Job Description:
Role Purpose: To ensure that the highest level of quality is applied to all AV output. Working with your Associate Director, identify continuous improvements of our AV product to deliver better performance for our clients; to ensure the wider trading and business goals are met and your team are developed and are progressing in line with career aspirations.
Amplifi Vision and Values:
Amplifi is the media investment arm of Dentsu Aegis Network. The core objective of Amplifi is to deliver efficient trading along with strategic & innovative media solutions, whilst embracing the changing world of media. Working closely with our media partners to ensure a point of difference vs the market; to be the media agency of choice. It is pivotal that we are agile, pioneering and collaborative to ensure we deliver innovative and strategic thinking whilst maintaining commerciality.
Key Accountabilities:
* Development of plans and forecasts for specific clients in the DAN North portfolio.
* Utilise all AV planning tools to maximum efficiency to deliver engaging and innovative planning solutions.
* Provide support to senior team in developing best in class AV strategies.
* Demonstrate the ability to manage all aspects of AV for multiple accounts and quality control output from members of your team.
* Maintain expert knowledge of the AV marketplace to anticipate opportunities and threats.
* Ensure all AV trading agreements are delivered in line with defined parameters and targets.
* Drive partnerships that deliver strong business results.
* Maintain a good understanding of the business' commercial strategies and use this to influence plans, clients and media owners.
* Build strong client and media owner relationships, with the aim to understand their motivations and needs to deliver better results.
* Proactively manage, motivate and develop your team members through regular reviews of performance and aligning their development plans.
Professional Skills:
* Advanced knowledge of MS Suite, particularly Excel and PowerPoint.
* Ability to pre-empt issues and be proactive in producing solutions.
* Ability to work accurately under pressure and with short deadlines.
* A high degree of numeracy and literacy are essential.
* Excellent communication and client-facing skills.
* Comfortable with presenting to colleagues and clients, including interpretation of data.
* Proactive in raising own commercial awareness of the industry beyond channel specialism.
Outputs:
* Use knowledge of the client and the operating model to deliver and influence planning output.
* Effectively manage the team's output, ensuring all tasks are delivered to the satisfaction of the client and/or internal stakeholders.
* Build and maintain strong working relationships to deliver strong business results.
* Pre-empt issues and proactively produce solutions which engage all stakeholders.
* Meet time-critical/sensitive deadlines when working on multiple tasks.
* Adapt plans to meet changing demands by internal or external stakeholders.
* Conduct reviews, appraisals, feedback and development plans in a timely manner for all team members.
Role Capabilities:
* Mobilising performance and potential.
* Communicates effectively.
* Builds credibility.
* Knows the business.
* Focuses on clients.
* Quality decision making.
* Making relationships count.
* Focused on quality.
Key Experiences:
* Ability to communicate effectively across multiple stakeholders in multiple locations.
* Aptitude to build and maintain strong working relationships.
* A solid grounding in AV activation and trading, as well as a breadth of market knowledge.
* Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills in a previous role.
* Proven track record in effective management and development of team members.
What we'll give to you:
* A great compensation package, private health and dental insurance, corporate discounts and career development through Dentsu University, and free access to LinkedIn learning.
* 29+ days of annual leave (25 days of regular holidays, birthdays off and 3 additional wellness days).
* Opportunity to volunteer for up to 2 days per year and agency closure between Christmas and New Years.
* A hybrid working schedule.
Inclusion & Diversity:
Our diverse and inclusive culture enables our employees to bring their whole selves to work and be proud of doing so. For us, this is the foundation for great innovation which, in turn, generates better outcomes for our people, partners and communities. This is why we encourage applications from people with disabilities, and of all ages, nationalities, backgrounds and cultures.
We are happy to discuss flexible and agile approaches to working for all our roles. If you have any reasonable adjustment needs arising from a disability or medical condition to fully participate in the recruitment process, please discuss this with our recruitment teams.
Location:
Edinburgh
Brand:
Amplifi
Time Type:
Full time
Contract Type:
Permanent
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