Description

As Associate Communications Director, you will have a huge opportunity to showcase your ideation, CPRP and creative skills as you work across local and multinational Property Development brands/categories.

Reporting of the role

This role reports to the Business Director.

 3 best things about the job:

1. Brand: You will be working on competitive brands that continuously make impact in the market!
2. The Team: You will be part of a team of young passionate individuals with hip leadership and loves thinking outside the box.
3. Experience: This role will brings you to work with the world’s largest media company with support from a diverse pool of talents, specializing in various areas in media.

Measures of success –

In three months, you would:

Build an integrated strategy to address the overall communications objective, together with the Business Lead.  Within the plan, you would articulate the hybrid media strategy and drive excellence through ideas and innovation.

In six months, you would:

Oversee the project management, negotiation, purchase and execution of hybrid media campaigns together with various team members assigned to the account.  You would also have driven implantation across all digital platforms, including display, video, search and mobile.

In twelve months, you would:

Direct the development and presentation of media plans, media buys and analyses.

Responsibilities of the role:

• Contribute to delivering MediaCom objectives across client service, quality control, reputation, industry exposure.
• Active contribution to the creation of the MediaCom vision and capacity/desire to help drive it forward and deliver on it.
• Technology and operations specialist. The candidate will know exactly what technology to use in the implementation process to create return or increase efficiency and will be able to implement these.
• Build, manage and track key trading relationships with publishers.
• Responsible for the tactical output of all digital work completed by the team.
• Thorough understanding of existing research/analytic techniques and knowledge of how to interrogate these.
• Ability to deliver/present approaches convincingly to both internal stakeholders and external clients

What you will need:

• Minimum 8 years in media channels and contacts, both digital and traditional.
• Preferably a Bachelor's Degree in any of the following courses - Advertising, Communication Arts, Communication, Marketing or Business Administration.
• Strong knowledge and understanding of current trends in digital media/social media.
• Strong writing, editing, proofreading, layout and design, professional printing/publishing skills are essential, including ability to present concepts verbally.
• Strong analytical and number skills.
• Passion for learning and openness to new challenges.
• Meticulous, independent and adaptable.

About MediaCom
MediaCom is the “The Content + Connections Agency”, working on behalf of its clients to leverage their brands’ entire system of communications across paid, owned and earned channels to step change their business outcomes.  MediaCom delivers not just individual channel silo efficiencies but also connected communications system effectiveness, by developing and optimising all content – defined as any form of consumer messaging – as the fuel that drives high-performing systems. MediaCom measures and quantifies communications systems across paid, owned and earned through their unique Connected System Audit.

MediaCom is one of the world’s leading media communications specialists, with billings exceeding US$33 billion (Source: RECMA 2015). It employs 6,500 people in 125 offices across 100 countries around the globe. Its client roster includes P&G, VW Group, Dell and Universal. In 2015, MediaCom was recognised by RECMA as the leading global agency network in its Network Diagnostics report, and also was the first agency network to top all 3 key RECMA reports across EMEA.  Also in 2015, MediaCom has been awarded Media Agency of the Year in the US by AdAge and Adweek, Agency of the Year in the UK by Campaign and The Drum, and Global Agency of the Year at the M&M Awards. The agency captured six Media Lions at the 2015 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, making it the top performer among all global media agency networks.

MediaCom is a member of WPP, the world's largest marketing communications services group, and part of GroupM, WPP’s consolidated media investment management arm.

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Malaysia market overview
As Malaysia moves towards its goal of becoming a developed nation by 2020, we can see this ambition come to life through the digital literacy of its consumers. This market will provide endless opportunities for marketing, media and branding professionals to hone their skill as it transits rapidly from manually-managed traditional media to programmatic new media.

Looking ahead, Malaysia is one of the focus markets for securing the latest versions of our global programmatic technology, data management platforms and cross-media analytics. Those looking for an exciting and challenging career in media have no better place to be in than Malaysia.