MEDIA EXECUTIVE, WORLDWIDE TEAM – LONDON

EssenceMediacom is GroupM’s newest and largest agency, committed to delivering marketing breakthroughs for brands. It has disrupted the old models across media, creative, innovation and analytics to find new opportunities for advertisers and deliver truly integrated media solutions.

Born out of two pioneering agencies, EssenceMediacom fuses Essence’s performance, data, analytics, and creative technology DNA with MediaCom’s scaled multichannel audience planning and strategic media expertise.

As part of WPP, the world's largest marketing communications services group, and GroupM, WPP’s consolidated media investment management arm, we have access to the richest data, most robust benchmarks, and most advanced capabilities in the market. This helps us provide comprehensive solutions to all marketing challenges.

Our ‘breakthrough’ ambition is underpinned by our commitment to ‘continuous learning.’ We aim to ensure our people fulfil their potential by investing in their whole-person wellbeing, careers, and capabilities, which in turn helps grow our clients’ businesses.

EssenceMediacom, with 10,000 people across 120 offices in 96 markets, is one of the world’s leading communications specialists, with billings of more than US$21 billion (Source: COMvergence, 2021). Its global client roster includes adidas, Coca-Cola (TCCC), Dell, Google, Hasbro, Mars, NBC Universal, P&G, Richemont, Sony.

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Reports to: Media Manager

The role

We are looking for an Media Executive to work on the EY business (a global business to business professional services company).

You’ll be working within a friendly and fast paced team, where you can expect every day to be different. The role would largely be focused on media planning tasks, co-ordination and provision of support to client planning teams. There is great involvement in all stages of campaigns from initial brief, to planning, set-up, performance reporting and some financial management. You will be interacting with colleagues across Essencemediacom as well as media owners, the role is also a client facing role so communication with clients will play a part eventually.  The ability to communicate well and develop positive, strong and lasting relationships is essential.

There will be a level of data entry and extraction required in the role, with a keen focus on quality control and attention to detail.  Essencemediacom is a great place to support you in developing your media career as you will not only be working on a high-profile business to business client, for a major global media player, but you will have the opportunity to take part in key training programmes for career development.

We can offer you amazing media planning and buying development opportunities, both on the job as well as through training and qualifications.  Working with a wide range of media disciplines and teams across Essencemediacom – social, programmatic, search, research, finance. An opportunity to learn all about the B2B media landscape and publishers’ media offerings.

Accountabilities include:

• Supporting the team with media planning and buying tasks
• Helping put presentations together
• Liaising with media owners about campaign activity
• Supporting with audience research
• Putting bookings on our booking system
• Completing trafficking sheets ready for campaign activation
• Helping problem solve any finance queries
• Help with coordinating work from across specialist teams
• Updating tracker documents

A bit about your skills and experience:

• Good communication and relationship building skills
• Strong organisational skills
• Good time management
• Proficient in Microsoft office – specifically Excel and PPT
• Able to multi-task and work in a fast-paced environment
• Ability to problem solve
• Enjoys a challenge
• Enthusiastic