Full service global agency is looking for a National Media Lead for a maternity leave cover, starting immediately and going until Christmas holidays, with potential to extend.
The Media Lead will look after a small team of 5 buyer/planners and need to be across both traditional and digital, but particularly strong in digital strategy and client leading.
The Media Lead will look after a small team of 5 buyer/planners and need to be across both traditional and digital, but particularly strong in digital strategy and client leading.
- Be the lead on 4-5 key client accounts
- Challenge and provide senior strategic direction on large media initiatives being delivered to clients
- Run brainstorming sessions for new briefs
- Oversee new proposals, challenging and checking approach, budgets, and timelines
- Ensure day-to-day operations are aligned with agency strategies and commercial goals
- Have a thorough understanding of media client's brand proposition, media strategies, budgets and targets
- Ability to plan and buy media if ever required, especially from a digital capacity
- Support traditional media manager roles with digital solutions that are best in market, including programmatic
- Work closely with creative, strategy, account service teams to ensure full service integrated approach
- Where relevant be involved in agency pitches to help input potential channel strategies
- Support the agency on audience research and insights
- Run training session on media developments
- Work with senior publisher leads to ensure the agency stays across all new media initiatives in the market
- Find new revenue opportunities across existing clients
- Manage national media revenue and forecasts
- Flexible for 4 days/week; Sydney CBD office location