Overview of job

MediaCom is an agency of GroupM, the leading global media investment company and are a part of WPP. In fact, we are responsible for one in every three ads you see globally. We are currently looking for a Strategic Planning Associate Director to join us.

In this role, you will be responsible for to develop a strong media strategy across brands with connected with global planning guideline, as well as driving the best practice marketing solutions to ensure an integrated communication for the assigned categories.

At GroupM APAC, our people are our strength, which is why fostering a culture of diversity and inclusion is important to us.

Reporting of the role

This role reports to the BD.

3 best things about the job:

• Develop brilliant account service skill and professional campaign management skill
• People management skill development
• Friendly working Environment

• Demonstrate a good understanding of the client business challenges and competitive landscape.
• High involvement into overall strategy planning work and direct existing team for the adaption
• Build a good relationship with the key decision makers on client side

In six months:

• Independent client management
• Manage all the things reported to you

In 12 months:

• Manage all annual review/planning proposal for this client

What your day job looks like at MediaCom:

• Build and maintain productive and long lasting relationship with client across all levels and departments.
• Demonstrate leadership across key clients
• Ensure our planning is strategically led, considering consumer insight, business insight and coming up with media led big ideas to deliver value for our client.
• Have the understanding and confidence to discuss all aspects of the business, including working with the clients to arrive at the best process/systems for managing their business.
• Motivated team focused on improving our delivery to the client.
• Act as a mentor to junior employees.
• Prioritize tasks and appropriately delegate to individual members of the team, ensuring they are given adequate time, resource and are sufficiently trained to execute the tasks.

What you’ll bring:

• Contribute to new business
• Build up strong strategic thinking with commercial sense.
• Maintain good relationship with client.
• Clearly knows where to find the resource to solve client’s needs.

Minimum qualifications:

• 6+ years working experience in media industry with media planning capability.
• Familiar with all the planning tools and market analysis, including consumer behavior study, competitors analysis
• Team management experience
• Proved client service capability
• Good presentation and communication skills
• Being innovative in providing the solution
• New media trend sensitive
• Strong thinking habit and proactive
• Quick learner
• Open to challenges
• Presentable appearance
• Fluent English, both oral and written

About MediaCom

Welcome innovators, initiative takers and instigators.

We are 8,500 of the world’s leading media communications specialists, in 125 offices, across 100 countries.

We have a global client roster that’s the envy of our peers. Adidas, Coca-Cola, Mars, P&G, PSA, Richemont, Shell and Sony to name but a few.

We help brands unlock growth through media. We do this using our Systems Thinking approach to data, technology and creativity and design communication strategies that build brands and generate sales. We’re part of WPP, the world's largest marketing communications services group, which gives us access to the richest data sets and most robust benchmarks in the business.

All this has helped us become the first network to hold the big six Media Network of the Year titles concurrently.

But the real secret to our success is simple (and not really a secret). It’s our People First, Better Results philosophy.

We know that when we invest in our people, we’ll deliver better results not only for them, but also for our clients.

We also know that talent comes in all shapes, sizes, genders and ethnicities. That’s why our agencies are open environments that celebrate difference.

Do you want to work with smart, creative, enthusiastic people? So do we.
Welcome to MediaCom

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About China

China is now the second largest media market, and the world’s most vibrant digital market, growing at double the rate of the US. In 2013, China surpassed the US in e-commerce, and China leads the world in mobile with over 600m smartphone connections. The pace of change and the scale of China’s emerging consumer market are unparalleled in any other market. Global CEOs are looking to China to drive growth, and brands are rushing to keep pace.

If you want a future in media and communications, there is clearly no place more vibrant, challenging and exciting than China, where opportunities for you to innovate and grow are unparalleled.