Director - Digital Trading
Director - Digital Trading
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Position at Mindshare
Job title Manager Digital Trading GroupM India.
Overview of job
Overview of job
This role is part of our Mindshare Exchange (Digital trading) and aligned with Central Trading Group Groupm. You will be responsible for implementation of the overall digital trading strategy for businesses in West India for a set of agency OpCos within Mindshare keeping in mind the priorities of the agencies:
Reporting of the role
This role reports to the Director Digital trading Mindshare west.
3 best things about the job
- Working in a highly charged atmosphere: GroupM has over 45% share of adEx handles many of the iconic brands and clients and employs some of the best advertising and media professionals in the country.
- The opportunity to shape the Western market: With the scale mentioned above its possible to shape virtually any new idea and opportunity.
- Evangelizing digital to both internal and external stakeholders and working with the best technology and digital businesses.
Measures of success
In 3 months:
- Completely be in sync with our overall trading objectives and implementation strategy
- Get completely aligned to your selected set of agency stakeholders and set of processes that are to be followed.
- Be aligned on key deliveries and set a plan to achieve the same.
- Demonstration of technical knowledge
- Rigorous tracking of client and buy deliverables
In 6 months:
- Be actively involved in daytoday trading practices and ensure smooth fulfilment of the role.
- Regular tracking of client deliverables
- Contributing to monthly buying reviews with client
- Being updated on latest happenings
In 12 months:
- Achieve all expectations and KPIs set out for the year.
- Add value to the group through thought leadership in areas mutually decided with your reporting manager
- Provide inputs to new implementation strategies (if any)
Responsibilities of the role
- To work with the Regional Head of Exchange and execute the established Digital Trading strategy for the selected agency OpCos and their clients in West India. To be specific ensure all key KPIs like Deal making for clients Client pricing Inflation control demand generation encouraging clients to measure BAV are implemented successfully.
- Syncing up with stake holders to ensure all client level buying KPIs are successfully delivered.
- Along with execution ensure setting up systems to monitor their effective implementation.
- To assist with troubleshooting and negotiation support as and when is needed with the agencies to ensure the continued success and excellence of these strategies.
- Other miscellaneous related duties as required.
What you will need
- A trading or dealmaking personality who enjoys the excitement of negotiations.
- A practical handson approach and excellent local media owner connections.
- A sensitive careful approach is needed to obtain the best results from our media vendor partners (as well as our clients and staff).
- Energy and enthusiasm to relentlessly drive changes across the business and help our staff embrace this new initiative and the change in behaviour that is needed.
- A collaborative and astute approach to build trust and respect across our total network we are a multiagency multilayer organization.
- A deep understanding of digital media and familiarity with all aspects of digital media including display Search Social Mobile Video Programmatic Data etc.
- 3 years of experience in the digital arena ideally across multiple markets and/or in a regional role with an emphasis on buying and negotiation
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 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 provocationand 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 atand 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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Director
Employment Type
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