Account Manager, Global Investment

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At WPP Media, we believe in the power of our culture and our people. It’s what elevates us to deliver exceptional experiences for both our clients and each other. In this role it will be critical to embrace WPP & WPP Media’s shared core values:

• Be Extraordinary by Leading Collectively to Inspire transformational Creativity.
• Create an Open environment by Balancing People and Client Experiences by Cultivating Trust.
• Lead Optimistically by Championing Growth and Development to Mobilise the Enterprise.

Role Summary and Impact

The Global Investment team sits at the heart of the agency, collaborating with various agency capabilities including trading, client leadership, commercial, digital, and new business on a local, regional, and global level. Our primary function is to support investment and trading requirements across our global client portfolio, working closely with local market agency teams, global clients, and external 3rd parties. This team focuses on workstreams such as media value management, marketplace and inflation monitoring, auditor collaboration/management, digital process management, commercial liability and contractual awareness, new business pitches, innovation in developing media channels, and thought leadership.

This role will involve working across several key global clients within our group. Depending on the client, the role will include areas such as:

• Trading Delivery: Working with local market trading teams to track media value delivery according to the agreed methodology, ensuring a clear understanding of trading commitments and measurement. This includes consolidating media value delivery across media channels, markets, and regions, leading solution-focused approaches where needed, and actively participating in discussions with auditors to resolve issues.
• Analysis: Confidently handling large data sets, ensuring quality assurance in data, spotting anomalies, and asking questions to ensure accuracy and robustness of data.
• Media Knowledge: Focusing on global media knowledge of markets, channels, measurement metrics, methodologies, and trading metrics to build expertise. This involves sharing knowledge and supporting junior team members in their learning, with a proactive and engaging approach to continuous learning being essential.
• Market Intelligence: Developing market intelligence in areas such as media price inflation, media channel evolution, and media landscape changes, keeping the team and clients aware of such changes and any potential impact. Potential involvement in workstreams to ensure we are appropriately future-focused on the opportunities of the evolving media landscape.
• People and Project Management: Ability to manage and develop more junior team members, supporting them with completing deliverables in a timely manner, ensuring high-quality output, and developing their knowledge and skillset. This includes an active role in managing client and auditor deliverables within the team. The role requires an ability to multi-task in a fast-paced environment, including prioritising, adapting at short notice, and maintaining a solutions-focused approach.
• Relationship Focus: This role involves working with many global markets, requiring an ability to develop collaborative relationships with local teams, internal team members, clients, and 3rd party auditors where relevant. Demonstrating a thoughtful, considered, and fair approach in discussions around issue resolution is important.
• Team: Active participation in the Investment team, workstreams, and contributing to a collaborative team environment.

The success of the role will be measured against agreed KPIs which will be discussed periodically throughout the year. Additionally, strong local market relationships are critical to the success of this role.

Skills and Experience

The successful candidate will have experience in a media buying/trading role, within a media auditor, a client business, and/or within an investment management agency team.

The role will involve working with big data sets, therefore skills in maths, Excel, and attention to detail are essential. An interest in analysing data, understanding the trends, and the story it shows are also important. We are particularly interested in any advanced analytics and data visualisation skills including experience of platforms such as Alteryx, Tableau, and Power BI, as well as any VBA/macro writing skills.

Equally important is an ability to develop and nurture relationships with a wide range of colleagues, both within internal global teams and where relevant, external parties. Strong organisation, communication skills, and problem-solving skills would be beneficial, as well as a proactive and friendly approach.

The role is within the global team, which requires talking to markets around the world where English may not be the first language. Therefore, strong written and spoken English language skills are essential for this role.

Life at WPP Media & Benefits

Our passion for shaping the next era of media includes investing in our employees to help them do their best work, and we’re just as committed to employee growth as we are to responsible media investment. WPP Media employees can tap into the global WPP Media & WPP networks to pursue their passions, grow their networks, and learn at the cutting edge of marketing and advertising. We have a variety of employee resource groups and host frequent in-office events showcasing team wins, sharing thought leadership, and celebrating holidays and milestone events. Our benefits include competitive medical, group retirement plans, vision, and dental insurance, significant paid time off, preferential partner discounts, and employee mental health awareness days.

WPP Media is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without discrimination or regard to characteristics. We are committed to fostering a culture of respect in which everyone feels they belong and has the same opportunities to progress in their careers.

We believe the best work happens when we're together, fostering creativity, collaboration, and connection. That's why we’ve adopted a hybrid approach, with teams in the office around four days a week. If you require accommodations or flexibility, please discuss this with the hiring team during the interview process.

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