Total 11 job vacancies by Groupm Asia Pacific Holdings Pte. Ltd.

Overview of job

GroupM is the world’s largest media investment company and are a part of WPP. In fact, we are responsible for one in every three ads you see globally. We are currently looking for a APAC Head Ad Operations to join us. In this role, you will be responsible for guiding a growing team in the local markets to support the next phase of Ad Operations development in biddable and non-biddable activation. The ideal candidate has operated in a complex Ad Operations businesses, is focused on flawless campaign execution, has managed highly technically skilled teams and has delivered successful results in a solutions-first environment.

At GroupM APAC, our people are our strength, which is why fostering a culture of diversity and inclusion is important to us.

Reporting of the role

This role reports to: Primary report to GMS Regional Head. Secondary report to Global GMS AdOps lead

3 best things about the job:

1. Be a member of a high performing team focused on technology, data, partners and platforms, a key strategic growth area for GroupM and WPP.

2. To deliver world class thinking and practice area specialization to Agency clients on platform-driven activation services

3. The opportunity to learn and collaborate with a wide range of stakeholders across all GroupM agencies and business units in APAC

In this role, your goals will be:

In three months:

· Established working relationships with your team across the region and broader stakeholders to understand current state and needs

· Developed a roadmap of programme development for Adops and prioritised the key rollout phases

In six months:

· Created a training programme for development and upskilling the Adops teams

· Tracked progress of the roadmap activities, report on progress and next steps

· Identified opportunities for further enhancements

In 12 months:

· Successfully upgraded the capabilities of Adops teams against defined agreed metrics

· Reviewed the full year activities

· Created a plan for second year rollout

What your day job looks like at GroupM:

GroupM Services Responsibilities

The GroupM Services team adopt a collaborative and customer-centric approach in delivering high value and innovative solutions for our Agencies and Agencies’ clients, including the activation and execution of dynamic media campaigns.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

· Building, deploying and ensuring rollout and adherence to best standard operational guidelines/practice across APAC markets for effective campaign delivery

· Working with local market Ad Operations leads to identify any operational issues/areas of improvement and develop a plan to implement corrective measures. Continued collaboration on working to improve Ad Operations to ensure flawless execution and best in class delivery.

· Manage the operational implementation of new ad products, in partnership with product innovation teams, including designing and implementing test environments, identifying resources, and ensuring that new products only go live with appropriate delivery capabilities in place.

· Act as APAC point of escalation for vendor issues related to extended resolution time when issues are encountered. Collaborate with Partnership team to ensure vendors are accountable to relationship expectations such as the adherence to SLAs.

· Work closely with the Global Head of Ad Operations to ensure regional direction of the Ad Operations practice aligns with the global strategy and provide feedback on regional experiences to ensure the global strategy aligns with regional needs.

· Maintain solid relationships with cross-functional regional practice leads including but not limited to Search, Social, Programmatic and Ecommerce to ensure executional alignment across GroupM Services

· Keep on top of industry trends in online advertising and ad operations including attendance of industry events and providing through leadership as it pertains to Ad Operations.

· Make sure we as a region innovate and surface best in class local work that can be scaled regionally or globally. This can be around process, automation, quality improvement or intelligence (data quality driving better reporting and insights)

Individual Responsibilities:

· Build a community of Ad operations experts across the region, mentoring development, fostering learning and sharing to build confidence and capabilities

· Support in-market adops excellence practice (inc. operational workflow efficiency, naming convention, quality assurance and process standardization) that delivers best in class tracking and data operations for measurement (i.e. tagging)

· Demonstrate aptitude across digital operations and deliver technologies (such as AdServers, DSP, DCO) to maximize campaign performance efficiency and performance

· Support agencies clients and new business requirements

· Identify, support or lead workstreams to drive efficiencies including automation (such as use of APIs/custom scripts or any third-party tools)

· Effectively communicate and simplify technical explanations to senior GroupM Agency’s stakeholders and/or clients

· Collaborate to strengthen partnership across technology players such as AdServers, reputable third-party AdTech companies and vendors in order to apply innovative product solutions across campaign delivery

· Represent GMS Ad Operations at industry events/forums

· Drive consistent performance feedback to the team members

What you’ll bring:

· A minimum of 10 years’ experience and at least 3+ years building and managing an Ad Operations team in a digital environment.

· A proven and respected industry Ad Operations lead with a strong digital pedigree.

· Ability to clearly communicate complex and technical issues to variety of internal and external stakeholders.

· Expert with leading ad servers and web analytics tools and strong industry knowledge of the Ad Operations environment.

· Experience working in a global staff environment, as well as leveraging outsourced Ad Operations resources.

· Experience of overseeing traffickers and managing a technically led Ad Operations team in order to maximize efficiencies and reduce response times.

· Knowledge of programmatic and commercial SSPs as well as DMP and DCO platforms and established relationships with media partners, verification companies and large digital players like Google/FB

· Excellent interpersonal and organizational skills and a motivator.

· Proficient with Microsoft Suite of Office Product

· Leadership skills demonstrated as the ability to anticipate and remove barriers to productivity, drive teams towards clear goals, take effective decisions and challenge the status quo.

· Strive for excellence demonstrated by setting high standards for yourself and others, holding teams accountable, focusing on continuous optimization while mitigating risks.

· Passionate about digital media, AdTech, marketing tools and technologies and eager to keep learning

· Ability to build and maintain a productive collaboration across teams

· Persuasive and effective communicator, ability to operate in matrix organisation

· Ability to read/write SQL qQuery, consulting databases and effectively read/write HTML/Javascript

More about GroupM Nexus

GroupM makes advertising work better for people.

GroupM Nexus comprise world-leading addressable specialists who provide media activation services and proprietary solutions that limit risks and guarantee outcomes.

Underpinned by our digital media philosophy – everything that can be addressable, should be, as long as it translates into value for our clients – GroupM Nexus offer addressable solutions across Search, Social, Programmatic, Ad Ops, and eCommerce.

As the largest media investment company in the world, we are agency partners to 1 out of 2 Top 100 global brands, representing more than $50 billion in media spend globally.

More about GroupM

GroupM - GroupM leads and shapes media markets by delivering performance enhancing media products and services, powered by data and technology. Our global network agencies and businesses enable our people to work collaboratively across borders with the best in class, providing them the opportunity to accelerate their progress and development. We are not limited by teams or geographies; our scale and diverse range of clients lets us be more adventurous with our business and talent. We give our talent the space, support and tools to innovate and grow.

Discover more about GroupM at www.groupm.com
Follow @GroupMAPAC on Twitter
Follow GroupM on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/groupm

About GroupM Singapore

GroupM Singapore operates in one of the most dynamic and exciting environments in the world. Although it is a small domestic market, there is a vibrant media industry which is undergoing rapid evolution as digital technology reshapes the way marketing supports advertisers’ needs. Being at the crossroads of Asia means, that aside from the local clients and media owners, we also have a high proportion of multi-national clients, renowned brands and media owners. Making GroupM Singapore the Number One organisation to join and develop your career in media investment.

GroupM is an equal opportunity employer. We view everyone as an individual and we understand that inclusion is more than just diversity – it’s about belonging. We celebrate the fact that everyone is unique and that’s what makes us so good at what we do. We pride ourselves on being a company that embraces difference and truly represents the global clients we work with.

We are currently looking for a Search & Performance Associate Manager to join us at GroupM.

In this role, you will grow all aspects of Paid Search activity across a range of mid-tier agency clients, providing insight, strategy and high-quality deliverables in tandem with the SEO personnel and wider agency team in the Hong Kong and Taiwan Market. You must be fluent in written and spoken English, Traditional Chinese & Simplified Chinese.

