Director, Media Planning

**About the Role**:
In this role you will be one of our Client’s most valued business partners and assume responsibility for ensuring the Client meets respective business goals.

You will provide strategic guidance and thought leadership within the media group to deliver the most effective and innovative Communications Plans.

You will develop the career paths of supporting planning staff, as well as play an integral role in supporting and delivering Wavemaker values and goals on a daily basis.

You will effectively leverage experience, knowledge and skills to encourage innovative thinking and set challenging team goals and objectives, balancing client, company and team needs.

**Your Impact**:

- Advise on all Communications matters that fall within scope of agency assignment
- Oversee and approve Communications strategy for client businesses
- Ensure that recommendations and decisions are consistent with client’s marketing/advertising objectives and strategies
- Assume lead role in integration of Client’s media efforts
- Assume ultimate responsibility for all media implemented
- Oversee responses to all requests and unforeseen problems and deal with issues that require senior level attention due to their complexity
- Render final decision on new media opportunities from an overall perspective to determine appropriateness and soundness of idea and/or company
- Provide advice and counsel to all members of the media and product groups on all matters
- Responsible for quality control of stewardship by support and buying groups
- Oversee media financial management profitability of all Client accounts
- Advise and direct planning staff regarding insightful and strategic points-of-view
- Manage internal resources
- Develop and nurture ongoing partnerships with key Clients, especially at the senior level
- Support training of media staff and recommend actions to manage individual career paths
- Train direct reports in media and marketing disciplines as well as in the specifics of the client’s business and industry, and most importantly, leadership
- Keep abreast of current events in target markets that impact Client’s business(es)
- Exhibit passion and ambition by keeping informed regarding media trends, technologies, and new media opportunities, and educating your team and agency partners accordingly
- Assist in networking, interviewing, hiring, training, mentoring, developing, and evaluating team members
- ** Your Qualifications**:

- 7+ years of related media/communication planning experience, with focus on team leadership and management
- Bachelor’s Degree or MBA a plus - concentration in advertising, marketing, business administration, and/or communications; OR equivalent professional work experience
- Direct client service experience
- Demonstrated strong leadership, delegation and mentorship skills
- Working knowledge of Syndicated tools (DDS, Prisma, DCM, DBM & Vividata etc.)
- Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite

**About You**:

- Demonstrates expert understanding of the business successes, challenges, and strategic objectives; draws from experience to evaluate solutions from the business’s perspective and provides advice regarding potential opportunities and risks.
- Owns the delivery of high-impact technical communications to drive maximum impact. Represents the business at the most senior levels to deliver a compelling and credible message.
- Manages multiple overlapping timelines and competing demands, weighing the needs of different stakeholders across the business to determine priorities for parallel projects and sets priorities according to business needs.

**About Wavemaker**:
At Wavemaker, we believe there always is a better way to grow. We positively provoke growth for our clients by reshaping consumer decision-making and experiences through media, content and technology. The Wavemaker way is globally consistent. Fueled by the world’s most powerful consumer data, we understand where and how marketing can intervene decisively to help brands win more sales.

Our name is our mission and our method. To make waves, you need to be provocative, even fearless. We do our best work for brave brands and people who want to be challenged to go further and faster. We know it’s not easy, but if it’s in you, we will get it out of you.

Our 7,200 people across 88 markets provoke growth for some of the world’s leading brands and businesses. Our attitude of Positive Provocation is enabled by:

- deep knowledge we have of our clients’ business
- confidence to challenge what’s gone before
- the support to go further than we thought possible
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We are part of GroupM, WPP's global media investment management company.

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