Media Account Manager

Lenovo; India; Hybrid; INR 3,000,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Lenovo Global Media COE in India is recruiting an Accounts Senior Manager to bridge Lenovo, the in-house media team and the agency across Asia Pacific. This hybrid role combines account leadership with hands-on delivery management to ensure timely media plans and smooth operations across markets.

You will own the operating rhythm, commercial administration, and stakeholder relationships, driving on-time delivery, budget control, and ongoing process improvements in a fast-moving, multi-market

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Communications, Advertising, Business, or related field.
• 8+ years of experience in account management, project management or media operations across markets.
• Track record of managing agency relationships and meeting service levels.
• Strong commercial literacy across budgets, purchase orders, reconciliation and vendor billing.
• Proficiency with tools like Monday.com, Asana, Smartsheet, Microsoft Project, or similar.
• Strong organizational, problem-solving, and communication skills.
• Understanding of media and creative workflows, timelines, and resource dependencies.
• Excels at managing multiple initiatives simultaneously within tight deadlines.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience in a very large, fast-moving organization with many stakeholders is a bonus.

Responsibilities

• Act as primary point of contact between business unit media leads, the in-house media team and the agency across Asia Pacific.
• Lead end-to-end delivery of media planning and strategy, and hold the agency to the agreed execution, reporting and POE timelines.
• Own the operating rhythm: briefing calendars, planning milestones, status governance and escalation paths across markets.
• Manage the commercial administration of the agency relationship, including purchase orders, budget tracking, invoice and reconciliation checkpoints, and alliance funding documentation.
• Proactively identify and resolve project risks, bottlenecks, and resourcing conflicts before they affect a launch date.
• Use project management tools (e.g. Monday.com) to track and report progress across markets.
• Ensure projects are closed out properly, including post-mortems and performance reviews.
• Build and maintain the standards, templates and ways of working that allow a small central team to support many markets.

Skills

Account management

Project management

Media operations

Agency relationships

Stakeholder management

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Marketing/Communications/Advertising/Business

Tools

Monday.com

Asana

Smartsheet

Microsoft Project

Job description

The Global Media COE (Center of Excellence) team at Lenovo is looking to accelerate Lenovo into an innovative marketer by building an in-house/agency hybrid model in all geos. As part of this goal, the Asia Pacific marketing team is building an in-house media team to manage media planning and strategy for Consumer and Commercial marketing across India, Japan, Korea, Indonesia and the GTAP cluster of Australia, New Zealand and the Central Asia Pacific markets. The team is seeking an Accounts Senior Manager to be the bridge between Lenovo's business units, the in-house media team and the agency across Asia Pacific..

We are seeking an Accounts Manager to own how work moves between Lenovo and its media agency across Asia Pacific. This hybrid role blends account leadership with hands-on delivery management. You will be responsible for the operating rhythm, the commercial administration and the relationships that keep media plans landing on schedule in every market.

Key Responsibilities:

• Act as primary point of contact between business unit media leads, the in-house media team and the agency across Asia Pacific.
• Lead end-to-end delivery of media planning and strategy, and hold the agency to the agreed execution, reporting and POE timelines.
• Own the operating rhythm: briefing calendars, planning milestones, status governance and escalation paths across markets.
• Manage the commercial administration of the agency relationship, including purchase orders, budget tracking, invoice and reconciliation checkpoints, and alliance funding documentation.
• Proactively identify and resolve project risks, bottlenecks, and resourcing conflicts before they affect a launch date.
• Use project management tools (e.g. Monday.com) to track and report progress across markets.
• Ensure projects are closed out properly, including post-mortems and performance reviews.
• Build and maintain the standards, templates and ways of working that allow a small central team to support many markets.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Communications, Advertising, Business, or related field.
• 8+ years of experience in account management, project management or media operations, at an advertising agency or in-house, including experience across more than one market.
• Track record of managing agency relationships and holding partners to service levels and deliverables.
• Strong commercial literacy across budgets, purchase orders, reconciliation and vendor billing.
• Proficiency with tools like Monday.com, Asana, Smartsheet, Microsoft Project, or similar.
• Strong organizational, problem-solving, and communication skills.
• Understanding of media and creative workflows, timelines, and resource dependencies.
• Excels at managing multiple initiatives simultaneously within tight deadlines
• Excellent communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills
• Experience working within a very large, fast-moving organization with many internal and external stakeholders is a bonus

Soft Skills:

• Exceptional analytical, problem solving, critical thinking and data visualization skills
• Strong project management skills, with the ability to manage budgets, resources, and timelines effectively
• Comfortable working across cultures, time zones and languages in a matrixed regional team

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, status as a veteran, basis of disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.