plan

· Work independently with the client to create clear and coherent plans that bring the media strategy to life.

· Involvement in client presentation and workshops when required.

· Work closely with the global and local teams when applicable to ensure smooth and relevant translation from strategy to plan.

· Assess, identify, and recommend creative media initiatives that deliver greater strategy depth and impact to the media plan.

· Undertake the implementation of agreed initiatives, including the briefing of third parties, as and when required

4) Execution of media plans and campaigns

· Ensure that signed media plans are executed in a timely manner.

· Complete ad trafficking, site tagging, ad ops & campaign tagging for each campaign under your management

· For self-served platforms like LinkedIn and Twitter, ensure that campaigns are setup and executed accurately based on signed plans.

· For managed service medias, ensure that the relevant third parties are briefed accurately and to follow up on media execution in a timely manner.

· Ensure all campaigns are monitored closely & pacing well.

· Timely delivery and upkeep of all relevant reporting systems and templates (media plans, interim reports reports).

· Management of post campaign reporting that quantifies the value of the media strategy.

5) Finance communication

· Ensure media proformas are checked correctly and returned to Finance within the agreed timeframe.

6) Managing your relationship with team and the specialist relationships

Internal:

· Working closely with the global team

· Collaboration with data and finance teams and other specialist teams

· Attend and prepare weekly WIP with teammates and clients

External:

· Build effective working relationships with specialist agency personnel contracted by clients directly.

Minimum Qualifications

· At least 5-7 years’ experience in a regional role with either JAPAC or SEA/APAC market exposure with a B2B focus.

· Strong digital foundation is a must, and the ideal candidate must be fully conversant with digital media and able to think across the whole media mix having broad cross-channel digital knowledge and a solid knowledge of digital media, Adtech, martech and data platforms

· Experience in online measurement, operations, ad networks, digital video, and Google advertising platforms and solutions with hands on experience with tools like Google Ads, Facebook Ad manager, Campaign Manager, Google Analytics and DV360, LinkedIn and Twitter campaign planning and management.

· Understanding of digital ecosystem with focus on programmatic, data-based media approach, integrated digital management with excellent knowledge of 1st / 2nd / 3rd party data - how each should be applied and connected to provide customer driven marketing solutions

· Experience working with multiple stakeholders (e.g., suppliers, advertising/marketing agencies, media owners and internal specialist resources)

· Knowledge of global industry trends, consumer trends, market status, and competition and understanding usage of interactive research tools

· Able to understand media data sources in terms of what is measured, the method, and information reported

· Fluency in Japanese and or Korean will be an advantage.

More about EssenceMediaCom

MediaCom is “The Content + Connections Agency”, working on behalf of its clients to leverage their brands’ entire system of communications across paid, owned and earned channels. By focusing on the totality of our clients' communications, we deliver step-changing media effectiveness improvements, transforming our clients’ business through systems thinking. We employ 1800 people in 23 offices across 15 countries around Asia Pacific.

Our people are at the heart of everything we do; we firmly believe in our “People First, Better Results” philosophy and want to be certain that work is always challenging, engaging and satisfying. We aim to ensure that our employees’ skills are constantly evolving, and so provide all MediaCom staff with training and development.

We were named the best-performing media agency of 2017 (Recma New Biz Balance 2017 report). In terms of new billings alone, MediaCom topped the charts with over $1.6bn in new clients (Recma New Biz Balance 2017 report). We are named the Media Agency Network of the Year by Festival of Media Global Awards (2018/2017), AdWeek (2017), Campaign (2017) and M&M Global (2017).

For more information, visit www.mediacom.com
Find us on Twitter @mediacomglobal
Like us on Facebook at facebook.com/MediaComGlobalNews
Join us on LinkedIn at linkedin.com/company/mediacom

About Singapore

GroupM Singapore operates in one of the most dynamic and exciting environments in the world. Although it is a small domestic market, there is a vibrant media industry which is undergoing rapid evolution as digital technology reshapes the way marketing supports advertisers’ needs. Being at the crossroads of Asia means that aside from the local clients and media owners, we also have a high proportion of multi-national clients and media owners.

As the largest media investment management company in Singapore with over 41% market share (Recma) and over 650 employees, GroupM Singapore is the premiere organisation to join and develop a career in.

The GroupM Service team adopt a collaborative and customer-centric approach in delivering high value and innovative solutions for our Agencies and Agencies’ clients, including the activation and execution of dynamic media campaigns.

The Campaign Delivery team creates an effective link between the client facing Agency teams and the GroupM Services. The Campaign Delivery team ensures that comprehensive briefs are received from the Agency teams and ensures that GroupM Services specialists meet clients’ expectations by achieving campaign KPI’s timely and through embedding operational excellence. They are also supporting the delivery of tasks such as reporting output, offer insights and recommendations across strategic planning and agency pitches.

The following are the responsibilities of the GroupM Services Campaign Delivery Team and the varying degree of complexity is subject to individual job level:

• Own deep knowledge of all GroupM Agencies deliverables and campaign KPIs’ that have been committed to brands and share it across biddable teams when/if needed
• Set agenda and direction for Campaign Delivery teams’ process improvements in order to enhance engagement between GroupM Services and GroupM Agencies
• Proactively address, and when needed escalate, any issue that compromises the quality and timeliness of deliverables
• Support teams while adapting to fast changing priorities
• Provide technical perspective in client meetings when specific expertise is required
• Lead quality control and assurance practices across Biddable teams
• Lead compliance with finance processes, GroupM policies and procedures.
• Lead and influence cross-function collaboration by demonstrating openness to new ideas and interest in learning from colleagues with different expertise
• Incentivize share of knowledge and best-case practice
Oversee campaign outputs to deliver core business objectives, revisit strategies and push boundaries on business growth for all GroupM Agencies
• Ensure Campaign Delivery and Buying teams are providing coherent media responses (i.e. quality control on media schedules produced to Agency Planners)
• Regularly review on brief quality provided by GroupM Agencies to ensure efficient and quality response output
• Oversee and be accountable for end-to-end project management of campaign brief and delivery
• Proactively identify opportunities to improve and enhance clients’ campaigns and advise Agency teams accordingly
• Actively contribute in new business development/pitching if required
• Be the lead contact and trusted advisor for any Biddable campaign, confident to liaise at director and senior management level over existing and future internal/external arrangements
• Coach and mentor managers
• Promote knowledge share and continuous learning around POVs, trends and relevant skills to continue nurturing a high-performing team
• Assist GroupM agencies on consolidating data for ad hoc based reports (e.g. CSI/Savings Report/Cost Avoidance)
• Deliver holistic cross channel campaign analysis (i.e. mid and post campaign) working with respective buying teams to provide actionable insights and optimisation recommendations
• Any other project or tasks as assigned from time to time


Requirements:

• 3+ years of experience win a leadership position
• 8+ years’ experience within a biddable tactical planning or strategic engagement capacity
• Detail oriented, responsive to deadlines and able to multitask
• Ongoing interest in digital marketing, industry trends, best practices and emerging technologies
• At least 3+ years in a client servicing role and good interpersonal skills within the orgaiatenization
• Ability to manage key stakeholders and deal with potential conflict management
• Able to manage competing priorities
• Leadership skills demonstrated by the ability to anticipate and remove barriers to productivity, drive teams towards clear goals, take effective decisions and challenge the status quo.
• Strive for excellence demonstrated by setting high standards for yourself and others, holding teams accountable, focusing on continuous optimization while mitigating risks
Passionate about digital media, AdTech, marketing tools and technologies and eager to keep learning
• Ability to build and maintain a productive collaboration across teams
• Persuasive and effective communicator

About GroupM

GroupM leads and shapes media markets by delivering performance enhancing media products and services, powered by data and technology.

