media coordinator London, England
McCann Demand - ME DEMAND
Full Time
London, England
10.56 - 12.04 GBP Today
Job description
2022 has been an exceptional growth year for McCann Demand and our nascent media practice, Media at Demand. We are hiring for a number of roles in to 2023, from senior to entry level across a range of media disciplines.
This is an exciting time to join McCann and you will have the opportunity to help shape and develop our media practice and offering, working on a stellar roster of brands both in the UK and international markets.
As you'd no doubt hope, we've fully embraced hybrid working, with the additional flexibility of core hours to enable you to balance life and work.
Who we are
We’re McCann Worldgroup’s best-kept secret. With more than 50 of us located within McCann UK’s Bishopsgate HQ. We’re rapidly growing and we're just getting started.
We’re hungry, driven, ambitious and always pushing ourselves for more, but sometimes our desire to always push harder and do better, has gotten in the way of the world knowing we exist. We want to change this.
Armed with an attitude-focused proposition ‘For The Restless’, we want to raise awareness of who we are, what we do, and how we do it because we genuinely believe that our progress to date, is just the start.
Where do we want to go?
As you can imagine from ‘Restless’, we’re proud of our progress but not yet satisfied, and we want more. We see this growth as being strategically planned, based on a stronger reputation driving our opportunities both internally within McCann Worldgroup and externally too. We want to build the agency sustainably, smartly, and in a direction we can all be proud of.
As you can imagine from ‘Restless’, we’re proud of our progress but not yet satisfied, and we want more. We see this growth as being strategically planned, based on a stronger reputation driving our opportunities both internally within McCann Worldgroup and externally too. We want to build the agency sustainably, smartly, and in a direction we can all be proud of.
You will be responsible for:
- Key point of contact for clients, you will drive the day-to-day business forward, coordinating and collaborating with various stakeholders and partners.
- Planning, buying, and implementing media campaigns across all media
- Preparing detailed and accurate media schedules
- Assisting with developing, recommending, and implementing accountable, successful and innovative media strategies
- Keeping the client up to date with developments within relevant areas of the media marketplace and of new media opportunities, how these may influence future client media strategy and planning
- Playing a key role in strategic meetings with the client
- Accurate billings and revenue management including forecasting
- Meet regularly with media publishers and platforms to cultivate strategic relationships and sourcing opportunities that proactively deliver on client business objectives
- Ensuring strong media marketplace knowledge
- Preparation of PowerPoint presentations for client meetings
- Independently carrying out media research
- Creating trafficking plans in Excel
- Monitoring and reconciling campaigns
Ideal experience and attitude:
- Experience of client management, confident to handle day to day discussions
- Digitally ‘literate’ and able to speak with clients and expert teams with confidence
- Understanding of the media planning process, from taking a brief, through channel selection
- Experience in working with the full range of media channels:
- Confident in understanding of the role individual channels can play, how they complement each other and how success can be measured
- Aware of latest developments in key channels and have a good understanding of the range of formats available
- Experience in working with industry-standard media planning tools such as GWI, DDS, Ad-Dynamix and understanding of media operational tech and processes
- High standards when it comes to preparation of client-facing documents and presentations
- Curious, motivated proactive and entrepreneurial – as a media ‘start-up’, we are in our scale-up phase and this role is key to aide our growth
- Organized with a forensic attention to detail
- We are looking for someone who embraces an agile, fast-paced work environment and is keen to progress their career
Benefits
In addition to a competitive salary, we are committed to creating a brilliant environment for all our people. This includes benefits such as 28 days holiday, plus the opportunity to take additional fully paid leave, enhanced pension contributions, life assurance and much more.
A culture of learning and development is also central to our ethos, so you’ll have access to industry leading training and development programmes, plus you’ll get to work closely with the world’s biggest media partners to access exclusive features and products.
Most importantly, you’ll be part of a fun and collaborative team and you’ll work in an environment where you are supported and developed.
Our commitment to equal opportunities
For us, diversity is a business imperative – one that must be embedded into every aspect of how we operate in order to drive success. Simply put, we believe an encouraging and inclusive environment makes sound business sense.
As a globally integrated community that influences and shapes culture, it’s vital that the talent mix in our agencies encompasses all dimensions of diversity, and that we demand the same of the people we work with.
Conscious inclusion encompasses social, cultural and cognitive differences and cultivates an ethos of belonging, connection and shared purpose. It is the integration of this philosophy that allows us to create meaningful experiences for our employees, drive better business practices with our vendors and clients, and ultimately lead with purpose.
McCann is a disability confident committed employer and will guarantee an interview to any disabled candidate who meets the minimum criteria for this role, so please do let us know when you apply if you are eligible, along with any adjustments you may need to the recruitment process to enable you to perform at your best.
