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About the Role

We’re looking for a Sydney-based Media Director to lead insights-driven media and measurement strategies, strengthen client & partner agency relationships, and collaborate with cross-departmental teams. This role involves managing a division within the Paid Media Department, serving as a trusted leader for operations management, innovation, client relationships, and media execution.

Responsibilities

• Ensures media plans are of the highest standard.
• Assists in presentation material creation.
• Provides strategic guidance on reporting calls with clients.
• Oversees a team of media experts focused on 1-3+ clients, providing leadership, mentorship, vision, and technical expertise.
• Works in conjunction with HR and other teams to foster team career growth and a positive work environment.
• Embodies a true leadership mentality and is willing to devote days to making their team successful.
• Contributes to the continued growth and stability of VaynerMedia.
• Empowered to make decisions that are best for the company over the long-run.
• Oversees execution by setting up process and clear lines of communication.
• Updates performance benchmarks and shares digital platform updates, both internally and externally with client partners.
• Manages negotiations for high value and/or complex packages.
• Approves all recommendations and presentations before sending to the client.
• Delegates work effectively and not only teaches direct reports but also delivers seamless client work.
• Fosters an environment that encourages intelligent risk-taking, innovation, and creativity.
• Leads interviewing, hiring, training, coaching, developing, and evaluating team members.
• Leads cross-LoB buying deliverables.
• Leads by example in terms of attention to detail, general work ethic, empathy, and internal/external professionalism.
• Acts as a key contact for client and platform partners, operating as a go-to voice and leader for them.
• Develops and delivers senior-level, sophisticated media investment strategies to clients, derived from industry insights and best-in-class expertise and thought leadership.
• Collaborates across disciplines, specifically planning and analytics, to craft best-in-class, holistic omnichannel media strategies rooted in driving tangible business outcomes for large brands.
• Operates as a “player/coach”, able to jump in and get into the weeds as needed to keep campaign work moving in the right direction.
• Takes responsibility for and rectifies (as needed) any mistakes or errors made by team members and implements improvement across processes.
• Navigates a portfolio of brands within a larger conglomerate or business group and gains a deep understanding of their unique company architectures to build the strongest holistic relationship possible.
• Works to proactively bring new/emerging opportunities to clients, pushing the envelope of media excellence.
• Continuously strives for improvement across all team processes to streamline workflow and benefit the larger team.
• Provides clear delegation of responsibilities across their organization and makes expectations for success clear and concise.
• Leads client communication around scope agreements, finance and billing, working closely with FinOps to keep a handle on monthly billing and incoming revenue.
• Proactively identifies the needs of our clients’ businesses to sell-through incremental campaign opportunities to clients (cross-disciplines at times where needed), to help deliver best-in-class work that helps to grow their business.

Requirements

• Proven track record of large-scale media buying proficiency across several biddable platforms.
• Depth in Facebook/Instagram, Google (Search, YouTube, DV360), Programmatic Display/OLV, Publisher Direct.
• Experience in offline media (TV, Print, Radio, OOH) is required.
• Experience in planning and managing both campaigns and always-on initiatives for major regional and global brands.
• Fluency with analytics, attribution and measurement systems is needed.
• Expertise in analytics, attribution and measurement systems is a major plus (including but not limited to GA360, Adobe, MOAT/IAS/DoubleVerify, Nielsen/Millward Brown/Oracle, Neustar/Visual IQ/Convertro, etc.).
• Experience working in the advertising media landscape in the Australia region.
• Minimum of 6+ years of industry experience with a proven track record of executing sophisticated, large scale digital media programs that drove tangible business outcomes.
• Good network of media and marketing professionals in the Australia market, including major publishers, brands.
• Advanced written, presentation and general communication skills.
• Ideally experienced dealing with non-core buying teams, specifically media & communications planning, analytics, traditional media buying, and others.
• Proven output rooted in highly strategic thinking that leveraged unique insights to drive disproportionate success.
• Examples of leaning into new/emerging platform opportunities to drive media innovation.
• Experienced leading and managing teams of at least 6-8 individuals (cross-disciplinary a plus).
• Comfortable with a fast-paced environment.
• Comfortable working as an integrated team (across creative, media, and strategy).
• Professional English skills required.

Skills

• Media strategy
• Measurement strategy
• Client relationship management
• Partner agency relationship management
• Cross-departmental collaboration
• Operations management
• Innovation
• Media execution
• Large-scale media buying
• Facebook/Instagram advertising
• Google Ads (Search, YouTube, DV360)
• Programmatic Display/OLV
• Publisher Direct advertising
• Offline media planning and buying (TV, Print, Radio, OOH)
• Campaign planning and management
• Always-on initiative management
• Analytics
• Attribution
• Measurement systems
• Team leadership
• Mentorship
• Vision
• Technical expertise
• Career growth fostering
• Positive work environment creation
• Negotiation
• Process setup
• Communication
• Performance benchmarking
• Digital platform updates
• Risk-taking
• Creativity
• Hiring
• Training
• Coaching
• Development
• Evaluation
• Cross-LoB buying
• Attention to detail
• Work ethic
• Empathy
• Professionalism
• Client communication
• Platform partner relations
• Media investment strategy development
• Industry insights
• Thought leadership
• Cross-disciplinary collaboration
• Omnichannel media strategy
• Business outcome focus
• Player/coach mentality
• Problem-solving
• Mistake rectification
• Process improvement
• Brand portfolio navigation
• Company architecture understanding
• Relationship building
• Proactive opportunity identification
• Workflow streamlining
• Scope agreement management
• Finance and billing management
• Incremental campaign opportunity identification
• Bilingual skills (plus)

Location

• Sydney

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• 6+ years of industry experience
• Experience leading and managing teams of at least 6-8 individuals

About the Company

• VaynerX is a family of companies building brands for the now.
• Founded by Chairman Gary Vaynerchuk in January 2017, VaynerX is home to relevance-driving businesses including VaynerMedia, ChukMedia, Tamara Group, Gallery Media Group, Eva Nosidam Productions, Tingley Lane Trading, and VaynerSpeakers.
• VaynerMedia is a global integrated creative and media agency, built for today's consumers.
• As the Modern Agency of Record, VaynerMedia understands the nuances of today's attention landscape, empowering brands to win attention, drive relevance, and deliver business results.
• Founded in 2009 by Gary Vaynerchuk, VaynerMedia is an independently owned agency operating in 15 offices worldwide.
• ChukMedia is a VaynerX agency built to help enterprise brands move at the speed of culture.
• Combining entrepreneurial agility with enterprise-grade execution, ChukMedia partners with Fortune 500 and complex organizations to drive growth across brand, social, creative production, and modern marketing ecosystems.
• Tamara Group is built to drive growth and disruption through the power of attention and cultural relevance.
• Culture is our key and Empathy is how we build it.
• VaynerMedia APAC is strong with a world-class combination of diverse backgrounds collaborating to put forward innovative, creative and strategic solutions.
• Think “lab” and not “agency”. We get excited about solving business problems, not creating advertising for the sake of making advertising.
• Our entrepreneurship DNA runs deep.
• We’re willing to break rules, try new things, and test hypotheses if it means better understanding our craft.
• Our environment (and pace) feels much more like a start-up than most agencies.
• We can’t wait to meet you.