Our global network agencies and businesses enable our people to work collaboratively across borders with the best in class, providing them the opportunity to accelerate their progress and development. We are not limited by teams or geographies; our scale and diverse range of clients lets us be more adventurous with our business and talent. We give our talent the space, support and tools to innovate and grow.

Discover more about GroupM at www.groupm.com
Follow @GroupMAPAC on Twitter
Follow GroupM on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/groupmworldwide

About GroupM Singapore

GroupM Singapore operates in one of the most dynamic and exciting environments in the world. Although it is a small domestic market, there is a vibrant media industry which is undergoing rapid evolution as digital technology reshapes the way marketing supports advertisers’ needs. Being at the crossroads of Asia means, that aside from the local clients and media owners, we also have a high proportion of multi-national clients, renowned brands and media owners. Making GroupM Singapore the Number One organisation to join and develop your career in media investment.

GroupM is an equal opportunity employer. We view everyone as an 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 clients we work with.

Overview of job

EssenceMediacom is an agency of GroupM, the world’s largest media investment company and are a part of WPP. In fact, we are responsible for one in every three ads you see globally. We are currently looking for a Digital Manager to join us.

At GroupM APAC, our people are our strength, which is why fostering a culture of diversity and inclusion is important to us.

Reporting of the role

This role reports to the Associate/Account director

3 best things about the job:

1. You get to work across a well-established global B2B brand that is the leading provider of key computer storage products and top makers of servers and personal computers.

2. You will be mentally stimulated, as you will work across a variety of campaigns and be at the forefront of executing strategies across the APJ market and will have plenty of opportunities to shine.

3. Immersion will keep you at the forefront of the industry, with opportunities to hone and sharpen your existing digital media skill sets.

The role requires you to

· Manage end to end in the media planning development for Full funnel campaign process across APJ market.

· Management of the implementation of plans through to their delivery and quality control of all buys.

· Manage deliveries from specialist services within the agency

· Ensuring all media goals and strategies are delivered by all managed and executed within budgets.

· Complete oversight on planning, execution, quality checks and processes and the day-to-day project management of media solutions

· Ensure due diligence on media budgets and financial reconciliations

· Management and development of key client relationships for the accounts

· Work closely with the local team when needed to ensure quality of the work and meets guidelines

Key Responsibilities:

1) Client relationship management

· Day to day account management of key local clients

2) Strategic media development

· Oversee media strategy development across client categories in line with global/regional guidance.

3) Origination of the Media Plan

· Work independently with the client, under guidance of the Associate Director to create clear and coherent plans that bring the media strategy to life.

· Involvement in client presentation and workshops when required.

· Work closely with the global and local teams when applicable to ensure smooth and relevant translation from strategy to plan.

· Assess, identify, and recommend creative media initiatives that deliver greater strategy depth and impact to the media plan.

· Undertake the implementation of agreed initiatives, including the briefing of third parties, as and when required

4) Execution of media plans and campaigns

· Ensure that signed media plans are executed in a timely manner.

· Complete ad trafficking, site tagging, ad ops & campaign tagging for each campaign under your management

· For self-served platforms like LinkedIn, Meta, TikTok and X, ensure that campaigns are setup and executed accurately based on signed plans.

· For managed service media, ensure that the relevant third parties are briefed accurately and to follow up on media execution in a timely manner.

· Ensure all campaigns are monitored closely & pacing well.

· Timely delivery and upkeep of all relevant reporting systems and templates (media plans, interim reports).

· Management of post campaign reporting that quantifies the value of the media strategy.

· 5) Finance communication

· Ensure media performances are checked correctly and returned to Finance within the agreed timeframe.

· 6) Managing your relationship with team and the specialist relationships

· Internal:

· Working closely with the global team

· Collaboration with data and finance teams and other specialist teams

· Work closely with data and business analytics team to support any research and analytics work

· Attend and prepare weekly WIP with teammates and clients

· External:

· Build effective working relationships with specialist agency personnel contracted by clients directly.

· Build collaborative relationships with partners – ad tech, programmatic and social who have direct contracts with clients

Required Qualifications

· 4-7 years of media planning/ media buying/ media operations experience is desired.

· Of the total experience, 2-3 years in a regional role with either JAPAC or SEA/APAC market exposure ideally with a B2B focus will be an added advantage.

· Strong digital foundation is a must, and the ideal candidate must be fully conversant with digital media and able to think across the whole media mix having broad cross-channel digital knowledge and a solid knowledge of digital media, Adtech, martech and data platforms

· Experience in online measurement, operations, ad networks, digital video, and Google advertising platforms and solutions with hands on experience with tools like Google Ads, Facebook Ad manager, Campaign Manager, Google Analytics and DV360, LinkedIn and Meta, X campaign planning and management.

· Understanding of digital ecosystem with focus on programmatic, data-based media approach, integrated digital management with excellent knowledge of 1st / 2nd / 3rd party data - how each should be applied and connected to provide customer driven marketing solutions in the cookieless world

· Experience working with multiple stakeholders (e.g., suppliers, advertising/marketing agencies, media owners and internal specialist resources)

· Knowledge of global industry trends, consumer trends, market status, and competition and understanding usage of interactive research tools

· Able to understand media data sources in terms of what is measured, the method, and information reported

· Good knowledge on Excel and PowerPoint is mandatory

· Business proficiency in English, both verbal and written is a must

ABOUT MEDIACOM

Hello. We are EssenceMediacom.

We believe in People First, Better Results.

MediaCom unleashes brands’ growth by helping them See the Bigger Picture. This means that we apply our unique ‘Systems Thinking’ philosophy and technology to all marketing levers: media, message, and data. As a result, we design communication strategies that deliver short term results and help brands build for the future.

As part of WPP, the world's largest marketing communications services group, and GroupM, WPP’s consolidated media investment management arm, we have access to the richest data, most robust benchmarks, and most advanced capabilities in the market. This helps us provide comprehensive solutions to all marketing challenges.

Our success is underpinned by our long-standing ‘People First, Better Results’ belief. We know that by investing in our people’s whole-person wellbeing, careers, and capabilities, we will help grow our clients’ businesses.

In 2020 this approach led MediaCom to be crowned Global Media Network of the Year by Eurobest and Festival of Media Global, in addition to being the most awarded agency at the WARC Media Awards.

MediaCom is one of the world’s leading media communications specialists, with billings of US$17.6 billion (Source: COMvergence, 2020), employing 8,000 people in 125 offices across 100 countries. Its global client roster includes adidas, Coca-Cola (TCCC), Dell, Groupe PSA, Hasbro, Mars, NBC Universal, P&G, Richemont, Shell, Sony, Uber and Walgreens Boots Alliance.

To find out more about MediaCom visit us here: https://www.essencemediacom.com/

About Singapore

GroupM Singapore operates in one of the most dynamic and exciting environments in the world. Although it is a small domestic market, there is a vibrant media industry which is undergoing rapid evolution as digital technology reshapes the way marketing supports advertisers’ needs. Being at the crossroads of Asia means, that aside from the local clients and media owners, we also have a high proportion of multi-national clients, renowned brands and media owners. Making GroupM Singapore the Number One organisation to join and develop your career in media investment.

GroupM is an equal opportunity employer. We view everyone as an 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 clients we work with...

