EMEA Media Planning Executive

Job title: Media Planning – Media Planning & Co-ordination, Account Executive

Group: Mindshare Worldwide

Client: Paypal

Reports to: EMEA Media Planning Business Director

Mindshare is global media agency designed to make media exciting, fun and life changing. For the last 20 years our values of Speed, Teamwork and Provocation have guided our 10,000 people who work with some of the world’s best brands and companies. Located in 116 offices across 86 countries, we are the largest media agency in GroupM, WPP’s media investment management arm, which is the #1 media holding group globally. Mindshare Worldwide is the headquarters for Mindshare based in London. We are a team of 400+ people, co-ordinating media campaigns for our global clients.

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What We Can Offer You

At Mindshare Worldwide, we offer a competitive salary package, with 25 days holiday increasing with service to a maximum of 30 days, with the option to buy an extra 5 days per year. We also have an enhanced pension scheme, Bupa healthcare, a monthly wellbeing fund and early finishes on a Friday during summer. These are just some of the great benefits we offer.

Based ten minutes from London Bridge tube station, our office has a rooftop with 360 views of London – a great space to hang out with colleagues and friends!

We also offer an extensive training programme to help guide your career development whilst you’re with us. There’s a wide range of options to suit everyone at all levels of your career.

Our Values & Behaviours

Our attitude is reflected in our core values of Empathy, Energy and Impact, which drive our people and our business.

We want Mindshare Worldwide to be a place where everyone feels that they belong, everyone can be themselves and everyone has the same opportunities to develop their careers. Over the last 12 months we have made important steps in progressing on our journey to a truly inclusive organisation. We have launched The Collective and have seen the birth of a range of Employee Resource Groups who have shown some amazing and inspiring work.

The Role

This role is a unique opportunity to begin your career or somebody early on in their media career or looking for a change to build an excellent foundation in media planning and be part of a team that works with collaboration at it’s heart. You will gain an understanding in the inner workings of a global media account building a solid grounding in how paid media supports our clients growth ambitions.

Working closely with the wider strategy, planning and activation teams, the function’s role is to support for a smooth end to end process from planning to reporting.

The Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate will have an interest in both online and offline paid media. The individual should be a good communicator and enjoy the challenge of owning projects, ensuring efficiency is delivered in the end-to-end campaign process and the capacity to be involved in proactive asks and forward thinking.

Essential Criteria

A team player who is interested in and excited to learn more about the world of global
Show an active interest and maintain knowledge of advertising industry at large
Excellent organisational skills with excellent written, verbal, analytical and numerical skills
Demonstrates a high degree of accuracy and numeracy in reviewing data sets
Experience using basic features of PowerPoint, Outlook and Excel
Ability to communicate and present succinctly

Organised to support across multiple projects and workstreams so that deadlines and quality standards are met
Used to working end to end processes

Solutions focused with a mindset towards process optimisation

Desirable Criteria

Experience using tools for planning, measurement and competitor analysis
Experience working in an agency environment
Basic understanding of media principles, campaign measurement and KPIs

Responsibilities

Support the team to coordinate annual and campaign level paid media planning process across EMEA
Assisting with day to day internal duties and assisting with client requests
Support on Ops Reporting, PCAs, Production delivery
Work with local markets to ensure their ongoing and ad-hoc deliverables are supplied on time, ensuring consistency and accuracy of reporting documents & data requests for onward use with clients
Responsible (with support) for the update and distribution of the budget and changes tracker
Keep updated with media channel developments, understanding the landscape and industry news and write-up actionable insights
Develop media planning knowledge
Own planning/reporting system, being responsible for reporting
Provide organized timelines for all projects and campaigns which cover client side and agency tasks
Keep updated on EMEA media channel developments and lead in the collation of competitor, market, and media activity that might identify new channels and test opportunities for upcoming campaigns
Share examples of great campaign activation from competitive and power brands across EMEA