Account Manager

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Description

Position at Mindshare Worldwide

EMEA Media Planning Manager
Job title: Media Planning - Media Planning & Co-ordination, Account Manager
Group: Mindshare Worldwide
Client: Paypal
Reports to: EMEA Holistic Planning Lead

Mindshare is global media agency designed to make media exciting, fun and life changing. For the last 20 years our values of Speed, Teamwork and Provocation have guided our 10,000 people who work with some of the world's best brands and companies. Located in 116 offices across 86 countries, we are the largest media agency in GroupM, WPP's media investment management arm, which is the #1 media holding group globally. Mindshare Worldwide is the headquarters for Mindshare based in London. We are a team of 400+ people, co-ordinating media campaigns for our global clients.

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What We Can Offer You

At Mindshare Worldwide, we offer a competitive salary package, with 25 days holiday increasing with service to a maximum of 30 days, with the option to buy an extra 5 days per year. We also have an enhanced pension scheme, Bupa healthcare, a monthly wellbeing fund and early finishes on a Friday during summer. These are just some of the great benefits we offer.

Based ten minutes from London Bridge tube station, our office has a rooftop with 360 views of London - a great space to hang out with colleagues and friends!

We also offer an extensive training programme to help guide your career development whilst you're with us. There's a wide range of options to suit everyone at all levels of your career.
Our Values & Behaviours

Our attitude is reflected in our core values of Empathy, Energy and Impact, which drive our people and our business.

We want Mindshare Worldwide to be a place where everyone feels that they belong, everyone can be themselves and everyone has the same opportunities to develop their careers. Over the last 12 months we have made important steps in progressing on our journey to a truly inclusive organisation. We have launched The Collective and have seen the birth of a range of Employee Resource Groups who have shown some amazing and inspiring work.
The Role

This media-planning co-ordination position is for a true team player as at it's heart is collaboration. This role offers the selected candidate an opportunity to grow their knowledge of media landscapes across EMEA and evolve their expertise in media planning and strategic consultancy by working with local-market specialists daily to create integrated, future facing cross-channel media plans for our clients. The right candidate will have ownership of projects, ensuring efficiency is delivered in the end-to-end campaign process and the capacity to be involved in proactive asks and forward thinking.

The Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate will have worked in paid media planning and campaign execution. They will have a good grasp of both online and offline media, audience targeting, and campaign measurement. The individual should be a good communicator with experience working in cross-functional teams.
Essential Criteria

• Experience in paid media planning across all channels
• Good understanding of media principles, campaign measurement and KPIs
• Experience using tools for planning and measurement across markets for effective planning
• Used to working end to end campaign processes from brief to reporting
• Ability to communicate and present succinctly in all directions with an open and consultative approach with both colleagues and clients
• Organised to support across multiple projects and workstreams so that deadlines and quality standards are met
• Solutions focused with a mindset towards process optimisation
• Strong background in competitor and market analysis, providing actionable insights for media planning

Desirable Criteria

• Global & Local experience
• Experience working in an agile model with tech/ecommerce clients

Responsibilities

• Support the team to coordinate annual and campaign level paid media planning process across EMEA
• Coordinate/manage local market and regional briefing process
• Engage with local market planning experts to brief and support cross channel campaign planning, providing a view on recommended investment levels, channel mix and campaign timing etc.
• Ensure cross channel plans have a clear, consistent rationale and are aligned to global strategy
• Identify and act on cross market learnings and efficiencies to be made
• Build a good knowledgebase and understanding of the client's business and marketplace
• Build strong relationships with local and internal Mindshare teams to ensure markets are delivering key actions across the account
• Work with local markets to deliver best in class planning and reporting practices, ensuring consistency and accuracy of reporting documents & data requests
• Working closely with external agencies to deliver executional excellence where required
• Keep updated on EMEA media channel developments and lead in the collation of competitor, market, and media activity that might identify new channels and test opportunities for upcoming campaigns
• Develop planning knowledge and expertise of Planning Executive
• Share examples of great campaign activation from competitive and power brands across EMEA

Attitude

• Positive, enthusiastic with a can do attitude
• Inquisitive and happy to question the status quo
• A team player who is interested in and excited to learn more
• Calm approach to managing urgent deadlines
• Enthusiasm and interest to go beyond the task
• Proactive nature with strong self-motivation
• Solutions focused
• Comfortable with a dynamic, agile environment
• Organised with a high attention to detail

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