Account Manager Media

WE ARE LOOKING FOR THE NEW BREED OF ACCOUNT MANAGER (MEDIA)
As an Account Manager, you will support the planning and investment process across a key client at CHEP Network. Helping to manage the client on a daily basis, being accountable for the media team output, and helping to manage staff and time within the media team. You will be involved in the strategic thinking, drive integration with team divisions, ensure presentations and the work deliver against campaign objectives, and deliver quality assurance, accurate and actionable insights and productive & efficient work processes.

This is the perfect opportunity for a media professional who is looking to elevate and integrate into a large team an be proactively involved in leading a top tier client account.
The day to day...
- Working alongside the Senior Account Director and other members of the Account Service team, you will liaise with clients while empowering autonomy from the media team, managing campaign activity from brief to implementing media, through to presenting and reporting on performance.
- Find growth in helping to proactively seek out opportunities to drive integrated solutions across CHEP disciplines, supporting the collaboration across departments to ensure alignment with the overall communications strategy.
- Prepare internal media team briefs and debriefs, taking ownership of accuracy, consideration and though.
- Working with the media team to ensure disciplined tracking & reconciliations of client paid media expenditure with a commitment to total accuracy when dealing with company finances and client budgets.
- Seek out publishers / technology providers who have something new and interesting that may be applicable to our clients, proactively sharing relevant opportunities with key client leads. Drive creative thinking and inspiration amongst CHEP teams by seeking out relevant case studies and sharing/presenting to the teams with a POV.

Who you are
You will ideally have 3+ years' experience working at a media agency. With experience in media planning and buying across a broad range of clients and media.
- Natural account and client management skills - someone who brings the best out others and instils confidence in clients.
- Experience interrogating client briefs and evaluating media & connection opportunities against the brief and requirements.
- Ability to write and present proposals to clients based on their brief.
- Excellent understanding of all agency processes and workflow, from briefing through to execution & analysis.
- You have experience building relationships with vendors and a natural ability to negotiate.

About CHEP
We believe in New Economy Creativity
Today, brands need to adapt to new channels, technologies, experiences, social goals, environmental needs and operating speeds.
New Economy Creativity harnesses three powerful drivers of change: media, creativity and technology. It is diverse and data driven; and relentless in finding the most compelling way to hold attention and impact how people think, feel and act.
It's about helping companies reorientate to make long-lasting positive impacts. Its focus is on building future brands that are positive forces, while converting existing demand.
The diversity of the challenges at CHEP make it a fulfilling place to work, and a crash course in every skill you need - creative, strategy, experience, data, media, social, PR, technology, e-commerce, experiential, and research is all under one roof. We let creativity live in every department, and it's all pulled together by our first-class Leadership team.
We're looking for the best and brightest talent who can continue to connect a brand's experience in more creative and innovative ways than anyone else.
The perks
- Being part of highly awarded and winning team - The agency has had a remarkable track record for success over the last 8 years, growing from a business of 50 to 400 people. The agency has won global recognition from Adobe, AFR's most innovative company and innumerable effectiveness and creative awards during that time.
- CHEP Energy - An active employee driven initiative that gives all CHEP employees access to monthly resources that support healthy work/life balance and overall wellbeing. CHEP also have a Mental Health Program with 30 employees trained across a mix of St Johns 1st Aid Mental Health and as EAP Ambassadors. All employees get access to free Employee Assistance Programs (EAP) counselling to support their mental health, which is also extended to their immediate families.\
- Dedicated learning programs - The business has an ongoing university programme (Clemenger Uni) with at least one internal learning opportunity per week. The program enables all staff to learn about tech, data, media, PR, management skills and a wide range of other topics. Employees are also offered external training opportunities to courses, conferences and seminars.
- CHEP Elect - We empowering CHEPPERs to have a voice, bring ideas