Mindshare are looking for a Director, Integrated Planning to join their Singapore office working with some local and regional brands. You will be responsible for leading the client relationship and delivering the highest quality communication strategies. In this role, you will be the interface between the client and the agency and is responsible for fully understanding their business, interpreting their communications planning and implementation needs.

Reporting of the role

This role reports to the Business Director

3 best things about the job:

1. A fun environment that gives autonomy to shape media campaigns following your directions
2. Working with a group of high performers, you’ll manage a team of strong managers and executives. They only need you to go from good to great.
3. A culture that perfectly blends, excellence, fun and a real focus on the well-being of the people.

Measures of success –
In 3 months:

• On boarded onto the key accounts with full induction/training into all of the other facets of the business such as trading, specialised services (internal and within GroupM).
• Built good relationships with your team and helped them deliver even better work
• Gained trust from the client and impressed with your contribution to the work

In 6 months:

• Managed and delivered campaigns that have a high and innovative standard
• Identified ways to improve processes on the account and delivered
• Be able to identify opportunities to cross sell/upsell products eg social, programmatic, mobile etc

In 12 months:

• Become an integral part of the core team, participating and contributing to the overall strategy and ideation phase and seamlessly linking the digital solution to the overall solution
• The proof of your success will be clients’ satisfaction and increasing business profit / commercial results

Responsibilities of the role:

• Full integration of media channels and integrated strategies
• Integration and development of your team (3-4 persons)
• Improvements in ways of working, processes and commercial growth
• Awards winning campaigns
• Develop robust benchmarks and norms across channels and media types
• Translate media plans into effective buys and supervise implementation
• Oversee and quality control of media monitoring, proof of performance, campaign optimization and post-analysis to ensure client objectives are meet, including:
• Anticipate, review and present point-of-views on online media trends, issues, developments and opportunities
• Share digital points of view, research and case studies with the business team(s) he/she works with
• Develop and maintain good relationship with key media vendors and internal teams
• Develop and maintain strong relationship with clients and have a good understanding of our clients’ business
• Help to develop local business through existing clients and potential new opportunities, including the sell in of new ideas and services to the clients

What you will need:
Minimum 5-6 years relevant working experience in media agency in both an implementation and leadership capacity

• Experienced in managing & leading a specialised team
• A proven ability to translate digital strategy into operation
• Proactive attitude and result driven mindset
• Produce work of high quality
• Business sense and understanding
• Experience driving revenue growth with emerging opportunities and established partnerships
• Able to sell concepts and solutions to clients and key stakeholders
• Adaptable to the changing environment
• Passionate about "new" media communication and evolving technology
• Positive and attitude and good entrepreneurship

About Mindshare

Mindshare, the global media agency network, and part of WPP, the largest marketing communications network in the world, has more than 7,000 employees, in 116 offices across 86 countries. Mindshare APAC has won over 300 awards in 2014/2015 and was the most awarded agency at the 2015 Campaign Asia Awards Festival. Mindshare was also recognised as the SMARTIES™ APAC ‘Agency Network of the Year 2015’ for the third consecutive year. Mindshare is also home to The 2015 Festival of Media Asia Pacific Rising Star – Jason Maggs.

To learn more about Mindshare and our philosophy of Original Thinking, visit us at www.mindshareworld.com

About Singapore

GroupM Singapore operates in one of the most dynamic and exciting environments in the world. Although it is a small domestic market, there is a vibrant media industry which is undergoing rapid evolution as digital technology reshapes the way marketing supports advertisers’ needs. Being at the crossroads of Asia means that aside from the local clients and media owners, we also have a high proportion of multi-national clients and media owners.

As the largest media investment management company in Singapore with over 41% market share (Recma) and over 650 employees, GroupM Singapore is the premiere organisation to join and develop a career in.

GroupM APAC is committed to fostering a culture of diversity and inclusion. Our people are our strength so we respect and nurture their individual talent and potential.

Brief Description

GroupM is the world’s largest media investment company and is a part of WPP. In fact, we are responsible for one in every three ads you see globally. We are currently looking for an Associate Manager, SEO to join us. In this role, you will be responsible for driving SEO for GroupM's key regional clients.

At GroupM APAC, our people are our strength, which is why fostering a culture of diversity and inclusion is important to us.

Overview of job

GroupM is the world’s largest media investment company and is a part of WPP. In fact, we are responsible for one in every three ads you see globally. We are currently looking for an SEO Assoc. Manager to join us. In this role, you will be responsible for driving SEO for GroupM's key regional clients.

Reporting of the role

This role reports to: Head of SEO

3 best things about the job:

1. You will get to work with one of our high-profile clients, where a small change can make a big difference
2. As part of a high-performance team, who have years of experience in successfully delivering SEO, you have the opportunity to further increase your knowledge while also being a key player in how we continue to grow.
3. We are in a period of strong growth, which means that there is support for development of new products and services. If you have an entrepreneurial spirit, now is the time to get on board.

In this role, your goals will be:
In three months:

• Become familiar with organizational processes
• Take ownership of existing SEO projects
• Build relationships with key stakeholders within the Agencies

In six months:

• Deliver growth and establish Agency target revenue.
• Refine and further develop Analytics and SEM propositions to compliment Agency offerings
• Train team on delivery

In 12 months:

• Retention and growth of Agency SEO business and revenue target.
• Development of client training/workshop proposition to include: creds, sales collateral and training materials.

What your day job looks like at GroupM:

The appointee will be responsible for the effective delivery of client SEO services either directly, or by contributing to projects managed by other team members. There may also be communication with other GroupM offices and external vendors.

Agency Partner:

• To ensure delivery of existing business and maintain quality and satisfaction.
• To identify and build relationships with key stakeholders within the agencies.
• To be an evangelist for complete SEO offering within the Agencies and to increase staff competencies for effective delivery.

Specialist Area:

• To be a knowledge owner for Analytics and actively develop and share this knowledge with the team as well as provide / lead delivery.
• To support the further development of Analytics as a discrete offering by the team to support existing agency content offerings.

Sales & Operations

• Refine sales proposition and supporting processes for delivery.
• Retain clients and identify within your current portfolio upsell and cross-sell opportunities.
• Work with the Director, SEO to create sales proposals and support RFPs with tangible data references, where appropriate.

What you’ll bring:

• Candidates with a minimum of 3 yrs. of core SEO experience
• Actively pursues excellence while driving for efficiency
• Constantly seeks to learn more, primarily in order to do more
• Sees the big picture, yet pays attention to detail and takes pride in accuracy
• Plays well with others in a collaborative environment, and can still be responsible for your own work output, forging ahead when the situation demands a hands-on approach
• Keen to deliver to a set timeline and manage priorities accordingly.
• Client Account Management and Project Management
• Content Creation & Optimisation
• Web Analytics (installation/configuration/analysis) esp. G.A.
• Fluency in written and spoken APAC-specific languages (ie: Vietnamese, Indonesian or Japanese, etc)is a plus

Any kind of expertise in any of the following areas would be preferable:

• Conversion Optimisation (CRO/LPO)
• Exhibit advanced grasp on JavaScript, CSS and HTML put together and their impact on page performance and content delivery.
• Adapt with API use and curious about data.
• Well-experienced with Omniture/Google Analytics set-up and configuration.
• Experience with use of Python

More about GroupM Nexus

GroupM makes advertising work better for people.

GroupM Nexus comprise world-leading addressable specialists who provide media activation services and proprietary solutions that limit risks and guarantee outcomes.

