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About Wavemaker: A Leading WPP Media Brand
Wavemaker positively provokes growth for clients by reshaping consumer decision-making and experiences through media, content, and technology. Our name is both our mission and our method. We do our best work for brave brands and people who relish being challenged to go further and faster, together.
Role Summary and Impact
Are you an ambitious person who loves to learn? Are you a creative problem solver who wants to build something better? Do you want to work with collaborative clients? Do you want to work for leading CPG clients who are dedicated to Responsible Advertising and sustainable media planning?
Sound interesting? We have an exciting account manager role within our global client leadership team working across Danone (Team Flow) and Hill’s Pet Nutrition (Colgate Palmolive portfolio), two of the largest global FMCG / CPG companies in the world.
Core responsibilities:
Build strong relationships with local teams, by identifying best-in-class work across the network, elevate to global/regional clients, and roll out across all markets; collaborate with strategy team in build out and local market education / roll out.
- Support Client Director in collaborating with WPP strategy, insights, digital teams as well external agency partners to deliver global brand and media strategies, and helping local teams adapt to their markets.
- Ensure accurate and timely delivery of global reporting (e.g., competitive, flowcharts etc.) and help provide analysis and insight into results and recommendations.
- Reinforce account best practices and help local markets implement them into their everyday planning / activation.
- Oversee the finance billing process to collate POs, update budget trackers and monitor client billing.
Skills And Experience
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.
- Proactive, solution orientated and excited by a challenge.
- Delights clients and enjoys collaborating with them.
- Knows how to craft and evaluate a media plan.
- Strong organizational and communication skills
- Able to identify potential problems and understand when to escalate.
- Comfortable working cross-discipline – working with creative, ecommerce, PR, experience agency partners.
- Ideally has experience working with multiple markets although not required.
Life at WPP Media & Benefits
Our passion for shaping the next era of media includes investing in our employees to help them do their best work, and we’re just as committed to employee growth as we are to responsible media investment. WPP Media employees can tap into the global WPP Media & WPP networks to pursue their passions, grow their networks, and learn at the cutting edge of marketing and advertising. We have a variety of employee resource groups and host frequent in-office events showcasing team wins, sharing thought leadership, and celebrating holidays and milestone events. Our benefits include competitive medical, group retirement plans, vision, and dental insurance, significant paid time off, preferential partner discounts, and employee mental health awareness days.
WPP Media is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without discrimination or regard to particular characteristics. We are committed to fostering a culture of respect in which everyone feels they belong and has the same opportunities to progress in their careers.
We believe the best work happens when we're together, fostering creativity, collaboration, and connection. That's why we’ve adopted a hybrid approach, with teams in the office around four days a week. If you require accommodations or flexibility, please discuss this with the hiring team during the interview process.
Please note this is a UK based role and requires individuals to have the right to work in this location
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While we appreciate all applications received, only those candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.
