Total 6 Planning Analyst job vacancies in PR / Media / Communications category in The United States of America

Our client is a prestigious international law firm who are looking to expand their Marketing and Business Development Team. You will be taking the lead to plan marketing events, ensuring exceptional attendee experiences and maximum ROIs. You will represent the law firm for all marketing and business development events and work with the other business functions/departments to develop social media and PR/Press plans.

This role has an APAC coverage and you will be working closely with the law firm's Hong Kong and Shanghai offices as well.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
• 5+ years' experience of event management experience, ideally with a law firm
• Experience in planning multiple high-level, logistically complicated events simultaneously
• Experience with vendor contract negotiations, particularly hotels and catering
• Mandarin Proficiency is highly advantageous

Do apply if you are keen! We regret that only shortlisted applicants will be contacted.

• Ability to effectively communicate 
• Demonstrate multi-tasking ability and keep multiple projects on-track 
• Assist with the maintenance of flowcharts, buying guidelines, plan delivery (pacing and reporting), budget summaries, and billing
• Run and maintain competitive spending reports, and execute baseline assessments of data 
• Ensure key information is provided to appropriate individuals and teams regarding operational management issues clear, error-free and on-time 
• Other administrative responsibilities as needed: assembly of presentation materials, client binders, meeting setup 
• Express oneself clearly and concisely in oral communications 
• Write in a clear, compelling and concise manner 
• Organize ideas and information logically and sequentially 

What a Senior Financial Analyst - Print Commercial Organization does at HP:

• Leads and advises on the most crucial business initiatives, responsible for driving financial management of Greater Asia Print.
• Leads and works closely with business teams to drive key business performance metrics - revenue, controllable margin, sell-thru and CI/WOI
• Be a trusted advisor to business team, drive insightful financial analyses and simulations to assist business team in decision making
• Establish with business teams the plans to drive performance at/above budget, accelerate growth and drive long term investment decisions
• Drives process improvements, provides finance advisory support and be trusted advisor to Print business team
• Leads and guide business teams on process improvements around controls and compliance, with specific focus on contra management - taking the lead working with cross functional teams (sales ops, business & finance)
• Contributes innovative ideas and may lead large cross-functional teams, exercising independent judgment to solve unique and complex problems impacting the business.
• Provides mentorship and guidance to team members within GA Print finance

Individuals who do well in this role at HP, usually possess:

• Four-year or Graduate Degree in Business Administration, Economics, Finance, or any other related discipline or commensurate work experience or demonstrated competence.
• Typically has 10+ years of work experience, preferably in financial management, internal audit, accounting, or a related field.
• Has Cross-Org Skills : Effective Communication, Results Orientation, Learning Agility, Digital Fluency and Customer Centricity.

Sustainable impact is HP’s commitment to create positive, lasting change for the planet, its people, and our communities. This serves as a guiding principle for delivering on our corporate vision – to create technology that makes life better for everyone, everywhere.

HP is a Human Capital Partner – we commit to human capital development and adopting progressive workplace practices in Singapore.

PRODUCT AREA

The name Google came from "googol," a mathematical term for the number 1 followed by 100 zeros. And nobody at Google loves big numbers like the Finance team when providing in depth analysis on all manner of strategic decisions across Google products. From developing forward-thinking analysis to generating management reports to scaling our automated financial processes, the Finance organization is an important partner and advisor to the business.

JOB DESCRIPTION

Financial Analysts ensure that Google makes sound financial decisions. As a Financial Analyst, your work, whether it's modeling business scenarios or tracking performance metrics, is used by our leaders to make strategic company decisions. Working on multiple projects at a time, you are focused on the details while finding creative ways to take on big picture challenges.

As someone who knows the workings of the core Finance team inside and out, you'll lead individual projects to transform planning, tracking and control processes. You'll provide senior level management with insightful recommendations, planning and reporting support.

ADDITIONAL JOB DESCRIPTION

As a Financial Analyst for Media Incentives, you will partner closely with APAC Go-to-Market (GTM) to drive commercialization of media incentive agreement with our key advertising partners. You will own the Finance workstreams for commercials programs and work with a cross-functional team including Sales, Operations, GTM, Accounting, Compliance and Legal to manage media incentives programs that cut across advertising products. You will manage media incentives programs including agreement modeling and accountability reviews.

Qualifications

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

• Provide finance guidance on the design and implementation of Google’s media incentives programs to ensure they are driving growth, while minimizing cost, risk, and operational complexity.
• Lead performance and effectiveness of incentive programs to generate concise recommendations to management.
• Build network with teams across sales, operations and finance (e.g., business accounting) to manage a wide range of operational questions.
• Support the operational requirements of Google's media incentives programs in APAC from a finance perspective, including agreement modeling, approving commercial terms and agreement reviews.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Statistics, or another quantitative field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 4 years of experience in financial planning and analysis (FP&A), consulting, or a related function, or an advanced degree.
• Ability to communicate in English fluently to collaborate with colleagues and complete tasks and projects.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Ability to lead projects and produce insights to influence key stakeholders.
• Ability to communicate with clarity and engage with executive management teams.
• Excellent investigative and technical (e.g., Financial Modeling/SQL) skills, with the ability to work with large volumes of complex data.
• Excellent problem-solving skills.

