GroupM Nexus | Managing Director, Singapore
Description
Role Overview
You will lead GroupM Nexus organization in Singapore, comprised of all channels of media activation as well as media solutions teams in the market. Your primary responsibility will include ensuring client success and strategy through industry-leading performance operations, products, and solutions. Leveraging GroupM’s position as a market leader working with leading brands, publishers, and platforms, you will inform, translate, and implement GroupM’s global strategy and solutions for the benefit of our clients that work within GroupM’s award winning APAC agencies: Mindshare, EssenceMediacom, and Wavemaker.
You will be a key people leader that oversees the ongoing efforts career development focus for media professionals, as well as enhancing the culture of the organization where media works better for people.
Your role will be to drive the transformation of GroupM Nexus in Singapore. You will partner with other GroupM leaders to enhance a high-quality, technology-enabled structure that strengthens our ability to drive a differentiated client offering through products, solutions, and service delivery. This will include a focus on improving the efficiency and enablement of real time digital media across search, programmatic, social, commerce, ad operations, and performance media while connecting with other media through data and analytics. You will help scale the offering of newly incubated global practices such as cross-channel planning and optimization throughout the region.
You will serve as the ultimate escalation point across all operational issues that impact the region.
In addition to managing the operational rigor of our activation teams you will manage the change efforts needed to bring a one-team approach across all of our GroupM Nexus teams in Singapore.
You will work with agency leadership to define activation standards and product and solutions offerings for their respective areas, deliver client playbooks for best practices, identify the needs for future offerings, and provide client-facing subject matter expertise as needed on new and existing business.
This position also has dual reporting accountability to the GroupM Market CEO and GroupM Nexus APAC COO.
AS OUR LEADER:
• You will be a transformation-minded leader with an eye on innovation and industry trends
• You will focus on improving client outcomes
• You will be a transformation-minded leader with an eye on innovation and industry trends
• You will focus on improving client outcomes
• You will drive profitable growth for GroupM by supporting Agencies commercial proposals as well as driving adoption of Xaxis, Finecast, Inca, other products and commercialized solutions.
• You will drive continued technology enablement and integration
• You will work across all, and collaboratively with, GroupM agencies and leadership
• You will capture and scale best practices and client solutions, when applicable across agencies
• You will inform the development of new enabling and go-to-market solutions with peers in the technology and data organization (Choreograph)
• You will support the agency CEOs and their teams within the region to educate and increase the understanding and benefits of GroupM’s current and new disciplines, products, and solutions
• You will take a consultative approach with agencies to ensure successful deployment of GroupM's services, products, and solutions into their operating structures
• You will participate in new and existing business pitches with clients as needed
• You will establish and grow relationships at each GroupM Agency/business unit and WPP
• You will drive continued technology enablement and integration
• You will work across all, and collaboratively with, GroupM agencies and leadership
• You will capture and scale best practices and client solutions, when applicable across agencies
• You will inform the development of new enabling and go-to-market solutions with peers in the technology and data organization (Choreograph)
• You will support the agency CEOs and their teams within the region to educate and increase the understanding and benefits of GroupM’s current and new disciplines, products, and solutions
• You will take a consultative approach with agencies to ensure successful deployment of GroupM's services, products, and solutions into their operating structures
• You will participate in new and existing business pitches with clients as needed
• You will establish and grow relationships at each GroupM Agency/business unit and WPP
BEST THINGS ABOUT THE ROLE:
- Ability to have a material impact on the Singapore business by transforming our services, products, and solutions into differentiated offerings for our agencies and their clients
- High frequency of executive interactions with some of the largest, most important clients
- Oversight of a large people organization
- High level of interaction with regional and global agency executive leaders as well as high exposure to every level within the organization
YOUR QUALIFICATIONS:
- Experience leading media activation/media investment, media product and/or operations organizations
- Experience overseeing technology and/or operations transformation programs
- Affinity with the idea of making advertising work better for people
- Ability to tell complex narratives in a simple and compelling way
- Sophisticated understanding of the media investment, ad tech and agency ecosystem
- Excellent business judgement to prioritize critical tasks
More about GroupM Nexus
GroupM makes advertising work better for people. GroupM Nexus comprise world-leading addressable specialists who provide media activation services and proprietary solutions that limit risks and guarantee outcomes. Underpinned by our digital media philosophy – everything that can be addressable, should be, as long as it translates into value for our clients – GroupM Nexus offer addressable solutions across Search, Social, Programmatic, Ad Ops, and eCommerce. As the largest media investment company in the world, we are agency partners to 1 out of 2 Top 100 global brands, representing more than $50 billion in media spend globally.
About GroupM Singapore
GroupM Singapore operates in one of the most dynamic and exciting environments in the world. Although it is a small domestic market, there is a vibrant media industry which is undergoing rapid evolution as digital technology reshapes the way marketing supports advertisers’ needs. Being at the crossroads of Asia means, that aside from the local clients and media owners, we also have a high proportion of multi-national clients, renowned brands and media owners. Making GroupM Singapore the Number One organisation to join and develop your career in media investment.
GroupM is an equal opportunity employer. We view everyone as an individual and we understand that inclusion is more than just diversity – it’s about belonging. We celebrate the fact that everyone is unique and that’s what makes us so good at what we do. We pride ourselves on being a company that embraces difference and truly represents the global clients we work with.