Marketplace Executive

**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.

You can check out some of our people stories and client work and awards on LinkedIn or Instagram or hear about Mindshare in the words of our own people here.

**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 we offer.

Based in Melbourne Southbank, our office has 180-degree views of 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 new 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.

**Our Commitment**
If you require any information on what to expect during the interview process, please also reach out to Lisa McCullen

**Marketplace**
Marketplace is fundamentally responsible for leading, managing and inspiring the investment team to deliver Purple standard implementation and trading practices.

This role will be working on with Ford. On the WPP Ford team you will get to work in an integrated team environment and be responsible for building collaborative media partnerships and creative work with the VML creative team.

Being able collaborate with the account service and creative teams enables the Ford team to bring original thinking to life through the media strategy, planning and implementation process.

You will be the OWNER of day-to-day media implementation while collaborating with media partners and supporting our client's requests and campaigns. You will be responsible for developing effective solutions in response to client business objectives, ensuring accuracy and timely output across the marketplace media channels. Analysis of responses, providing recommendations and feedback to clients and taking responsibility for campaign delivery, will all form part of your day to day responsibilities. The role is highly team orientated and you will be expected to support and work with the other executives as you divide work to make sure everything is completed accurately and on time. You will also be responsible for training the Coordinator as well as sharing your knowledge and expertise with the whole team.

**Responsibilities**
- Living and breathing the Mindshare values everyday whilst possessing a proactive mentality and approach to workloads
- Possessing a strong commitment to creating a positive, motivating, and inspiring team culture with the ability to contribute POV's and follow leadership directives.
- Works collaboratively with client team across all disciplines throughout the campaign development process ensuring they deliver work in a timely manner.
- Communicates confidently and effectively on all matters with clear articulation holding both excellent written and spoken capabilities when communicating internally and externally.
- Conducting own personal brand within the Mindshare Professional Etiquette guidelines.
- Delivering a gold standard implementation of media planning and buying
- Building an effective knowledge and use proprietary and industry tools & systems to deliver market leading campaign implementation.
- Obtaining necessary certifications for required platforms.
- Provides accurate administrative support to the broader Investment team.
- Demonstrating a strong understanding of your client and their category whilst responding to all requests in a timely manner, consistently managing expectations
- Developing trusted relationships with media owners to build knowledge of product suite and formulate opinions on the media landscape.
- Developing strong internal partnership relations and builds knowledge of product offering.
- Ensuring financial procedural adherence is met across all