Media Planner

Omnicom Media Asia Pacific; Singapore; On-site; SGD 42,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

OMD in Singapore is seeking a proactive Account Manager to drive campaign leadership and client servicing within our Account Management Community. You will oversee briefing, ideation and media strategy development, while identifying collaboration opportunities to optimise campaigns.

You will manage real-time optimization across campaigns, ensure timely delivery of reports and invoicing, and support the development of junior team members. Strong understanding of media fundamentals is essential.

Qualifications

• Tertiary qualified, 1-2 years of industry experience in media planning & buying.
• Good understanding of media fundamentals and strategic planning capabilities.
• Experience in managing a team would serve as an advantage.
• Sound understanding of digital media platforms is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Account management and campaign leadership.
• Involvement in briefing, ideation, and media strategy development process.
• Identifying innovative collaboration opportunities for campaigns.
• Identifying growth opportunities for our investment portfolios through strategic planning.
• Ensuring error-free implementation of media plans across teams.
• Optimizing campaigns in real-time to address business needs and challenges.
• Delivering operational excellence by adhering to timelines across deliverables such as reporting, invoicing, etc.
• Training and development of direct reports.
• Proactive sharing of learnings with wider teams to ensure best practices are being implemented.
• Networking and media partnerships.

Skills

Media planning

Media buying

Team management

Digital media

Education

Bachelor degree or equivalent

Job description

OMD is an integrated communications agency delivering media and marketing solutions globally. As part of a global OMD network of 9,000+ people in over 120 offices, we deliver insights that unlock demand potential, ideas that ignite consumer desire and results that accelerate business growth for our clients. We are a dynamic, creative and influential agency network that collectively combines to make OMD the most awarded agency network in the world. We are famous for creative effectiveness. OMD has been voted Most Creative Agency in the World by the Gunn Report for Media for an unprecedented eight years running. At OMD we work with some of the world’s most famous brands to help them grow and achieve their ambitions. Our scale and experience give us a deeper understanding of our clients’ businesses, of the possibilities and opportunities offered by the constantly shifting media world and of the nuances of human behaviour. Our specialties include: Full service Communications Planning, Media Planning & Buying, Econometrics, Performance Media including Direct and 360' Digital (comprising Display, SEO, PPC, Trading Desk, Mobile & Affiliates), Data Analytics, Market & Customer Insight, Social Media, Sponsorship, Branded Entertainment & Content Creation & Experiential.

About the Role

The Account Management Community is at the very heart of the business and critical to its market perception and business health. This community is therefore tasked with creating a recognized market-leading position in implementational / executional management and client servicing.

Responsibilities

• Account management and campaign leadership.
• Involvement in briefing, ideation, and media strategy development process.
• Identifying innovative collaboration opportunities for campaigns.
• Identifying growth opportunities for our investment portfolios through strategic planning.
• Ensuring error-free implementation of media plans across teams.
• Optimizing campaigns in real-time to address business needs and challenges.
• Delivering operational excellence by adhering to timelines across deliverables such as reporting, invoicing, etc.
• Training and development of direct reports.
• Proactive sharing of learnings with wider teams to ensure best practices are being implemented.
• Networking and media partnerships.

Qualifications

• Tertiary qualified, 1-2 years of industry experience in media planning & buying
• Good understanding of media fundamentals and strategic planning capabilities.
• Experience in managing a team would serve as an advantage.
• Sound understanding of digital media platforms is a plus.

Required Skills

• Passionate, with strong opinions about communications.
• An instinctive desire to exceed expectations (clients and management) and deliver cutting-edge strategies.
• Ability to build strong relations with colleagues, clients, network partners and external agencies.
• Can demonstrate good organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Can multitask and change priorities rapidly and is effective under pressure.