Responsibilities

• Own the regional leadership role, setting expectations locally while representing the region globally (being both ad advocate and critical voice when needed)
• Primary day-to-day client contact for ongoing questions, feedback, and requests
• Guide strategy development & tactical decisions
• Coach the team on strategy fundamentals and media basics
• Sense-check recommendations for feasibility and alignment to client expectations
• Ensure briefs are fully understood and reflected accurately in outputs
• Tighten and clarify work to add strategic polish and reduce rework
• Act as the escalation point for executional questions and clarifications as well as issues
• Final review and QA tactical plans, decks, and deliverables in detail before they go to the client (ensure consistency/accuracy)
• Assist with managing the following:

Requirements

• Minimum 10 – 12 years of media experience with extensive planning knowledge
• Superior client service experience with proven ability to provide strategic media plans
• Bachelors degree
• Experience across all media types (national, local, direct, OOH)
• Ability to anticipate and quickly assess continually changing client needs and adapt resources and strategies accordingly
• Excellent written and verbal communication, presentation, organizational, interpersonal and analytical skills
• Ability to translate numbers into viable business solutions to enhance strategies and meet deliverables
• Excellent leadership ability to drive team to deliver results
• Strong listener who absorbs nuance, context, and feedback without defensiveness (particularly around team feedback and ways of working)
• Trusted day-to-day client point of contact