Director Strategy
Director Strategy
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Position at Mindshare
Overview of job
Mindshare is an agency of GroupM the worlds largest media investment company and are a part of WPP. In fact we are responsible for one in every three ads you see globally. We are currently looking for aDirector Strategy to join us. In this role you will be responsible for managing client relationship and help drive digital agenda for the respective clients. You would will be working with a team of digital experts to deliver integrated digital solutions to fulfil clients digital objectives.
At GroupM APAC our people are our strength which is why fostering a culture of diversity and inclusion is important to us.
Reporting of the role
This role reports to:Senior Director Client Leadership
3 best things about the job:
3 best things about the job:
1. Wed like you to be a trusted resource and partner to our clients especially their product marketing and innovation leads not afraid to have the tough conversations when necessary but also willing to adapt to their needs.
2. Providing strategy inputs for key projects on key marketing growth challenges such as new markets communicating new offerings mapping offline & online consumer journeys creating campaign architectures audience planning etc
3. Bringing new age thinking including creating opportunities for analytics emerging tech content partnerships and datadriven marketing on key clients handled and participation in new business pitches.
In this role your goals will be:
In three months:
- Identifying a strategy charter for clients based on historical learnings category and competition understanding
- Engage with client Marketing team on all key campaigns driving strategic thinking that will influence media planning.
In six months:
- Regular engagement across different campaigns with demonstrated impact on plans becoming goto person with client for strategic inputs
- Full knowledge of GroupM tools digital and data partnerships and capabilities.
- Working on identified projects and GroupM capabilities
- Leading AOPs across identified client clusters and participation in new business pitches
In 12 months:
- Delivering Breakthrough work across campaigns
- Involved in central strategy projects.
- Bringing crosscategory learnings together to set up client strategy workshops setting up partner days test and learn initiatives and regular reviews with clients
What your day job looks like at GroupM:
- Collaborating with strategy leadership and account leads to create strategy charter/projects.
- Part of weekly client meetings reviews campaign strategy presentations.
- Research research research! Build a strong foundation that elevates discussions with senior clients
- Use of GroupM/EM tools to design new solutions relevant for key clients handled
What youll bring:
- Detailoriented proficient with industry tools and sharp eye for insights
- Excellent presentation and storytelling skills Drafting whitepapers generating case studies independently building a clientcentric perspective ability to confidently present to senior management
- Extremely wellread well informed about marketing trends having a strong Pov on brand building business models growth cycles and emerging role of technology in marketing
- Extreme curiosity investigating the why of something being able to draw patterns and learnings from multiple industries and adjacencies
- Optimistic and collaborative Being able to successfully work across functions disciplines while being seen as a valuable contributor and enabler
Minimum qualifications:
- 6 years with a digital media planning/digital media strategy background
- MBA with marketing specialization.
More about Mindshare
We were born in Asia in 1997a start up with a desire to change the media world. Now we are a global agency with more than 7000 employees in 116 offices across 86 countries operating as one team #teammindshare. We believe that in todays world everything begins and ends in media. We aim to be our clients lead business partner to grow their business and drive profitability through adaptive and inventive marketing. We do this through speed teamwork and provocation and by operating as a network of networks rather than a rigid hierarchy. We create new things and have fun doing it. Whenever and wherever you join us you open a door to opportunities in any and of all aspects of media technology and innovation. We will support you recognize you and reward you making Mindshare the place where you do the best work of your career.
Mindshare APAC has won 500 awards in the last year alone including Agency Network of the Year 2017 by both the MMA SMARTIES and Campaign Asia for the fifth and third consecutive year respectively. Mindshare is part of GroupM the media investment management arm of WPP the worlds leading communications services learn more about Mindshare and our philosophy of Original Thinking visit us at follow us on Twitter@mindshareand 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 media ecommerce and 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.
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