Implementation & Activation Associate Director (12-month Ftc)

**Implementation & Activation Associate Director (12-month FTC)**

ABOUT WPP & OPENDOOR

At WPP, we’re constantly reinventing the future of creativity on an ever-broader canvas, bringing together unrivalled talent, resources and skills to provide an integrated offer of communications, experience, commerce and technology.

Over the last decade, we have developed a dedicated global client practice with the mission of accelerating WPP’s impact for our largest clients by bringing them the best of WPP. Each team is custom-built around a client’s specific needs and challenges, providing easy access to the right capabilities. And that’s why we’ve built **OpenDoor**for** Amazon**.

**OpenDoor** is a unique integration of the best of WPP and Amazon - building on their respective strengths and visions. Whether at WPP or at Amazon, every project is an OpenDoor on new possibilities. Anything and everything can be an opportunity for our people to drive _impact_ - for them to innovate, learn, thrive, and occasionally fail too.

The unique OpenDoor partnership model is built to deliver next level Productivity, fueled by our industry-leading approach to People, Platforms, and Process. OpenDoor spans across all WPP agencies and disciplines such as media, business consultancy, communications and brand strategy, tech and commerce, public relations, and production.

OpenDoor’s values are built from Amazon’s own **16 Leadership Principles**, and WPP’s core values of Open, Optimistic and Extraordinary. Together, when WPP’s Creative Transformation meets Amazon’s next-level customer centricity, our people come together to challenge and impact what’s done today and build a better future.

By joining OpenDoor, not only are you joining a cross-function team partnering with one of WPP’s top five global clients, but you are also taking a step to challenge yourself and the world around you every day, working in the most unusual way on some of Earth’s most ambitious opportunities in marketing, tech, media, business, and creativity.

ABOUT THE ROLE

We are searching for a talented and enthusiastic individual to join our OpenDoor team as an Implementation & Activation Associate Director. This is a Full-time position based in Sydney. This role plays a crucial part in supporting WPP's mission to deliver consistency, delivery excellence and best in class service for Amazon in every country across its diverse businesses, including XCM, Prime Video, and RMI

The role of the Implementation & Activation team is to deliver the highest excellence in Implementation Planning and Buying, ensuring client campaigns are planned and executed in an effective, efficient, and future facing way. The scope of Implementation & Activation incorporates Video (TV, BVOD, SVOD, Short-Form IO Online Video and Cinema), Out of Home (Direct and Programmatic), Audio (Radio, Podcasting and Music Streaming) and Display (Newspapers, Magazines, and Digital IO Display).

The role of Associate Director within the Implementation & Activation team is to develop and present effective, efficient, creative, and future facing implementation plans and media schedules for clients, to deliver business growth.

You will oversee and coordinate the delivery of approved media plans across a team of non-biddable media buying experts, ensuring quality assurance and campaign delivery. You provide thought leadership and drive key client and publisher engagement.

You will play a pivotal part of a broader eco-system in partnership with the agency strategy team, client leads, comms planners and the performance team. to ensure that non-biddable planning is an integrated and cohesive component of the broader media strategy. Your focus will be on driving client deliverables and growth, in addition to contributing to a high functioning team with alignment on cultural values and business priorities across the agency.

**KEY STAKEHOLDERS**:
**Reporting to**:**Implementation & Activation Director

**Direct reports**:**Implementation & Activation Managers, Associate Managers

**Internal departments**:**Collaborate closely with your client team, including client leads, comms planners, strategy leads, the Implementation & Activation team and other agency and group departments to manage expectations and collectively deliver the strongest outcomes for clients.

**Media Owners**:**Establish strong relationships with our media partners at a Group Sales Manager and Group Sales Director level.

**Clients**:**Establish a deep understanding of the Amazon business and develop strong relationships with key client contacts.

RESPONSIBILITIES

**People**

- Coordinate team workflow, delegating tasks effectively, making sure goals are set & met, and resolving issues with autonomy.
- Manage leave and team absences to ensure coverage for team responsibilities and mínimal impact to remaining team members.
- Motivate team to achieve individual, team and organisational goals.
- Develop and train team to ensure they reach t