Media Investment Manager

30% of the role focuses on the delivery and management of Performance Related Incentive Payments (PRIPs) across a number of Dentsu’s global clients.

Based on guarantees of media buying performance, the PRIPs are of huge importance to the clients and are critical to the commercial success of the agency.

The role involves ensuring timely reporting as well as actively managing value delivery for a selection of brands but there is also scope to become involved in new business.

The other 70% of this role is new business management; the person will be involved in all international pitches and will work on the pricing and commercial offers. Coordinating the Dentsu network and quality checking auditor templates falls under the responsibility of this position.

This role involves some exposure to senior people internally and also to 3rd party auditors.

Job Description:

Introduction

Dentsu is the network designed for what’s next, helping clients predict and plan for disruptive future opportunities and create new paths to growth in the sustainable economy. Taking a people-centered approach to business transformation, we use insights to connect brand, content, commerce and experience, underpinned by modern creativity.

Dentsu International is a global leader that specialises in Sales, Marketing, Customer Experience, and Retention to enable clients to keep “winning” whilst ensuring customer growth and experience is at the very forefront for their businesses.

Amplifi is an important part of our world-class offering.

Amplifi is the investment and innovation arm of dentsu across all media channels and entertainment content. The proposition is based on the delivery of value for all in everything we do. Our focus is to deliver the best possible media value for clients through leveraged media buying, sustainable media income and enable innovation with the supply-side with product, services and capabilities.

• Investment Management: Local management of productivity and all media buying and activation across all media channels to achieve the best possible outcomes for our clients.
• Trading: Leverage our group buying power to enable innovation and product development with the supply side to provide a competitive offering for our clients and sustainable media income for dentsu.
• Entertainment Content: Enabling new business models through content development, financing, acquisition, and distribution.
• Supply-Side management: The three pillars are all under-pinned by Supply-side management for dentsu. This is focused on the modernisation of our approach including the one entity for the management of all media owner procurement with a clear focus on robust and rigorous processes.

We’re hiring a Media Investment Manager as part of our team in the UK (London, Manchester Edinburgh) or Bulgaria (Sofia) working on a hybrid basis.

Purpose of the Role

30% of the role focuses on the delivery and management of Performance Related Incentive Payments (PRIPs) across a number of Dentsu’s global clients.

Based on guarantees of media buying performance, the PRIPs are of huge importance to the clients and are critical to the commercial success of the agency.

This role involves ensuring timely reporting as well as actively managing value delivery for a selection of brands but there is also scope to become involved in new business.

The other 70% of this role is new business management; you person will be involved in all international pitches and will work on the pricing and commercial offers. Coordinating the Dentsu network and quality checking auditor templates falls under the responsibility of this position.

Key Responsibilities

Job description

Work closely with Investment Directors in the Global Investment team, local markets, and 3rd party auditors to ensure commercial delivery on existing clients and for new business pitches.

Fulfilling responsibilities requires:

• Understanding of Dentsu, Client, and Auditor methodologies on key clients.

• Daily management of workload and communication internally, and with the markets, ensuring timely delivery of reporting.

• Being on top of ongoing workload – taking ownership for the work, creating trust from directors.

• Participating and contributing to internal and auditor meetings.

• Establishing close working relation with internal stakeholders (account team and business leads) and local teams (account and Amplifi).

• Being culturally sensitive when working with local teams, and be open and interested about experiencing an international work culture.

• Learning from local markets; identifying similarities and differences between trading and buying practices across borders and sharing best-practices cross-market.

• Seeking feedback on performance from line managers and peers.

• Showing engagement, curiosity and willingness to learn.

Candidate Profile

• Being very accurate and precise in all reporting work, requiring a good level of analytical and numerical skills as well as strong attention to detail.

• Having a strong command of Excel; being able to construct formulas, work with links, debug technical issues, and work across several templates simultaneously.

• Having an good understanding of media metrics (GRP, planning vs. buying audience, rating, CPM, CPE, CPA, CTR, CPC, insertion, panels, cpSpot, rebates, AVB, inflation…etc.).

• Communicating clearly and effectively with line managers and local teams – getting your point across, being straight forward and honest.

• Raising issues to line managers immediately; asking questions when faced with ambiguity or doubt.

Sharing any good practice and learning with the team; suggest recommendations and improvements where it felt appropriate

What we offer

This is a permanent role. The team is based from our UK offices (London , Manchester, Edinburgh) and also Bulgaria (Sofia) on a hybrid working basis and we will consider candidates from any of these locations.

As well as a competitive salary, you’ll enjoy a benefits package that you can tailor to your needs which includes:

• Ongoing Training
• Unparalleled professional development
• Company-provided Medical Healthcare
• Generous Pension provisions
• Health and Wellness benefits
• Volunteering days
• Life Assurance
• Working in diverse teams where you can make a real impact.
• Exciting and rewarding environment.
• Varied work across industries

Great additional benefits

• 25 holidays per year, plus bank holidays, additional Christmas leave and your birthday off. We also offer 2 paid volunteer charity days and 3 well-being each year
• Other benefits include Private health care, income protection and critical illness cover

Inclusion and Diversity

Our diverse and inclusive culture enables our employees to bring their whole selves to work and be proud of doing so. For us, this is the foundation for great innovation which, in turn, generates better outcomes for our people, partners and communities. This is why we encourage applications from people with disabilities, and of all ages, nationalities, backgrounds and cultures.

We are happy to discuss flexible and agile approaches to working for all our roles – we can’t promise we will be able to offer you everything you want or need but we do promise to discuss it with you openly and honestly. If you have any reasonable adjustment needs arising from a disability or medical condition to fully participate in the recruitment process, please discuss this with our recruitment teams.

About dentsu

Taking a people-centered approach to business transformation, we use insights to connect brand, content, commerce and experience, underpinned by modern creativity. As part of Dentsu Group Inc. we are headquartered in Tokyo, Japan and our 65,000 employee-base of dedicated professionals work across four regions (Japan, Americas, EMEA and APAC). Dentsu combines Japanese innovation with a diverse, global perspective to drive client growth and to shape society.

Diversity, equity, and inclusion sits at the heart of our Social Impact strategy – our fully integrated sustainability strategy which includes our ambition to build a fair and more equal society, where everyone is equipped to thrive.

Location:

London

Brand:

Global Amplifi

Time Type:

Full time

Contract Type:

Permanent