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Role
At WPP Media, we believe in the power of our culture and our people. Its what elevates us to deliver exceptional experiences for both our clients and each other. In this role it will be critical to embrace WPP & WPP Medias shared core values:
- Be Extraordinary by Leading Collectively to Inspire transformational Creativity.
- Create an Open environment by Balancing People and Client Experiences by Cultivating Trust.
- Lead Optimistically by Championing Growth and Development to Mobilize the Enterprise.
Role Summary And Impact
Reporting of the role
This role reports to the Strategy Head WestNorthSouthAn orchestrator who integrates the different thinking and weaving functions together to offer a holistic business solution.You should have a strong track record in delivering tangible business results for clients, strong strategic skills, and the ability to manage multiple stakeholders and team members.The position is to lead strategy for a set of diverse clients in future forward thinking across business, media, data and technology. This will involve integrated capability in traditional & digital media, search and content marketing, measurement and attribution, creation and application of strategic frameworks and cross category business understanding. This role also involves communication with global teams, and bringing together the best of WPP Media to clients as well as internal teams.
3 Best Things About The Job
- A great and diverse team with a lot of learning opportunities.
- Diverse set of clients with great opportunities for quality thinking and opportunities beyond spots and dots.
- An opportunity to have a leadership role in a progressive, fast moving and one of its kind organisation.
Responsibilities Of The Role
- Leads a team of diverse individuals to deliver to a clients business
- Provide strategy communications and planning leadership on the clients business across categories.
- Partner with the account heads and functional heads, push needle on Marketing Excellence and Digital Excellence.
- Demonstrates strong understanding of ecosystem, brand, category and consumer to derive insights.
- Infuse best in class practices and frameworks, both from domestic as well as international learnings.
- Communicate complex ideas/insights in a way that all understand and apply.
- Integrates relevant multimedia opportunities into campaign plans.
- Leading and orchestrating new business pitches
- Leverage extended WPP ecosystem to build hard working solutions for client.
Impact
- Build relationships with the key decision makers at client side and within the company.
- Be an expert on the clients business proactively engaging with senior clients and actively shaping the quality of WPP Media delivery.
- Develop a deep understanding and begun to use WPP Open and the products and tools therein.
- Build confidence with team members within immediate team and within peers.
- Proactively delivering additional value to the client, leading the team to successfully implement strategic initiatives that will improve the WPP Media delivery and clients business outcomes.
- Established as the lead by both clients and internal teams alike
- Leading new business pitches independently
- Delivering differentiated and best in class work leading to business outcomes
- Building and mentoring teams
- Becoming the go to person for internal and external stakeholders alike from a strategic standpoint
Skills And Experience
- 16 to 18 years ears of experience with at least 10 years in the media industry.
- Demonstrate exposure and management of senior clients/ stakeholders as well as leading a team.
- Integrated media and marketing knowledge, including traditional media, digital media, data, research and insights.
- Creative problem solving and ability to join multiple dots across domains. An attitude of curiosity and continuous learning both for self as well as infuse the same culture within the team.
- Comfort with multiple kinds and sources of data, both structured and unstructured. Fantastic presentation and storytelling skills.
- Proven experience managing a team, negotiating different situations, skillsets, and personalities.
Life At WPP Media & Benefits
Our passion for shaping the next era of media includes investing in our employees to help them do their best work, and were just as committed to employee growth as we are to responsible media investment. WPP Media employees can tap into the global WPP Media & WPP networks to pursue their passions, grow their networks, and learn at the cutting edge of marketing and advertising. We have a variety of employee resource groups and host frequent in-office events showcasing team wins, sharing thought leadership, and celebrating holidays and milestone events.WPP Media is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without discrimination or regard to particular characteristics. We are committed to fostering a culture of respect in which everyone feels they belong and has the same opportunities to progress in their careers.We believe the best work happens when we&aposre together, fostering creativity, collaboration, and connection. If you require accommodations or flexibility, please discuss this with the hiring team during the interview process.Please read our Privacy Notice (https://www.wppmedia.com/pages/privacy-policy) for more information on how we process the information you provide.While we appreciate all applications received, only those candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.?requisitionid:43664