Underpinned by our digital media philosophy – everything that can be addressable, should be, as long as it translates into value for our clients – GroupM Nexus offer addressable solutions across Search, Social, Programmatic, Ad Ops, and eCommerce.

As the largest media investment company in the world, we are agency partners to 1 out of 2 Top 100 global brands, representing more than $50 billion in media spend globally.

More about GroupM

GroupM leads and shapes media markets by delivering performance enhancing media products and services, powered by data and technology. Our global network agencies and businesses enable our people to work collaboratively across borders with the best in class, providing them the opportunity to accelerate their progress and development. We are not limited by teams or geographies; our scale and diverse range of clients lets us be more adventurous with our business and talent. We give our talent the space, support and tools to innovate and grow.

Discover more about GroupM at www.groupm.com
Follow @GroupMAPAC on Twitter
Follow GroupM on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/groupm

About GroupM Singapore

GroupM Singapore operates in one of the most dynamic and exciting environments in the world. Although it is a small domestic market, there is a vibrant media industry which is undergoing rapid evolution as digital technology reshapes the way marketing supports advertisers’ needs. Being at the crossroads of Asia means, that aside from the local clients and media owners, we also have a high proportion of multi-national clients, renowned brands and media owners. Making GroupM Singapore the Number One organisation to join and develop your career in media investment.

GroupM is an equal opportunity employer. We view everyone as an 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 clients we work with.

The GroupM Service team adopt a collaborative and customer-centric approach in delivering high value and innovative solutions for our Agencies and Agencies’ clients, including the activation and execution of dynamic media campaigns.

The Campaign Delivery team creates an effective link between the client facing Agency teams and the GroupM Services. The Campaign Delivery team ensures that comprehensive briefs are received from the Agency teams and ensures that GroupM Services specialists meet clients’ expectations by achieving campaign KPI’s timely and through embedding operational excellence. They are also supporting the delivery of tasks such as reporting output, offer insights and recommendations across strategic planning and agency pitches.

The following are the responsibilities of the GroupM Services Campaign Delivery Team and the varying degree of complexity is subject to individual job level:

• Own deep knowledge of all GroupM Agencies deliverables and campaign KPIs’ that have been committed to brands and share it across biddable teams when/if needed
• Set agenda and direction for Campaign Delivery teams’ process improvements in order to enhance engagement between GroupM Services and GroupM Agencies
• Proactively address, and when needed escalate, any issue that compromises the quality and timeliness of deliverables
• Support teams while adapting to fast changing priorities
• Provide technical perspective in client meetings when specific expertise is required
• Lead quality control and assurance practices across Biddable teams
• Lead compliance with finance processes, GroupM policies and procedures.
• Lead and influence cross-function collaboration by demonstrating openness to new ideas and interest in learning from colleagues with different expertise
• Incentivize share of knowledge and best-case practice
Oversee campaign outputs to deliver core business objectives, revisit strategies and push boundaries on business growth for all GroupM Agencies
• Ensure Campaign Delivery and Buying teams are providing coherent media responses (i.e. quality control on media schedules produced to Agency Planners)
• Regularly review on brief quality provided by GroupM Agencies to ensure efficient and quality response output
• Oversee and be accountable for end-to-end project management of campaign brief and delivery
• Proactively identify opportunities to improve and enhance clients’ campaigns and advise Agency teams accordingly
• Actively contribute in new business development/pitching if required
• Be the lead contact and trusted advisor for any Biddable campaign, confident to liaise at director and senior management level over existing and future internal/external arrangements
• Coach and mentor managers
• Promote knowledge share and continuous learning around POVs, trends and relevant skills to continue nurturing a high-performing team
• Assist GroupM agencies on consolidating data for ad hoc based reports (e.g. CSI/Savings Report/Cost Avoidance)
• Deliver holistic cross channel campaign analysis (i.e. mid and post campaign) working with respective buying teams to provide actionable insights and optimisation recommendations
• Any other project or tasks as assigned from time to time


Requirements:

• 3+ years of experience win a leadership position
• 8+ years’ experience within a biddable tactical planning or strategic engagement capacity
• Detail oriented, responsive to deadlines and able to multitask
• Ongoing interest in digital marketing, industry trends, best practices and emerging technologies
• At least 3+ years in a client servicing role and good interpersonal skills within the organization
• Ability to manage key stakeholders and deal with potential conflict management
• Able to manage competing priorities
• Leadership skills demonstrated by the ability to anticipate and remove barriers to productivity, drive teams towards clear goals, take effective decisions and challenge the status quo.
• Strive for excellence demonstrated by setting high standards for yourself and others, holding teams accountable, focusing on continuous optimization while mitigating risks
Passionate about digital media, AdTech, marketing tools and technologies and eager to keep learning
• Ability to build and maintain a productive collaboration across teams
• Persuasive and effective communicator

About GroupM

GroupM leads and shapes media markets by delivering performance enhancing media products and services, powered by data and technology.

Our global network agencies and businesses enable our people to work collaboratively across borders with the best in class, providing them the opportunity to accelerate their progress and development. We are not limited by teams or geographies; our scale and diverse range of clients lets us be more adventurous with our business and talent. We give our talent the space, support and tools to innovate and grow.

Discover more about GroupM at www.groupm.com
Follow @GroupMAPAC on Twitter
Follow GroupM on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/groupm

About GroupM Singapore

GroupM Singapore operates in one of the most dynamic and exciting environments in the world. Although it is a small domestic market, there is a vibrant media industry which is undergoing rapid evolution as digital technology reshapes the way marketing supports advertisers’ needs. Being at the crossroads of Asia means, that aside from the local clients and media owners, we also have a high proportion of multi-national clients, renowned brands and media owners. Making GroupM Singapore the Number One organisation to join and develop your career in media investment.

GroupM is an equal opportunity employer. We view everyone as an 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 clients we work with.

Mindshare are looking for an Account Director to join their Singapore office working with some local and regional brands. You will be responsible for leading the client relationship and delivering the highest quality communication strategies. In this role, you will be the interface between the client and the agency and is responsible for fully understanding their business, interpreting their communications planning and implementation needs.

Reporting of the role

This role reports to the Business Director

3 best things about the job:

1. A fun environment that gives autonomy to shape media campaigns following your directions
2. Working with a group of high performers, you’ll manage a team of strong managers and executives. They only need you to go from good to great.
3. A culture that perfectly blends, excellence, fun and a real focus on the well-being of the people.

