Marketplace Group Director (parental leave) Melbourne, Melbourne

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**Description***Position at EssenceMediaCom* **About the Role**As a Group Investment Director, you are to lead the overall delivery of high-quality Investment plans, ensuring your team of talented Investment planners are using data, technology and tools to deliver best in class media systems. **What will make you stand out** • Ensures your Marketplace team understand their role and responsibilities and sets clear direction for all team members. • Coaches & mentors, all team members regularly to deliver their work to a high standard and in a timely manner. • Leads career development of team, able to set goals that will develop our people and develop our business. • Intrinsic understanding of the investment implementation process, leading developments and find efficiencies. • Works hand in hand with Client Lead across all disciplines throughout the campaign development process ensuring they deliver work in a timely manner. • Leads innovation and instils in team that it is present in all recommendations. • Leads quality control on all outputs from the team including media owner briefs, channel presentations, media plans, PCAs, deal tracking and monthly forecasting. • Ensures that GroupM priorities are aligned to MediaCom Investment strategies and are leveraged to the benefit of the client (including rates, media firsts, beta test and learns). • Leads negotiation strategies, in line with client’s overall investment strategy. • Leads team and clients through ongoing micro and macroeconomic trend presentations and POV’s to clients. • Is the senior trusted advisor to clients and helps build teams client relationships. • Understands the client category intrinsically and can translate insights into media outcomes. • Leads by example on how to responds to clients and media owners in a timely manner consistently managing expectations. • Ensures team’s timesheets are completed in a timely manner. • Identify areas of increased commercial opportunity with key media owners. • Ensure your team are across and actions all aged debt, account queries and audits. **More about You** • Is a media planning and buying expert, able to utilise all tools and confidently train and develop others. • Experience in people management with an understanding of what drives retention and a success through others mentality • Strong numeracy and analytical skills applicable to media proposal assessment, evaluation, and negotiation. • Sound knowledge and experience on how to react to various and adverse occurrences throughout the general operation of the team. • High levels of energy that helps cultivate a positive social and high-performing culture. • A leader rather than manager, with the ability to switch between the two depending on the situation. • Is a proven leader and can inspire and motivate the immediate and broader team. • Has established fluent senior relationships and utilises these to get the best outcomes for clients and the agency.• Always planning in addition to ongoing day to day operations. • Leads MediaCom behavioral pillars into the day-to-day functioning of the team. • Always persuasively present and articulate to external stakeholders the functions and principles critical to the EssenceMediaCom Marketplace agenda. **What we can offer you** • Our ‘Strive’ flexible working policy • Learning and Development Academy • WPP Global Employee Discounts • Reconnect Program (work in our offices overseas) • Industry leading parental leave • Birthday leave, Summer days, Culture initiatives across the year • DE&I program **Apply now and send your CV the link!**#J-18808-Ljbffr