Reservation Account Manager - FTC

Open Connect (BT/EE/Plusnet)

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Essence Mediacom is a new breed of media agency. Grounded in analytics & insights and powered by data & technology, we believe in the power of media and creative to drive breakthroughs for the world’s best brands. We help clients understand the modern marketing paradox and discover the breakthroughs brands need to win with their consumers. We are designed for the new communications economy — built on data & technology, built for people & algorithms, built around diverse schools of thought, built to test & learn at scale, and, crucially, built to evolve.

Reservation, Account Manager

At WPP Media, we believe in the power of our culture and our people. It’s what elevates us to deliver exceptional experiences for both our clients and each other. In this role it will be critical to embrace WPP & WPP Media’s shared core values:

• 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.

The Reservation Account Manager role is a key role within the display team taking responsibility for the day-to-day planning and buying across all campaigns for each of the designated clients.

Display at Essence Mediacom comprises of Publishing, Audio, and all forms of IO based digital display buys. This will also encompass partnership-based activity. You will work closely with the Director and Associate Directors of the team, Heads of Reservation and Planning to ensure that both the planning and buying of the campaigns are delivered to the incredibly high standard required by the agency and client.

You will have day-to-day responsibility for the in-channel plans and execution of Display, Print and Audio (Digital & Linear) campaigns. This role is designed to support across multiple accounts as required.

You are then expected to follow direction to deliver the plan in a way that is commercially fit for purpose and delivers the incredibly competitive pricing and qualitative guarantees that we have made as part of our re-pitch at the start of 2020.

The successful candidate must have experience for this type of responsibility on a blue-chip client. You will have input in overseeing junior members of the team and contribute to their individual development and ensuring that their output is of a high quality.

The role will involve a large degree of client contact and the successful candidate must be confident and professional in holding face to face client meetings and presentations.

• Focus on managing multiple campaigns, from planning, briefing media owners, to campaign set up, reporting and optimisation across all display channels (Predominant focus on publishing, audio, digital display and partnerships)
• Develop and deliver clearly thought out channel strategies that assist the overall media strategy. This includes confidently presenting your work to clients, both in documented and verbal form
• Establish strong working relationships with key internal teams as well as media owners and clients
• Responsibility for booking and invoice management
• Contribute to team knowledge sharing and implement best practices
• Utilise proprietary and industry tools to evolve the campaigns
• Work with our Investment and Commercial leads to understand and deliver client pricing and value guarantees
• Develop a strong understanding of the various media owner offerings in this space
• Understand Display channels measurement - Pamco, Rajar, Midas etc
• Have a full understanding of the wider Telco competitive set
• Un…