Measures of success –
In 3 months:

• On boarded onto the key accounts with full induction/training into all of the other facets of the business such as trading, specialised services (internal and within GroupM).
• Built good relationships with your team and helped them deliver even better work
• Gained trust from the client and impressed with your contribution to the work

In 6 months:

• Managed and delivered campaigns that have a high and innovative standard
• Identified ways to improve processes on the account and delivered
• Be able to identify opportunities to cross sell/upsell products eg social, programmatic, mobile etc

In 12 months:

• Become an integral part of the core team, participating and contributing to the overall strategy and ideation phase and seamlessly linking the digital solution to the overall solution
• The proof of your success will be clients’ satisfaction and increasing business profit / commercial results

Responsibilities of the role:

• Full integration of media channels and integrated strategies
• Integration and development of your team (3-4 persons)
• Improvements in ways of working, processes and commercial growth
• Awards winning campaigns
• Develop robust benchmarks and norms across channels and media types
• Translate media plans into effective buys and supervise implementation
• Oversee and quality control of media monitoring, proof of performance, campaign optimization and post-analysis to ensure client objectives are meet, including:
• Anticipate, review and present point-of-views on online media trends, issues, developments and opportunities
• Share digital points of view, research and case studies with the business team(s) he/she works with
• Develop and maintain good relationship with key media vendors and internal teams
• Develop and maintain strong relationship with clients and have a good understanding of our clients’ business
• Help to develop local business through existing clients and potential new opportunities, including the sell in of new ideas and services to the clients

What you will need:
Minimum 5-6 years relevant working experience in media agency in both an implementation and leadership capacity

• Experienced in managing & leading a specialised team
• A proven ability to translate digital strategy into operation
• Proactive attitude and result driven mindset
• Produce work of high quality
• Business sense and undertanding
• Experience driving revenue growth with emerging opportunities and established partnerships
• Able to sell concepts and solutions to clients and key stakeholders
• Adaptable to the changing environment
• Passionate about "new" media communication and evolving technology
• Positive and attitude and good entrepreneurship

About Mindshare

Mindshare, the global media agency network, and part of WPP, the largest marketing communications network in the world, has more than 7,000 employees, in 116 offices across 86 countries. Mindshare APAC has won over 300 awards in 2014/2015 and was the most awarded agency at the 2015 Campaign Asia Awards Festival. Mindshare was also recognised as the SMARTIES™ APAC ‘Agency Network of the Year 2015’ for the third consecutive year. Mindshare is also home to The 2015 Festival of Media Asia Pacific Rising Star – Jason Maggs.

To learn more about Mindshare and our philosophy of Original Thinking, visit us at www.mindshareworld.com

About Singapore

GroupM Singapore operates in one of the most dynamic and exciting environments in the world. Although it is a small domestic market, there is a vibrant media industry which is undergoing rapid evolution as digital technology reshapes the way marketing supports advertisers’ needs. Being at the crossroads of Asia means that aside from the local clients and media owners, we also have a high proportion of multi-national clients and media owners.

As the largest media investment management company in Singapore with over 41% market share (Recma) and over 650 employees, GroupM Singapore is the premiere organisation to join and develop a career in.

GroupM APAC is committed to fostering a culture of diversity and inclusion. Our people are our strength so we respect and nurture their individual talent and potential.

Overview of job
In this role, you will oversee company needs, handle daily business issues, manage company associations, and recognize business opportunities. The role requires constant communicating and negotiating with clients, business associates, internal and external stakeholders. In addition, you will continuously work to strategically expand, preserve or improve the company’s procedures, standards or policies while sticking to business edicts and regulatory guidelines.

Reporting of the role

This role reports to the GroupM Singapore CFO

3 best things about the job:

1. Opportunity to work for World Best Agencies under one roof
2. Multi facets roles, advisor, trusted partner, leader, listener, executor, etc
3. Fast pace, demanding, fun loving and satisfying work environment.

Measures of success –
In three months:

• Be conversant with Agencies/GroupM’s Legal / Finance Structure
• Support monthly actual, quarterly forecasting and annual budgeting exercise in partnership with stakeholders.
• Oversee day-to-day finance/commercial activities of Agencies /GroupM
• Good understanding of all necessary control, compliances and key client contracts

In six months:

• Lead the quarterly forecasting processes and generate monthly commercial, financial and management reports for the trading/investment/special units and agency.
• Design and implement improved business processes
• Partner with trading/investment/special units and agencies management teams to model growth scenarios

In 12 months:

• Responsible for trading/investment/special units and Agencies P&L, Balance sheet, Annual Budget/Quarterly/Monthly Forecast
• Joined owner with Agencies/GroupM, CEO/MD of overall financial and operational performance

Responsibilities of the role:

Act as a Business Partner to One or Multiple Trading/Investment/Special units/Agencies/Regional Business

• As an advisor to CEO/MD, Business Leaders, Management team and Client Leads.
• Ensure sustainable and profitable growth of trading/investment/special units & agency/ies
• Ensure the overall Financial health – Revenue, Cost, Profitability etc
• Build out a strong commercial, financial and operational processes for agencies and GroupM
• Tracking agency/ies P&L delivery, Client Profitability
• Fee negotiation with vendors and clients
• Own new and existing vendors and clients’ contract terms and commercial negotiation
• Own financial budgeting and reporting procedures and deadlines
• Ensure compliance of client and vendors contract and Revenue Recognition policies and guidelines
• Work closely with management team to deliver year on year growth targets
• Assist in pitches, RFP, RFI, RFQ, determine scope of work etc
• Drive optimal investment, vendors and clients’ profitability
• Assist in business development opportunities (both new, organic and new Trading/Investment models)
• Lead, plan, execute and integrate any new business initiatives
• Lead, plan and execute Annual Budgeting, advise, monitor and manage Quarterly and Monthly forecasting
• Work closely with Trading, Investment, Special units and Agency’s management team to deliver on monthly, quarterly and yearly growth targets
• Setting up processes for tracking metrics used to measure agency/ies business strategy and aligning to overall Agency/GroupM strategy and vision.
• Build out strong financial and operational processes, responsible for operational efficiency across agencies, integration with media, finance, IT and human resource.
• Being an interface between agency/ies and finance shared services/outsourced processes.
• Cash Management and treasury, to ensure Forex risks and collections are able to meet operational needs.
• Review and manage Net Working Capital
• Ad Hoc special project and new regional business initiatives

Provide financial support to GroupM Trading/Investment Team

• Consolidate, monitor, review and analysis Trading/Investment/Special Units, Monthly, Quarterly and Yearly budgets/reforecast
• Ensure sustainable and profitable growth of Trading/Investment/Special Units
• Work closely with GroupM CFO, Group Trading/Investment and Agency Head of Trading/Investment in the implementation of all Trading/Investment deals
• Work with Trading/Investment Team to ensure that deal risk is appropriately managed to safeguard proprietary media interests and that this does not lead to material losses
• Ensure that agency/ies aligned and achieved yearly trading targets.

Governance, Compliance, Risk & Reporting

• Monitor contract compliance and commercial terms
• Ensure all contacts, client, vendors, etc, are approved, signed and filed
• Risk and corporate governance management
• Ensure Compliance and develop initiatives to maximise yields
• Working with internal and external auditors, ensuring SOX/ICFR compliance
• Partnering with Finance Director on overall SOX/ICFR requirement
• Ensure that all management reports submitted within deadline
• Monthly, quarterly and yearly reporting to be carried out with high accuracy and timeliness and developing processes to ensure quality reporting
• Variances to be fully explained and analysed with action plan
• Central point of contract for agency’s global and regional

What you will need:

• Graduate Calibre with 7 to 10 years of experience with strong finance and commercial background
• Proactive, self-starter with strong commercial acumen.
• Working closely with agency/agencies MDs and all stakeholders
• Experience of influencing senior management
• Leadership qualities – ability to lead and deliver results in a highly motivated, demanding environment
• Good people management skill in a highly matrix environment
• Sharp, action orientated and able to sell ideas convincingly
• Strong analytical skills with proven ability in interpreting performance trends and taking proactive action
• Resourceful, positive mindset and “can do” attitude will be key
• Individual contributor and team player to deliver group results and targets.
• Legal/contracts vetting will be an added advantage
• Experience in Media / Advertising industry will be an added advantage
• Experience of working in successful fast paced business is preferable
• Comprehensive understanding of key elements of route performance (both commercial and operational)

About GroupM

GroupM leads and shapes media markets by delivering performance enhancing media products and services, powered by data and technology. Our global network agencies and businesses enable our people to work collaboratively across borders with the best in class, providing them the opportunity to accelerate their progress and development. We are not limited by teams or geographies; our scale and diverse range of clients lets us be more adventurous with our business and talent. We give our talent the space, support and tools to innovate and grow.

