Associate Director, Accountability & Investment

Job Description
Key responsibilities:
• Day to day management of client investments and deliverables
• Translate the analysis into presentations with actionable insights
• Developing strong relationships with internal media buying teams, regional trading teams and media auditors.
• Providing advice and support to business teams on insights with media investment analysis
• To contribute to new business pitches and cost exercises including reviewing of responses, managing of timelines, analyzing feedback and reviewing against benchmarks
• Manage local & regional communications effectively to share best practices and get desired results from internal teams
• To work alongside the regional investment team to maintain a strong collaborative regiona/ global trading community
• Work on reporting and workflow automation for the investment tracking sheets
• Setup process and framework to streamline operations
• Manage, track and report local and regional partnerships

Qualifications
Skills and experience:
• A thorough knowledge of media trading metrics and KPIs used to measure media buying performance across media
• Understanding of media planning and buying principles would be advantageous
• A minimum 7 years’ experience gained at one of the following: Media Agency Buying or Investment department, Media Auditor, Media Owner sales department
• Digital Media planning experience preferable
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, ability to create a story and clearly and concisely sell this into key stakeholders
• Experience in managing stake holders across multiple business teams
• High level of numeracy and adept at managing data and using Excel
• Strong analytical thinking and mathematical skills with a focus on attention to detail
• Ability to process large amounts of data focused on big picture learning
• Analytical and meticulous with an excellent eye for details with automation first approach
• A team player with an action-oriented mind-set, who is able to work with minimal supervision.
• Experience on data visualization tools such as Tableau, Power BI

Publicis Groupe is the third largest communications group in the world, a leader in marketing, communication and digital business transformation.

As a platform at the intersection of marketing and digital business transformation, driven through the alchemy of creativity and technology, Publicis Groupe is built on The Power of One. Publicis Groupe offers its clients seamless access to the expertise of its 80,000 talents across four Solution hubs: creative with Publicis Communications (Publicis Worldwide, Saatchi & Saatchi Arachnid, Leo Burnett, Alpha245, MSL, Prodigious), media services with Publicis Media (Starcom, Zenith, Spark Foundry, Performics, Digitas), digital business transformation with Publicis.Sapient and health & wellness communications with Publicis Health. Publicis Groupe’s agencies are present in over 100 countries around the world.

Founded in 1926 by Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet, the “father of French advertising”, Publicis Groupe is today led by its third CEO in its history, Arthur Sadoun, Chairman & CEO. Maurice Lévy, who led the company for 30 years until June 2017, is today the Chairman of the Groupe’s Supervisory Board.

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