Implementation Cluster Lead - Med

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Job Description

Job Title	Implementation Cluster Lead	Reporting To	Global Account Director
Department	Worldwide	Group/Level
Location	London	Date Issued	February 2022
Salary	Competitive based on experience
About Mediacom MediaCom unleashes brands’ growth by helping them See the Bigger Picture. This means that we apply our unique ‘Systems Thinking’ philosophy and technology to all marketing levers: media, message and data. As a result, we design communication strategies that deliver short term results and help brands build for the future. 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 success is underpinned by our long-standing ‘People First, Better Results’ culture. We know that by investing in our people’s whole-person wellbeing, careers and capabilities, we will help grow our clients’ businesses. In 2021 this approach led MediaCom to be crowned Global Media Network of the Year by Adweek and Festival of Media Global, in addition to being Eurobest’s current Media Network of the Year and the most awarded agency at the WARC Media Awards. MediaCom is one of the world’s leading media communications specialists, with billings of US$17.6 billion (Source: COMvergence, 2020), employing 8,000 people in 125 offices across 100 countries. Its global client roster includes adidas, Coca-Cola (TCCC), Dell, Hasbro, Mars, NBC Universal, P&G, Richemont, Shell, Sony, Uber and Walgreens Boots Alliance. To find out more about MediaCom visit us here: www.mediacom.com Although we cannot make guarantees, we welcome conversations about flexible working for all roles at MediaCom London
The opportunity: We are proud to be the global partner for #Coca-cola. A client with whom we share both values and ambition. In what has been called the “the biggest advertising pitch in history”, WPP was chosen to connect our talent and skills in a truly borderless way to create an open platform that will multiply the power of creativity for one of the world’s largest and beloved brands. Welcome to OpenX, our transformational approach that marries WPP the #1 global network and largest communications holding company in the world with iconic Coca Cola valued at 71 billion dollars and with a portfolio of brands that includes Diet Coke, Coke Zero, Sprite, Fanta, Dasani, Smartwater, Minute Maid and Powerade amongst others.
The Role: You will support the Global Account Director with what is, without exaggeration, the biggest marketing transformation in history: Centralising comms planning & media strategy from across nearly 40 markets in TCCC’s European hub. Essentially, by the end of the year, we want TCCC Europe to brief us centrally on their major multi-market campaigns in order to ideate centrally and execute with same level of excellence across markets. TCCC Europe has four clusters: North, Central, Eastern Europe and Mediterranean. You will be responsible for one of these clusters and their corresponding markets along with a team of offline and digital implementation planners that will be sitting across corresponding cluster offices.
The detail: Key responsibilities of the Implementation Cluster Lead: Implementation Excellence Commit to becoming highly knowledgeable in media planning and buying excellence across the markets that correspond to the cluster Gather a set of principles for best practice across planning & buying for offline and online across the set of markets in your cluster, based on our institutional CPG knowledge as well as TCCC learnings Coach and mentor team of implementational managers, ensuring they adhere to said principles when planning and buying activity across the markets Ideate, alongside other Implementational Cluster Leads, Strategists and Capability Leads as well as wider WPP team, big, award-winning ideas that can travel across market Play an active role in building E2E planning and buying process across clusters, alongside Global Account Director, Operations Director, other Implementation Cluster Leads, Implementation teams across hubs and markets and wider Capability teams across MC and WPP. Work very closely with cluster local MediaCom offices, ensuring everyone feels part of one same team despite being spread across separate offices. Flag issues along the media planning and buying process whether at hub or local level to Global Account Director and Operations Lead for solution Learning Agenda Play an active role in identifying together with TCCC CX’s team workstreams to elevate learning across the network on different topics: Media planning and buying guidelines excellence, Attention planning across channels, Media Vendors showcase, among other subjects. People Management Daily management and mentoring of Offline Implementation Managers and Digital Systems Accelerators Conduct 360 reviews with all direct reports Design a career path for each direct report with clear objectives and conduct performance update meetings Ensure individuals workloads are managed and prioritised in line with client needs and SLA’s
What you will bring: Skills Extensive experience in Campaign Planning & Implementation Extensive experience in managing teams of planners & buyers across offline and online Organisational skills and operational experience essential Local planning and buying experience is a must, with strong background in AV FMCG or CPG experience also a benefit Behaviours we’re looking for We are looking for Leaders We are looking for creative mindsets Lean-in attitude Demonstrates initiative and proactivity Curious mindset Action taker does work, doesn’t just delegate Positive influence with team and clients Calm and collected