Overview Of Job

GroupM is the world’s largest media investment company and are a part of WPP. In fact, we are responsible for one in every three ads you see globally. We are currently looking for a Search & Performance Associate Manager to join us at GroupM.

In this role, you will grow all aspects of Paid Search activity across a range of mid-tier agency clients, providing insight, strategy and high-quality deliverables in tandem with the SEO personnel and wider agency team.

At GroupM APAC, our people are our strength, which is why fostering a culture of diversity and inclusion is important to us.

Reporting of the role

This role reports to: Senior Manager, Search

3 Best Things About The Job

• Working in one of the most digitally advanced and forward-thinking media agency that is globally connected
• Working across a diverse and prestigious set of clients with varying objectives across a mix of performance channels.
• Develop your search skill set with exposure to planning, execution and optimisation process within the search environment.

Measures of success -

In Three Months

• Understand client’s business goals and marketing objectives and understand the role SEM plays to drive their business forward.
• Great understanding of best practices and audit process to deliver best in class campaigns.
• Ad copy management – Reviewing ad copy performance and provide improvisations

In Six Months

• Continually building test and learn frameworks across all SEM campaigns, ensuring tests reach significance where possible and learnings / next steps are communicated to clients.
• Strong relationship with your team and senior stakeholders across the business
• Strong relationship with SEM reps across key partners
• Contributing to campaign performance to drive continued efficiencies across all campaigns
• Independently respond to all day-to-day queries

In 12 Months

• Contribution to evolving best practices through testing Alphas/Betas.
• Exceeding client KPIs across all campaigns and growing business revenue through increased billings where possible.
• Contribution to SEM strategies across new business pitches
• Assists in the development and documentation of best practices for improving operational efficiencies within the team and the group

Responsibilities of The Role

• Understanding of the relationship between Paid Search and other online and offline marketing activities including natural search and ideas for effective coordination
• Set-up, monitor, manage and optimise paid search activity
• Complete daily run rates across a variety of accounts with ongoing commentary and actionable insights
• Provide on-time reporting to clients on key metrics and agreed KPIs
• Ongoing client servicing including but not limited to optimisation and campaign progress, prompt response to client and internal questions related to paid campaigns.
• Ongoing SEM strategy development and implementation
• Prepare and present strategic media recommendations to client and agency management, including objectives, strategy, rationale, and provide analysis and projections to support recommendations
• Design and implement or oversee implementation of single and multi-variant tests to increase campaign efficiency
• Supervise the implementation of all biddable media campaigns

What You Will Need

• At least 3 years’ experience in a digital marketing role with a focus on SEM
• Google Ads Search & Google Ads Fundamentals Certification
• Experience in running high-volume campaigns across Google Ads (Search, Display, App, Video, etc.), Bing Ads, and Apple Search Strategic mindset to building and deliver bid strategies and attribution models across Search Ads 360, Kenshoo etc.
• Proven experience of on-going campaign optimisation to improve business objectives, such as ROAS and CPA. Able to deliver across a range of touch points; sales, store visits, online submissions, downloads etc
• Strong analytical mindset with attention to detail around data, insights and actions
• Great presentation skills
• Ability to work within and effectively manage a team, decisively organizing multiple assignments for both self and team direct reports
• Adherence to tight deadlines while delivering flawless work
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Show ability in training and leadership capability
• Demonstrate genuine curiosity and interest in our clients & their business
• Must be fluent in written and spoken English, Traditional Chinese & Simplified Chinese

More about GroupM Nexus

GroupM makes advertising work better for people.

GroupM Nexus comprise world-leading addressable specialists who provide media activation services and proprietary solutions that limit risks and guarantee outcomes.

Underpinned by our digital media philosophy – everything that can be addressable, should be, as long as it translates into value for our clients – GroupM Nexus offer addressable solutions across Search, Social, Programmatic, Ad Ops, and eCommerce.

As the largest media investment company in the world, we are agency partners to 1 out of 2 Top 100 global brands, representing more than $50 billion in media spend globally.

More about GroupM

GroupM - GroupM leads and shapes media markets by delivering performance enhancing media products and services, powered by data and technology. Our global network agencies and businesses enable our people to work collaboratively across borders with the best in class, providing them the opportunity to accelerate their progress and development. We are not limited by teams or geographies; our scale and diverse range of clients lets us be more adventurous with our business and talent. We give our talent the space, support and tools to innovate and grow.

Discover more about GroupM at www.groupm.com
Follow @GroupMAPAC on Twitter
Follow GroupM on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/groupm

About GroupM Singapore

GroupM Singapore operates in one of the most dynamic and exciting environments in the world. Although it is a small domestic market, there is a vibrant media industry which is undergoing rapid evolution as digital technology reshapes the way marketing supports advertisers’ needs. Being at the crossroads of Asia means, that aside from the local clients and media owners, we also have a high proportion of multi-national clients, renowned brands and media owners. Making GroupM Singapore the Number One organisation to join and develop your career in media investment.

GroupM is an equal opportunity employer. We view everyone as an individual and we understand that inclusion is more than just diversity – it’s about belonging. We celebrate the fact that everyone is unique and that’s what makes us so good at what we do. We pride ourselves on being a company that embraces difference and truly represents the global clients we work with.

Overview:

GroupM Nexus Commerce is a team of highly skilled performance marketers who drive measurable business growth for iconic brands across GroupM agencies. Our Commerce capability is comprised of Strategy, Activation, Creative, and Data & Technology, working as an interconnected unit and living on the cutting edge of modern marketing. Through proprietary tools, partnerships, processes and training, GroupM Commerce delivers industry leading Commerce solutions to our clients with global scale, local nuance, and effectiveness.

The Director, Commerce Analytics (Data Engineering) will be embedded within our Mindshare agency team and leverage their experience to drive development and delivery of our commerce analytics solutions and specifically its underlying data base and infrastructure. You will own the development of commerce analytics solutions. You will assist in advancing the sophistication of our commerce measurement, reporting, and insights capability.

With the proliferation of retail media networks and commerce platforms, this role presents an exciting opportunity for Mindshare. The successful candidate will play a crucial role in developing our global commerce analytics offering, working as part of a connected team across functions and markets. The role will require a domain of the field of data engineering, including expertise in designing, building, and maintaining scalable data pipelines, proficiency in ETL processes, and experience working with various big data technologies, databases, and programming languages such as, R, SQL, Python. An entrepreneurial spirit with a bias for action and problem-solving is necessary to be successful in this role.

Job Responsibilities:

· Develop and implement a comprehensive data strategy that aligns with the company's overall business objectives.

· Lead the design, development, and maintenance of advanced analytics models and tools to support key business initiatives and drive growth.

· Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify opportunities for data-driven decision-making and develop innovative solutions to address these needs.

· Oversee the management and analysis of large datasets, ensuring data quality and integrity.

· Establish and maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders to ensure alignment on key projects and initiatives.

· Drive a culture of continuous improvement and innovation within the Commerce Data & Analytics team.

· Provide thought leadership and guidance on industry best practices and emerging trends in data analytics and business intelligence.

· Manage and mentor a high-performing team of data analysts and scientists, fostering a collaborative and inclusive work environment.

Minimum Requirements:

· Bachelor's degree in data science, statistics, computer science, or a related field.

· 7+ years of experience in data analytics, business intelligence, or a related field, with prior leadership experience. High preference towards delivering data engineering for a large retailer, CPG, or ecommerce business.

· Strong understanding of advanced analytics techniques, including predictive modeling, segmentation, and optimization.

· Understanding of use of automation, artificial intelligence for data is a plus.

· Expertise in data visualization and reporting tools (e.g., Tableau, Power BI) and programming languages (e.g., SQL, Python, R).

· Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to translate complex data concepts into actionable insights for non-technical audiences.

· Strong project management and organizational skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver results in a fast-paced environment.

· Demonstrated success in leading and developing high-performing teams.

About Mindshare:

Mindshare is a media services company that accelerates Good Growth for its clients. Our company values of energy, empathy and impact bind together our diverse global family of 10,000 people from every culture and with every specialist skill you can imagine. You can check out some of our people’s stories on LinkedIn or Instagram or hear about the company in their own words here. Mindshare is part of GroupM, the world’s leading media investment company, and WPP, the world’s largest advertising holding group.

At Mindshare and GroupM, we are Open, Optimistic, and Extraordinary.

• Open. We cultivate trust by taking ownership and accountability, and we empathetically and intelligently balance people and client experience in everything we do.
• Optimistic. We mobilize the enterprise, driving our vision forward, and we champion growth and career development so we can all thrive.
• Extraordinary. We harness our shared capabilities to inspire transformational creativity, and lead collectively to deliver a seamless client and colleague experience.

GroupM is responsible for more than $60 billion in annual media investment, as measured by the independent research bureau COMvergence. Through its global agencies Mindshare, Wavemaker, EssenceMediacom, and mSix&Partners, and cross-channel performance (GroupM Nexus), data (Choreograph), entertainment (GroupM Motion Entertainment) and investment solutions, GroupM leverages a unique combination of global scale, expertise, and innovation to generate sustained value for clients wherever they do business. Discover more at www.groupm.com.

About GroupM Singapore:

GroupM Singapore operates in one of the most dynamic and exciting environments in the world. Although it is a small domestic market, there is a vibrant media industry which is undergoing rapid evolution as digital technology reshapes the way marketing supports advertisers’ needs. Being at the crossroads of Asia means, that aside from the local clients and media owners, we also have a high proportion of multi-national clients, renowned brands and media owners. Making GroupM Singapore the Number One organisation to join and develop your career in media investment.

GroupM is an equal opportunity employer. We view everyone as an individual and we understand that inclusion is more than just diversity – it’s about belonging. We celebrate the fact that everyone is unique and that’s what makes us so good at what we do. We pride ourselves on being a company that embraces difference and truly represents the global clients we work with.

Overview of job

GroupM is the world’s largest media investment company and are a part of WPP. In fact, we are responsible for one in every three ads you see globally.

GroupM Nexus unites GroupM's addressable content and TV, AI technology, data and technology consulting and omnichannel solutions from Acceleration, Finecast, GroupM Services and Xaxis into a single unit. GroupM Nexus adopts a collaborative and customer-centric approach in delivering high value and innovative solutions for our Agencies and Agencies’ clients, including the activation and execution of dynamic media campaigns.

In this role, you will design and develop ETL for data from various data sources to help the agency and client to deliver various data and reporting solutions. You will be a master at data manipulation and querying using variety of Could platforms, 3rd party and open-source tools connected to Media Sources and GroupM Proprietary tools.

Reporting of the role

This role reports to: Director, Nexus Data and Technology

3 best things about the job:
1. A fun, flexible work environment that combines the best of entrepreneurialism whilst at the same time being part of the largest marketing services group in the world

1. Be a member of a high performing team focused on technology, data, partners and platforms, a key strategic growth area for GroupM and WPP.
2. Opportunity to work directly with the world’s biggest brands on high profile projects regionally and globally

In this role, your goals will be:
In three months:

• Understand Media data and measurements
• Imbibe GroupM data ecosystem

In six months:

• Design and implement ETL processes for multiple projects and clients
• Ensure data security and access management
• Data validation and accuracy checks
• Create Data Dictionary

In 12 months:

• Drive organizational Data Initiatives
• Set up seamless automated exception handling and maintenance processes
• Be part of WPP Global data community using their data sets and tools , advocating new practices in Singapore/ APAC markets, undertaking case studies to enrich the community

What you’ll bring:

• Thorough understanding of Data base technologies SQL, Cloud Data management platforms ( Azure, GCP) and ETL processes
• knowledge of open source data manipulation tools (e.g., R, Python, SAS, etc.)
• Ability to work collaboratively with multi-cultural business partners and stakeholders, and strong team player
• Good Communication and stakeholder management
• Knowledge in Programmatic, digital media and advertising design is welcome but not essential.
• Eagerness to learn and solution oriented thinking is a must

Minimum qualifications:

• Graduate/Postgraduate in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics)
• Certification in any of DB technologies and/or cloud data management platforms
• Minimum 4-6 years in a role of Data Engineer/ Data Analyst/Software Engineer/Full Stack developer

More about GroupM Nexus

GroupM makes advertising work better for people.

GroupM Nexus comprise world-leading addressable specialists who provide media activation services and proprietary solutions that limit risks and guarantee outcomes.

Underpinned by our digital media philosophy – everything that can be addressable, should be, as long as it translates into value for our clients – GroupM Nexus offer addressable solutions across Search, Social, Programmatic, Ad Ops, and eCommerce.

As the largest media investment company in the world, we are agency partners to 1 out of 2 Top 100 global brands, representing more than $50 billion in media spend globally.

Discover more about GroupM at www.groupm.com
Follow @GroupMWorldwide on Twitter
Follow GroupM on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/groupm

More about GroupM

GroupM - GroupM leads and shapes media markets by delivering performance enhancing media products and services, powered by data and technology. Our global network agencies and businesses enable our people to work collaboratively across borders with the best in class, providing them the opportunity to accelerate their progress and development. We are not limited by teams or geographies; our scale and diverse range of clients lets us be more adventurous with our business and talent. We give our talent the space, support and tools to innovate and grow.

Discover more about GroupM at www.groupm.com
Follow @GroupMAPAC on Twitter
Follow GroupM on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/groupm

About GroupM Singapore

GroupM Singapore operates in one of the most dynamic and exciting environments in the world. Although it is a small domestic market, there is a vibrant media industry which is undergoing rapid evolution as digital technology reshapes the way marketing supports advertisers’ needs. Being at the crossroads of Asia means, that aside from the local clients and media owners, we also have a high proportion of multi-national clients, renowned brands and media owners. Making GroupM Singapore the Number One organisation to join and develop your career in media investment.

GroupM is an equal opportunity employer. We view everyone as an individual and we understand that inclusion is more than just diversity – it’s about belonging. We celebrate the fact that everyone is unique and that’s what makes us so good at what we do. We pride ourselves on being a company that embraces difference and truly represents the global clients we work with.

GroupM is the world’s largest media investment company and is a part of WPP. In fact, we are responsible for one in every three ads you see globally.

We are currently looking for an Associate Performance Director (SEO) to join us. In this role, you will be responsible for driving SEO for GroupM's key regional clients.

Reporting of the role

This role will report to the Head of SEO.

3 best things about the job:

1. You will get to work with one of our high-profile clients, where a small change can make a big difference.
2. Lead the day-to-day running of key client accounts.
3. Continuously drive improvement in the implementation of new creative ideas, identify new trends and turn them into actionable insights of performance optimization. We are in a period of strong growth, which means that there is support for development of new products and services.

In this role, your goals will be:

In three months:

• Become familiar with organizational processes
• Take ownership of existing SEO projects
• Build relationships with key stakeholders within the WPP agencies

In six months:

• Deliver growth and establish Agency target revenue.
• Establish close teamwork and collaboration within platform business team
• Support the Head of SEO to run and deliver an SEO strategy and update on the project planning to ensure smooth workflow.
• Understand metrics and KPIs and continually suggest optimizations to improve performance.
• Guide and mentor clients and team members on adopting data-driven organization and industry best practices

In 12 months:

• Retention and growth of Agency SEO business and revenue target.
• Development of client training/workshop proposition to include: creds, sales collateral and training materials.

