Description

We are looking for a motivated and talented Planning Manager to lead one of our prestigious and challenging categories. You will be directly involved in the holistic planning and execution of both traditional and digital advertising campaigns for one of our key clients. 

Reporting of the role

This role reports to the Planning Director.

Best things about the job:

1. A chance to work with celebrated leaders and a highly motivated set of Media Planners for a pioneering brand
2. Lead a full service media account, across all channels including content and ecommerce.

Measures of success –

In three months:

• Get acquainted with one of the most advanced planning processes and acquire the required skills with on the job training
• Independently complete 80%+ queries from client, which may include the Reviews/Annual presentations for the brand

In six months:

• Independently respond to all queries from client with assistant support
• Anticipate clients’ common queries and provide response or solutions proactively

In 12 months:

• Completely manage all annual review/planning proposals for this client
• Start overseeing another brand independently

Responsibilities of the role:

1. Plan, develop, present and execute online media campaigns in multiple channels
2. Consult with clients and other agency staff to establish and achieve specific media goals and objectives.
3. Evaluate media proposals by research. Provide necessary support in the execution, trafficking, managing and optimization of traditional and online media campaigns.
4. Monitor the results of all campaigns to ensure they run smoothly and meet the clients’ goals.
5. Provide campaign reports with results, campaign conclusions and suggested optimizations.
6. Troubleshoot media discrepancies with clients.
7. Maintain and stay current on industry news and research. 
8. Develop and maintain strong relationships with clients and publishers.
9. Ability to work closely with dynamic and international team members to meet tight deadlines.
10. Mange and lead a team with effective client servicing

What you will need:

1. The right attitude to learn, adapt and perform
2. Minimum 4 to 5 years of media planning experience
3. Bachelor degree in Advertising, Marketing or related program
4. Strong analytical skills
5. Well versed in writing proposals and presenting strategies in both Chinese and English
6. Superb communication skills, clear and professional in client communications. Confident, outspoken, contributing and not afraid of challenges.
7. Excellent project manager, ability to be on top of all things and managing client and internal expectations
8. Supreme time management.
9. Mentoring ability. Must have experience with managing a team of planners
10. Build rapport and maintaining good relationship with internal stakeholders
11. Excellent understanding of local media landscape and good working relationship with vendors (display, mobile, search, social, etc.)
12. Detail-oriented with a good degree of technical understanding
13. Be able to think on the fly, demonstrate out of the box thinker
14. Must be organized and efficient while working on multiple tasks
15. Self- starter and independent worker with a drive
16. Desire to learn and grow with can-do attitude
17. Good computer skills in Microsoft Office Excel, PowerPoint, Word etc.

About MEC

MEC is committed to growth. Growth for our people, our clients and our industry. MEC pushes the boundaries of what’s possible in order to thrive in ~ Ad Ops ~ Analytics ~ Brand Partnerships ~ Content Marketing ~ Data ~ Insight ~ Integrated Planning ~ Mobile ~ Multi-cultural ~ Performance Marketing ~ Planning & Buying ~ Programmatic ~ Search ~ Social ~ Sport, Entertainment & Cause Marketing.  Our 5,000 highly talented and motivated people work with category leading advertisers in 93 countries and we are a founding partner of GroupM. To find out more, visit us at www.mecglobal.com #dontjustlivethrive

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.