Responsibilities

• Take ownership of daily campaign planning and buying, including schedule creation, booking, tracking and post campaign reporting
• Track campaign positioning, reporting results to the Account Manager/Director or clients when relevant
• Escalate any campaign delivery issues to Manager / Director as they arise
• Learn and hone skills across the Luxury Publishing marketplace, inclusive of digital so as to build a solid understanding of the market and the cross-platform advertising opportunities within.
• Develop cohesive and effective relationships with key media partners within the Luxury space to understand their offering in detail and be able to objectively evaluate new players.
• Develop professional and trusted relationships with your clients and accommodate their requirements in a timely manner
• Demonstrate passion, pride, and professionalism to delight your clients and effectively articulate the power and role of the Publishing landscape
• Ensure accurate delivery of campaigns and manage market fluctuations
• Interrogate and understand the client’s business and ensure that delivery across publishing media supports and delivers a return to client
• Show rigour and attention to detail when buying vs plan and agreed KPIs
• Collaborate with planning teams to ensure first-class client service
• Show proactivity ensuring regular updates are shared with Director
• Assist Publishing team members during peak periods to help alleviate workloads and ensure timely task completion
• Stay engaged with key media partners to drive incremental revenue into the Forward Media Team
• Work closely with the wider Investment & Activation teams to ensure overall client delivery requirements are met
• Contribute to our culture of passion, pride, and investment excellence
• Operate as ‘one team’ to deliver the very best output, market leading delivery and innovative ideas across all briefs
• Always epitomise professional conduct and treat colleagues with respect

Requirements

• Demonstrable passion for the Luxury advertising market across Fashion, Beauty and Lifestyle sectors is required
• Strong presentation, communication, and interpersonal skills
• Adept at problem solving
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to effectively multitask across a range of responsibilities & manage own to-do list
• Attention to detail
• Highly numerate
• Excellent written and spoken English
• Strong work ethic – self-motivated and able to take the initiative
• A positive attitude – enthusiastic and willing to learn