What your day job looks like at GroupM:

The appointee will be responsible for the effective delivery of client SEO services either directly, or by contributing to projects managed by other team members. There may also be communication with other GroupM offices and external vendors.

Agency Partner

• To ensure delivery of existing business and maintain quality and satisfaction.
• To identify and build relationships with key stakeholders within the agencies.
• To support and encourage new business to meet agency targets.
• Oversee SEO campaigns which encompass all audit, optimization and reporting workstream that concern the technical setup and content of our client websites.
• To be an evangelist for complete SEO offering within the agencies and to increase staff competencies for effective delivery.

Specialist Area

• To be a knowledge owner for analytics and actively develop and share this knowledge with the team as well as provide / lead delivery.
• Experience in Multi Project Planning and Management to create and support SEO marketing plans and communicate timelines, process updates, roadblocks etc. on regular basis to the team.

Sales & Operations

• Refine sales proposition and supporting processes for delivery.
• Train, manage, mentor and develop direct reports to be successful in their role and grow in their careers.
• Identification of upsell and cross-sell opportunities with agency offerings.
• Work with the Head of SEO to create sales proposals and support RFPs with tangible data references, where appropriate.

What you'll bring:

• Minimum of 7 yrs. of core SEO experience
• Understand Google search engine ranking algorithm and audit the website to discover the opportunity to improve the website ranking in search result
• At least 5 years of strategic/ client relationship experience in an agency
• Actively pursues excellence while driving for efficiency
• Continuously drive improvement in the implementation of new creative ideas, identify new trends and turn them into actionable insights of performance optimization
• Sees the big picture, yet pays attention to detail and takes pride in accuracy.
• A strong problem-solving mindset driven by curiosity.
• A keen learner who’s willing to coach, to train and to educate.
• A good mix of traits as a team player and as an individual contributor – and as a project lead, you should be ready to dive in and get hands-on as the situation requires.
• Experiences working on regional that support multiple languages – it would be a plus if you speak any APAC languages.
• Any kind of expertise in any of the following areas would be preferable:
  • Conversion Optimisation (CRO/LPO)
  • Exhibit advanced grasp on JavaScript, CSS and HTML put together and their impact on page performance and content delivery.
  • Adapt with API use and curious about data.
  • Well-experienced with Omniture/Google Analytics set-up and configuration.

More about GroupM Nexus

GroupM makes advertising work better for people.

GroupM Nexus comprise world-leading addressable specialists who provide media activation services and proprietary solutions that limit risks and guarantee outcomes.

Underpinned by our digital media philosophy – everything that can be addressable, should be, as long as it translates into value for our clients – GroupM Nexus offer addressable solutions across Search, Social, Programmatic, Ad Ops, and eCommerce.

As the largest media investment company in the world, we are agency partners to 1 out of 2 Top 100 global brands, representing more than $50 billion in media spend globally.

More about GroupM

GroupM - GroupM leads and shapes media markets by delivering performance enhancing media products and services, powered by data and technology. Our global network agencies and businesses enable our people to work collaboratively across borders with the best in class, providing them the opportunity to accelerate their progress and development. We are not limited by teams or geographies; our scale and diverse range of clients lets us be more adventurous with our business and talent. We give our talent the space, support and tools to innovate and grow.

Discover more about GroupM at www.groupm.com
Follow @GroupMAPAC on Twitter
Follow GroupM on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/groupm

About GroupM Singapore

GroupM Singapore operates in one of the most dynamic and exciting environments in the world. Although it is a small domestic market, there is a vibrant media industry which is undergoing rapid evolution as digital technology reshapes the way marketing supports advertisers’ needs. Being at the crossroads of Asia means, that aside from the local clients and media owners, we also have a high proportion of multi-national clients, renowned brands and media owners. Making GroupM Singapore the Number One organisation to join and develop your career in media investment.

GroupM is an equal opportunity employer. We view everyone as an individual and we understand that inclusion is more than just diversity – it’s about belonging. We celebrate the fact that everyone is unique and that’s what makes us so good at what we do. We pride ourselves on being a company that embraces difference and truly represents the global clients we work with.

Role Reports To: CEO, EssenceMediacom Asia Pacific; Chief Investment Officer, GroupM APAC

Role Location: Singapore

Key Working Stakeholder Group: The role sits on the EssenceMediacom APAC SLT, together with APAC CEO, CCO, COO, and CPO. CEOs and MDs for key markets in the region, Global Chief Investment Officer at EssenceMediacom, Heads of Trading in GroupM and in EssenceMediacom in each of the Asia Pacific markets, the APAC Head of GroupM Nexus

Description

Role Reports To: CEO, EssenceMediacom Asia Pacific; Chief Investment Officer, GroupM APAC

Role Location: Singapore

Key Working Stakeholder Group: The role sits on the EssenceMediacom APAC SLT, together with APAC CEO, CCO, COO, and CPO. CEOs and MDs for key markets in the region, Global Chief Investment Officer at EssenceMediacom, Heads of Trading in GroupM and in EssenceMediacom in each of the Asia Pacific markets, the APAC Head of GroupM Nexus

Overview

Media investment management sits at the very heart of our business; it is our heritage and is in our blood! It is however also the most rapidly changing area of our business and the ability to adapt and exploit all new opportunities on behalf of our clients is critical. As agency models transition from providing clients services and outputs to solutions and outcomes, the role of our Investment leadership position will be critical. As our business finishes (not starts) its transition to being heavily digital in nature, what this role delivers must be future forward in how cutting edge the thinking is when it comes to digital media.

What are we asking you to do:-

• To leverage the scale of GroupM and the strength of EssenceMediacom’s talent to provide EssenceMediacom’s current and future clients a clear and measurable market advantage.
• To place clients at the heart of all our operations and ensure a very high level of engagement and partnership with all our key clients
• To lead the way on what media investment management means in Asia and in a digital and biddable landscape, and set the benchmark for market leading thinking in this space. We want you to be the market thought leader that pulls not just the agency but the industry forward.
• To scale the thinking and opportunity of Breakthrough investment in a relevant way for the region and the nuances of each market within it.
• To enhance local market investment strategy development and support their successful delivery of investment KPIs.
• To maximize EssenceMediacom’s commercial potential through the delivery of client performance related incentives and conversion of group proprietary media solutions.
• Be EssenceMediacom’s key point of communication and collaboration between EssenceMediacom global/regional trading and local GroupM Trading teams, ensuring EssenceMediacom is a valuable contributor in all related initiatives and in parallel EssenceMediacom pushes for benefits in line with its leadership share.
• To build and inspire the EssenceMediacom investment community through communication and sharing, development of best practices and collaboration on identifying and scaling innovation.
• Leverage our scale and platform/vendor partnerships to drive key strategic agendas for our people including DE&I, wellbeing, and sustainability

Why You Should be Excited

Simply put we are asking you to own and drive the most important delivery agenda we have as an agency – how to unlock Breakthrough value in challenging marketplaces for our clients that keep us ahead of the pack. It is not an over statement to say that your role and your team’s success are table stakes to any development we want to pursue on our clients. If you don’t succeed then we don’t succeed.

Measures of Success

3 months : Visibility and Context

• Working with EssenceMediacom global Investment team and APAC client leads to understand the current and historical investment profile and requirements of all key regional clients.Including pricing commitments, auditing timelines, commercial risk if any.
  Covering both traditional and digital commitments also looking beyond price to quality, performance and additional value requirements.
  
