Mindshare Senior Account Executive

**Overview of job**

**Reporting of the role**

This role reports to the Business Director

**3 best things about the job**:

- Opportunity to be a part of the largest marketing services group in the world and work with a diverse group of people across our network
- Opportunity to work on some of the most luxury, iconic & fun brands
- Opportunity to learn the ropes of media planning - Offline & Digital

**Measures of success -**

In three months, you would have:

- Familiarise with the Singapore media landscape and partners
- Familiarise with the concept of media planning, negotiations & implementation
- Get familiar with media external industry and internal planning softwares
- Handle briefing process and implementation of campaigns with activation teams.
- Able to liaise with clients, media vendors and internal specialists teams with ease
- Be familiar with timelines & project management

In six months, you would have:

- Plan, negotiate & launch campaigns with mínimal supervision
- Prepare presentation decks
- Meet clients & able to present documents

In 12 months, you would have:

- Be able to work independently & be proactive in facing challenges
- Be able to present independently.

**Responsibilities of the role**:

- Supporting the planning team across all aspects of the account. Overall job responsibilities include the ownership of plan and budget data as it relates to assigned channels, the management of plan changes, and general maintenance of activity and its effect on all related outputs, including communication to implementation teams.
- Competitive tracking, insights and reports.
- Media trends updates.
- The individual will be exposed to learn Media Planning, Buying & Implementation (Offline & Digital) as well as Digital and offline tracking & reporting goals are met.
- The individual will liaise with media vendors & clients directly, able to take briefs & work independently, prepare reports & presentations & work cohesively as a team.
- Various local/regional/global reports (both hygiene and ad-hoc)
- Work closely with your manager on day-to-day basis and will report to an Manager/Director.
- Work with other specialist services within the group agency to deliver campaigns.
- Work closely with regional team to ensure quality of work and meets guidelines.

**What you will need**:

- 1-2 year experience in a media agency is a bonus.
- Proficient in MS Excel, Powerpoint & Word
- Positive & enthusiastic
- Strong communication skills, both written & verbal, with internal and external parties.
- Open-minded, Resilient to change and willing to learn.
- Self-starter/demonstrates initiative
- Ability to manage multiple projects
- Demonstrates accuracy and attention to detail
- Works well in a team setting
- Thrives in fast paced environment

**About Mindshare**:
Mindshare is a media services company that accelerates Good Growth for its clients. Our company values of energy, empathy and impact bind together our diverse global family of 10,000 people from every culture and with every specialist skill you can imagine. You can check out some of our people’s stories on LinkedIn or Instagram or hear about the company in their own words here. Mindshare is part of GroupM, the world’s leading media investment company, and WPP, the world’s largest advertising holding group.

At Mindshare and GroupM, we are Open, Optimistic, and Extraordinary.
- Open. We cultivate trust by taking ownership and accountability, and we empathetically and intelligently balance people and client experience in everything we do.
- Optimistic. We mobilize the enterprise, driving our vision forward, and we champion growth and career development so we can all thrive.
- Extraordinary. We harness our shared capabilities to inspire transformational creativity, and lead collectively to deliver a seamless client and colleague experience.

GroupM is responsible for more than $60 billion in annual media investment, as measured by the independent research bureau COMvergence. Through its global agencies Mindshare, Wavemaker, EssenceMediacom, and mSix&Partners, and cross-channel performance (GroupM Nexus), data (Choreograph), entertainment (GroupM Motion Entertainment) and investment solutions, GroupM leverages a unique combination of global scale, expertise, and innovation to generate sustained value for clients wherever they do business.

**About GroupM Singapore**:
GroupM Singapore operates in one of the most dynamic and exciting environments in the world. Although it is a small domestic market, there is a vibrant media industry which is undergoing rapid evolution as digital technology reshapes the way marketing supports advertisers’ needs. Being at the crossroads of Asia means, that aside from the local clients and media owners, we also have a high proportion of multi-national clients, renowned brands and media owners. Making GroupM Singapore the Number One organisation to join and develop your career in media investment.

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