Senior Implementation & Buying Executive

Publicis Groupe Malaysia; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 240,000 - 360,000; Full time

Job summary

Publicis Groupe Malaysia seeks a Regional Client Leader to drive growth and client transformation across the group’s agencies. The role sets the vision, builds a culture of collaboration, and curates a cross-disciplinary team to deliver scale and performance.

You will own revenue and profitability, lead client relationships, and ensure seamless coordination between Creative, Media, Digital and Consulting practices.

Responsibilities

• Set the vision for Regional Client Leadership and lead cross-agency teams to deliver scale for client transformation.
• Manage revenue, profitability and the client relationship with senior stakeholders across the Publicis Groupe network.
• Oversee coordination between Creative, Media, Digital Transformation and Consulting units to execute integrated campaigns.
• Drive client outcomes by leveraging data, technology and innovation to deliver business impact.
• Provide strategic guidance, governance and performance reporting to clients and internal leadership.

Job description

Company Description

About Publicis Groupe Publicis Groupe, known for its world-renowned creativity, best in class technology, digital and consulting expertise, is the world’s third largest communications group in the world. With more than 80,000 people in over 100 countries, the Groupe has four Solution hubs: Creative with Publicis Communications, Media with Publicis Media, Digital business transformation with Publicis Sapient, and Health & Wellbeing with Publicis Health. Since 2014 and the acquisition of Sapient, Publicis Groupe has undergone a profound transformation by scaling a new model connecting data, creativity and technology. We have continued on that journey with the 2019 acquisition of Epsilon to further scale our data led offering and provide true momentum to our clients own transformation. This model, with a country led approach, is called the "Power of One" and gathers all the capabilities of the Groupe under one roof, putting clients at the core of the organisation. It breaks down the silos between Publicis Communications, Publicis Media, Publicis Sapient, and Publicis Health making them work seamlessly and efficiently to help clients transform marketing and business at scale. Never has our vision and drive for Power of One been as demonstrable as in the role of the Global and Regional Client lead. The Publicis Groupe is a brand led organisation powered by data driven global Practices and has our clients at the absolute core of our business. The role of a RCL is essential for driving growth, for understanding and leading our clients own transformation through delivering the true scale our agencies capabilities. A RCL sets the vision, builds a culture of collaboration and curates a team of experts from our whole Groupe to deliver on that promise. They are true leaders with responsibility for revenue, profitability and leading the relationship with our clients. We could not be more committed to delivering excellence and we articulate our approach to that as the following; Clients Come First; The entire Publicis Groupe transformation was designed to put clients at the center of all we do. Their needs and objectives drive the solutions we provide in order to help them win and grow. We are Seamless; We have created the powerful role of the Regional Client Leader. One person who acts as one point of access and one point of accountability to tap an 80,000-deep pool of talent - free from silos, legacy, and convention. We are Frictionless; We have unified P&Ls and removed all operational barriers that enable true collaboration. We are Modular; The core benefit of our new organization is not only in the depth and range of capability but, more importantly, in our ability to configure situationally; the ability to configure around individual client needs and an open architecture to plug & play world class partners when needed. Modularity is critical as it enables a future proof way for this organization support innovation now and keep pace the changes that show no sign of stopping. We are United; By fusing together our creative, intelligence, and technology expertise, we are able to provide clients with transformative ideas and consumer experiences, unlike any other agency or holding company in the marketplace.

Overview

• Client oriented.
• Meticulous and structured. One is particular about accuracy, has high attention to details
• Curiosity kills the cat; one is instinctively proactive and believes in asking questions to get ahead.
• Reports to Head of Implementation & Buying while collaboratively working with the Business Directors and Category Leaders to ensure the media plans are activated.
• Quality control of all implementations, scheduling, optimization and buying responsibility on designated clients to ensure that respective brands’ KPIs, price guarantees and commitments, are understood and delivered.
• Ability to construct post buy reports, providing actionable analysis for onward implementation.
• Has the ability to use data to hold discussions with media owners and clients.
• Work with your Line Manager and planning team to manage, negotiate and monitor for best cost and ROI for ad-hoc / tactical campaigns.
• Provide timely monthly budget reporting & bonus/ commitment tracking
• Has the ability to adapt to different planning/ buying tools to deliver & justify the execution such as optimization tools (Tardiis) and more
• Able to use and teach Proprietary Tools relevant to the Trading/ I&B function and to ensure that his/ her team has strong proficiency in all the relevant research tools.
• Reconcile with media owners on bookings and billings respectively.
• Quality control in bookings and ensuring their accuracy before sending out.
• Ensure media bookings and invoices tally for efficient and timely Finance Invoicing