Responsibilities

• Lead local investment strategy across assigned business, with a focus on Video & Audio and support for Out-of-Home, ensuring recommendations are aligned to client goals, audience insights, and market opportunity.
• Partner with planning, client leadership, and activation teams to translate strategy into clear investment direction, practical frameworks, and high-quality execution.
• Provide leadership across pre- and post-buy stewardship, schedule analysis, proof-of-performance, and optimization recommendations to ensure investment rigor and accountability.
• Help advance pricing standards, negotiation strategy, and investment governance to improve consistency, value creation, and scalable ways of working across the discipline.
• Build trusted relationships with media partners and internal stakeholders to identify new opportunities, solve challenges quickly, and support smarter investment decisions.
• Coach and develop team members through hands-on leadership, clear feedback, and ongoing capability building that strengthens both individual growth and team performance.
• Stay fluent in marketplace shifts, emerging partners, and evolving local media opportunities to bring fresh, forward-looking thinking to clients and KSM teams.
• What success looks like: Within 3 months, you’ve built strong credibility across clients, partners, and internal teams, gained a clear view of current opportunities, and begun elevating the consistency and quality of local investment strategy and execution.
• What success looks like: By 6 months, you’ve strengthened investment leadership across assigned business, helped advance scalable best practices, and made a visible impact on team development, cross-functional collaboration, and partner confidence.
• What success looks like: By the end of year one, you’ve helped shape a stronger, smarter local investment discipline at KSM—driving better outcomes for clients, deeper trust across teams, and meaningful progress in building a high-performing investment organization.