Investment Manager

**We’re currently seeking an Investment Manager to drive the offline and direct I/O media planning, buying and reporting across multiple brands in the health supplements and liquor industries.**

**GroupM**

**GroupM** is the leading global media investment management company serving as the parent to **WPP** media agencies including **Mindshare**, **EssenceMediacom** and **Wavemaker**, each with leading market positions in their own right.

With 800 people based in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Brisbane, GroupM’s primary purpose is to maximize performance of WPP’s media agencies by operating as leader and collaborator in trading, content creation, sports, digital, finance, proprietary tool development and other business-critical capabilities. GroupM’s focus is to deliver unrivalled marketplace advantage to its clients, stakeholders and people.

**A Bit About Us**

We are **Mindshare**, a media services company that accelerates Good Growth for our 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. People at Mindshare create ideas and solutions that help not only our clients, but also people and the planet.

**YOUR TEAM**

The Implementation & Activation (I&A) team is a dynamic, collaborative group responsible for delivering best-in-class planning and activation across traditional media channels. Fully embedded within client teams, we work closely with stakeholders to bring campaigns to life — from offline and digital media to sponsorships and analytics.

This particular team do a lot of OOH and quite a few content partnerships. We have a pretty informal yet very collaborative culture, with regular daily check-ins/standups and a broader internal team WIP every **Monday**.

We have found a great balance of embracing flexible working whilst also maintaining in office collaboration with most teams meeting in the office 3 days per week.

**YOUR ROLE**

Location: Sydney

The Investment Manager (aka Implementation & Activation Manager) is a critical role, over-seeing activation of client campaigns to ensure best-in-class delivery for clients consistently, whilst also shaping effective, efficient, creative, and future facing implementation plans and media schedules for clients, to deliver business growth.

As a Manager you are responsible for supervising elements of team workload to ensure client demands are met and ensure a high level of effective collaboration between team members and key stakeholders.

**YOUR IDEAL SKILLS & EXPERIENCE**
- If you’re a Snr Executive / Associate Manager with strong planning skills and great media partner relationships who is ready to step up and take on an exciting new challenge, we may be able to accommodate you.
- You will thrive in this role if you’re an existing Manager looking for a change, especially if you’ve had exposure to alcohol or health supplement brands.
- You do quality BAU spots and dots planning, buying and reporting in core channels but also help think beyond cookie cutter responses to ensure our brands stand out in a very cluttered category.
- You will add extra value to the team if you can help manage the day-to-day and take pressure off the GID.

**What is your pathway for Good Growth?**

We’d love to hear what your ambitions are to achieve personal growth, and how we can help you realise them with us

**What We Offer**

At Mindshare ANZ, we offer a competitive salary package, with 20 days holiday increasing with service to a maximum of 25 days, with the option to purchase extra leave of up to 4 weeks per year. We also offer a flexible working environment, paid parental leave, flexible public holidays, birthday leave and early finishes during the summer months. These are just some of the great perks you can utilise.

Based in North Sydney / Melbourne Southbank, our office has 180 degree views of Sydney Harbour/Melbourne Skyline and is a great space to hang out with colleagues and friends

We have a culture of learning where **we invest in your career growth and development** through a range of learning and development opportunities. We offer a supportive and inclusive workplace culture that values diversity and collaboration and we provide mental wellness support via our Employee Assistance Program.

**Our Values**

Our values of **Energy**, **Empathy** and **Impact** not only align with our Good Growth ambition but represent our commitment and dedication to our people, helping them grow their careers, fostering creativity, embracing humanity, and changing the world. At Mindshare we are open to different. We believe in being open and supportive of our people and all their differences to help them succeed.

Be different at Mindshare and use your difference to shape the world through media.

**What We Value The Most**
- Being ‘open to different’
- Living our values of empathy, energy and impact
- Achieving Good Growth