Description:
Description
Position at GroupM Nexus
About EssenceMediacom
This role will sit in our global media performance organisation that unites GroupM Practises (search, social, programmatic, ad-ops, commerce) and Solutions (Finecast, Xaxis, Sightline and Goat). You will be embedded and exclusively working across EssenceMediacom Australia.
EssenceMediacom is committed to building an agency culture that supports our people, puts diversity at the forefront of our operations, and creates opportunity for all.
EssenceMediacom understands that our people are tasked with big goals: building breakthrough growth for brands and leading with breakthrough thinking in our industry. Our people are at the heart of this work because their ideas will enable us to decode the intersections of people, content, and technology to bring our aspirations to life. Our success is down to our eclectic, diverse, and talented people. EssenceMediacom is a place for us to grow our careers and expand our horizons.
Role Outline
The Implementation & Activation Manager - Performance delivers success across all facets of the business. Highly skilled in every aspect of biddable, you are accountable for managing a developing a portfolio of clients. Able to confidently lead a small team of people, you set the highest standard for
operational excellence, and maintain a market-leading view of best practice biddable media.
Passionate about technology and digital media, you are the team expert on how to deliver
best-in-class biddable activation and outcomes while nurturing a junior team of practitioners.
Key Relationships
• Collaborating closely with internal teams
• Establishing strong relationships with relevant media, data, and technology partners
• Foster deep trust and understanding with agency client teams
• Contribute to great teamwork in your immediate team
What you should spend your time doing
People - 30% of your time
• Manage team workflow, delegating tasks effectively, making sure goals are set & met,
and highlighting concerns with your Director
• Hold constructive and meaningful performance evaluation meetings with reports each
month, setting clear KPIs and monitoring achievement
• Assist in the training and development of junior members of the team
Product - 30% of your time
• Ensure all output is of the highest standard, and conforms to GroupM's best practices
across planning, implementation, optimisation, and reporting
• Oversee the end-to-end biddable process across your team, ensuring QA compliance
and use of best practice
• Identify and lead product innovation opportunities for your clients and with your teams.
• Lead biddable projects across your client remit, working collaboratively with
stakeholders to define and deliver success
Client - 20% of your time
• Support your director in the delivery of strong implementation plans that meet client
objectives
• Offer expert perspectives and POVs on recent market trends or developments,
ensuring they're shared with stakeholders
• Meet with vendors and partners to drive your client's agenda, creating opportunities
for junior team members to get involved
Commercial - 20% of your time
• Ensure your team are delivering on time and accurate commercial tasks, including
training & education
• Seek and implement improvements to ways of working that increase efficiency and
effectiveness of commercial operations
• Support Director on investment decisions, audits, and forecasting
What makes a great Implementation & Activation Manager - Performance
• Attention to detail: monitoring the quality and accurate of your own work, and that of
others
• Organisation: you track progress and completion of activities to accomplish objectives,
working effectively under short deadlines
• Team & collaboration: lead your team to achieve common goals, initiating collaboration
with others
• Communication: take the initiative to keep other people informed, and tailor messages
to suit others' needs
• Analytical: distinguish between critical and irrelevant information, can deal with
complex challenges
• Flexibility: confident in handling changing circumstances and ambiguity, also guiding
others
• Proactivity/taking the initiative: achieves ambitious but realistic goals, coaches others
on how to focus their energy on achieving results
• Problem solving: autonomously solves complex problems with minimal supervision,
and proactively follows up after implementing a solution
Apply now and send your CV via the link!
GroupM Nexus