Manager - OOH

Manager – OOH

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Overview of role

EssenceMediacom (EM) handles the media planning and buying for some of the world's smartest advertisers. Supported by keen consumer insight, analysis, and experience, we are part of the largest media planning and buying network in the world.

We are looking for an OOH Manager who has exceptional implementational planning ability, a strong understanding of the role OOH plays in a client’s overall marketing campaign and experience of working within a team of multimedia specialists to deliver a connected response to brief.

The role will require you to be responsible for the OOH planning output of some of EM’s biggest clients, including Adidas, Richemont, JMPC, and SAS.

Reporting of the role

You will report into the OOH Director on the team.

Responsibilities of the role

• Ensuring that you are delivering and sharing brilliant basics in OOH implementational planning.
• Playing a key role in the delivery of connected multimedia responses to brief.
• Having detailed knowledge of all relevant industry and GroupM proprietary tools.
• Being highly competent in the construction and telling of compelling implementational stories and justification of your recommendations.
• Understanding how to conceive, evaluate and deliver content partnerships.
• Working closely with Investment to ensure campaigns are set up in line with implementational response.
• Building trust with your day-to-day clients.
• Maintaining strong relationships with media owners.
• Collaborating well with your digital, AV, Investment and Kinetic counterparts.
• Managing the motivation and progression of more junior members of the OOH team.

What you will need

• Excellent presentation skills.
• A proactive approach to problem solving.
• To be self-motivated.
• To have good commercial acumen.
• The ability to stay calm and make decisions under pressure.
• Knowledge of industry media planning tools.
• Genuine interest in industry research and new ways of working.
• Ability to extract and filter relevant insights from briefs and research to support planning decisions.
• To be a great communicator.
• To be a natural collaborator.
• Willingness to share knowledge and train more junior members of the team.
• Natural curiosity.
• Ambition to deliver award winning work and industry leading innovation.

About EssenceMediacom

We are a global communications agency leading with breakthrough thinking, building explosive growth for brands, and helping our clients see the bigger picture. Our daring global network of 10,000 influencers help our clients breach traditional boundaries in media, uncover novel ideas, and unleash exponential growth.

EssenceMediacom challenges conventional thinking to build, propel, and supercharge our clients’ businesses at scale and lead our industry in critical areas such as diversity, equity, inclusion, and sustainability.