To apply for any of these roles, please email your CV to Holly Roberts, holly.roberts@mpg.com, quoting the Job Reference.
Digital Account Manager
We are now seeking a Digital (Display) Account Manager to working on an enviable set of clients. It will be your responsibility to manage the delivery of media plans, as well as negotiating and buying media. You will oversee the work of Account Executives to ensure that regular competitor reviews, from both a creative analysis and media perspective, are undertaken, and that the media campaigns that are being run are consistently analysed to make them as efficient as possible.
Key responsibilities:
- Gain market and competitor knowledge. Understand what the impact of the competitive climate and context has on the client’s business.
- Develop understanding of potential roles of communication channels in solving client problems eg (Press/Digital/TV/Outdoor/Radio/Cinema)
- Have a strong understanding of rationale behind intra media decisions and be able to deliver this competently to clients both in a verbal and written format.
- Mentor AEs in terms of time management/workload/prioritisation
You must have a thorough understanding of Digital Media, well-honed negotiation skills, as well as an excellent knowledge of third-party ad-serving platforms and research tools. We are looking for someone who is passionate, with strong communication and presentation skills, who wants to gain experience working on top brands, within an award winning team.
Ref: 1177
Search Manager
An Account Manager is responsible for managing a key piece of business on a day-to-day basis. You will be tasked with managing the delivery of media plans, as well as negotiating and buying media. You will oversee the work of Account Executives to ensure that regular competitor reviews, from both a creative analysis and media perspective, are undertaken, and that the media campaigns that are being run are consistently analysed to make them as efficient as possible.
Key responsibilities include:
- To take a key role in managing a large search account, reporting in to an Account Director & Group Account Director.
- To support wider team in providing first class service to our clients, as well as delivering quality and innovative media solutions.
- Manage the delivery of plans, negotiate and buy media
- Manage competitor reviews, from both a creative analysis and media perspective
- Produce client presentations (campaign reviews, rationale documents, etc)
- Manage Account Executive on a day to day basis (manage workloads, provide support)
- Manage the overall market intelligence needs for a specific client
- Keep abreast of new technologies (creative / streaming technology / ad serving, etc)
- Provide support for any new business pitches
Digital display experience an advantage, but desire to develop wider digital media skills and work across remaining business including AF/KLM, PUIG and AETN is essential. Great opportunity for you to develop into a digital role beyond straight search management, but with managing search activity at the core.
Ref: 1195/242
RTB / Real Time Bidding Manager
We are currently expanding our digital services and are looking to recruit an Exchange Manager to manage RTB (Real Time Bidding) campaigns. In this role you will take a key role in managing the regional planning and buying on all clients using DSPs, reporting in to an Head of Exchange Strategy & Head of Ad Ops.
Key responsibilities
- To manage all Exchange media campaigns across your clients’ businesses
- Help to facilitate growth through delivering performance across the exchange space
- Make regular recommendations for optimisations within the space,
- Drive self-service optimisation within the agency with Head of Exchange strategy
- Keep abreast of all developments within the display and audience data spaces.
- To manage an Exchange Executive
The ideal candidate will come from a media background with experience of RTB. You will have a complete understand of all display media, and in particular DSPs & Exchanges.
Ref: 1243
Digital Account Director
We are now looking for an Account Director to support and manage the media team in providing first class service to our clients. You will report in to a Planning Director and will be working a great selection of accounts. You will also be crucial in assisting the weekly running of one of the biggest and most dynamic portfolio of brands in the country and managing specific planning projects.
Key responsibilities include:
- Gain market and competitor knowledge. Understand what the impact of the competitive climate and context has on client’s business.
- Be competent in use and interpretation of all industry standard tools including Adrelevance, Addynamix, Telmar mediaplanner and Touchpoints
- Develop understanding of potential roles of communication channels in solving client problems e.g. (Press/Digital/TV/Outdoor/Radio/Cinema)
- Have a strong understanding of rationale behind intra media decisions and be able to deliver this competently to clients both in a verbal and written format.
- Mentor AEs and Ams in terms of time management/workload prioritisation
You will have strong communication and negotiation skills, be well organised and numerical with the ability to work under pressure. As you will be managing several Account Executives and Managers, you must be able to display strong leadership and strategic direction, working as an ambassador for the company.
You must have previous experience of working within a media agency, within a Digital focused role. An understanding of the difference between media channels is a must, and an understanding of the roles Search, Email, Viral and Mobile play are a definite advantage.
Please apply today by sending your CV along with a short paragraph summarising your experience to date.
Ref: 1245
Digital and Data Analytics Roles
We are looking for digital and data analysis people at all levels to fill positions in our newly-created Intelligence Team. Consumers today leave a digital data trail wherever they go on the web, we need people who can analyse that data and draw out insights that lead to real commercial advantage for our clients.
Candidates will promote data and analytics throughout the agency, producing added-value digital analysis. The people we are looking for will have a mix of the following expertise and skills:
- A creative and analytical mind – the ability to turn client questions into actionable analysis projects that ultimately generate insight
- Ability to manage own work as well as a team and meet deadlines in a fast paced, rapidly changing environment
- Experience communicating technical analysis ideas to a non-technical audience
- a deep understanding of digital ad-serving data and technology, with experience of using systems to draw insights from marketing data.
- High level of experience with digital analytics and related tools/systems e.g. Google Analytics, Omniture, Coremetrics, Nedstats, Dart
- Excellent level of understanding of web technologies e.g. HTML, Javascript
- Excellent ability to manipulate and analyse large data sets
- Previous experience in using statistical analysis packages such as SAS, SPSS, SQL
- Excellent understanding of Excel and how it can be used to analyse sets of data e.g. pivot tables, macros, functions
- Experience running analysis projects, and for the more senior roles, project management and resource allocation
The ideal candidates will have the perfect blend of excellent analysis skills and the ability to explain complex concepts in laymans terms. So if you are working in digital/data analysis at a client company or specialist agency, this could be the role for you.
Ref:1206