Wavemaker | Director

Job title: Director

Reporting to: Client Leader

Location, Country: Mumbai

Brief role description:

Wavemaker is an agency of GroupM, the world s largest media investment company and is part of WPP. We are currently looking for a Director join us.In this role, you will be responsible for demonstrating success in managing media planning businesses for a large brand.

3 best things about the job :

• Working with an exciting client known to be bold, ambitious and creative.
• Working with a passionate, driven and highly capable team.
• Opportunity to grow and learn with clients that lean forward with innovations

About Wavemaker

We always believe there is a better way to grow our client and our people. We do this by positively provoking growth for our clients and people. We work with clients to help them grow and shape their consumers brand decisions and experiences through media, content, and technology.

We have one single attitude - Positive Provocation.

Our name is our mission and our method. To make waves, you need to be provocative, even fearless. We always make sure we have each other s backs through our inclusive culture.

We do our best work for brave brands and people who want to be challenged to go further and faster. We know it s not easy, but if it s in you, we will get it out of you.

Our attitude of Positive Provocation is enabled by:

• The deep Knowledge we have of our clients business.
• The confidence to Challenge what s gone before.
• The Support to go further than we thought possible.

Core responsibilities:

• Have a thorough understanding of the clients businesses (KPIs, key challenges and how they differ from other brands).
• Understand the key tools and processes critical to the everyday running of the account.
• Managing the day to day output of the team with high quality and high responsiveness to client requests
• Thorough knowledge of the integrated media landscape of brands handled
• Establish relationship with key clients.
• Embedded yourself into the internal team and understood the different specialist teams you work with
• Built a strong, collaborative relationship with your clients, acting as the senior contact across clients.
• Improve outputs and presentation of reviews/planning sessions
• Suggest improvements in ways of working or processes of any clients
• Begin to consult with clients on their business and how Wavemaker can influence business outcomes
• Drive incremental revenue and drive profitability for the team, including but not limited to fee and contract negotiations.
• Lead and deliver all client responses to brief with the team in a strategic way
• Lead planning response from insight and strategy through to execution
• Inspire the team to develop skills and grow
• Manage team workload and bring efficiency at client delivery
• Provide enough and timely feedback/appraisal to direct reports in a thorough and professional manner

Additional responsibilities:

• Managing and being responsive to client requests, appropriately delegating tasks to individual team members.
• Guide team members to develop strategic thinking and integrated media planning skills
• Drive digital acceleration and application of digital planning principles.
• Work closely with the specialist teams to ensure you are up to date with their latest offerings
• Work closely with media partners on responses to briefs or pro-actives.
• Ongoing learning of the client s category/competitive activity as well as the changing media landscape
• Attending meetings - internal, client and cross-agency
• Always questioning - using the insights at our disposal, either through the strategy team or business science, consider how this might affect the overall communications for clients.
• Take part in new business pitches and provide insightful and comprehensive communication solutions for the agency and its clients

The Candidate:

• This is a leadership role requiring proactivity and a determination to create change.
• You are expected to have experience in digital strategy, communications planning, digital consultancy and execution wherever possible in an agency environment.
• Understanding of programmatic landscape viz, trends, technologies (DMP, DSP, SSP etc.) - Preferred
• Curiosity - always asking meaningful questions, challenging the brief if necessary
• High attention to detail to ensure the team s output is of the highest quality
• Proven experience in managing people and ability to adapt management style
• Strong team player
• Ability to navigate difficult client situations/manage expectations in a diplomatic way
• Enterprising - ability to identify and drive revenue opportunities

We are a part of GroupM, WPP s global media investment management company. Discover more on wavemakerglobal.com , Twitter and LinkedIn

We are an equal opportunities employer.

All GroupM agencies are equal opportunities employers and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, gender identity, disability, culture/religion/belief, sexual orientation, or age.

More about GroupM 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, low-priced data plans, 45 to 50 million e-commerce shoppers, approximately 60 OTT offerings and a young population, India is a mobile-first 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 e-commerce/retail ventures and Indian start-ups, blurring the lines between social media, e-commerce and mobile payments, resulting in disruption on an unimaginable scale.

At GroupM India, there s never a dull moment between juggling client requests, managing vendor partners, and having fun with your team. We believe in tackling challenges head-on 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 - it s about belonging. We celebrate the fact that everyone is unique and that s 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.