Media Associate Director, iProspect, dentsu

dentsu; Dubai; On-site; AED 120,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a dynamic leader to guide a team of media planners. This role involves delivering innovative media strategies that meet client objectives while ensuring best practices are followed. The ideal candidate will connect with internal and external networks, maximizing business revenue and identifying growth opportunities. If you are passionate about media planning and have a knack for leadership, this position offers a fantastic opportunity to make a significant impact in a collaborative environment.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in leading media planning teams and managing workloads.
• Strong understanding of client fee models and business revenue maximization.

Responsibilities

• Lead client activity to deliver innovative media plans.
• Support team management to achieve best market results.
• Identify business development opportunities within existing clients.

Skills

Leadership

Media Planning

Client Management

Business Development

Job description

The purpose of this role is to lead a team of media planners and ensure that best practice is adhered to in their day to day roles, workloads are managed and to provide leadership to the team when dealing with publishers, strategists and planning teams.

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Key Responsibilities:

1. Leads client activity to deliver innovative and ambitious plans that deliver client objectives and key performance indicators.
2. Supports the management team to ensure that the team are working to deliver best in market results.
3. Liaises frequently with Trading counterpart to ensure plans align with trading priorities.
4. Connects with internal and external networks to deliver against one operating model, considering internal products when delivering planning solutions to clients.
5. Seeks understanding of clients’ fee models in order to maximise business revenue.
6. Identifies business development opportunities from within the existing client portfolio and prospective clients, focussed on delivering internal revenue.
7. Plays a key part in client pitches, delivering market leading planning responses.
8. Supports and coaches their team to ensure that they work to their full potential.
9. Develops best practice and more efficient ways of working and ensures this is followed by teams.