We are seeking for an ideal candidate who has passion and drive to learn the ropes within the media advertising world - Integrated and/or Digital.

Expectations of a Media Planning Intern

• Support the planning team and/or local markets across network (if required) to meet client service needs
• Leverage research tools to provide insights and support on planning as needed
• Manage project to ensure on-target, on-budget and timely delivery of media plan
• Work with the team (Planners/Managers) to resolve potential planning issues
• Liaise with client contacts to update media plans accordingly
• Update periodic reports, ensuring specialist team delivery against any client actions
• Support the wider team with general client liaison and administration
• Ensure quality control of client-facing plans/reports/invoicing

Overview of job

EssenceMediacom is GroupM’s newest and largest agency delivering marketing breakthroughs for their clients. Disrupting the old models across media, creative, innovation and analytics, the agency has been built to find new opportunities for brands and deliver truly integrated media solutions.

Composed of 10,000 people across 120 offices globally EssenceMediacom combines Essence’s performance, data, analytics and creative technology DNA with MediaCom’s scaled multichannel audience planning and strategic media expertise.

The agency includes an enviable global client roster, which includes adidas, Bayer, Dell, Google, Mars, NBCUniversal, PlayStation, Procter & Gamble, The Coca-Cola Company and Uber, and will be responsible for more than $21bn in global media billings.

We are looking for an Senior Manager/ Manager - Media Planning to join the EssenceMediacom team in this role, you will be responsible for planning in the ASEAN market across publishers such as Google, Meta, TikTok, along with local publishers. We are seeking someone who has experience working on eCommerce in the region with e-retailer partners like Lazada and Shopee.

Visit essencemediacom.com for more information and follow us on Twitter at @emglobal.

Reporting of the role

This role reports to: ASEAN Market Lead, Singapore

3 best things about the job:
1. Working on a global beauty client that is a leader of the sector and gain exposure to best practices across e-commerce and digital analytics

2. Being part of an innovative and fast paced agency and working with passionate people

3. Able to work with the team on Strategizing a media and communications roadmap that not only fits the client's requirements but also exceeds them and hence delivers client success.

Responsibilities of the role:

• Proactively planning and implementing digital development and growth of the client
• Supporting key functions including but not limited to Strategy, Media Planning, Reporting and Billing
• Developing strategy and digital channel recommendations to ensure we deliver as per the set targets
• Deliver innovative and Creative solutions to media briefs
• Lead to address critical issues as they arise. Sample issues might be “Sales on the ecommerce site are lower than expected. Can you help us figure out why?” or “We want to launch a new product, what media approach makes sense?” or “how could I improve my full funnel metrics utilizing data and insights”
• Ensuring delivery of a digital solution which is relevant to the client’s business by fine tuning budget allocation, weights, phasing, site mix with creation of the media plan
• Leading Key market drumbeats with strategic stories and associated datasets on the media outcomes
• Be on top of in-campaign performance, and recommend changes across Media in-flight to deliver the best against the plan
• Identify opportunities and new interests for the client to drive revenue and benefit business needs as their advisor.
• Manage overall agency/client relationship by providing strategic input while translating the client’s vision and needs into business requirements
• Ensure compliance with Mediacom and the client
• Working closely with digital execution team and creative agencies to ensure assets are delivered on time.

Measures of success –
In three months:

• Demonstrate understanding of the media landscape and business challenges and begin to contribute ideas on how to drive clients’ business success.
• Streamlining of media plans across both traditional and digital channels.
• Great understanding of your portfolio of clients.
• Abreast one-self with the key e-com onsite reporting platforms and tools and provide pro-active recommendations if any

In six months:

• Be the market SPOC for the client media and brand team. Able to propose ideas and activities to answer identified challenges. Take ownership of day-to-day relationships and ways of working
• Leading E-com and Media planning efforts independently for assigned markets
• Conduct internal 101 training sessions on Media Planning Principles, Ecom Best Practices, Platforms like Lazada Seller centre, Shopee, etc.
• Collaborative leader, engaging with people of all levels.

In 12 months:

• Lead Strategy and Media planning efforts for the brands quarterly, half yearly and annual media roadmap
• Build 2 Business Breakthroughs for the client

What you’ll bring:

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree
• At least 4-5 years of media planning experience
• Form - Experience delivering actionable strategies; good storytelling in verbal and written form
• Experience working with multiple stakeholders (e.g. suppliers, advertising/marketing agencies, media owners and internal specialist resources)
• Be a strong communicator – English is our global language.
• Ability to manage daily communication with Global and local Publisher.
• Understanding and aptitude to translate existing & upcoming technology trends to media / business solutions.
• Strong analytical and detail-oriented approach, natural affinity with numbers and analysis
• Ability to leverage data visualization tools such as Power BI, Google Data studio is a good to have
• Style - Must be confident and approachable, helpful and easy to work with
• Culture - Be a great example of our company behaviours – know it / push it / share it / do it.

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 influencers 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 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 APAC 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.