Manager-Media Buying

Buying/Trading & Investment Gurgaon, India


Description

Position at Maxus

The buying team of Maxus is looking for a young, energized, self-motivated media buying executive / manager with 3-5 years of experience. You will be responsible for a range of work on prestigious brands like Google 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.

Reporting of the role

This role reports to the Investment Group Head

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 Maxus. Would be in a different pedestal if successful on these accounts.

Measures of success –

In three months:

  • 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:

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

In 12 months:

  • 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 Maxus

Maxus builds innovative plans that result in consumer actions for our client’s brands through our passion, agility, collaboration & entrepreneurial culture. It’s our consumer centric focus, innovation in channel application and market leading leverage that helps to differentiate us in any of the markets that we operate in around the globe. We bring all of this to life through our talented people, our unique ways of working, our tools and data pipes that fuel truths, ideas and recommendations based on achieving business not media objectives. We love what we do, we do what love and we hope you will to. To find out more, please visit us at http://maxusglobal.com.

About India

Digital media advertising in India continues to grow at 35% since 2014, cementing India’s position as the third largest internet market with close to 250m users. The Internet growth is driven by mobile data and connectivity, making it an exciting market for digital advertising and content over the next five years. India also has a booming e-commerce industry with remarkable growth potential. With a new stable government in the centre and renewed foreign investments into several industries, India is an exciting market for any media and advertising professional.

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