GLOBAL INVESTMENT ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR
Buying, Trading & Investment
Location: London, England
DESCRIPTION
Position at GroupM
EssenceMediacom
About the role
EssenceMediacom’s Global Investment team delivers work across an impressive global client base including The Coca Cola Company, Adidas, Mars, Google, Bayer, and Airbnb, to name a few. The exciting and dynamic list enables our Global Investment unit to drive best-in-class value and KPI evolution to deliver our clients’ investment goals.
In this role, you will work with several of our largest global clients and, depending on business needs, engage in new business pitches. This allows for exposure to leading auditing methodologies and investment management programmes. Supported by GroupM, you will be involved in a fast-paced, dynamic environment across these truly global clientele to deliver their transformation goals.
You will be joining a team to support the stewarding and delivery of our clients’ global value commitments and reporting this analysis to your line manager and other senior members of the team. As part of the wider market-leading Global Investment unit, supported by GroupM, this position offers several opportunities for future career growth and development across client work and projects at EssenceMediacom.
The role will report into a Director and involves daily exposure to senior internal stakeholders, media auditors, and procurement clients.
Specific responsibilities
1. Manage the implementation and delivery of the accountability framework for the clients in scope. Work closely with the teams in the local markets to track buying performance and optimise value delivery to the clients’ business, providing clients with trading insight and context on an ongoing basis. This will include contributing to the recommendation of ongoing client pricing strategies, supported by senior members of the team.
2. Develop/improve existing tracking of media buying performance and efficiencies vs. targets using our proprietary tools across all media (emphasis on TV and Digital) while identifying opportunities for value delivery improvements.
3. Provide ongoing support and guidance to local markets as their go-to person to ensure they fully understand our value commitments, buying measurement methodology, and the savings calculation process, in addition to identifying risks and opportunities.
4. Be the front person in the relationship with media auditors to ensure smooth operations and a collaborative approach, while challenging their analysis and insights as required.
5. Present and take ownership of your work with key clients as appropriate, providing analysis and market insights. Establish tactics and roadmaps for problematic territories, sharing and discussing these with senior members of the team and Client leads.
6. Proactively develop and share knowledge of how media buying and performance tracking works and the various methodologies used to track and quantify savings delivery, applying and considering a “learn and share” mentality with your team.
7. Contribute to new business pitches (when required), both in terms of pricing templates and with the broader investment answer to the brief, with guidance from senior members of the team.
Essential Skills, Knowledge, and Experience
1. Minimum of 6-7 years’ experience gained in either an investment/accountability department, media agency buying department, or media auditor.
2. Solid knowledge of how media buying and performance tracking works and the various methodologies used to track and quantify value delivery, particularly for TV and Digital. Experience in online buying would be a particular asset.
3. Excellent analytical skills and great attention to detail are essential.
4. Highly numerate, adept at managing large data sets and Excel.
5. Confident communicator and presenter (written and delivery).
6. Excellent time management and organisational skills.
7. A very “hands-on” attitude and a certain degree of resilience and patience is critical, especially when working with a network of local operators on globally aligned businesses which can often present challenges in terms of collaboration.
8. International experience preferable but not essential.
Benefits
1. Extensive training opportunities for personal and professional development, examples being GroupM University (e-learning in soft skills such as time management), Circus Street (specific media principles such as programmatic best practice), and regular media owner sessions to keep up with key industry trends.
2. Mental health support and regular health & wellbeing events.
3. 25 days holiday (+ extra day for Birthday).
4. Private medical insurance, life assurance, and permanent health insurance.
5. Corporate gym memberships.
6. Cycle to work scheme.
7. Free breakfast (cereal and fruit).
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 helps 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.
What it’s really like to work here?
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 an 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.
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