Buying Manager

Buying/Trading & Investment Vietnam, Vietnam

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Position at Mindshare

Buying Manager – Mindshare Vietnam  

Overview of the Job  

The buying team of Mindshare is looking for a young, energized, self-motivated media buying executive / manager with 2-4 years of experience. The resource will be responsible for a range of work on prestigious brands like Dutch Lady, Kinh Do and some other smaller brands including deal evaluations, dealing with the channels, integrations, interacting with the client on key questions & also managing internal SU’s. There is a lot of learning expected with an opportunity to work with a team having varied experience. The range of clients  
mentioned here would only help the person to get to work not only on the core Traditional media but also on other emerging mediums.  

Reporting of the role  

This role reports to the Partner, Client Leadership  

3 best things about the job:  

  1. Opportunity to grow both personally and professionally.
  2. Completely managing the deals for certain accounts till implementation. Full accountability is yours – the canvas is open for you, if you have the hunger
  3. The opportunity to work on the best of accounts of Mindshare. Would be in a different pedestal if successful on these accounts

Measures of success  
In three months, you would have:
  • Complete knowledge of your clients benchmarks
  • Completely hands on with the deal structuring, how to approach negotiations, standard SOPs for the clients etc.

In six months, you would have:

  • Start doing deals on some of the channels. Championing one genre

In 12 months, you would have:

  • Handling deals of some smaller clients completely on your own. Take charge of the deals, plans, approach etc for those accounts.
  • Start working on enhancing internal and external relationships.

Responsibilities of the role:  
  • To assist the Investment Group Head / Director in buying by providing necessary data – landscape
  • Data and deal construction / evaluation data
  • To collate ratings and generate MIS reports on program performance, channel shares
  • To maintain deal tracking MIS
  • To assist in production of post buy reports, CPRP reports and quarterly reviews
  • To negotiate position upgrades during execution
  • To contribute towards innovation idea generation
  • To assist in sponsorship negotiations and management
  • To negotiate inventory availability and block as required as per deal
  • Compliance against internal / External Audit for your set of accounts
  • Making relationships within GroupM system
  • Creating internal reports, work on reports for the clients
  • Rigorous tracking of deals as per audit norms
  • Help team with market intelligence & structured data which help in structuring better deals
  • Follow the new timesheet process
  • Up the involvement on client servicing

 What you will need:

  • High commitment & passion towards learning, growing & moving up your career
  • Extremely flexible attitude and an ability to read between the lines
  • Quick turnaround time & sharp analytical skills
About Mindshare  

Mindshare, the global media agency network, and part of WPP, the largest marketing communications network in the world, has more than 7,000 employees, in 116 offices across 86 countries. Mindshare APAC has won over 300 awards in 2014/2015 and was the most awarded agency at the 2015 Campaign Asia Awards Festival. Mindshare was also recognised as the SMARTIES™ APAC ‘Agency Network of the Year 2015’ for the third consecutive year. Mindshare is also home to The 2015 Festival of Media Asia Pacific Rising Star – Jason Maggs.

To learn more about Mindshare and our philosophy of Original Thinking, visit us at www.mindshareworld.com


About Vietnam

It’s no secret Vietnam is the fastest growing media market in Asia Pacific. Ad spend in Vietnam grew a staggering around 37% last year, with internet penetration reached in excess of 40% during 2014. With a population of more than 90 million, this market carries huge potential and possibilities for media players and talent.

GroupM APAC is committed to fostering a culture of diversity and inclusion. Our people are our strength so we respect and nurture their individual talent and potential.

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