About the Role
As an Implementation & Activation Associate Manager at EssenceMediacom, you will play a critical role in overseeing the activation of client campaigns, ensuring consistent, best-in-class delivery. You will shape effective, efficient, creative, and future-focused implementation plans and media schedules that drive business growth for our clients.
Responsibilities
- Oversee and ensure the accurate and timely activation of client media campaigns, maintaining best-in-class delivery standards.
- Develop, present, and refine effective, efficient, and innovative implementation plans and media schedules for clients.
- Supervise and support the workload of junior team members, ensuring client demands and deadlines are met.
- Facilitate strong collaboration within the team and with key internal and external stakeholders.
- Monitor campaign performance, identify opportunities for optimization, and guide the team in implementing adjustments.
- Contribute to producing best-in-class solutions and upholding high standards of client service.
- Cultivate and maintain strong relationships with media partners, representing the agency professionally.
- Ensure all campaigns are delivered to the highest quality, aligning with agency standards and client objectives.
- Actively stay informed on market trends, media landscape changes, and new technologies, applying this knowledge to client work.
Requirements
- Relevant experience in media activation and implementation planning.
- Emerging leadership skills, with experience supervising team workload or mentoring junior colleagues.
- Strong and up-to-date knowledge of the media landscape, including macro consumer trends and associated challenges/opportunities.
- Exceptional attention to detail and strong organizational skills.
- Proactive problem-solving mentality.
- Clear and compelling communication, with strong presentation skills.
- Well-developed negotiation and implementation planning capabilities.
- Results-driven, with the ability to identify and articulate campaign effectiveness.
- Proven ability to build and maintain strong relationships with media partners.
- A passion for the industry and a commitment to collaborative teamwork.
Skills
- Media activation
- Implementation planning
- Leadership
- Team supervision
- Mentoring
- Media landscape knowledge
- Consumer trends analysis
- Attention to detail
- Organizational skills
- Problem-solving
- Communication
- Presentation skills
- Negotiation
- Campaign effectiveness analysis
- Relationship building
- Teamwork
Benefits
- Access to global WPP Media & WPP networks for professional growth and networking.
- Opportunities for learning at the cutting edge of marketing and advertising.
- Participation in employee resource groups.
- Frequent in-office events for team recognition, thought leadership sharing, and celebrations.
About the Company
- WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands, helping clients navigate change, capture opportunity, and deliver transformational growth.
- WPP Media is WPP's AI-driven media operating unit, bringing together media, data, and partnerships to deliver creative personalization at scale.
- EssenceMediacom is a new breed of media agency, grounded in analytics & insights and powered by data & technology.
- EssenceMediacom is designed for the new communications economy — built on data & technology, for people & algorithms, around diverse schools of thought, to test & learn at scale, and to evolve.
Equal Opportunity
- WPP Media is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without discrimination or regard to characteristics.
- Committed to fostering a culture of respect in which everyone feels they belong and has the same opportunities to progress in their careers.
