Description

You will assist the Planning Associate Director to take care of a leading nutrition brand of well-known MNC FMCG client. You need to understand the client’s business needs and category issues. Formulate strategies and plans from briefing (on accounts where responsible) and oversee all implementation, enhance relationship with client in daily contact and assist the Associate Director on any other accounts when necessary.


Reporting of the role

This role reports to the [Associate Director].

3 best things about the job:

1. Work on the most well-known and competitive FMCG brands that continuously make impact in the market.
2. Young, creative and like-minded colleagues at the work place.
3. Many opportunities to explore client’s business, forward thinking innovation and different aspects of media planning.

Measures of success –

In three months:

• Understand client’s business and needs

• Well understand working process and timeline of regular jobs
• Start to build relationships with client contact window and units within GroupM

In six months:

• Well recognized by key clients by demonstrating the integrated media capabilities in terms of daily implementation etc.
• Become a key pillar that your seniors and subordinates can rely on

In 12 months:

• Independently manage all day to day client service activity ;
• Grow up your team and keep them engaged with their work;

Responsibilities of the role:

• Assist the Associate Director in creating integrated media plans, strategically and efficiently
• Oversee plan negotiations and supervise media plan implementation.
• Initiate creative and business building ideas
• Maintain status reports to ensure efficient workflow in order to meet deadlines and write reports of key meetings
• Maintaining client contact
• Develop and build strong working relationships with internal teams
• Manage vendor relationships
• Writing and presenting presentations

What you will need:

• 3+ years of experience,
• Fluent in both Chinese and English

• Prior experience working in an Interactive/Digital environment
• Strategic Thinker and Detailed oriented
• Team player
• Excellent written and verbal communication
• Ability to work successfully with teams, handling multiple projects and meeting tight deadlines under pressure
• Strong negotiating skills and excellent attention to detail
• Strong relationship building skills which include maintaining positive client relationships
• Demonstrated critical thinking and problem solving abilities
• Strong analytical abilities and quantitative skills, including math proficiency

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 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.