Investment Manager - Sandton, South Africa - Dentsu Aegis Network
Description
Job Title:
Investment Manager
Job Description:
Role purpose
The purpose of this role is to manage a team of media planners and assist the Investment Director on a day-to-day basis to ensure that their teams are delivering strong results for their clients.
Key Accountabilities
Productivity
- Approve Flow plans & Schedules ensuring Productivity Targets are met
- Implement productivity handbooks
- Analyse productivity templates and evaluate how we are tracking against KPI's monthly
- Brief strategy teams monthly on achievements or challenges.
- In depth media landscape and research understanding monthly
- Build relationships with media auditors
- Keep monthly tracking on all client commitments
- Develop course direct strategy to achieve commitments when relevant
- Develop & Maintain Benchmark & Inflation Tracking
- Responsible for the completion of Pitch Buying Templates
- Ensure KPI's are met on dentsu commercial agenda (trading / Salesnet)
- Maintain In depth knowledge of Media landscape, sharing Insights with Investment Lead & BUH's
- Coordinates internal and external stakeholders across local markets, clients and media auditors to ensure the buying commitments are accurately tracked, monitored and reported
- Collects data from specific markets using the agreed methodology (client specific) to quantify, measure, calibrate price performance compared to historical price benchmarks across all media types
- Manages data to normalise benchmarks to maintain as high levels of measurability as possible within the reports
- Prepares and verifies data for the client reports both data analysis and supporting commentary
- Manages any external validation (by media auditors or the like) in conjunction with the Investment Director
- Supports local markets in completion of templates and understanding of the associated permissible methodologies / normalisations
- Excellent communication skills and speed of response.
- Speak and write English
- Comfortable in being client facing at times.
- Excellent time management, organizational skills and communication of work completed/barriers/solution
- Professional and relationship builders with people.
- Attention to detail (accuracy)
- Work well under pressure and deadlines.
- Strategic within media & channel thinking (ito schedules/rationales)
- Analytical skills mine insights from data.
- Cando attitude
- Team player
- Presentation and persuasive skills (ito schedules / rationales)
- Strong management skills
- Extensive digital media experience
Location:
Sandton
Brand:
Amplifi
Time Type:
Full time
Contract Type:
Permanent
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