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Vice President, Group Partner, Portfolio Management
Advertising Industry Company
New York, NY, United States
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Position Summary
UM is looking for a dynamic, fun, strategic thinker who is looking to advance their media planning career! We are a group of straightforward and open-minded people, aiming to keep it simple but pack a punch. Individually these values may seem obvious, but together they form a culture that we think is unique and different from many other companies and clients.
Essential Functions
• Oversees development of media strategies consistent with brand marketing objectives
• Senior client managment on account overseeing several business units across a client portfolio
• Look for and deliver new and innovative solutions to client business issues and challenges
• Provide thought leadership and help develop strategic direction for media planning and buying across TV, Digital, Social, Radio, OOH, and Print
• Recommends targeted, innovative media vehicles consistent with media strategies
• Plans, directs, supervises, and coordinates work activities of subordinates and handles all personnel requirements for immediate staff including training and development
• Responsible for stewardship of all financials across business units
• Serves as advisor and mentor to planning groups
• Insures best practices are used across department and account responsibilities
• Develop and maintain excellent working relationships with all internal / external agency departments/disciplines including: Investment, Analytics, Local Buying, Strategy and Research and Creative Agencies
Qualifications
Education:
• Bachelor's degree
Work Experience:
• 10+ years of experience in media planning
• 5 years of experience mentoring and managing a team
Skills:
• Strong presentation skills in internal, vendor, and client meetings
• Strong business acumen
• Excellent written and verbal skills
• Solid awareness of industry trends and planning/measurement models
• Understanding of marketing and communications process
Key Characteristics
• Gravitas + adept influencing- the personal and professional credbility to carry the system with it
• Humble confidence - confident in skills and willing to provide a proactive point of view
• Constructive discontent – always looking for ways to improve and enhance the work and self to challenge the norm and strive for continued improvement
• Innovative drive – comfortable in ‘white space’ work areas and willing to take risks, test the norm, measure and learn forward
• Proactive personal accountability – if it’s to be, it’s up to me
• Authentic + humanistic – be approachable, real and human
• Team first – a cultural force for building the best team
• Humor - willing to have fun and not take ourselves too seriously
About Us
UM believes that better science and better art deliver better outcomes to our clients in the media moments that matter most. We are a creative media agency, committed to blurring the lines between media and creativity, between data and content, between science and art. A global media network in IPG Mediabrands, UM operates in over 100 countries, with 4,800 people innovating on a roster of clients including Johnson & Johnson, Coca-Cola, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, The Hershey Company, CVS Health, ExxonMobil, BMW and Sony.