• Understand roles and responsibilities of regional investment team and ensuring that each member of your team have clear KPIs and deliverables that ladder up to the business targets and the investment vision
• Conducted initial Investment reviews with top 5 markets, including:
  EssenceMediacom Investment resource – talent / structurePOV local GroupM CEO / HOT
  POV local EssenceMediacom Office Head
  Assess capability for evolved digital investment management and value creation
  Client competitiveness
  Commercial impact
  Understood and are aligned with existing local investment targets and associated strategies for delivery.
  Aligned with the market CEO on how you and your team will help the market moving forward and what your own impact will be
  Assesed overall investment strategy and tracking vs this
  
• Understood and are aligned with existing significant major EssenceMediacom / GroupM regional initiatives:Usage and development strategies for Group products.
  Understanding of preferred suppliers (inventory and technology).
  Measurement and systems.
  
• Work with regional commercial / finance teams to understand Investment’s commercial impact by market and vertical.
• Engaged with the broader investment community across EssenceMediacom and shared an ongoing cadence plan for inspiration and sharing

6 months : Process and Strategy

• Working with local markets and key client teams, develop clear aligned strategies across markets and clients toMaximise the impact of GroupM’s proprietary products. In particular the advanced products (inventory, tech and data solutions)
  Ensuring that product development is aligned with EssenceMediacom client requirements. Input market, client and regional requirements into product development pipeline in emerging fields of investment such as ecommerce, gaming, metaverse and OTT.
  Improve Preferred Supplier (inventory and technology) management and drive agency education on why adherence is important.
  Support Giants value extraction and management plan
  
• Working with regional commercial / finance teams to improve forecasting.
• Ensure all media investment component of all new business pitches / defences are hyper competitive:Regional = +3 Markets
  Local = +US$10m
  All others = as a minimum utilise regionally created template story / value matrix.
  Including the approach to digital pricing competitiveness and commitments.
  
• Develop / design EssenceMediacom APAC overarching Investment strategy to maintain EssenceMediacom’s competitive positioning and working with GroupM to future proof and maximise advantage to our clients.
• Have developed relationship and key profile with Singapore based key regional/global vendor partners (Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, The Trade desk, Twitter etc.).Ideally also developed a profile with key industry bodies IAB etc.
  
• Establish positive relationship with key senior regional client, being perceived as key discipline specialist and advisor – (Google, TCCC, adidas, Mars, P&G, Richemont, Uber).

12 months : Control and Investment Results

• Effectively delivered the 2024 investment vision and strategy with clear measures of value and success. This would provide you with a clear blueprint to deveop what 2025 should focus on and what might be the 3 year plan for your role and the legacy you want to create.
• With GroupM have developed automation of base functions and data extraction to improve accuracy, visibility and control, whilst reduce time required for local teams.
• Have a regionally/globally renowned GroupM and Industry best in class regional investment team supporting high calibre local EssenceMediacom Investment leads.
• Recognised as lead agency within Group M on digital investment management and innovation.

What You Will Need

We are looking for people from investment and digital backgrounds. Ideal candidates will have worked at senior levels in media and digital agencies, consulting agencies and digital technology/platforms.

We are looking for someone with a proven record of delivering - rigor, investment control, clear and compelling client media investment vision strategy and successful in driving internal behavioural change and client success:

• Strong Media Investment Experience (minimum 10-15 years media agency experience)
• Strong leadership, interpersonal and communication skills, as maximising results through positive influence rather than authority will be key to this roles success.
• Digital investment experience, in particular on programmatic and performance and proven capability in the same.
• Understanding of digital media ecosystem, including platforms, publishers, technology and data providers.
• Excellent communication skills (English is a must due to international nature of the role)
• Impeccable attention to detail
• A positive, can do attitude and high-level client servicing ability
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively with multiple teams and markets.
• A strong commercial understanding of the media business. Ideally with historical P&L responsibility or at the very least the ability to understand and deconstruct what impacts the P&L.
• A self-starter who is able to build their own work plan and deliver the key milestones of the work plan with independence.

Your Team

Your regional team is a lean operation, with a small number of highly skilled individuals. This role is about establishing structure and skills to maximise the benefit to local teams and advantage for key clients, often exerting influence across teams vs. having a large group of direct reports.

More about EssenceMediacom

• We are a global communications agency leading with breakthrough thinking, building explosive growth for brands, and helping our clients see the bigger picture. Our daring global network of 10,000 Essentials help our clients breach traditional boundaries in media, uncover novel ideas, and unleash exponential growth. EssenceMediacom challenges conventional thinking to build, propel, and supercharge our clients’ businesses at scale and lead our industry in critical areas such as diversity, equity, inclusion, and sustainability.
• EssenceMediacom understands that our people are tasked with big goals: building breakthrough growth for brands and leading with breakthrough thinking in our industry. Our people are at the heart of this work because their ideas will enable us to decode the intersections of people, content, and technology to bring our aspirations to life. Our success is down to our eclectic, diverse, and talented people.
• EssenceMediacom is a place for us to grow our careers and expand our horizons. EssenceMediacom is committed to building an agency culture that supports our people, puts diversity at the forefront of our operations, and creates opportunity for all. This collective culture will be our “new power” where ideas are freely exchanged, and collaboration is actively encouraged in a place where you can innovate in our hyperconnected world

About GroupM

GroupM is the leading global media investment management company serving as the parent to WPP media agencies including Mindshare, Wavemaker, and MediaCom, as well as the programmatic digital media platform companies, Xaxis & PBU, each global operations in their own right with leading market positions. GroupM’s primary purpose is to maximize performance of WPP’s media agencies by operating as leader and collaborator in trading, content creation, sports, digital, finance, proprietary tool development and other business-critical capabilities. GroupM’s focus is to deliver unrivaled marketplace advantage to its clients, stakeholders and people. GroupM is committed to fostering a culture of diversity and inclusion. Our people are our strength so we respect and nurture their individual talent and potential. Discover more about GroupM at www.groupm.com.

About Media Futures Group:

The Media Futures Group (MFG) is a bespoke team within GroupM that delivers on our commitment to Google for a more strategic, creative and integrated media approach established to drive better business results.

The MFG team is made up of best in class digital, offline, and integrated media experts who work together to enhance media’s contribution to Google’s business. MFG is powered by Essence, MediaCom, and other constituent parts of GroupM around the world. The MFG team operates in a seamlessly integrated way across strategy, planning, investment, creative, business sciences and analytics, data and technology. The profile of people who work in MFG are world class, committed to establishing a new high water mark in the media industry.

MFG is committed to the growth of our people as a means to unleash the potential of Google’s business. We are invested in whole-person wellbeing, values and behaviors that reflect our mission and purpose, and providing the tools and systems needed to do the best work of your career. This is a team empowered by limitless possibilities.

