General Manager - Strategy
General Manager - Strategy
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Description
Overview of job.
An orchestrator who integrates the different thinking and weaving functions together to offer a holistic business solution.
An orchestrator who integrates the different thinking and weaving functions together to offer a holistic business solution.
You should have a strong track record in delivering tangible business results for clients strong strategic skills and the ability to manage multiple stakeholders and team members.
The position is to manageclientbusiness and will be responsible for leading clients in future forward strategic thinking across business media data and technology. This will involve integrated capability in traditional & digital media search and content marketing measurement and attribution creation and application of strategic framework cross category business understanding. This role also involves communication with global teams and bringing the best of Wavemaker GroupM and WPP to clients as well as internal teams.
Reporting of the role
This role reports to theChief Strategy Officer Wavemaker.
3 best things about the job:
- A great client/agency that is built around mutual trust and creating solutions right for the business.
- Large marquee clients with great opportunities for quality thinking and opportunities beyond spots and dots.
- An opportunity to have a leadership role in progressive fast moving and one of its kind businesses.
Measures of success
In three months:
In three months:
- Build relationships with the key decision makers at client side and within the company.
- Be an expert on the clients business proactively engaging with senior clients and actively shaping the quality of the Wavemaker delivery.
- Developed a deep understanding and begun to use WPP Open and the products and tools therein.
- Build confidence with team members within immediate team and within peers.
- Setting up and implementing measurement frameworks for key clients.
In six months:
- Proactively delivering additional value to the client leading the team to successfully implement strategic initiatives that will improve the Wavemaker delivery and clients business outcomes.
- Established as the lead by both clients and the internal team alike; strong client service ways of working established with strong team communication.
In 12 months:
- Considered a business leader for the client and for Wavemaker providing solutions that deliver a tangible business benefit for both client and agency.
- Activating a business plan that delivers success to the client and secures Wavemakers client relationship; leading client product people commercial and profile initiatives.
- Create new and breakthrough work across clients.
Responsibilities of the role:
- Leads the strategy team across Greater Wavemaker South and Open Door.
- Provide strategy communications and planning leadership on the clients business across categories.
- Partner with the account heads and functional heads push needle on Marketing Excellence and Digital Excellence.
- Demonstrates strong understanding of ecosystem brand category and consumer to derive insights.
- Infuse best in class practices and frameworks both from domestic as well as international learnings.
- Communicate complex ideas/insights in a way that all understand and apply.
- Integrates relevant multimedia opportunities into campaign plans.
- Familiarity with content as marketing tool is desirable trait.
- Leverage extended Wavemaker/GroupM/WPP ecosystem to build hard working solutions for client.
What you will need:
- 1618 years of experience with at least 12 years in the media industry.
- Demonstrate exposure and management of senior clients/ stakeholders as well as leading a team.
- Integrated media and marketing knowledge including traditional media digital media data research and insights.
- Creative problem solving and ability to join multiple dots across domains.
- An attitude of curiosity and continuous learning both for self as well as infuse the same culture within the team.
- Comfort with multiple kinds and sources of data both structured and unstructured.
- Fantastic presentation and storytelling skills.
- Proven experience managing a team negotiating different situations skillsets and personalities.
About Wavemaker
Wavemaker is a billiondollar revenue agency that sits at the heart of GroupM and WPP. Our ambition is to be the most distinctive and admired media content and technology agency in the world.
Wavemaker is a global network that operates locally in over 90 countries and 139 offices. We are aligned behind our purchase journey obsession and we help our clients translate audience behaviours and insights in to smart decisions for today and tomorrow. Our commitment to our clients it to be the one driving Positive Provocation. We demonstrate this in how we think how we work and our relationship to technology and content to better serve their needs. We are leading the way in reinventing the role of a media agency in the digital age embracing media planning and buying but fit for the modern marketing requirements of seamlessly connecting media content and technology.
To do this we attract experts from diverse backgrounds that can share in our vision for the future. We believe in the essential relationship between the vitality of our 8500 people and our commercial success. This can best be encapsulated in the values we uphold and the way in which we demonstrate our commitment to them. We are Passionate Agile Collaborative Entrepreneurial and Diverse (PACED)
With PACED as our backdrop we require our people to be selfstarters with high standards. We know that great teams still have star players and we expect everyone to bring their own uniqueness to the party and contribute their value with their own flair. We do not tolerate exclusion of team members and their ideas. We are here to make waves with our clients and we can only do that as a collective.
About India:
2020 brought opportunities for brands to innovate because of which we saw an evolving media stack. The growth of digital is set to soar high because of changing consumer habits. With approximately 500 million smartphone users lowpriced data plans 45 to 50 million ecommerce shoppers approximately 60 OTT offerings and a young population India is a mobilefirst internet market. It is also one of the top 10 ad spend markets in the world and is set to climb the ranks. Global big tech corporations have made considerable investments in top ecommerce/retail ventures and Indian startups blurring the lines between social mediaecommerceand mobile payments resulting in disruption on an unimaginable scale.
At GroupM India theres never a dull moment between juggling client requests managing vendor partners and having fun with your team. We believe in tackling challenges headon and getting things done.
GroupM is an equal opportunity employer. We view everyone as an individual and we understand that inclusion is more than just diversity its about belonging. We celebrate the fact that everyone is unique and thats 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.
At GroupM India theres never a dull moment between juggling client requests managing vendor partners and having fun with your team. We believe in tackling challenges headon and getting things done.
GroupM is an equal opportunity employer. We view everyone as an individual and we understand that inclusion is more than just diversity its about belonging. We celebrate the fact that everyone is unique and thats 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.
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