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TV Associate Director - top 5 London Agency
London
To £45,000
Media Agency
Permanent
HD715
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About the Company
A forward thinking, creative, effective and innovative communications agencies. Their business philosophy focuses on people, product, profit, in that order. This translates into the belief that by making it the best place to work, with the happiest people, they will in turn produce the best work and create client advocates.
The Role
To work as a primary TV specialist within a multi-media trading team. The candidate should be a self starter with real enthusiasm for TV and media in general. They should be good at developing relationships, spreading TV knowledge within the multi-media team, and supporting senior management.
Your role as an Associate Director means you have significant media industry experience and ability in buying, plus senior level client interaction. In addition you will have collaborative relationships with media owners and media auditors in order to best deliver on our client requirements.
This role is essentially managing the buying requirements across all media, ensuring the on-going delivery of great work and client service from the Buying unit. Your role is to manage the team of buying managers and managers assigned to your accounts, whilst also actively training on a day-to-day basis.
You report to a Buying Director, ensuring all work is delivered in an accurate and timely fashion, whilst hitting the required targets. You will also collaborate with planners and other departments within the agency to ensure all buys are based upon strategy and client guarantees. You will be part of a team, responsible for large billings across several clients with highly competitive targets. You need to ensure that the team have all the information, skills and knowledge to deliver both client and agency buying requirements.
You will be expected to monitor delivery by client versus targets, to translate those targets into the day to day buying requirements of your team and to create value for the agecy. You are a senior person within the agency and are expected to mentor and train the junior members of your team, within a twice yearly appraisal process and more informally day to day.
Skills Required
Understand the channel planning, buying and billing processes and how they work at the agency
Understand channel measurement, terminology and tools
Knowledge of the channel’s marketplace, its trading dynamics, key products/ media owners
Understand the role and capabilities of those channels within the media mix
Be able to talk a client through a multi media plan with confidence
Strong buying experience
High standard of DDS, Excel and PowerPoint
Highly proficient buyer able to deal with all levels of media owner
Must have prior experience of managing and monitoring client deals, and have audit experience
Ability to work under pressure and be extremely organised
If interested please call Zoe on 0203 589 0016, email zoe@harrisondear.co.uk or click on the link below …..