About the role:

The Associate Talent Operations Director for APAC MFG is responsible for managing the MFG Resource Management team in the region, increasing efficiency across the region and markets, and ensuring that the right people are working on the right things according to budgets, timelines, skillsets and career development opportunities. This role will liaise with Client Leads, Discipline Leads, Finance, Operations, Senior Management, and the broader Talent team to effectively schedule and assign resources to facilitate the delivery of work. You’ll be involved at all stages of the delivery process, including:

• Work with team leads to continually assess account needs, and develop a resource plan to ensure we continue to deliver best-in-class work and consistently meet deadlines set by our clients - leading the reallocation of resources where necessary.
• Monitor group/region bandwidth and maximize utilization across team resources
• Lead regular resource allocation meetings to keep up-to-date with work demand needs and make recommendations based on budgets, timelines and clear knowledge and understanding of skill sets across all departments
• Partner closely with Business Operations and Finance to successfully manage quarterly, bi-annual, and annual scoping processes. On an ongoing basis, own the talent related data within the regional staff plan, which serves as a critical and shared source of information across the region.
• Partner with other Client leadership, Finance, Operations and network Talent teams on a daily and weekly basis for intra-group and intra-office resource sharing and planning.
• Check-in on resource and line managers as work progresses; ensuring the resource plan continues to satisfy team needs and to help resolve any obstacles to completion that may arise along the way.
• Escalate to the appropriate department stakeholders any information related to: group rotations, retention/employee relations, increase or decrease in workflow and projected staffing needs
• Partner with Recruitment to identify when internal resources are not available to fit talent needs, prepare staff or freelance position requests.
• Maintain an up to date allocations database for group/region, flagging any resource bandwidth to appropriate stakeholders.
• When needed, work as a liaison and confidante; both within the client teams as well as at an executive level, therefore, the ability to maintain confidential information is crucial
• Assess the training needs of employees on an ongoing basis; ensuring the Talent team is briefed on the needs, and encouraging employees to seek out training or development should their capabilities fall short of what they’re required to do.
• Work with line managers and mentors to identify and assess team member’s interests and development areas, and look to assign them to work and/or training to support their career path.
• May additionally act in the capacity of career advisor, as individuals may seek out the Resource Manager’s advice and input.
• Accountable for maintaining, analyzing and publishing the following: Utilization & billability reports, capacity plan by region, trends and forecast summaries, timesheet compliance and other ad hoc reports as requested.
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Requirements:

Extremely well organized, process-driven and dedicated, with an outgoing personality and can-do attitude. Specifically:

• Previous experience of operating as a Senior Manager within a Resource Management function
• Experience in a digital agency environment, supporting the delivery of digital campaigns that were delivered on time, on budget and which met client expectations. Must possess a strong understanding of how digital media campaigns are delivered and staffed.
• A proven track record in managing resources effectively, including the ability to report on effort and resolve scheduling challenges and conflicts that arise along the way
• Experience setting up new office locations within the region
• Previous experience in a RM leadership role and management of junior RM talent
• A strong verbal and written communicator, able to build strong relationships with people at all levels of seniority
• Assertive conflict‐resolution and problem‐solving skills
• An ability to bring the best out of people; helping them develop their capabilities and improve their confidence, whilst motivating them to succeed and helping them maintain focus when necessary
• A strong work ethic; able to work under pressure and juggle multiple responsibilities to meet deadlines and deliver results
• Exceptional diligence and attention to detail as well as resourcefulness and quick, practical thinking in a demanding environment

We are looking for a transformational leader to lead the People Planning function in Asia Pacific. As Executive Director, People Planning for APAC, you will be responsible for building and leading a strategic, business-critical resource management discipline at GroupM that drives a cultural shift towards people accountability. By developing a forward-looking, data-driven workforce strategy for APAC, you will identify opportunities to optimize our people first, drive diverse casting and support long term growth and performance strategies for the company. Additionally, you will be responsible for acting as the people planning platform's product owner, making sure it is delivered through a tech-enabled, data-driven approach that harmonizes process, rituals, and performance indicators to predict future and current workforce resourcing needs.

Our People Planning ambition is to:

• Unlock GroupM's broad spectrum of Talent to establish innovation teams and optimize Talent, matching people and casting teams to generate ideas and great work across APAC.
• Maximize our employee experience by putting people first, balancing career desires with business needs.
• Deliver on the "promise" of working for a network of career opportunities.
• Maintain a pulse on the talent supply chain by improving scoping, unlocking trapped capacity and shifting Talent across teams and brands.
• Partner with Global technology and data leadership to automate staff planning; leverage advanced technologies that predict upcoming opportunities for talent development, mitigation and assignments.
• Identify opportunities to bridge connectivity across the GroupM and WPP network.
• Establish performance indicators that hold leaders and managers accountable for their people's optimal performance

Reporting Structure:

This role will report into the GroupM Chief People Officer APAC, and be the primary connecting force between our APAC Agency People team; Commercial teams & Client lead teams, as well with our broader People teams in how we successfully plan our Talent resourcing and skills to the scale and complexity of our work.

Your Key Responsibilities in the Role:

You will engage with leaders across APAC’s GroupM Agencies, Clusters/ Markets and other Centres of Value (COV) in the APAC Hub location, and establish yourself as an integral part of the APAC People leadership team.

You will be responsible for:

• Defining the structure and lead the implementation of the People Planning function in APAC including establishing the People Planning workflow, process & best practices.
• Maturing the People Planning model in APAC in partnership with Agency CPO’s​ and GroupM APAC & Cluster CPOs
• Implementing a proven process for aligning People Planning with Talent Acquisition and Org Effectiveness teams to ensure internal staffing/ resourcing options are optimised first before external placements/ searches are facilitated
• Partnering with the Global leadership to shape the product vision and roll-out plan for the resourcing and delivery technology platform; managing the vendor and owning a central playbook for APAC
• Setting workforce metrics for measurement and dashboard reporting with People and Finance teams
• Growing a team and community of People Planners across Group M agencies in markets for cross-brand sharing and talent optimization
• Participating in the WPP People Planning and Resource Management community, identifying talent sharing opportunities across the network where possible

Here are other aspects of the role:

People Team Partnership

• Partnership with Talent Acquisition, Learning & Org Effectiveness and HRBP teams to identify talent and skill gaps, prioritize open positions and drive internal mobility and/ or resource allocation as well as upskilling or training programs
• Support long-term planning of hiring Talent by providing staffing trends, analysing current and future utilization and future skills needs.
• Identify GroupM and WPP mobility opportunities from a change of client, short and long term moves and immediate support.
• Drive diversity of Talent into client and project teams – ensure casted Talent represents a diverse set of backgrounds, skillsets and expertise.
• Act as confidante and partner in sensitive talent issues, maintaining the strictest of confidentiality
• Represent APAC in the GroupM's People Planning Global leadership team to help drive the People Planning function's integration and optimization globally.

Data-driven Workforce Planning

• Deliver a short and long term strategic workforce planning strategy to deliver on business goals,
• Provides the strategic direction for the allocation of the correct agency teams to each client or project based on a real understanding of the client requirements, the commercial agreement and the strengths of each member of the agency, including working with team leads to continually assess account needs and developing resource allocation plans
• Run Talent Meetings with Regional Client Leads to discuss the health of accounts and team members, including monitoring bandwidth optimal utilization across clients and teams
• Collaborate with Business and Client Leads to create transparency around team metrics (e.g., forecasted capacity reporting; utilization vs. realization; billability & skills need analysis; future staffing trends) and drive staffing recommendations based on budgets, timelines and clear knowledge and understanding of skill sets across all departments/clients in the market
• Regularly engage client, discipline and market leadership on future-facing workforce planning exercises, aligning information related to progression, rotations and retention/employee relations with projected changes in staffing needs and structural team evolutions.

New Business Leadership

• Partner with Business and Client leadership to identify areas of Business and Client growth informed by future talent trends and requirements to support areas of expansion.
• Partners with Client Business & Commercial Finance to develop and maintain a profitable Contribution Margin from a staffing/ resource management perspective.
• Provide analysis in course-correcting over-servicing and allocation of the correct assignment of Talent
• Support client pitches to describe the GroupM talent operating model.
• Provide detailed quarterly analysis for time spent on new business activities.

