About the Role:
Do you want to elevate your career in media advertising and communications planning?
MG OMD are looking for an Executive to join the Client Team, working on one of the agency's newest retail accounts, Pets at Home. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work in an exciting and fast-paced environment with some high-profile media campaigns to build the Pets brand and help drive business outcomes. This role will cover learning opportunities across a breadth of channels including TV, OOH, Radio, Partnerships, Social, and Digital.
In this junior role, you will be supporting the client team on the day-to-day running of the account. This will include assisting on responses to briefs, coordinating with our channel specialists, and ensuring campaigns are being implemented, tracked, and reported on effectively. This role provides exposure to all the core media disciplines from strategy and planning through to implementation and measurement. You will get fantastic exposure to media with support and training from our experienced and talented team.
The ideal candidate will be an enthusiastic self-starter with a can-do attitude who is hungry to learn. They will have strong attention to detail and be a team player, proactively supporting others in the team. They should be able to work collaboratively with both internal and external parties and demonstrate a passion for the industry and a desire to learn.
About You:
* Proactivity and interest in the media/advertising industry
* Understand basic details of all media channels, how they are planned, how they are bought, and how we measure them
* Clear demonstration of basic maths functions and strong attention to detail
* Be able to perform simple media planning and buying calculations (reach and frequency, share, discounts, etc.)
* Be aware of the industry’s main media owners, who owns what, audience delivery, and formats available
* Keep up to date with new trends and news and be a source of information within your team
* Basic knowledge of industry planning tools including Mediatel, TGI, etc.
* Strong admin support skills including plans and status reports, booking meetings, management of POs, management of Google sheets, etc.
* Understanding of billing processes and support of finance processes within the client team
* Understand exactly what MG OMD does, its place in the industry, and within Omnicom (our credentials)
* Understanding of data, able to interpret client reports and provide a basic commentary and analysis (including Pivot tables, pie charts, etc.)
* An interest in animals would also be preferred as this account is centered on Pets!
Communication:
* Clear/concise communication both verbal and written
* Be able to construct a basic presentation with a strong narrative
* Be able to listen, take personal responsibility for retaining and absorbing information (i.e., use of a notebook, know where to find information)
* Be able to present yourself and communicate professionally in all your encounters with media owners, clients, and people internally
Teamwork:
* Support your team proactively and positively
* Have regular, open dialogue with your Line Manager
* Have a helpful, friendly, positive attitude
Work Quality:
* Deliver work that is 100% accurate
* Deliver work to any deadlines that are set
* Be organized and able to manage a number of tasks at the same time
Client Management:
* Be proactive on clients' behalf, spotting opportunities, creating ideas of the week, etc.
* Be interested and read about the client's sector
* Manage expectations – never miss client deadlines
Leadership:
* Respond positively to leadership from your line manager and above
About the Agency:
MG OMD was established in 1990 as a challenger media agency (Manning Gottlieb Media) that placed craft, trust, and performance at the heart of media planning and buying.
Since joining Omnicom network’s OMG (Omnicom Media Group) in 1998, we have continued to retain our founding ethos of providing clients with bespoke approaches, unprecedented insight, specialism, security, and transparency; helping our clients to use media to unlock their competitive advantage and deliver innovative, effective, and award-winning work and campaigns that create a difference that matters.
MG OMD is the second-largest media agency in the UK. We are the most awarded media agency in both the history of the IPA Effectiveness Awards and Thinkbox’s TV Planning Awards and have this year been named Agency of the Year in The Media Leader UK awards, Campaign Global awards, and Campaign UK awards.
With over 500 employees working across some of the UK’s leading brands including the John Lewis Partnership, Virgin Media O2, British Airways, Specsavers, HM Government, LNER, Sony Pictures, and Age UK; it is our people who ultimately make the award-winning difference.
So, true to our ethos, we work hard at creating a spirit and atmosphere that inspires our people to be considerate, honest, and professional whilst also being stimulating, imaginative, and inspirational.
We want people who are great to work with, fun to be with, and who genuinely care; about each other, our clients, our media partners, and doing great work.
In return, we provide an amazingly collaborative culture, where open communication and an unwavering commitment to diversity of thinking, diversity of background, and diversity of skill sets runs through everything we do. All backed up by the highest standards of training, development, and support in the industry; so much so, that we have attained IPA (Institute of Practitioners in Advertising) CPD Gold Accreditation for the 13th year running and maintained our CPD Platinum Accreditation for the 7th consecutive year, showcasing our commitment to continuous professional development. We were also featured in the Sunday Times Best Places to Work in both 2023 and 2024. Our being named is completely based on the opinions and perspectives of our employees, which makes the accolade all that more special.
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