Jobs Available at Dentsu

Key responsibilities:

• Provides day to day implementation, optimisation and upload of client campaigns through direct input
• Proactively reviews and manages client data to ensure optimal performance on all campaigns
• Tracks and reports on campaign results, gathers data analysis and participates in weekly calls
• Generates campaign reports and is responsible for pacing, QA and trafficking
• Provide initial insights on campaign trends to the rest of the team
• Be included in meetings with vendors and third party reps to maintain and develop relationships and  build knowledge of new features and betas
• Contributes towards overall Digital recommendations in line with Dentsu performance and client objectives
• Ensures best practice and innovation in all Paid activities
• Research solutions and make recommendations to all relevant teams regarding digital innovation
• Ensures best practice, consistency and innovation in all Performance activities
• Contributes to knowledge-sharing across teams and engages in cross-channel strategic planning​
• Plans accounts and growth opportunities, working closely with the team

Client Service

• Day to Day management and financial health of the account needs to be managed within your DP team.
• Managing expectations with your team lead.
• Day to day administration – meeting minutes, agendas and timing plans.
• Deadline driven
• Attention to detail
• Attending status /other meetings with media brands.

Commercial and service ownership

• Manage overspend and underspend – Track monthly across all clients
• Budget trackers to be updated on a daily basis

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Key responsibilities:

• Drive new print & digital advertising sales
• Achieve monthly sales targets
• Manage client direct and agency relationships
• Activate new customers through strategic selling
• Compile and present ad sales proposals
• Creative brainstorming with internal stakeholders
• Customer service through the entire ad sales funnel from prospecting to proposal, through to briefing, collation of assets, approvals, after sales service and reporting
• Ensure clients are informed of all new product offerings
• Build strategic relationships with key clients and other internal and external stakeholders through regular and ongoing communication
• Keep abreast of latest trends in media and sales effectiveness and adopt new approaches as required in order to expand client base and increase revenue
• Accurate revenue forecasting and tracking

What you’ll need:

• Minimum of 5 years advertising sales experience in a similar environment
• Knowledge of print & digital advertising landscape.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Able to compile unique PowerPoint presentations per client
• Relationship building skills
• Good numerical abilities – be able to craft packages based on understanding rate card and hard costs
• Adaptability
• Innovative and pro-active
• Ability to work under pressure and reach sales targets
• Attention to detail
• Deadline driven

Qualification

• A relevant sales/marketing qualification

Experience

• Minimum 5 years proven MAGAZINE ADVERTISING sales experience (print and digital)
• Existing list of client and agency relationships
• Retail Network Advertising sales experience advantageous.

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Key responsibilities:

• 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
• Ensure normalisation of benchmarks to maintain as high levels of measurability as possible within the reports
• Prepares and verifies results and supporting commentary for audits
• Develop relationships with media auditors
• Manages any external validation (by media auditors or the like) in conjunction with the Investment Director
• Supports local markets in understanding of the associated permissible methodologies / normalisations
• Understand media industry insights whilst compiling, analysing and interpreting information from various research sources to create and lead reports for internal and external stakeholders across all mediums
• Keeps a pulse on leading media, emerging channels and cultural trends and movements

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Key responsibilities:

• Search for influencers that match a campaign brief, including vetting their data and demographics through an online tool (platform access provided)
• Finding influencers' contact details and reaching out to gauge interest and rates
• Ensure influencers submit their content on time, sending reminders, tracking and following up on late submissions
• Compiling content into a deck for client approval
• Passing on client feedback and ensuring it is implemented by influencers
• Creating content calendars, according to campaign periods and deliverables
• Sharing content that has been posted with paid media teams for boosting
• Compiling post-campaign reports

What you’ll need:

• Be very deadline and timeline-driven
• Exceptionally well organised
• Experience in digital media and a good understanding of terminology and all major digital platforms, ideally with influencer marketing an advantage.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Have an appropriate sense of urgency, prioritisation, tenacity and attention to detail
• Multitasking skills and the ability to juggle multiple projects with no supervision
• Capacity to manage a range of influencers and multiple campaigns across a range of industries

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Key Deliverables

To execute all the marketing communication needs and activities of the Client(s) inside the Agency in the most:

• Cost effective manner, based on manager input
• Expeditious and efficient manner, based on manager input
• Administratively organized manner
• Take accountability for all project management records
• Ensure that all communication records are kept in an orderly and organized manner in line with Agency systems and procedures.
• Delivering clear, concise and focused communication at every level of Client contact so as to give Clients a competitive advantage.

On all projects/activities maintain and implement and updated and organized system of:

• Financial records (Understanding on cost creation with manager)
• Writing briefs (General good writing skills)
• Compiling weekly status reports (General good writing skills)
• Compiling timing plans
• Ensure Chase lists are adhered to and relevant information shared with media timeously
• Monitoring of Media schedules (Following timings)
• Compiling Contact reports within 24 hours of meeting (Note taking)
• Proactively and effectively ensure that senior management and your team are informed and updated at every stage of projects/activities.
• Maintain a professional relationship with all Clients and co-workers.

Minimum Requirements:

• Matric Certificate
• South African ID

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Key responsibilities:

• Works and implements on multiple, large or complex clients and develops overall programmatic strategy recommendations
• Creates Programmatic strategic and tactical plans with a focus on driving brand awareness through to conversion based objectives
• Troubleshoots campaigns set up, tag management, brand safety set up, performance and pace fluctuations
• Applies daily campaign pacing adjustments to deliver campaign budgets and performance
• Builds/Delivers end of campaign evaluations in which campaign performance data is translated into key learnings for the agency and/or the client.
• The trader can select the right KPI's and trends / insights for this campaign-end evaluation and can distil next steps for future campaigns
• Maintains an in-depth knowledge of the Programmatic ecosystem, keeping up to date with new ad technology functionality and understanding the potential opportunities presented by specific technology
• Works directly with the internal digital team to ensure all tracking is in place and mapping correctly and continuously monitor campaigns to ensure everything is serving correctly
• Provides the 'technical expertise' needed to communicate with the client and explain campaign progress / address any blocking issues
• Responsible for the operational success of accounts, ensuring deliverables are met on time and on budget
• Plans account and growth opportunities, working closely with the team and media brands  
• Builds campaign proposals including a set of tactics matching with the overall goal of the advertiser
• Exports data from the ad server interface and combines it in a correct way with DSP data points if needed
• Maintains an in-depth knowledge of the Programmatic ecosystem, keeping up to date with new ad technology functionality and understanding the potential opportunities presented by specific technology
• Ensures both yourself and the team are skilled up across programmatic platforms
• Working closely with the Senior Management Team to share improvement ideas, feedback on team & present results.
• Troubleshoots campaigns set up, tag management, brand safety set up, performance and pace fluctuations
• Manages budget pacing

Client Service

• Managing media brand expectations
• Deadline and Project management
• Strategy guidance and input in order to drive the business objectives.
• Responsible for the quality of work.
• Attend key client and media brand meetings
• Support and drive the teams in the development of key client growth strategies in line with broader business objectives, driving output and agency collaboration