Mediacom Associate Manager

**Overview of job**
MediaCom is an agency of GroupM, 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 an **Associate Manager** to join us. In this role, you will be responsible for media investment & implementation of campaigns for a group of clients on a fantastic and passionate team.

At GroupM our people are our strength, which is why fostering a culture of diversity and inclusion is important to us.

**3 best things about the job**:

- You will work on innovative clients who are seeing huge success in fast paced and dynamic categories and who are always looking for ideas to help them standout.
- You will have the opportunity the develop strong client relationships and work collaboratively with other agency partners
- Being a part of a fun culture in a highly driven team and instrumental in coaching and developing junior members of the team.

***What makes a good Associate Media (Investment) Manager**:

- Is a go-getter who can motivate the team to deliver the best for the clients
- Has established relationships with media owners, tech vendors, data providers
- Is an expert on industry tools and how to take data and turn it into great work
- Knows that the latest industry news, trends and developments are and how they can benefit the client
- Seamlessly builds connected systems that deliver against business solutions
- Is a trusted advisor who can quickly understand the clients business needs and develop a solution
- Can educate a client on the market and industry
- Understands the importance of forecasting and managing a budget
- Has the foresight and ‘know how’ to convert media outputs into revenue
- Numbers are a second language to you and you can translate between both fast, accurately and effectively.
- Demonstrates excellent presentation skills, both in constructing the presentation and delivering it
- Always provides rationale behind media recommendations
- Demonstrates financial and numerical astuteness
- Has a growing understanding of their people management skills and an understanding of how they like to work
- Has a problem solving mentality
- Shows attention to detail with exceptional levels of accuracy

*** **What you will need**:

- Positive attitude and ability to motivate your team to deliver the best for your clients.
- An expert on industry tools and how to utilise them and their output within your work and client recommendations.
- Keeps up to date with latest industry news and trends and can provide clear POV on how it might impact the client.
- Excellent presentation skills, both in constructing persuasive and engaging content and well as delivering it.
- Commercially minded, with ability to identify business revenue opportunities
- A passion to grow your people management skills and an understanding of how people like to work.

**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**:

- Been inducted into MediaCom and have a good understanding of our process and structure & can confidently articulate our offerings & point of difference in the market.
- Have lead an implementation response with support from the team, taking in a client brief, developing implementation strategy, briefing key partners and negotiating best outcomes and then presenting with clear rationale supported with relevant data points to the client.
- Set up 1-1s with your team, checking in regularly on their progress & supporting their development and growth

**In 6 months you would have**:

- Have developed strong relationships with both internal stakeholders including client leadership, strategy and planning and SBUs, as well as external partners both key clients contacts and media owners.
- Leading the day to day management of the team, to ensure client media campaign objectives and KPIs are being delivered.

**In 12 months you would have**:

- Considered a collaborative and motivated member of the Marketplace Investment team, contributing to monthly department meetings, fortnightly managers meetings and helping to drive development of junior team members.
- Become the go to for all information on your client campaigns, keeping the Media Investment Director informed and communicating to Head of Marketplace and National Head of Investment when required.

**More about MediaCom**

As part of WPP, the world's largest marketing communications services group, and part of GroupM, WPP’s consolidated media investment management arm, we have access to the richest data sets and most robust benchmarks in the business, enabling us to identify the best avenues for growth and unlock the potential in every brand.

Our success is underpinned by our long-standing belief that if we invest in our people, we’ll deliver better results not only for our teams but also for our clients. “People First, Better Results” means tha