| Position: | SVP/Media Director |
| Status: | FILLED |
The Opportunity:
Our Client is one of the country's leading digital and direct marketing agencies that offers marketing services and strategies to design, build and run mechanisms that drive customer acquisition, cross-sell, loyalty, affinity and care operations across digital and traditional media for world-leading brands. The client is seeking a SVP/Media Director to lead integrated media solutions across multiple clients.
Job Description:
The ideal SVP/Media Director is a highly passionate, collaborative, outgoing, creative oriented media leader. This person has an entrepreneurial spirit who does not settle for the expected and pushes ideas beyond the obvious possibilities. The SVP/Media Director should be an expert in the field, possessing a broad set of media, marketing and management skills. The y will have ownership and direct responsibility for management within the media group on key accounts and overall for a team. A seasoned candidate will also demonstrate the following responsibilities:
Strategic Capabilities:
- Leads and manages multiple workstreams of client business, serving as the primary and high level contact to articulate The Company's view on media strategy and business philosophies
- Responsible for comprehensive management of assigned accounts.
- Draws insight from program results and ensure dialogue with client and internal team on informed strategic implications
- Sells in new creative media ideas to client that aligns with their business, customer and brand goals
- Works closely with account, creative and measurement teams to ensure media plans and creative/measurement work are strategically aligned and client needs are met
Client:
- Assume substantial role on the core client team(s) to identify issues, develop new business opportunities with existing clients and assist in development of new client relationships.
- Inspire clients with media knowledge and ideas
Management:
- Responsible for oversight of all program budgets, including staffing and resource requirements.
- Substantial role in management of department resources across accounts and from an overall revenue management perspective.
- Assume leader role in key departmental or company initiatives
- Promote/sell media department capabilities across teams/company
- Develop people within the team by coaching, identifying areas for growth, celebrating successes, managing promotion process, keeping an open dialogue with your team, identifying training opportunity
Additionally:
- An enthusiastic, energetic advocate for the best people, the best ideas and the best cross-functional process to drive client results
- Promote positive working relationships within the department, the company and the media vendor community
- Establish trust and credibility with clients
Experience:
- Bachelor's or advanced degree
- Minimum of 15+ years in roles of increasing responsibility in departments of a similar nature (e.g., ad agency media department, media company or client side).
- Management experience is required, with a minimum of 8 years in a management role.
- Proven leadership ability and previous client relationship experience.
- Thorough knowledge and understanding of interactive media (all channels and pricing models )
- In depth understanding of media planning, negotiation, implementation and performance analysis
- Exemplary communication skills (persuasive written, compelling oral)
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