Groupm Digital Investment Director

**Overview of job**

GroupM is 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 Investment Director to join us.

**Reporting of the role**

This role reports to: Chief Investment Officer, GroupM Singapore
**3 best things about the job**:

- Collaborating with different agencies and their accounts
- Working with multiple vendors and understanding their platforms
- Being part of a leading company and driving the latest technology and innovations

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

- Understand GroupM digital trading strategy, products and internal processes
- Be familiar with the trading partnerships we have and ways of working with vendors
- Get to know GroupM agency partners, key internal stakeholders and key vendors we work with

**In six months**:

- Foster a good working relationship with GroupM agency partners, key internal stakeholders and all the key vendors we work with
- Identify and address challenges/gaps in GroupM digital supply and come up with a strategy to deliver against targets and KPIs
- Work with the Chief Investment Officer to successfully launch new digital trading products

**In 12 months**:

- Demonstrate to GroupM agency partners, key internal stakeholders the value delivered and performance against KPIs
- Developed a strong working relationship with all key vendors
- Complete negotiations for following year’s partnerships, working closely with Head of Investment
- Develop pricing benchmarks for digital media across the group
- Manage and maintain the digital trading products

In this role, your main focus will be to:

- Build and maintain strong professional long-term relationships with GroupM trading partners and liaise with key vendors in Singapore
- Grow and develop supply channels, in line with GroupM’s BAV (brand safety, ad fraud and viewability) standards for video, display, audio and native opportunities
- Develop and manage digital products
- Manage internal stakeholders in line with yield management and delivery to publisher deals
- Develop, co-ordinate and oversee supply programmes to deliver client objectives across GroupM agencies and brands

**Responsibilities of the role**:

- Develop and execute a strategy for adding and growing key supply partners to GroupM (across all GroupM brands) that deliver value while meeting GroupM’s KPIs around brand safety, ad fraud, viewability and reach.
- Manage supply quality - review supply performance, share recommendations, and help drive new currencies; BAV scores across partners etc
- Identify and cultivate relationships with supply partners, piloting new initiatives and evaluating the performance of these initiatives as part of the larger GroupM digital trading strategy
- Research and develop innovative new business models and growth opportunities with partners; negotiate, structure, and execute relevant agreements
- Build and manage digitally-focused trading models/products
- Build relationships and collaborate extensively with partners in GroupM agencies and brands
- Develop business intelligence solutions to manage and track investments, ensuring they are in line with overall client strategy
- Use the feedback from publishers managed to identify opportunities to improve our products, services, processes, systems and tools for entire publisher base
- First line in partner support ensure best in class service to queries and requests
- Support agencies in new business pitches

**What you will need**:

- At least 6-8 years of experience in a Digital Media leadership role
- Bachelor’s degree in Business or similar area of study is preferred
- Must demonstrate strong strategic, creative, interpersonal, organizational, and communication skills
- Demonstrated success to lead, build consensus and work effectively across functions, marketing business, internal stakeholders and external vendors
- Strong understanding of digital pricing models and benefits, including CPM, CPC and CPA models, as well as new currencies such as viewability and attention, etc
- Strong technical understanding of supply set-up
- Strong organizational skills, able to meet tight deadlines and handle multiple projects simultaneously
- Up-to-date on latest trends in the digital media & publisher landscape
- Advanced knowledge of MS Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel)

**More about GroupM**

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 an