Finance & Commercial Partnership

• Partner with Finance/ Commercial teams to help set billability targets for team level improvement.
• Partner with Finance to ensure accurate workforce management of sold commercial client agreements plans.
• Ensures timely escalation with Finance in scenarios of over-servicing against sold plans
• Partners with Commercial leadership to ensure that New Business opportunities have accurate staffing plans and is pipelined in a structured way
• Proactively provides the Finance and Commercial leadership with key workforce metrics to help drive overall business profitability

Experience that you bring to this role:

• 10+ years of proven Resource Management experience​, and a deep understanding of resource management technology and data architecture
• Successfully built or led a Delivery or Resource Management function within a company of comparable size and scale, and expertise and proven track record in establishing and managing large complex resource management structures​
• Strong knowledge and understanding of stakeholder needs, with the ability to establish and maintain a high level of team trust and confidence​
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, as well as ability to present and explain technical information in a way that establishes rapport, persuades others and gains understanding ​
• Empathic and ability to partner across all cultures and diverse markets in APAC
• Ability to develop and implement program governance​ and frameworks
• Partnering and collaborative mindset with a track record of building teams
• Proactivity and enthusiasm
• Keen and effective problem solver with a strong detail orientation/ an eye for detail
• Strong skills in data reporting and analysis of people utilization
• Good listener and empathy to our culture

More about GroupM

GroupM leads and shapes media markets by delivering performance enhancing media products and services, powered by data and technology. Our global network agencies and businesses enable our people to work collaboratively across borders with the best in class, providing them the opportunity to accelerate their progress and development. We are not limited by teams or geographies; our scale and diverse range of clients lets us be more adventurous with our business and talent. We give our talent the space, support and tools to innovate and grow.

GroupM is an equal opportunity employer. We view everyone as an individual and we understand that inclusion is more than just diversity – it’s about belonging. We celebrate the fact that everyone is unique and that’s what makes us so good at what we do. We pride ourselves on being a company that embraces difference and truly represents the global clients we work with.

Discover more about GroupM at www.groupm.com
Follow @GroupMAPAC on Twitter
Follow GroupM on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/groupm

About Singapore

GroupM Singapore operates in one of the most dynamic and exciting environments in the world. Although it is a small domestic market, there is a vibrant media industry which is undergoing rapid evolution as digital technology reshapes the way marketing supports advertisers’ needs. Being at the crossroads of Asia means, that aside from the local clients and media owners, we also have a high proportion of multi-national clients, renowned brands and media owners. Making GroupM Singapore the Number One organisation to join and develop your career in media investment.

GroupM is an equal opportunity employer. We view everyone as an individual and we understand that inclusion is more than just diversity – it’s about belonging. We celebrate the fact that everyone is unique and that’s what makes us so good at what we do. We pride ourselves on being a company that embraces difference and truly represents the global clients we work with.

Overview of the role
We are currently looking for an Investment Associate Director, to join the regional Mindshare Investment team.

The Regional Mindshare Investment team is seen as the backbone of the agency; it oversees pitch pricing, KPI & audit management, digital supply/inventory requirements to enable industry leading digital investment strategies, along with ensuring our clients maximise their value delivery.

The Regional Investment Associate Director will design, collate, analyse and forecast a variety of spend and value tracking reports to ensure the delivery of both investment and value commitments. In addition, as a member of the regional team based in Singapore they will be the key contact for the Global team, local markets and media auditor/s, serving as an escalation point for market support.

Strong media planning experience (especially in TV and/or digital), motivational skills, along with high work ethics, timeliness and accuracy are the key bywords to live by. You will act as an expert and consultant to champion client pricing and commercial delivery; ensuring Mindshare delivers all KPIs & commitments.

Reporting: This position reports into the Investment Partner, Accountability APAC

Three best things about the role:

• This is a senior role with a high level of exposure to the leadership team throughout the region and globally.
• Work in an environment that promotes freedom, flexibility, empowerment, and diverse working styles.
• You will be working in a future focused agency within the most dynamic continent in the world.

What is expected in the first:

3 months

• You will have connected with the key personnel from the Global/Regional team and local markets.
• Familiarized yourself with the various aspects & offerings of the Mindshare/GroupM business.
• Met your key clients and understood the requirements & commitments on their business.

6 months

• Taken ownership of the client accountability process for 1-2 key clients.
• Built relationships with key auditors/consultants

12 months

• Undertaken full review and implemented enhancements to the existing accountability model if required.
• Be seen as the first point of contact both internally and externally for all Accountability related matters.

Responsibilities

Accountability Practice

Ensure that the Mindshare Accountability offering continually evolves and remains market leading with a focus on Digital Metrics & Reporting

Monitoring vs. Targets

Working with local Mindshare teams to monitor delivery vs. set targets (KPIs/ PRIP schemes/ campaign objectives)

Writing/summarizing performance results to be presented to the global Procurement/ Marketing teams within the client organization

Pitch Support

Working with the Investment Partner and GroupM Local markets, the Investment Associate Director will be required to ensure that pitch pricing exercise is executed smoothly on Global/Regional pitches.

Relationship Building

Ensure that relationships are in place with the Global team, Local Markets and media auditors.

Inflation and spend tracking

Monitoring trends across international markets, keeping abreast of key market changes and working with local teams to understand any resultant planning/ trading implications.

GroupM APAC Community

Work with the Mindshare and GroupM teams to play an active part in the GroupM regional trading community, sharing work and ideas, encouraging collaboration and cooperation as appropriate.

Requirements

Candidates will have circa 7+ years of relevant investment/media planning experience. This is a big role across a very wide geography with many challenges, so it requires a highly self-motivated person, with strong energy levels and a willingness to travel if required.

In addition, the candidates should demonstrate the following:

• Excellent numerical analysis skills and attention to detail
• Strong, hands-on operational experience with a practical approach to media investment management
• Strong and calm under pressure and tight timelines
• Confident presenting to senior client and internal stakeholders on trading performance and related matters and comfortable challenging when required

About Mindshare:

Mindshare is a media services company that accelerates Good Growth for its clients. Our company values of energy, empathy and impact bind together our diverse global family of 10,000 people from every culture and with every specialist skill you can imagine. You can check out some of our people’s stories on LinkedIn or Instagram or hear about the company in their own words here. Mindshare is part of GroupM, the world’s leading media investment company, and WPP, the world’s largest advertising holding group.

About Singapore:

GroupM Singapore operates in one of the most dynamic and exciting environments in the world. Although it is a small domestic market, there is a vibrant media industry which is undergoing rapid evolution as digital technology reshapes the way marketing supports advertisers’ needs. Being at the crossroads of Asia means, that aside from the local clients and media owners, we also have a high proportion of multi-national clients, renowned brands and media owners. Making GroupM Singapore the Number One organisation to join and develop your career in media investment.

GroupM is an equal opportunity employer. We view everyone as an individual and we understand that inclusion is more than just diversity – it’s about belonging. We celebrate the fact that everyone is unique and that’s what makes us so good at what we do. We pride ourselves on being a company that embraces difference and truly represents the global clients we work with.

Overview of the role

We are currently looking for an Accountability Director, to join the GroupM Investment team.

GroupM Investment lead the overall investment strategy for the group, with the objective to maximise value delivery for our clients. The team oversee partnerships, price competitiveness, pitch and audit management, investment intelligence and investment solutions, helping our clients make advertising work better for people.

The Director will be responsible for the reporting, analysis and implementation of key investment data across pricing benchmarks, market inflation, media spend trends, and client commitment performance.

This person will be expected to lead the market inflation forecasting process and reporting, provide regular updates on investment trends across the Group and the APAC Industry, track key client commitments and delivery, identifying and managing support requirements, as well as support agencies in pitch and audit process to ensure pricing competitiveness and delivery best practices.

This is a senior position that requires advanced capabilities and experience in media investment and accountability management. The director will serve as the SME on pricing, pitching, and audits to drive best practice across the group. In particular in the ongoing evolution of digital accountability practice.

