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Senior Account Executive

Mindshare WW

Global Investment, Senior Account Executive

Mindshare is built on our values of energy, empathy and impact. Our diverse global family includes people from every culture and many skills, but our shared values bind us together. We move fast with intent, challenge and inspire, ensuring the ideas and solutions are always the best they can be. We help each other to achieve success and, together with our clients, use the power of media to change the world.

Mindshare is an inclusive global family of 10,000 people, located in 116 offices across 86 countries. We are the largest media agency in GroupM, WPP's media investment management arm, which is the #1 media holding group globally. Mindshare Worldwide are a team of 400+ people, coordinating media campaigns alongside many other media capabilities for our global clients.

We are committed to inclusivity. We continue to make important steps in progressing on our journey to being a truly inclusive organisation. We have launched The Collective and have seen the birth of a range of Employee Resource Groups who have shown some amazing and inspiring work.

For candidates who have successfully secured an interview and may require reasonable adjustments, we will work to support this and where possible, ensure reasonable adjustments are implemented to support a successful interview.

We offer a competitive package, including a competitive salary, 25 days holiday increasing with service to a maximum of 30, an enhanced pension scheme, Bupa healthcare, and earlier finishes on Fridays. We offer extensive training programmes to help guide career development whilst you're with us.

Based ten minutes from London Bridge station, our office has a rooftop with 360 views of London—a great space to hang out with colleagues and friends!

In our Global Investment Team, collaboration is key. We collaborate a lot! Working with local markets around the world, with colleagues at GroupM Investment and with commercial, digital, new business and client leadership teams at Mindshare!

In partnership with our local and regional buying teams, we focus on the new business, holistic investment and trading needs of our global clients. Our portfolio includes industry drivers like Unilever, Ford, BP, Volvo, Nestle, and Ferrero, amongst others. We have strong longstanding client relationships and our remit with clients spans Asia, North America, Europe, and LatAm regions.

We are expanding our team. We have a fantastic role which we are now recruiting for, working primarily with Colgate-Palmolive, a hugely important client who has partnered with GroupM for over 20 years. We continue to evolve our relationship and innovate in our ways of working and have recently launched a new holistic investment governance framework with this client. This new role would support our team in the successful roll out of this programme across 90+ global markets.

The role will cover many areas of investment management including accountability to trading targets, support and governance around GroupM trading products, digital partnerships, holistic media value opportunities, and an opportunity to get closer to clients.

Together, we are raising the bar and partnering to drive transformation across areas including investment, digital, data, technology, and innovative solutions. The role is exciting, fast-paced, and provides a fantastic opportunity to work on a very high-profile client and grow your media career.

We are looking for someone with 18 months + experience in media planning and/or buying, within a media auditor, a client business, or within an investment team within an agency. Alternatively, they might have experience in another area of the media industry and have a strong interest in developing a career within the global media industry.

Capabilities in maths and attention to detail are essential. We are interested in advanced analytics and data visualisation skills such as Alteryx, Tableau, and Power BI, and any VBA/macro writing skills.

Equally important is an ability to develop and nurture relationships with a wide range of colleagues, both within the immediate team and within local market teams. Strong organisation, communication skills, and problem-solving skills would be beneficial, as well as a proactive and friendly approach.

1. Accountability and Solutions: Working with local market trading teams to track delivery. Keeping managers aware of media value results and working with them to proactively resolve issues. Developing an understanding of the trading commitments and measurement methodologies.
2. Data Analysis: Being confident with big data sets, looking for anomalies, and asking questions to understand context.
3. Market Intelligence: Focusing on building knowledge of global media markets, channels, measurement approaches, inflation, and trading metrics to develop experience. A proactive approach to learning.
4. Relationship Focus: This role will involve working with global markets. An ability to develop collaborative relationships with local teams is important. Being thoughtful and responsive in communications is critical.
5. Team Focus: Active participation in team, workstreams, and contributing to a collaborative team environment. Participating in training sessions and supporting colleagues where appropriate.

Performance Measures: Success is measured against agreed KPI’s which will be discussed periodically throughout the year.

(Please note this is a UK based role and requires individuals to have the right to work in this location)