Senior Manager - Digital

Media Planning Colombo, Sri Lanka Requisition ID:38078


Description

Position at Mindshare

Mindshare is an agency of GroupM, the world’s largest media investment company and are a part of WPP. We are responsible for one in every three ads you see globally. We are currently looking for a Senior Manager – Digital to join us. In this role, you will be responsible for managing all digital functions in the team

At GroupM APAC, our people are our strength, which is why fostering a culture of diversity and inclusion is important to us.

Overview of job

Senior Manager – Digital: Mindshare
 

Reporting of the role

This role reports to Vice President – Digital, GroupM Sri Lanka

3 best things about the job:
1. Leading a proven, fast growing team and servicing some of the biggest regional brands
2. Cross function exposure & strengthen understanding & knowledge of all the key digital mediums along with ATL media in order to suggest 360 Marketing approach.
3. Drive digital strategies and manage the operational relationships for Mindshare clients that expect best in class work


In this role, your goals will be:


In three months:

  • Work with functional team to create the tailor-made working processes for client
  • Demonstrate your value adds to the organization

In six months:

  • Lead each digital campaign smoothly and summarize the successful experience and sharing with the whole team
  • Be the key person for the digital part and familiar with client’s business to create suitable KPI measurement and planning process

In 12 months:

  • Became the key person to support the whole business development
  • Contribute to seamless and effective client experience

 


What your day job looks like at Mindshare:

  • Build and maintain a productive relationship with clients and agency peers
  • Have the understanding and confidence to discuss all aspects of business, Structure and Business Strategy
  • To proactively lead the overall communication planning/implementational planning process to provide insightful communication plans
  • Work with the clients to arrive at the best process/systems for managing their business
  • Work with specialist teams/buying department to promote clients’ interests with strategically important media owners
  • Supervise all work, in terms of its quality, accuracy, insightfulness and innovation
  • Work closely with the core team on all the reports, digital trainings/workshops. 
  • Exposure to advanced technology as a future ready channel to drive brand growth
  • To plan and develop ideas for “media first” innovations and build capability in strategy. 
  • Be unafraid to push back, be bold and stand your ground in terms of ideas internally and externally.
  • Trusted advisor not just to the client, but for internal touch-points on the local market.
  • Team motivation and vision alignment


What you’ll bring:

  • Passionate about Digital media, a Team player and Loves Speed
  • Great attention to detail
  • Helping clients make sense of the ever-changing digital landscape

 Minimum qualifications:

  • 3-4 years experience in developing and implementing various digital strategies, Client account management, must have media agency experience.
  • Experience in managing both small and large media budgets.
  • An independent, self-driven and responsible individual, with multi-tasking and decision-making abilities.
  • Significant proven experience of working with multiple stakeholders, e.g. suppliers, advertising/marketing agencies, media owners.
  • Detailed awareness of the digital industry, industry trends, consumer trends, market status and competition.
  • A depth of understanding of the digital industry and consumer's online media habits.

More about Mindshare 

We were born in Asia in 1997, a start up with a desire to change the media world. Now we are a global agency with more than 7,000 employees in 116 offices across 86 countries, operating as one team – #teammindshare (http://www.teammindshare.com/). We believe that in today’s world, everything begins and ends in media. We aim to be our clients’ lead business partner, to grow their business, and drive profitability through adaptive and inventive marketing. We do this through speed, teamwork and provocation and by operating as a network of networks rather than a rigid hierarchy. We create new things and have fun doing it. Whenever and wherever you join us, you open a door to opportunities in any and of all aspects of media, technology and innovation. We will support you, recognize you and reward you, making Mindshare the place where you do the best work of your career.

Mindshare Sri Lanka has won countless awards and have been a industry leader for over 12 years….It is the only agency to have won  Campaign Asia – media agency and digital media agency consecutively for over 12 years.

Mindshare is part of GroupM, the media investment management arm of WPP, the world’s leading communications services group. To learn more about Mindshare and our philosophy of Original Thinking, visit us at www.mindshareworld.com (http://www.mindshareworld.com/) and follow us on Twitter @mindshare (http://www.twitter.com/mindshareapac)facebook.com/mindshareapac (http://www.facebook.com/mindshareapac) linkedin.com/company/mindshare (https://www.linkedin.com/company/mindshare).