Description

Overview of job

Joining Maxus isn't just like taking another ordinary job. Maxus people are positive, passionate and love Media. At our Shanghai office, we have an opening for a Senior Media Planner with a drive to learn about “Full Media” and communication strategies.

Reporting of the role

This role reports to Planning Manager, Maxus China

3 best things about the job:

1. Young and like-minded colleagues working together
2. Work with amazing people from different units like strategic planning, social media and Data & Analytics to name a few.
3. Full media planning across all traditional & digital media activities.

Measures of success –

In three months, you would have:

• Have an understanding of the agency portfolio of clients
• Provide assistance in the evaluation of media opportunities

 In six months, you would have:

• Assist line Manager in annual review/planning proposal for the client.
• Start to build a relationship with specialists from client side.

In 12 months, you would have:

• Be the person whom the client goes to for day-to-day activities. Able to propose ideas and activities to answer identified challenges.

• Mentor new Planners/Interns and assist in leading a small scale project (identify need, formulate idea into plan, set the scope and present to the Manager).

 Responsibilities of the role:

• Act as the Senior Planner in the team and manage daily execution jobs.
• Develop implementation media plans and monitor the whole process from briefing to post buy.
• Ensure regular reporting is delivered on time and accurately.
• Ensure that campaigns are tracked and measured based on agreed KPIs and media efficiencies
• Work with internal specialist resources and group resources.

What you will need:

•  1-2 years of media planning experience, with strategic planning experience. 
• An independent, self-driven individual with highly responsible nature.
• Ability to work in a matrix organization, managing complexity and challenges.
• Energetic, think differently, clear about career objective.
• Of course, you'll need to be fluent in Mandarin and speak some English. 

 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 China

China is now the second largest media market, and the world’s most vibrant digital market, growing at double the rate of the US. In 2013, China surpassed the US in e-commerce, and China leads the world in mobile with over 600m smartphone connections. The pace of change and the scale of China’s emerging consumer market are unparalleled in any other market. Global CEOs are looking to China to drive growth, and brands are rushing to keep pace.

If you want a future in media and communications, there is clearly no place more vibrant, challenging and exciting than China, where opportunities for you to innovate and grow are unparalleled.

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.