Discover more about GroupM at www.groupm.com
Follow @GroupMAPAC on Twitter
Follow GroupM on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/groupm

About Singapore

GroupM Singapore operates in one of the most dynamic and exciting environments in the world. Although it is a small domestic market, there is a vibrant media industry which is undergoing rapid evolution as digital technology reshapes the way marketing supports advertisers’ needs. Being at the crossroads of Asia means that aside from the local clients and media owners, we also have a high proportion of multi-national clients and media owners.

As the largest media investment management company in Singapore with over 41% market share (Recma) and over 650 employees, GroupM Singapore is the premiere organisation to join and develop a career in.

GroupM is committed to fostering a culture of diversity and inclusion. Our people are our strength so we respect and nurture their individual talent and potential.

Reporting of the role

This role reports to the Business Director.

3 best things about the job:

1. Good exposure to a variety of client portfolios, which will be valuable for your career portfolio.
2. Great opportunities to demonstrate your originality and forward thinking on different aspect of communication planning.
3. The opportunity to be part of the driving force for the company’s continuous improvement and growth as a media professional

Measures of success –

In 3 months:

• Get up to speed with the client’s business and competitor landscape for the client’s industry
• Be the person whom the client goes to for day-to-day activities
• Familiar yourself with internal processes and way of working of all accounts

In 6 months:

• Working with Business Director in crafting communication plans
• Be able to propose ideas and activities to answer brand challenges, manage client budget and investment strategy across all media platforms
• Be knowledgeable of the agency’s planning tools and framework.

In 12 months:

• Drive the client business and lead projects independently along with team
• Staff supervision, training and development as well as serving as a positive role model with a hard work ethic and vigorously reviewing all work to ensure high quality standard

Responsibilities of the role:

• Overall strategic approach on the account designed and delivered to meet client’s business objectives and strategies. Oversees the implementation of the annual planning in conjunction with the client team
• Manage all aspects of campaigns and day-to-day needs of the accounts, handling from briefing through reporting. It will include understanding of client’s brief to communication planning, leading meetings with clients, setting viable objectives and KPIs, recommend/develop measurement methodology against all briefs, monitoring campaign progress and reporting. ,k
• Develop and build relationships with clients, be the trusted advisor on account requirements and work.
• Work with media partners across different platforms for ideation, negotiation and implementation as well as working with internal specialist resources and group resources.
• Facilitate cross-team learning and knowledge sharing.
• Mentoring the team and work with them on KPIs and performance appraisals.
• Drive innovative media solutions for set of portfolios.

What you will need:

• Minimum 3 years’ experience as hybrid media planner.
• Proven track record on the execution and development of media and digital strategies for clients
• Ability to work successfully with teams, handling multiple projects and stakeholders and meeting tight deadlines under pressure
• Demonstrated critical thinking and problem-solving abilities
• Strong relationship building skills which include maintaining positive client relationships
• Detailed oriented, strong negotiation skills and excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills

More about EssenceMediacom

We are a global communications agency leading with breakthrough thinking, building explosive growth for brands, and helping our clients see the bigger picture. Our daring global network of 10,000 Essentials help our clients breach traditional boundaries in media, uncover novel ideas, and unleash exponential growth. EssenceMediacom challenges conventional thinking to build, propel, and supercharge our clients’ businesses at scale and lead our industry in critical areas such as diversity, equity, inclusion, and sustainability

EssenceMediacom understands that our people are tasked with big goals: building breakthrough growth for brands and leading with breakthrough thinking in our industry. Our people are at the heart of this work because their ideas will enable us to decode the intersections of people, content, and technology to bring our aspirations to life. Our success is down to our eclectic, diverse, and talented people.

EssenceMediacom is a place for us to grow our careers and expand our horizons. EssenceMediacom is committed to building an agency culture that supports our people, puts diversity at the forefront of our operations, and creates opportunity for all. This collective culture will be our “new power” where ideas are freely exchanged, and collaboration is actively encouraged in a place where you can innovate in our hyperconnected world.

About GroupM

GroupM is the leading global media investment management company serving as the parent to WPP media agencies including Mindshare, Wavemaker, and MediaCom, as well as the programmatic digital media platform companies, Xaxis & PBU, each global operations in their own right with leading market positions. GroupM’s primary purpose is to maximize performance of WPP’s media agencies by operating as leader and collaborator in trading, content creation, sports, digital, finance, proprietary tool development and other business-critical capabilities. GroupM’s focus is to deliver unrivaled marketplace advantage to its clients, stakeholders and people. GroupM is committed to fostering a culture of diversity and inclusion. Our people are our strength so we respect and nurture their individual talent and potential. Discover more about GroupM at www.groupm.com.

Overview of the Job

We are looking for a Planner with integrated or digital media planning and implementation experience. You must possess a proven track record in orchestrating best-in-class media strategy and execution that drove tangible business growth for your clients in the Singapore market, and own existing relationships with media vendors.

This position will suit individuals who are driven to excel in a fast-paced media agency environment across diverse client portfolio and are able to work well under pressure. You should also be a confident and articulate presenter/communicator as you will be expected to front client relationships and present campaign strategy and media recommendations.

As a Planner, you must possess a working knowledge of how traditional and digital channels interplay in the media ecosystem. You are expected to bring with you the relevant experience in developing media strategies based on consumer insights, leading internal agency teams and steering external partners to deliver compelling solutions to achieve clients’ campaign objectives and KPIs.

Reporting of the role:

This role reports to the Group Account Director

3 Best Things About the Job:

1. Working with a high performing client business team to drive best in class communication strategy, integrated channel planning and result-oriented implementation for well-known local brands and renowned international brands.
2. Opportunities to work with specialist teams in GroupM to gain a diverse spectrum of experience across digital, content, media.
3. A culture built on collective energy, passion, collaboration and support

Measures of Success

In 3 months:

• Build good rapport with clients. Proactively participate in meeting discussions with clients and agency partners.
• Acquire a good understanding of client’s marketing objectives and ability to apply this knowledge in day to day communication with clients.
• Competent in planning all digital and traditional media channels.
• Own projection management, ensure smooth workflow and clients and team members are up to speed on all tasks.
• Rigor in setting and tracking campaign KPIs. Ensure effective and accurate optimisation and delivery of performance utilising all relevant internal teams, agency processes and tech

In 6 months:

• Establish credibility by applying understanding of client’s business and competitive landscape in day to day communication and formulation of strategic solutions.
• Able to confidently lead meeting discussions with clients and agency partners.
• Holistic digital thinking is carried across channel planning and drive innovative solutions beyond tried and tested with outcomes that can be clearly measured.
• Strong ability to assess attribution of marketing activities (eg. owned and earned) to paid channel performance to optimise overall campaign performance.

In 12 months:

• Build trusted advisor relationship with clients. Able to support the broader strategic output for clients’ marcom needs.
• Fully competent in developing and articulating compelling campaign solutions to successfully sell in campaign recommendation or new initiatives that lead to incremental revenue growth for the agency.

