WPP Media is hiring an Implementation & Activation Associate Manager to ensure operational excellence and drive the day-to-day work behind effective campaigns. This role sits within GroupM Careers and focuses on best-in-class implementation, optimization, and reporting, blending specialist technical skills with emerging people leadership.
What You'll Do
- Help build on the agency's reputation for outstanding client service.
- Cultivate strong, trusted relationships with clients at a junior and intermediate level.
- Proactively recommend tactics and opportunities that resolve client challenges and objectives.
- Bring innovation and creativity to the table, leveraging market insights.
- Take the lead in delivering best in class campaigns, in line with all planned parameters.
- Lead the development and presentation of insightful and progressive post analysis reports.
- Engage with media partners to expand knowledge of the media landscape.
- Engage with internal product teams across GroupM to understand offerings and articulate benefits.
- Responsible for ensuring all financial and compliance processes are followed with 100% accuracy.
- Seek to find, communicate and implement improvements in all aspects of the role.
- Adhere to activation commitments that have client contract association.
- Support the development of strong media plans that meet client objectives and KPIs.
- Dedicate time to self-learning through industry publications and online courses.
- Provide clear guidance and instruction when teaching & helping others.
- Contribute to great teamwork with a supportive and positive attitude.
- Oversee workflow of direct reports, swiftly escalating issues as they arise.
- Motivate and empower direct reports to achieve individual, team and org goals.
- Conduct fortnightly 1:1s, annual Career Conversations and Performance Reviews with direct reports.
- Liaise with the People Team to resolve team disputes.
- Continuously champion company values.
- Collaborate with manager to identify, collate and showcase examples of great work.
- Be a positive face of the agency at industry events.
What We're Looking For
- Experience managing a team.
- Passion for Search, Social, Programmatic, E-Comm, Data and Tech.
- Strong, up to date, media landscape knowledge.
- Attention to detail.
- Extensive media buying experience.
- Problem solving mentality.
- Clear communicator, with strong presentation skills.
- Demonstrates well developed negotiation and Performance planning skills.
- Results Driven.
Team & Environment
You will report to a Manager and collaborate closely with internal teams and media partners. Our culture values being extraordinary by leading collectively, creating an open environment by balancing people and client experiences, and leading optimistically by championing growth.
