Account Manager/Planning and Buying - Global Media Agency

Key Purpose of Role

Responsible for the planning and buying of OOH solutions for your Agency

Account Managers are integral team members who oversee a number of accounts; planning and buying campaigns for clients/agencies in your team and developing good relationships with media owners.

Account Managers are expected to oversee Account Executives and Junior Executives.

They are expected to collaborate and share learning and experiences with the wider Activation department and to contribute to the company as an active member of the business.

Overview of Key Accountabilities, Responsibilities and Duties

• Assist in promoting the company's offering to clients and agencies and identify ways of driving more revenue
• Able to quote planning and buying rates and option and buy campaigns
• Can help co-ordinate short-term opportunities and monitor spend commitments with key Media Owners to ensure targets are met. Help monitor value delivered to agencies
• Negotiate pricing and book activity with media owners
• Developing good working relationships with clients
• Finds new and better ways of servicing clients
• Effectively delivering competent OOH responses to brief for clients/agencies
• Present proposals, market updates and inductions to agencies and clients
• Takes responsibility for resolving any client or campaign issues and escalate appropriately
• Presents quarterly insights and updates to agencies
• Undertakes competitive analysis
• Collates production requirements for the team
• Prepares post-campaign analysis
• Update internal databases as required
• Looks for new ways of improving quality and creativity to the ways of servicing clients/agencies
• Escalates challenging client issues and team issues appropriately
• Demonstrates creative solutions through data led planning and driving innovation and technology
• Keeping abreast of vendor news and forming an opinion

Key Competencies (Skills, Knowledge and Experience)

• Can help co-ordinate short-term opportunities and monitor spend commitments with key Media Owners to ensure targets are met. Help monitor value delivered to agencies
• Negotiate pricing and book activity with media owners
• Good numeracy

• Strong implementation and delivery skills; tactical and hands-on
• Introduce new ideas
• Considers the wider/bigger picture
• Excellent problem solving, comes up with new solutions
• Excellent attention to Detail

• Can identify new revenue opportunities
• Sensitive to wider commercial implications

• Good presentation skills
• Demonstrates impact and confidence
• Good written skills - good grammar, clear and concise
• Good listening skills and emotional intelligence to read situations and people

Digital / Technical Skills

• Good understanding and use of MS Office /Windows - Outlook, Excel, Word and PowerPoint
• Able to use internal technical tools - picks up new technology and systems well
• Excellent understanding of social media and internet
• Actively works to develop understanding of digital developments through reading, seminars and attending learning, development and training

Although the role would suit someone from an Agency/Specialist background, my client would also consider candidates from an Outdoor Media Owner.

Please contact Nicola for more information on this role and other opportunities we have at Greene Media Network -

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