Media Manager - AV

About the role: Media is the beating heart of the agency. The place where creativity meets commerciality, and where specialists bring unrivalled work to life. The Media Manager will have a crucial role within the team, responsible for the delivery of excellence in market media planning and buying and low budget media partnerships. In this position, you will take on a higher and wider level of responsibility in the planning and buying delivery of your specialist media campaigns across your client(s). You are trusted to produce accurate work and prioritize tasks with minimum supervision. While your technical skills remain important, managing requires new skill sets, and in this role, you will need strong interpersonal expertise. There is also much more involvement alongside your AD with PRFs/Audit delivery.

Some of the best things about this role:

• Hitting your commercial targets.
• Pride in seeing your coaching progress others.
• Planning full campaigns within your specialist media, incorporating new ideas and drawing on insights.

Core skills:

• Campaign Management: Manages the assigned teams to implement media campaigns. Applies best practice to campaign management and interpretation of data. Acts as the escalation point for issues. Manages and takes ownership of campaigns from start to completion. Delivers accurate planning and reporting in line with strategic and commercial objectives. Understands the role of the medium as part of the overall campaign and applies smart use of campaign planning or market opportunities.
• Media Investment Planning: Applies advanced data analytics to understand client challenges and media investment strategies, presenting findings to relevant stakeholders. Resourceful in finding relevant data sources where available (third party data, existing client data) to support presentations. Applies strategic thinking when working with clients and third parties to achieve desired outcomes. Supports in providing media investment and campaign insights for quarterly or annual business reviews.
• Demonstrating Value: Gains a thorough understanding of what the client/agency values and expects through formal and informal feedback from multiple stakeholders. Understands the value of the product, how it delivers versus audience and the strategic objective. Interprets data relative to the performance of products against client needs & expectations to ensure the customer recognizes and receives value, setting the right KPIs and metrics.
• Multitasking: Balances several projects and tasks simultaneously with minimal error and without losing track of important details or deliverables. Determines the relative impact and urgency of individual tasks. Supports others in setting priorities and eliminating issues; aligns own priorities with the objectives of the company and the department.
• Operational Excellence: Oversees team to ensure accuracy of work including planning. Ensures sharing of knowledge and skills of tools to always ensure efficiency and accuracy, endeavoring to reduce manual work for the rest of the team. Ensures accuracy of financial and commercial tasks prioritizing reconciliation and tasks which drive net working capital to the business including a timely resolution of reconciliations and queries.

About Wavemaker UK: Wavemaker is a global media agency. We believe there is a better way to grow. By leveraging our deep understanding of audiences, Provocative Planning process, and the world’s largest database of purchase journeys, we deliver exceptional growth for clients including Audible, Nationwide, Danone, Asahi, and Morrisons. Unlike traditional linear media planning, our modular approach combines machine learning and human intelligence to unlock, maximize, and transform growth for the world’s leading brands and businesses. A part of GroupM, WPP’s global media investment management company, our 7,650 people across 88 markets are defined by their attitude of positive provocation, which means: Deep knowledge of our clients’ business. The confidence to challenge what’s gone before. The support to go further than we thought possible.

We are an equal opportunities employer and support the life choices of our employees. All GroupM agencies are equal opportunities employers and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, gender identity, disability, culture/religion/belief, sexual orientation, or age. We support the life choices of our employees, offering generous family and carer-friendly policies.