Associate Director Investment

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• Manage day-day publisher relationships – be the key point of contact for publisher ad operations and programmatic sales
• Process media bookings through internal systems
• Interface into WPP Media buying teams
• Accountability for delivery management and performance analysis of our direct media buys, evaluating fill rates, performance and volume
• Provide awareness to team of media supplier organisations and changes
• Provide support on business development of new products within existing relationships
• Manage planning and allocation of investment across key products with the support of partnership and trading team
• Management the overall relationship of publisher onboarding
• Assist in mentoring and providing support for junior team members.
• Effectively support direct reports in their own career development as well as supporting their continual learning.

• Proactively advocate the WPP Media businesses when meeting with external partners.
• Provide monthly management/review of partnerships with our direct suppliers.
• Negotiate the best rate for WPP Media
• Ensure we setup new media partnerships that provide the best quality and highest performing inventory from all suppliers
• Business development with new and existing suppliers, so that we are accessing inventory at every desirable buying point.
• Building strong relationships with media suppliers across all levels of business including Commercial Director/MD and Trading Lead relationships.

• Pipeline management of new media partnerships in salesforce, with strong use of KPI management to provide visibility to key stakeholders on business development.
• Co-ordinating successful on-boarding of new media partners where other parts of the team will be responsible for inventory vetting, administrating the booking, analysing initial media quality and performance KPIs for a testing period.
• Effective handover of new partnerships to manage delivery and performance
• Involved in monthly evaluation process of suppliers, working with Tech Ops and Intelligence teams to plan for future investment
• Ensuring that we are using media value cross our investment
• Principle stakeholder in evaluation of our sell-side technology requirements
• Proactively monitoring industry news and providing the team with notable updates

• Be Extraordinary by Leading Collectively to Inspire transformational Creativity.
• Create an Open environment by Balancing People and Client Experiences by Cultivating Trust .
• Lead Optimistically by Championing Growth and Development to Mobilize the Enterprise .
• Proven and consistent track record of executing against an aggressive growth strategy and delivering against sales targets in excess of company expectations
• Deep knowledge of online business models and the programmatic landscape
• Strong emotional intelligence – understands cultural sensitivities and developing high quality relationships
• Personal network of senior relationships at Comscore 250 publishers
• Experience in negotiation
• Clear and concise written and verbal communication
• Highly analytical and numerate
• Approachable and very personable
• Excellent network and interpersonal skills
• Resilient and energetic
• Strong sense of initiative and personal ownership
• Rigorous attention to detail
• Thorough approach to solving problems
• Ability to effectively operate with high energy and flexibility in a fast-paced, constantly evolving team environment
• Focussed; but able to maintain perspective.
• Competent computer skills, including Microsoft office specifically excel to an advanced level, as well as outlook, word and power point, with the ability to produce key documentation of a professional standard in all packages
• Strong sense of initiative and personal ownership
• Dedicated to attaining team…