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Job Description
Media Investment Manager at a leading media agency.
We are looking for someone with strong excel and maths, ideally with media buying experience that can work across Global investment, media audit and accountability for an exciting new investment role across a leading global brand.
Salary is £45,000 + benefits.
Role Summary
- This is an exciting opportunity for someone to join the vibrant and rapidly growing team as a Manager, Global Investment.
- The Global Investment team is a dedicated unit to drive value creation and monitor and deliver commitments to their well established and growing client base. It is built around experienced media traders, auditors and analysts whose job is to share and apply investment best practice across the network and ensure that our clients always receive the best media value and investment guidance.
- The team play a vital role quantifying and tracking media buying performance across all agency markets for clients
Responsibilities
- Monitor and influence media buying performance/value improvements across global markets to ensure delivery against commitments
- Be responsible for day to day management of a portfolio of global clients
- Develop and maintain strong relationships with the global investment community, external media auditors and clients
- Support team on global pitches in market communications
- Manage processes, design reporting templates and be the expert on deliverables, targets, methodology, value optimisation and delivery
- Compile buying results and ad hoc reporting to present to clients and auditors
- Support Directors to refine and craft media KPIs for clients and manage their delivery
- Line manage analysts including training and on-boarding
- Track and capture use of investment products across client portfolio
Desired Skills & Experience
- Strong understanding and interest in media measurement metrics, KPIs and market pricing dynamics across all media
- Enquiring mind to push boundaries and create new approaches.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills, able to explain complicated concepts with clarity
- Experience of supervising or managing one or more junior team members.
- International media experience ideal but not essential
- Experience at a media auditor, in a local market agency media buying (any medium and does not have to be UK) or within an International Media Investment/Trading/Accountability team.