In addition, as a member of the regional team based in Singapore, you will be guiding the market investment and agency teams, through the delivery of training & enablement plans, coordinating regional project rollouts, and being an escalation point for market support.

Reporting of the role

This role reports to the Head of Accountability – GroupM Investment APAC.

3 best things about the job:

1. Be a member of a high performing team focused on investment intelligence, competitiveness and client value, working with the largest and most digitally advanced client base in the region.
2. Work in an environment that promotes freedom, flexibility, empowerment, and diverse working styles to solve real business problems.
3. The opportunity to learn and collaborate with a wide range of stakeholders across all GroupM agencies and business units in APAC and globally.

Responsibilities of the role:

• Lead and manage the Market Inflation Forecasting Process and reporting for all APAC markets, ensuring ongoing intelligence to fuel management updates, and support agency and client investment strategy.
• Prepare and present regular reporting on investment trends and intelligence across Group and APAC industry, including supporting the APAC markets on the This Year, Next Year report.
• Support agency teams in Tracking and delivery of key client commitments, and management of any relevant contractual requirements from the Group.
• Support agency teams in audit management and best practice. Support the ongoing relationships with key auditors.
• Management of Pitch pricing benchmarking and competitiveness assessments to ensure effective pitch conversions from pricing and value.
• Support agencies on pitch process and ensure best practices are defined and followed.
• Provide training & support to investment teams in both their responsibilities and developing new capabilities in accountability.
• Any other ad-hoc projects or tasks relevant to the position.
• Build a great working relationship with your team, market teams and key client teams, operating seamlessly together to deliver success for our clients.

Measures of Success –
In 3 months:

• Develop strong working relationships with all team members and relevant stakeholders (e.g. agencies, markets, GMN buying teams).
• An excellent understanding of how to access relevant data, generate required reports and present analysis to the Investment team and key stakeholders.

In 6 months:

• Actively be managing price benchmarking support for all key agency pitches.
• Actively supporting the ongoing management of auditors and audit best practice.

In 12 months:

• Implemented skills training programs for group and agency investment teams, with demonstrated increase in capabilities within the team
• Identified and built digital accountability best practices
• Fuelling and supporting the investment data intelligence program for the group

What you will need:

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field (Eg Economics, Marketing, Finance)
• 7+ years of related work experience in the field of investment management, media buying, pitching and audit management
• Thorough understanding of all media, including digital media channels (in particular search, social & programmatic) & digital media metrics.
• Proven ability to extract insights from data and present findings
• Highly organised, detail orientated, with demonstrated project management capabilities
• Flexibility to work in a cross-functional team but also have the initiative to problem solve independently

More about GroupM

GroupM leads and shapes media markets by delivering performance enhancing media products and services, powered by data and technology. Our global network agencies and businesses enable our people to work collaboratively across borders with the best in class, providing them the opportunity to accelerate their progress and development. We are not limited by teams or geographies; our scale and diverse range of clients lets us be more adventurous with our business and talent. We give our talent the space, support and tools to innovate and grow.

Discover more about GroupM at www.groupm.com
Follow @GroupMAPAC on Twitter
Follow GroupM on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/groupm

About Singapore

GroupM Singapore operates in one of the most dynamic and exciting environments in the world. Although it is a small domestic market, there is a vibrant media industry which is undergoing rapid evolution as digital technology reshapes the way marketing supports advertisers’ needs. Being at the crossroads of Asia means that aside from the local clients and media owners, we also have a high proportion of multi-national clients and media owners.

As the largest media investment management company in Singapore with over 41% market share (Recma) and over 650 employees, GroupM Singapore is the premiere organisation to join and develop a career in.

Overview

Mindshare is on the cusp of the next chapter of our growth story, building on the strength of our leadership in Asia Pacific, but embracing a future in which performance media and DTC models must be the foundation upon which other capabilities are built.

As Mindshare embraces a new vision around delivering Good Growth for our clients, the N Asia Head of Strategy will be central in evolving the vision together with our teams in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan and Korea. This will involve training and elevating strategic thinking and implementation as well as new business support.

You will be the owner of transforming Mindshare’s strategic delivery for key clients in N Asia with a focus of 50% on China and 50% on Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan and Korea. You will be the client’s strategic best friend helping them to evolve their business, marketing and communications thinking across the region.

Internally at Mindshare you will inspire, coach and empower teams to innovate, create and adapt. This role will also require you to work with our Chief Client Officer and Head of Digital Solutions by developing innovations, market firsts and capabilities for our teams and clients.

Strategy at Mindshare:
We have an established approach to strategic thinking around “Good Growth” and a planning toolkit that supports this vision. You will be asked to help evolve this proposition for clients and train our teams on these tools to help them deliver this vision to clients and grow the Mindshare business.

The Challenge:
The key is to re-architect the strategic relationship away from whom we target and how we reach them towards outcomes, data driven creativity and impact. To extract from the client the key burning questions and craft solutions for them with a digital/mobile first approach using fast moving data.

Responsibilities:

Lead the Strategy agenda on specific clients across N Asia as we market in a digital world. To work collaboratively with the Head of Strategy APAC to ensure consistency across the region as well.

Support Unite China team from a strategic perspective until replacement is found and then more broad support for China clients.

Support new business as required.

Performance Measures (KPIs)
Performance will be measured in quality and quantity of:
Driving world class strategic rigour and creativity across markets

Integration of partners, agile data and content into recommendations

Award winning case studies

Engagement with the planning community

Key Competencies
Client partnership, Thought leadership, Communication planning, Digital Native, facilitation, stimulate creativity & collaboration

Key Skills
Knowledge of Communication Planning and Ideation techniques
Knowledge and curiosity around the latest Digital developments
Honed in insights generating and understanding consumers
Confidently engage with senior stakeholders both within and outside the agency
Present and persuade the audiences in client organisations, partners and markets with ideas, approaches and thoughts

More about Mindshare

We were born in Asia in 1997, a start up with a desire to change the media world. Now we are a global agency with more than 7,000 employees in 116 offices across 86 countries, operating as one team - #teammindshare. We believe that in today’s world, everything begins and ends in media. We aim to be our clients’ lead business partner, to grow their business, and drive profitability through adaptive and inventive marketing. We do this through speed, teamwork and provocation and by operating as a network of networks rather than a rigid hierarchy. We create new things and have fun doing it. Whenever and wherever you join us, you open a door to opportunities in any and of all aspects of media, technology and innovation. We will support you, recognize you and reward you, making Mindshare the place where you do the best work of your career.

Mindshare APAC has won 500 awards in the last year alone, including “Agency Network of the Year 2017” by both the MMA SMARTIES™ and Campaign Asia for the fifth and third consecutive year, respectively. Mindshare is part of GroupM, the media investment management arm of WPP, the world’s leading communications services group. To learn more about Mindshare and our philosophy of Original Thinking, visit us at www.mindshareworld.com and follow us on Twitter @mindshare and facebook.com/mindshareapac and linkedin.com/company/mindshare.

More about GroupM Singapore

GroupM Singapore operates in one of the most dynamic and exciting environments in the world. Although it is a small domestic market, there is a vibrant media industry which is undergoing rapid evolution as digital technology reshapes the way marketing supports advertisers’ needs. Being at the crossroads of Asia means, that aside from the local clients and media owners, we also have a high proportion of multi-national clients, renowned brands and media owners. Making GroupM Singapore the Number One organisation to join and develop your career in media investment.

GroupM is an equal opportunity employer. We view everyone as an individual and we understand that inclusion is more than just diversity – it’s about belonging. We celebrate the fact that everyone is unique and that’s what makes us so good at what we do. We pride ourselves on being a company that embraces difference and truly represents the global clients we work with.