Groupm Associate Media Planning Director

**Reporting of the role**

This role reports to: Regional Director

**3 best things about the job**:

- The prospect of honing your skills in media planning by working on Global brands focused on retail, youth culture and consumer brand, providing exposure across SEA markets.
- Opportunity to be part of a progressive group pushing the boundaries of ecommerce and demand generation practices with a track record of award-winning work.
- Be part of the culture built on collective energy, passion, collaboration, and support.

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

- Acquired solid understanding of the client’s business challenges and short/mid-term priorities.
- Established strong working relationships with a large client team based in Singapore & across SEA local markets & key agency leads.
- Have a clear understanding of globally defined media thresholds and sufficiency exercise, target reach by brand/product campaigns, BAV and attention metrics, and past campaign benchmarks.
- Have a clear understanding of the annual media laydown of performance / eCommerce campaigns, the methodology of budget allocations, the annual /quarterly / monthly revenue targets, and past campaign performance.
- Participate with the team on day-to-day conversation with the client for Brand as well as performance and share a point of view on Full Funnel Synergy and propose new initiatives.
- Rigor in setting and tracking campaign KPIs. Ensure effective and accurate optimization and delivery of performance utilizing all relevant internal teams, agency processes and tech.

**In six months**:

- Build trusted advisory relationship with clients.
- Ensure smooth workflow with clients and internal teams, ensure the team under are up to speed on all tasks.
- Holistic thinking is carried across channel planning, understanding of integrated media strategies, how paid owned earned interplay in the communication ecosystem.
- Innovation led thinking - Propose ideas with help of partners and local teams which are first in category / industry and are award worthy.
- Understanding of full-funnel synergy and ensuring cross-utilisation of audience from brand campaigns to eCommerce campaigns and measuring the success.
- Contribute and lead the 2025 annual planning, to build strategic response to the annual KPIs for full funnel.

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**In 12 months**:

- Fully competent in developing and articulating a compelling strategy/approach to successfully sell in new initiatives to drive incremental revenue.
- Ensure that client servicing is best in class and does results in good feedback from client during bi-annual ratings.
- Ensure cost guarantees are met wherever committed.
- Delivered a 12-18 month roadmap for how the Mediacom/Client relationship should evolve, the internal/external requirements and metrics of success.

**What you’ll bring**:

- Develop compelling campaign solutions including consumer and category insights, right selection of media channel, defining primary and secondary KPIs, budget allocation by channels backed by data and rational.
- Drive strategic and tactical innovation across digital platforms.
- Work with local Mediacom markets to create and sustain great client relationships and excellent delivery.
- Briefing, guiding & supervising the GroupM Services teams (execution, reporting & ad-operations teams) on day-to-day basis ensuring operational excellence on the account.
- Evolve use of measurement systems to provide greater insight into ROI of media plans and ensure the team deliver on agreed KPIs.
- Contribution to global/regional media & communications strategy development.
- Your success will be measured through success in team engagement, delivering award-worthy case studies, impressive feedback scores from clients and year on year delivery against targets.

**Minimum qualifications**:

- At least 7 - 9 years of integrated media experience.
- Strong working experience in digital media planning and buying, offline media knowledge would be a plus.
- Experience working in client relationship management, preferably within multi-market (SEA) environment.
- Able to challenge and provide intelligent feedback to clients and local markets.
- Experience developing communication strategy, in either a marketing or media environment.
- Strong organizational, operational and numeracy skills
- Proactive mindset, strong attention to detail, able to multi-task and handle multiple projects at one time.
- Passionate about the media and communications industry and keen to stay on top of the ever-evolving media landscape.
- Leadership skills in building and leading operation excellence for the team.

**More about GroupM**

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