Global Media Investment Manager

2745 - Global Media Investment Manager - GCS

Role Summary and Impact
The Global Investment team sits at the heart of the agency, collaborating with various agency capabilities including trading, client leadership, commercial, digital, and new business on a local, regional, and global level. Our primary function is to support investment and trading requirements across our global client portfolio, working closely with local market agency teams, global clients, and external 3rd parties. This team focuses on workstreams such as media value management, marketplace and inflation monitoring, auditor collaboration/management, digital process management, commercial liability and contractual awareness, new business pitches, innovation in developing media channels, and thought leadership.
This role will involve working across several key global clients within our group. Depending on the client, the role will include areas such as:

• Trading Delivery: Working with local market trading teams to track media value delivery according to the agreed methodology, ensuring a clear understanding of trading commitments and measurement. This includes consolidating media value delivery across media channels, markets, and regions, leading solution-focused approaches where needed, and actively participating in discussions with auditors to resolve issues.
• Analysis: Confidently handling large data sets, ensuring quality assurance in data, spotting anomalies, and asking questions to ensure accuracy and robustness of data.
• Media Knowledge: Focusing on global media knowledge of markets, channels, measurement metrics, methodologies, and trading metrics to build expertise. This involves sharing knowledge and supporting junior team members in their learning, with a proactive and engaging approach to continuous learning being essential.
• Market Intelligence: Developing market intelligence in areas such as media price inflation, media channel evolution, and media landscape changes, keeping the team and clients aware of such changes and any potential impact. Potential involvement in workstreams to ensure we are appropriately future-focused on the opportunities of the evolving media landscape.
• People and Project Management: Ability to manage and develop more junior team members, supporting them with completing deliverables in a timely manner, ensuring high-quality output, and developing their knowledge and skillset. This includes an active role in managing client and auditor deliverables within the team. The role requires an ability to multi-task in a fast-paced environment, including prioritising, adapting at short notice, and maintaining a solutions-focused approach.
• Relationship Focus: This role involves working with many global markets, requiring an ability to develop collaborative relationships with local teams, internal team members, clients, and 3rd party auditors where relevant. Demonstrating a thoughtful, considered, and fair approach in discussions around issue resolution is important.
• Team: Active participation in the Investment team, workstreams, and contributing to a collaborative team environment.

The success of the role will be measured against agreed KPIs which will be discussed periodically throughout the year. Additionally, strong local market relationships are critical to the success of this role.
Skills and Experience
The successful candidate will have experience in a media buying/trading role, within a media auditor, a client business, and/or within an investment management agency team.
The role will involve working with big data sets, therefore skills in maths, Excel, and attention to detail are essential. An interest in analysing data, understanding the trends, and the story it shows are also important. We are particularly interested in any advanced analytics and data visualisation skills including experience of platforms such as Alteryx, Tableau, and Power BI, as well as any VBA/macro writing skills.
Equally important is an ability to develop and nurture relationships with a wide range of colleagues, both within internal global teams and where relevant, external parties. Strong organisation, communication skills, and problem-solving skills would be beneficial, as well as a proactive and friendly approach.
The role is within the global team, which requires talking to markets around the world where English may not be the first language. Therefore, strong written and spoken English language skills are essential for this role.

Life at WPP Media & Benefits 

Our passion for shaping the next era of media is powered by our commitment to Be Extraordinary, investing in our employees to inspire transformational creativity. We also Lead Optimistically, firmly believing in and Championing Growth and Development for every individual. This commitment allows WPP Media employees to leverage the extensive global WPP Media & WPP networks to pursue their passions, build vital professional connections, and learn at the cutting edge of marketing and advertising.  

We Create an Open environment built on trust and respect, where everyone feels they belong and has opportunities to progress. This inclusive culture is fostered through a variety of employee resource groups and frequent in-office events showcasing team wins, sharing thought leadership, and celebrating holidays and milestone events. Our comprehensive benefits package reflects this commitment, including competitive medical, group retirement plans, vision, and dental insurance, significant paid time off, preferential partner discounts, and employee mental health awareness days.  

WPP Media is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without discrimination or regard to characteristics. We believe the best work happens when we're together, fostering creativity, collaboration, and connection in this open and supportive environment. That's why we’ve adopted a hybrid approach, with teams in the office around four days a week. If you require accommodations or flexibility, please discuss this with the hiring team during the interview process.  Please note that while our philosophy is the same across WPP, benefits may vary by office/country. 

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