AV Manager
Job Description:
Role Purpose: To ensure that the highest level of quality is applied to all AV output. Working with your Associate Director, identify continuous improvements of our AV product to deliver better performance for our clients; To ensure the wider trading and business goals are met and your team are developed and are progressing in line with career aspirations.
Amplifi Vision and Values:
Amplifi is the media investment arm of Dentsu Aegis Network. The core objective of Amplifi is to deliver efficient trading along with strategic & innovative media solutions, whilst embracing the changing world of media. Working closely with our media partners to ensure a point of difference vs the market; to be the media agency of choice. It is pivotal that we are agile, pioneering and collaborative to ensure we deliver innovative and strategic thinking whilst maintaining commerciality. As part of your performance discussions, you and your manager should agree which will most enable you to deliver your objectives.
Key Accountabilities:
- Development of plans and forecasts for specific clients in the DAN North portfolio
- Utilise all AV planning tools to maximum efficiency to deliver engaging and innovative planning solutions
- To provide support to senior team in developing best in class AV strategies
- Demonstrate the ability to manage all aspects AV for multiple accounts and quality control output from members of your team
- Maintain expert knowledge of the AV marketplace to anticipate opportunities and threats
- Ensure all AV trading agreements are delivered in line with defined parameters and targets
- To drive partnerships that deliver strong business results
- Maintain a good understanding of the business' commercial strategies and use this to influence plans, clients and media owners
- To build strong client and media owner relationships, with the aim to understand their motivations and needs to deliver better results
- Proactively manage, motivate and develop your team members, through regular reviews of performance and aligning their development plans
Professional Skills:
- Advanced knowledge of MS Suite, particularly Excel and PowerPoint
- Ability to pre-empt issues and be pro-active in producing solutions
- Has the ability to work accurately under pressure and with short deadlines
- A high degree of numeracy and literacy are essential
- Excellent communication and client facing skills
- Comfortable with presenting to colleagues and clients, including interpretation of data
- Proactive in raising own commercial awareness of the industry beyond channel specialism
Outputs:
- Uses knowledge of the client and the operating model to deliver and influence planning output
- Effectively manage the teams output, ensuring all tasks are delivered to the satisfaction of the client and / or internal stakeholders
- Strong working relationships are built & maintained, to deliver strong business results
- Pre-empts issues & pro-actively produces solutions which engage all stakeholders
- Time critical / sensitive deadlines are meet, when working on multiple tasks
- Plans are adapted to meet changing demands by internal or external stakeholders
- Reviews, appraisals, feedback & development plans happen in a timely manner for all team members
Role Capabilities:
- Mobilising Performance and Potential
- Communicates Effectively
- Builds credibility
- Knows the Business
- Focuses on clients
- Quality decision making
- Making relationships count
- Focused on quality
Key Experiences:
- The ability to communicate effectively across multiple stakeholders in multiple locations
- Aptitude to build and maintain strong working relationships
- A solid grounding in AV activation & trading, as well as a breadth of market knowledge
- Excellent analytical and problem solving skills in a previous role
- Proven track record in effective management, development of team members
Location:
Edinburgh
Brand:
Amplifi
Time Type:
Full time
Contract Type:
Permanent]]>