Investment Manager - Sandton at Dentsu

Job Description:

Role purpose

• The purpose of this role is to manage a team of media planners and assist the Investment Director on a day-to-day basis to ensure that their teams are delivering strong results for their clients. The role also encompasses is the management and reporting of Productivity Programs across a range of nominated clients. Coordinates internal and external stakeholders across local market, clients and media auditors to ensure the buying commitments are accurately tracked, monitored and reported

Key Accountabilities

Productivity

• Approve Flow plans & Schedules ensuring Productivity Targets are met
• Implement productivity handbooks
• Analyse productivity templates and evaluate how we are tracking against KPI’s monthly
• Brief strategy teams monthly on achievements or challenges.
• In depth media landscape and research understanding monthly
• Build relationships with media auditors

Negotiations

• Keep monthly tracking on all client commitments
• Develop course direct strategy to achieve commitments when relevant

Benchmarks

• Develop & Maintain Benchmark & Inflation Tracking

New Business

• Responsible for the completion of Pitch Buying Templates

Trading

• Ensure KPI’s are met on dentsu commercial agenda (trading / Salesnet)

Research & Insights

• Maintain In depth knowledge of Media landscape , sharing Insights with Investment Lead & BUH's

Professional skills

• Coordinates internal and external stakeholders across local markets, clients and media auditors to ensure the buying commitments are accurately tracked, monitored and reported
• Collects data from specific markets using the agreed methodology (client specific) to quantify, measure, calibrate price performance compared to historical price benchmarks – across all media types
• Manages data to normalise benchmarks to maintain as high levels of measurability as possible within the reports
• Prepares and verifies data for the client reports – both data analysis and supporting commentary
• Manages any external validation (by media auditors or the like) in conjunction with the Investment Director
• Supports local markets in completion of templates and understanding of the associated permissible methodologies / normalisations
• Excellent communication skills and speed of response.
• Speak and write English
• Comfortable in being client facing at times.
• Excellent time management, organizational skills and communication of work completed/barriers/solution
• Professional and relationship builders with people.
• Attention to detail  (accuracy)
• Work well under pressure and deadlines.
• Strategic within media & channel thinking (ito schedules/rationales)
• Analytical skills – mine insights from data.
• Can-do attitude
• Team player
• Presentation and persuasive skills (ito schedules / rationales)

Key Experiences

• Strong management skills
• Extensive digital media experience