What Your Day Looks Like in Wavemaker:

• Develop strong campaign solutions based on Wavemaker’s proprietary consumer journey planning framework, from category/brand/consumer insights to strategy and channel recommendation.
• Drive strategic and tactical innovation across diverse mix of media channels that will yield tangible marketing/business results for clients.
• For the Integrated Manager / Associate Manger role, project management is a key part of your scope. You will develop overall media strategy, own campaign deliverables and assertively collaborate with internal teams to ensure all parties are up to speed on what needs to be delivered by when.
• As the overall campaign account guardian, you will steer internal teams / external stakeholders to deliver good quality and exceptional work by proactively evaluating and providing POV on the output of their work.
• Evolve use of measurement systems to provide greater insight into ROI of media plans and ensure the team delivers on agreed KPIs.
• Manage expectations of multiple stakeholders (among internal teams, client teams and other agency partners) to deliver quality work in short turnaround time.

What You Will Need:

• Proven track record in owning strong client relationships.
• Competent in juggling different work streams at the same time, you must be a strong project manager with a flair in managing relationships with multiple stakeholders.
• A creative thinker who constantly seeks new ideas/inspirations to bring fresh perspectives to internal teams and clients.
• Some experience in junior team management (such as coaching on media planning and managing client’s expectations, ensuring rigor in thinking, etc.)
• Resilient, able to work with demanding client expectations and challenging deadlines.

About Wavemaker

We always believe there is a better way to grow our clients and our people.

We do this by positively provoking growth for our clients and people. We work with clients to help them grow and shape their consumers’ brand decisions and experiences through media, content, and technology. We have one single attitude – Positive Provocation.

Our name is our mission and our method. To make waves, you need to be provocative, even fearless. We always make sure we have each other’s backs through our inclusive culture. We do our best work for brave brands and people who want to be challenged to go further and faster. We know it’s not easy, but if it’s in you, we will get it out of you.

Our attitude of Positive Provocation is enabled by:

• The deep Knowledge we have of our clients’ business
• The confidence to Challenge what’s gone before
• The Support to go further than we thought possible

We are a part of GroupM, WPP’s global media investment management company. Discover more on wavemakerglobal.com, Twitter and LinkedIn

Reporting of the role

This role reports to: Managing Director

3 best things about the job:
1. Working within a highly inclusive and dynamic environment of young achievers
2. Being able to work on world class accounts that will give a wider opportunity to tap into global gold standards in new strategic planning and frameworks
3. Being a pioneer in systems thinking supported by the systems planning platform

In this role, your goals will be:
In three months:

• On boarded onto the key accounts with full induction/training into all of the other facets of the business such as trading, specialised services (internal and within GroupM).
• Conducted a full audit of your respective accounts in terms of resources, skill sets, processes, quality of servicing and output and put together a 90 day plan with clear KPIs on what you would like to do to transform the accounts.
• Set SMART Goals for each team member.

In six months:

• Built the trust of your clients by demonstrating thought leadership that has brought a new approach/angle to a campaign/s, which is acknowledged by the client in TRR scores.
• Begin to create an energetic and motivated team culture

In 12 months:

• Demonstrated effective leadership skills to transform the rest of the team into greater systems thinkers through identification of on the job and external training
• Leveraged extraction and diversification opportunities and grown the revenue of accounts by 10%-15%

What your day job looks like at EssenceMediacom:

Client/Account and Financial Management

• Develop and maintain strong working relationships with clients, agency partners, media vendors, internal regional/ global planning teams and specialized teams, ensuring alignment and integration – role of “trusted advisor”.
• Direct and manage day-to-day needs of the accounts in line with brand guidelines, global strategic path and agreed contractual terms. Effective time and resource optimization: Prioritize jobs to manage timely fulfilment within allocated resources.
• Develop understanding of all clients’ businesses – brand and products, category and competition, issues and challenges. Brief the team by translating the local/regional/ global strategies as necessary to meet the needs of the local market’s marketing and communication objectives.
• Financial Planning and Management: Negotiate, track and overall management of client budgets/ spends, billing and collections, maintenance of master contract updates and timely utilisation of master contract entitlements.
• Lead innovation and creative thinking across the team.

Planning and Implementation Delivery

• Develop strategies and ideas for campaigns. A complete mastery of the entire suit of proprietary tools, insights properties and software.
• Develop and present media briefs/ plans/ documents incorporating communication goals, recommendations cum rationale, ideas and implementation, planning costs and budget splits and KPI’s. Provide assistance and POV to the team on their local market plans for presentation to clients.
• Negotiate KPI’s with the client prior to start of the campaign/ project and ensure all tracking and measurements are based on the agreed KPIs and media efficiencies. Manage the team’s weekly time-sheets. Coach and monitor KPIs for direct reports including training and development.
• Supervise, coach and work with Managers/Planners/ Executives to ensure that campaign is implemented – implementation goals are met and media buys are effective.
• Contribute to central media strategy development by generating any regional/ local reports.

Business and Market Management

• Lead pitches for new business opportunities and organic revenue growth opportunities. Explore ways to increase revenue via new projects and specialist services and ensure end to end project management of the jobs won.
• Participate in awards, local and regional forums of the industry.
• Liaise and support the regional/ global teams as and when key market/ category/ client information is requested.

What you’ll bring:

• 7 to 12 years of experience of strategic media planning/media management experience. Well versed in all media channels and can “connect the dots” across these channels.
• A strong curiosity in overall market development including new technology, the internet and other digital formats. Solid local media knowledge and experience in handling FMCG and affluent category required.
• An entrepreneurial flair is a definite advantage.
• A can-do attitude who is energetic with a hands-on approach to service client relationships, quick decision maker, negotiate and manage partnerships.
• A high performing team player with excellent communication skills. Experienced in managing and motivating the best in people.
• Ability to multi-task, prioritize jobs and manage time efficiently
• Systems thinker that is adept at exploring creative approaches coupled with strong numerical and analytical skills.
• A clear and concise style of writing with confident, persuasive presentation skills.

About EssenceMediaCom

We are a global communications agency leading with breakthrough thinking, building explosive growth for brands, and helping our clients see the bigger picture. Our daring global network of 10,000 influencers help our clients breach traditional boundaries in media, uncover novel ideas, and unleash exponential growth. EssenceMediacom challenges conventional thinking to build, propel, and supercharge our clients’ businesses at scale and lead our industry in critical areas such as diversity, equity, inclusion, and sustainability.

EssenceMediacom understands that our people are tasked with big goals: building breakthrough growth for brands and leading with breakthrough thinking in our industry. Our people are at the heart of this work because their ideas will enable us to decode the intersections of people, content, and technology to bring our aspirations to life. Our success is down to our eclectic, diverse, and talented people. EssenceMediacom is a place for us to grow our careers and expand our horizons. EssenceMediacom is committed to building an agency culture that supports our people, puts diversity at the forefront of our operations, and creates opportunity for all. This collective culture will be our “new power” where ideas are freely exchanged, and collaboration is actively encouraged in a place where you can innovate in our hyperconnected world.

About GroupM Singapore

GroupM Singapore operates in one of the most dynamic and exciting environments in the world. Although it is a small domestic market, there is a vibrant media industry which is undergoing rapid evolution as digital technology reshapes the way marketing supports advertisers’ needs. Being at the crossroads of Asia means, that aside from the local clients and media owners, we also have a high proportion of multi-national clients, renowned brands and media owners. Making GroupM Singapore the Number One organisation to join and develop your career in media investment.

GroupM is an equal opportunity employer. We view everyone as an 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 clients we work with.

Description

Mindshare is an agency of GroupM, the world’s largest media investment company and are a part of WPP

We are hiring a Media Executive to sit within the planning team who ideally has previous skills/experience in digital media and an eye for detail. You will be responsible for crafting and implementing creative and effective communication campaigns which are grounded in strategy and insights to drive our client’s business ambitions.

