Media Trading Lead: TV Inventory & Analytics

WPP Media Limited; Jakarta Pusat; On-site; IDR 500,000,000 - 800,000,000; Full time

Job summary

WPP Media Limited is seeking a Trading Manager to oversee TV deal inventory, pricing, and vendor negotiations in Indonesia. The role requires strong numerical analysis, detailed forecasting, and governance to ensure accurate approvals and timely reporting across Finance and cluster teams.

You will liaise with Finance, vendors, and regional/global reviewers to optimize inventory, revenue, and compliance, while building robust controls and actionable recommendations.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in media trading, media investment, media buying, planning, or commercial media operations, preferably with TV exposure.
• Strong numerical analysis skills and attention to detail.
• Ability to work calmly under pressure and manage tight timelines.
• Clear communication of trading performance, risks, variances, and recommendations to internal stakeholders.
• Strong collaboration skills with cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Forecast TV deal inventory using historical data and cluster forecasts.
• Develop and submit deal inventory proposals in IMS for market, regional, and global review and approval.
• Coordinate deal agreements with internal stakeholders and media vendors.
• Maintain inventory billing, cost, and supporting documentation in IMS.
• Monitor consumption, pacing, margin, and risk; identify underutilization or overconsumption and recommend corrective actions.
• Lead negotiations with TV stations and media vendors on buying rates, packages, added value, and terms.
• Develop client packages based on campaign requirements.
• Create Proprietary Media TV rate cards for cluster use.
• Review media plans, orders, and pricing before processing.
• Process original, additional, revised, and cancellation of media orders.
• Collect fully signed media orders required for Finance billing.
• Prepare weekly inventory and revenue reporting, and related deal-control reporting.
• Update quarterly deal consumption and media-owner spend in IMS.
• Reconcile billing and cost with Finance during month-end and investigate variance.
• Generate Adex data for inflation analysis from Arianna.
• Ensure media plans and orders comply with trading policies.

Skills

Media trading

Numerical analysis

Stakeholder management

English Bahasa Indonesia

Tools

IMS

Matrix

Arianna

Excel

PowerPoint

Outlook/Teams

Job description

WPP Media Limited is seeking a Trading Manager to oversee TV deal inventory, pricing, and vendor negotiations in Indonesia. The role requires strong numerical analysis, detailed forecasting, and governance to ensure accurate approvals and timely reporting across Finance and cluster teams.

You will liaise with Finance, vendors, and regional/global reviewers to optimize inventory, revenue, and compliance, while building robust controls and actionable recommendations.