Performance Director

Buying, Trading & Investment Melbourne, Melbourne

Position at EssenceMediaCom

About EssenceMediacom   
This role will sit in our global media performance organisation that unites GroupM Practises (search, social, programmatic, ad-ops, commerce) and Solutions (Finecast, Xaxis, Sightline and Goat). You will be embedded and exclusively working across EssenceMediacom Australia. 
 
EssenceMediacom is committed to building an agency culture that supports our people, puts diversity at the forefront of our operations, and creates opportunity for all. 
 
EssenceMediacom understands that our people are tasked with big goals: building breakthrough growth for brands and leading with breakthrough thinking in our industry. Our people are at the heart of this work because their ideas will enable us to decode the intersections of people, content, and technology to bring our aspirations to life. Our success is down to our eclectic, diverse, and talented people. EssenceMediacom is a place for us to grow our careers and expand our horizons.
Role outline 
The Performance Director oversees and coordinates the delivery across a team of biddable experts. You will manage all operations, from ensuring quality implementation planning to improving operational efficiency & delivery, to acting as a senior consultant to clients for their activation and performance management.
This role includes taking accountability for talent management, including reviews, training, coaching, performance management, and recruitment.
You will work closely with other directors to support national initiatives designed to improve key indicators.
Key Relationships
  • Collaborating closely with internal teams
  • Establishing strong relationships with relevant media, data, and technology partners
  • Foster deep trust and understanding with agency client teams
  • Contribute to great teamwork in your immediate team
What you should spend your time doing 
People – 40% of your time
  • Oversee team workflow, dealing with issues as they arise to a satisfactory resolution
  • Ensure your team is adequately trained, resourced, motivated, and engaged to deliver on campaign requirements
  • Conduct regular 1-2-1s with your team, providing leadership and modelling our behaviours at all times
Product – 30% of your time
  • Help define and deliver best practice, supervising your team's output and intervening where necessary
  • Contribute to product development and direction, leveraging vendors and partners to achieve this
  • Anticipate future challenges, trends, and changes to both your clients and our industry, proactively forming a view of strategies to mitigate risk and create opportunity
Client – 15% of your time
  • Lead key client relationships as it relates to implementation planning & buying, ensuring team output is to the required standard
  • Be the voice of GroupM Nexus initiatives with your teams and your clients, driving best practice and innovation.
  • Navigate the complex media, technology, and data landscape, providing counsel and support to both your team and clients
  • Elevates both team and client thinking through expert opinion and leadership, including tackling sensitive conversations with confidence
Commercial – 15% of your time
  • Responsible for the overall delivery of client investment, with flawless accuracy across all aspects
  • Identify commercial opportunities with the ability to make a compelling case for their inclusion
  • Provide robust and accurate internal forecasting, both across client investment and for required resources to manage campaign delivery
What makes a great Performance Director
  • Attention to detail: monitoring the quality and accurate of your own work, and that of others
  • Organisation: manages expectations across all stakeholders, sets clear priorities
  • Team & collaboration: assumes extra responsibilities to facilitate the achievement of team goals
  • Communication: effectively communicates business objectives, issues, and outcomes clearly, applies strategic thinking
  • Analytical: recognises causes & consequences of actions and events that are not readily apparent
  • Flexibility: recognises changing circumstances quickly and proactively implements successful action plans across team
  • Proactivity/taking the initiative: consistently contributes to improve work methods, outcomes, and team performance
  • Problem solving: identifies root problems and proactively implements solutions, acts to minimise risk across all implementation processes and procedures

Apply now and send your CV via the link!