Description
Position at EssenceMediaCom
About EssenceMediacom
A global data and measurement-driven media agency whose mission is to make advertising more valuable to the world.
The agency is more than 2,000 people strong, manages $4B in annualized media spend and deploys campaigns in 121 markets via 21 offices in APAC, EMEA and North America.
The Senior Planner is primarily responsible for consistent excellent plan recommendations for the brands in their categories and delivering high quality, fully integrated plan executions & operational excellence.
Responsibilities:
• Support the Client Lead by providing expertise on Planning
• Act as a client contact for the assigned categories and form close relationships with the client to become the face of MediaCom in front of the client
• Develop consistent excellent plan recommendations for brands in the assigned categories & related Operations staff to deliver outstanding plan execution & operational excellence
• Forge and develop solid working relationship with the internal team at MediaCom and GroupM, developing multi-channel plans and responses to client briefs with the other colleagues/teams
• Collaborates closely with buying/implementation teams within the company as to maintain a campaigns delivery throughout the year within agreed KPI's (e.g. reach objectives)
• Contributes to client profitability based on operational efficiency as well as recognizing & developing opportunities to grow out of scope services (like Insights) and related revenues
• Participate in workshops, training sessions and team building events.
Key Performance Indicators:
• Product: outstanding plan execution & operational excellence
• Client: satisfaction, retention and growth
• Personal development: positive feedback from manager, peers and clients
Requirements:
• 3+ years of experience on in a similar or related role
• Numerate and analytical
• Bilingual preferred; Japanese and English; with fluency in one language and basic / business communication skills in the other.

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