Media Planning Manager Jobs

1.Client Management

• Establish a good relationship with clients, obtaining feedback from clients from time to time, resulting in overall clients' satisfaction; little or no clients' complaints on major issues.
• Responsive to clients' requests in an accurate/ appropriate manner.
• Communicate to the team on clients' special requests (e.g. special, ad hoc report).
• Update the clients on new packages, competitive alerts, new media opportunities and follow-through on campaigns.

2.Business Partner Management

• Develop good relationships with business partners (e.g. creative, media owners), hence the ability to obtain updated information (e.g. formats, guidelines, packages, deadlines) that contributes to the work objectives, value-add to clients or a smooth campaign placement.
• Ensure terms and conditions in media owner contracts are approved by supervisor.
• Ensure clear documentation on all communications with business partners.

3.Research & Media Applications Proficiency

• Generate reports (e.g. by medium, pre-and-post-buy, syndicated and proprietary reports.)
• Perform basic and advanced functions of planning/booking systems, both syndicated and proprietary, thus completing each transaction/ placement successfully.
• Apply agency's planning approach.

4.Financial

• Adhere to media planning process.
• Update and follow-through all changes to media placement.
• Accurate and timely input into billing system.
• Reconcile media payment variances.

5.Industry Knowledge (Consumer, Business or Brand Insights)

• Apply the insights of the analysis to create an effective plan/buy.
• Conduct basic analysis of targets involvement with the various media.
• Basic understanding of media scene & developments – online & offline media
• Basic awareness of brand and product categories, and the competitive framework, thus able to carry out online & offline media planning.

6.Investment Management

• Perform expenditure update.
• Manage and allocate cost for brands across medium used.
• Optimize/adhere to budget constraints in clients'/schedule brief.

7.Corporate Responsibility

• Demonstrate appropriate behaviours to uphold the company's image, reputation and credentials.

• Ability to multi-task across an extensive client portfolio, well organized, able to perform under the pressure of tight deadlines and has the tenacity to overcome challenges along the way
• Has experience in analyzing research data and applying it to the client's business.
• Delivers to a high standard and expects the same of others.
• At least 5years of experience in the advertising/media industry,
• Experienced in both offline and digital communications planning and campaign management
• Strong understanding of the digital media landscape.
• A highly driven and positive individual who aims to deliver the best in everything that he/she does.
• Coaches others by assessing an individual's strengths and areas for development and encouraging a free exchange of constructive feedback. Pushes down decision-making and avoids taking charge unless absolutely necessary.
• Ability to work with a broad spectrum of people - including clients, agency partners, internal practice leads and your own team.
• A great team player who infects others with his/her zest and passion, leads by example and is willing to think out-of-the-box to solve issues where necessary.
• Strong client, people management and leadership skills.