3 best things about the job:
- You will be working in a unique “integrated” agency with digital, media and creative specialists all under one roof.
- Work with young and like-minded colleagues.
- Put you on the cutting edge of digital advertising and communications.
Measures of success –
In three months:
- Fully up to speed with the client(s) you are working on, and able to offer a viewpoint on their category, brand, consumer, competitors and objectives.
- Leading strategic planning projects the client(s) in your remit; attending briefing sessions; undertaking research utilizing appropriate tools, desk research or bespoke research; facilitating brainstorms, providing insights and ideas, delivering responses to brief.
In six months:
- Offer additional value and proactivity to the strategic product on the client(s) you are working on; providing new ideas and opportunities that will improve the Maxus service and the teams understanding of the business.
- Established as a key member of the team by both clients and internal team alike; actively leading strategic product to deliver best in class solutions and campaigns that work.
In 12 months:
- Fully established as the expert in the clients’ category and business; offering strong views, opinions, recommendations and solutions to our clients business challenges and proactively providing thought leadership to enhance the communications approach for our clients.
- Considered a key member of the agency by both clients and internal team alike; providing ideas and thought leadership to clients and the wider business.
Responsibilities of the role:
- Produce and highly efficiently lead strategic planning service relevant to development in accordance with client business objectives and status.
- Oversee key steps and decision makings in producing service and keep presenting in business meetings and communication on strategy.
- Resolve problems rising from service to ensure path to business success
- Initiate working system construction, improvement and be proactive in innovation.
- Good communication with clients and raise service quality consistently.
- Lead team to be active and positive in pitch projects.
- Expand business scope and explore new opportunities to meet revenue targets and drive incremental billing and revenue.
What you will need:
- Minimum 8-10 years of digital media planning experience.
- Experience in working with multiple stakeholders, e.g. suppliers, advertising/marketing agencies, media owners and internal specialist resources.
- Competence in media planning and buying across all platforms with a good understanding and working knowledge of digital media.
- A demonstrated depth of understanding of the industry, business, brands and consumers in client conversations.
- Strong communication and presentation skills.
- Fluent English communication skills. Fluent Mandarin and written Traditional Chinese would be advantageous
- Good time management skill and able to follow through on process and delivery timelines.
More about Mindshare
We were born in Asia in 1997, a start up with a desire to change the media world. Now we are a global agency with more than 7,000 employees in 116 offices across 86 countries, operating as one team – #teammindshare. We believe that in today’s world, everything begins and ends in media. We aim to be our clients’ lead business partner, to grow their business, and drive profitability through adaptive and inventive marketing. We do this through speed, teamwork and provocation and by operating as a network of networks rather than a rigid hierarchy. We create new things and have fun doing it. Whenever and wherever you join us, you open a door to opportunities in any and of all aspects of media, technology and innovation. We will support you, recognize you and reward you, making Mindshare the place where you do the best work of your career.
Mindshare APAC has won 500 awards in the last year alone, including “Agency Network of the Year 2017” by both the MMA SMARTIES™ and Campaign Asia for the fifth and third consecutive year, respectively. Mindshare is part of GroupM, the media investment management arm of WPP, the world’s leading communications services group. To learn more about Mindshare and our philosophy of Original Thinking, visit us at www.mindshareworld.com and follow us on Twitter @mindshare and facebook.com/mindshareapac and linkedin.com/company/mindshare.