Wavemaker Business Manager

**Business Manager**

At Wavemaker, we believe there always is a better way to grow. By Positively Provoking Growth for our clients and our people, we shape decisions and experiences through media, content and technology.

Wavemaker is a global media, content and technology agency. In Australia, we are currently ranked as the #2 Media Agency. We have over 250 people working across six offices: Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne, Sydney, Perth and Auckland, New Zealand. We are part of GroupM and WPP; the largest media buying alliance and marketing communications group in the world. For the last four years we have rated in the top 20 ‘Best Places To Work Australia’, we pride ourselves on our culture and our people.

**The Role**
To work collegially with all areas of the agency and bring gold standard implementation to life.

This role leads the day-to-day media planning and trading for their client. The role of the Manager is to develop strong communications/ recommendations across all channels (Paid, Owned, Earned) that are focused on exceeding your clients’ expectations. The Manager takes responsibility for all information flow within WM, working in collaboration with all disciplines and services.

The Manager brings the strategy to life in optimised channels, identifying opportunities and innovation to adapt the plan in real-time.

The Manager has trusted and influential relationships with clients, media and agency partners.

**What you will need**:

- Strong, up to date, media landscape knowledge (confidently able to articulate macro consumer trends and the challenges and opportunities they bring).
- Is respected by clients and media partners when it comes to the media plan and its execution
- Attention to detail
- Clear and concise communication skills
- Problem solving mentality
- Experience in managing people and running a team
- Strong presentation skills
- Strong media systems knowledge (SpectraMD, Asteroid, MOVE, AQX, Optim8, Etam, Eram,Excel)
- Extensive media buying experience
- Demonstrates well developed negotiation and Investment planning skill

**What success looks like**:
The easiest and simplest way to see if you have done a great job is when:
**In 3 months, you would have**:

- Have been introduced to key clients and media partners
- Immersed yourself in the team with an understanding of the status of all active and upcoming campaigns.
- Established collaborative relationships with all key internal and external stakeholders and internal reports.
- A strong understanding of and can clearly articulate the Wavemaker proposition, core C&C processes and our way of working.

**In 6 months, you would have**:

- Owning the Investment processes for specific allocated clients/campaigns from end to end, ensuring that your manager and wider team are regularly updated on the performance of each campaign demonstrating excellent attention to detail
- Working well with your direct report/s
- Demonstrated your ability to deliver on all aspects of the role in an efficient, effective and proactive way.
- Strengthened your key stakeholder relationships to deliver great teamwork consistently.
- Established yourself as the key point of contact from media partners for your account patch, seen as the 1st person for anyone to go to, to find out what is happening on your accounts
- Regularly using and able to demonstrate a strong level of comfort on the use and explanation of WM planning tools, processes and theory’s.
- Effectively briefing in internal WM and GroupM team members to ensure seamless transition from planning to execution
- Actively participating in all WIP’s both internal and external

**In 12 months, you would have**:

- Beginning to take ownership of larger campaign and strategic recommendations and planning for specific clients
- Taking on greater ownership for campaigns and clients - responsibility and volume.
- Proactively adding value to the team based on campaign performance
- Building strong relationships with clients, representing the Wavemaker team appropriately and ensuring that our campaigns are delivered to the highest quality
- Fully embraced WM planning tools and processes, and amble to fully explain in detail how they each work and how/ when to use them
- Clearly have moved the account forward by evolving and improving thinking, relationships and media plans for the client. (showing tangible results)
- Have work or developing work that will be entered into an award
- Deepening your relationships with clients to be their trusted adviser for all things media/communications and beyond

**About GroupM Australia**
GroupM Australia takes pride in being a group built on a set of core values that extend to every aspect of our operation. We are committed to providing an empowering workplace that offers opportunities to learn, succeed and grow. GroupM is the largest media investment management company in Australia.
- GroupM is an Equal Opportunities Employer. We believe that diversity is vit