Overview of job

Mindshare is an agency of GroupM, the world’s largest media investment company and are a part of WPP. In fact, we are responsible for one in every three ads you see globally.

We are hiring an Account Executive to sit within the planning team who ideally has previous skills/experience in digital media and an eye for detail. You will be responsible for crafting and implementing creative and effective communication campaigns which are grounded in strategy and insights to drive our client’s business ambitions. You will be working in a fast paced and exciting environment for some of the world’s most established brands.

At GroupM APAC, our people are our strength, which is why fostering a culture of diversity and inclusion is important to us.

Reporting of the role

This role reports to the Account Manager within the team

3 best things about the job:

1. A fun and competitive environment that combines creative media thinking with the little details that matter and at the same time being part of the largest media company in the world.
2. Working within a culturally diverse team and servicing some of the top clients in the organization.
3. Opportunity to work with regional counterparts from both Mindshare and our clients.

In this role, your goals will be:

In 3 months:

• Be up to speed with cutting edge proprietary planning tools as well as able to extract and analyze important data; validating our recommendations
• You would have a pulse of the business category & knowledge of competitive market
• Worked on moderate scaled live campaigns
• Have initiated contact with key media partners and understood the baseline of their offerings, particularly digital
• Connected with internal specialist & external stakeholder’s units to integrate client solutions

In 6 months:

• Be able to comprehend and apply our proprietary planning framework model in key campaigns
• You would have landed live, larger scaled campaigns
• You will have started to build relationships with the key decision makers within the current client portfolio
• Mastered a flawless media execution process working alongside various stakeholders

In 12 months:

• Developed strong category acumen - from both a media and business point of view
• Identify a pipeline of commercially viable solutions to support our clients goals
• Have created & executed a pipeline of exciting business building ideas which could potentially be industry award winning

Responsibilities of the role:

• Respond to / follow up on clients campaign briefs and requests received, and working alongside the team.
• Orchestrate/support the inputs from the strategy, implementation and specialist teams to develop innovative, business building solutions for clients
• Manage the planning, execution and post mortem of the campaigns briefed in
• Engage with specialist partners to drive commercially viable media solutions
• Build trusted, meaningful relationships with clients, as well as relevant internal & external stakeholders

What you will need:

• Curious and willing to learn with passion in order to leverage opportunities from challenger to leading brands
• Strong analytical skills
• Excellent personal/organizational management
• Good interpersonal & social relations
• Strong understanding of the cultural and consumer trends that are changing the media landscape
• Minimum 1 year in media/digital/marketing experience. Open to fresh graduate.
• Digital media experience is an added advantage

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 Singapore

GroupM Singapore operates in one of the most dynamic and exciting environments in the world. Although it is a small domestic market, there is a vibrant media industry which is undergoing rapid evolution as digital technology reshapes the way marketing supports advertisers’ needs. Being at the crossroads of Asia means that aside from the local clients and media owners, we also have a high proportion of multi-national clients and media owners.

As the largest media investment management company in Singapore with over 41% market share (Recma) and over 650 employees, GroupM Singapore is the premiere organisation to join and develop a career in

About the role

The Media Activation team is responsible for providing thoughtful and exciting recommendations for Search, Social, Display, and Video, owning supplier relationships, and then executing those recommendations expertly. The Media Activation team leverages their mastery of each channel to make sure its recommendations are consistently excellent and innovative, and that in-channel performance and data integrity is maximized.

Some of the things we'd like you to do:

• Support the Client Director & Media Activation Practice Lead in capacity planning & resource management for the team
• Oversee development, roll out, and adherence of best practices across channels
• Develop strong relationships with your client, and key suppliers, leading team communications with these stakeholders. Be able to communicate with clients on subjects outside your remit, and provide them with useful insight, working independently
• Bring in-depth knowledge of Display & Search platforms (e.g. – GDN, DV360, Google Search etc.) operating as in-agency expert in your field of specialism, whilst showing a good understanding of the overall media landscape
• Manage and develop key vendor relationships – Bing, Yahoo Japan, Google
• Identify new platforms, partners & integrations, evaluate these (and existing platforms) over time and maintain a POV here
• Develop thought leadership pieces & case studies throughout the course of the year to demonstrate role within wider industry as a digital media expert
• Keep up to date with latest Google Marketing Betas/product updates & identify suitable betas which would be suitable to test for Google Cloud.
• Provide succinct updates on owned workstreams and projects to internal & external teams
• Gain a strategic understanding of the client’s business and KPIs, and how campaign optimizations meet those KPIs
• Ownership of in-channel planning and forecasting, testing, measurement, and optimization
• Manage a team of 2-4 direct reports, a larger team of up to 6
• Lead through vision, values, and model leadership behaviors while championing and facilitating change in a positive manner
• Provide timely and actionable feedback to the team to aid in their development
• Strong and effective communication across all levels; ability to establish and maintain effective relationships both internally and externally
• Thoughtfully craft career development plans for your reports and contribute to the development of training materials for the department
• Prior experience in digital marketing with B2B clients would be a plus

A bit about yourself:

• An experienced and exceptionally talented individual, you will be passionate about digital media and have a desire to be at the cutting edge of online advertising
• At least 8 years of experience within a digital-centric role with a track record of leadership and business growth
• Strong understanding of the digital landscape, suppliers and technology
• Strong analytical skills. Able to analyze and draw conclusions from data and comfortable presenting quantitative information in a client context
• Demonstrate the ability to present your strategic recommendations to external/internal clients
• Eager to learn new concepts and challenge the existing business framework
• Highly developed interpersonal, team building and relationship management skills
• Demonstrated experience in senior stakeholder relationship building and management
• Proven capability in building, developing and mentoring people and teams
• Past experience in managing profitability in the context of agreed scope of work
• Experience in setting work quality standards and consistently delivering against them

More about EssenceMediacom

We are a global communications agency leading with breakthrough thinking, building explosive growth for brands, and helping our clients see the bigger picture. Our daring global network of 10,000 influencers help our clients breach traditional boundaries in media, uncover novel ideas, and unleash exponential growth. EssenceMediacom challenges conventional thinking to build, propel, and supercharge our clients’ businesses at scale and lead our industry in critical areas such as diversity, equity, inclusion, and sustainability.

EssenceMediacom understands that our people are tasked with big goals: building breakthrough growth for brands and leading with breakthrough thinking in our industry. Our people are at the heart of this work because their ideas will enable us to decode the intersections of people, content, and technology to bring our aspirations to life. Our success is down to our eclectic, diverse, and talented people. EssenceMediacom is a place for us to grow our careers and expand our horizons. EssenceMediacom is committed to building an agency culture that supports our people, puts diversity at the forefront of our operations, and creates opportunity for all. This collective culture will be our “new power” where ideas are freely exchanged, and collaboration is actively encouraged in a place where you can innovate in our hyperconnected world.

About GroupM Singapore

GroupM Singapore operates in one of the most dynamic and exciting environments in the world. Although it is a small domestic market, there is a vibrant media industry which is undergoing rapid evolution as digital technology reshapes the way marketing supports advertisers’ needs. Being at the crossroads of Asia means, that aside from the local clients and media owners, we also have a high proportion of multi-national clients, renowned brands and media owners. Making GroupM Singapore the Number One organisation to join and develop your career in media investment.

GroupM is an equal opportunity employer. We view everyone as an 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 clients we work with.