He or she serves as the senior contact on their accounts and will approve media plans and key tactics. The Director, Client Leadership will also monitor account profitability and play a key role in new business activities. This individual will manage a structured team to engage with creative companies for advertising campaigns. This role will involve account and media planning, buy negotiations, as well as some ad placement and copy rotations. The Director will also mentor mid-level supervisory staff.

Reporting of the role

This role reports to the Managing Partner

3 best things about the job:

Measures of success – In 3 months, you would have:

• Started to build relationships with the key decision makers within the client and agency organisations

In 6 months, you would have:

• Proven yourself as a reliable point of contact for client stakeholders

In 12 months, you would have:

• To anticipate what is needed to stay on track to secure, grow and solidifying client relations, and to take action appropriately

Responsibilities of the role:

• Integrates understanding into the work to make decisions on the business
• Filters and adapts the different options and applies good judgement combined with hard facts to select which ideas will produce the best results
• Leads the Client by helping them understand Mindshare's perspectives and insights and gaining their agreement to a shared vision of how to address the client's objectives
• Builds team effectiveness by providing a clear definition of what's expected and identifying the people with the right skills and capabilities from across Mindshare (the global network, other teams, groups, Group M, WPP etc).
• Coaches others by assessing an individual's strengths and areas for development and encouraging a free exchange of constructive feedback. Pushes down decision-making and avoids taking charge unless absolutely necessary.
• Continuously seeks to broaden network of business relationships to promote the goals of Mindshare including , for example, participation at conferences, interviews, industry awards.
• Takes entrepreneurial calculated risks and acts on opportunities that lead to significant gains for the business
• Identifies and actions opportunities to grow profitable revenue
• Anticipates the future and takes decisive action to create opportunities or minimize potential problem
• Pre-sells by soliciting the involvement of key people in advance to build ownership

What you will need:

• More than 3 years experience as the senior contact on key accounts that the main services focus on media plans and key tactics
• Broad background , exposure to and experience in the entire research, planning and implementation process

• Familiarity with all media and with general Mindshare approaches in Business Planning, Invention and The Exchange
• Significant experience at all levels of agency-client relationships
• Strong quantitative and analytical skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint

About Mindshare

Mindshare, the global media agency network, and part of WPP, the largest marketing communications network in the world, has more than 7,000 employees, in 116 offices across 86 countries.Each office is dedicated to forging competitive marketing advantage for businesses and their brands based on the values of speed, teamwork and provocation. Mindshare's network of people are acutely aware of what's happening in their city, and believe all great communication begins and ends in media.

In 2014 Mindshare Asia Pacific was the only media agency to be ranked in the top ten in Campaign Asia's Most Admired Companies survey, and was also seen as the best agency to work at in the region.

About GroupM

GroupM is the leading global media investment management company serving as the parent to WPP media agencies including Mindshare, MEC, MediaCom, Maxus, and Essence, as well as the programmatic digital media platform, Xaxis, 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.

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