Implementation & Activation Associate Director - Job description
WPP AUNZ–Barangaroo NSW
This is a role at GroupM which is part of the WPP network.
Job Type: Full-time
Salary: $95,000 - $120,000 inclusive of superannuation
Location: Office location will be determined dependent on the right applicant, as we have offices based in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth and Brisbane

OVERVIEW OF ROLE

​The Implementation & Activation Associate Director is a critical role, over-seeing delivery across a team of implementation planning and activation specialists. As a leader you are responsible for supervising team workflow to ensure client demands are met, team workloads are balanced and ensuring a high level of effective collaboration between team members and key stakeholders. Working very closely with your manager, you will produce best-in-class solutions, offer unparalleled service and deliver against target

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES AS ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR

Clients

• Cultivate strong, trusted relationships with clients at an mid to senior level
• Offer expert perspectives and POVs on recent market trends or developments, ensuring they’re shared with key stakeholders regularly.
• Regularly meet with vendors and partners to drive your client’s agenda, creating opportunities for your team members to get involved and engage.
• Maintain an in-depth understanding of client challenges, objectives & initiatives, and be able to clearly articulate these to your team and your media partners.
• Focus on building our outstanding client service reputation
• Robust understanding of the in-scope services of your clients and the process for completing work above and beyond * Proactively recommend tactics and opportunities that resolve client challenges and objectives.

Product

• Brings innovation and creativity to the table, leveraging market insights.
• When required, a strict adherence to activation commitments that have client contract association.
• Able to construct and present effective and future facing Implementation plans, that are grounded in strategic priorities and data-led optimisation recommendations.
• Maintain an in-depth knowledge of the media landscape, able to confidently articulate and train others on media principles and how each media touchpoint can fuel growth for clients.
• Collaborate closely with internal product teams including GroupM proprietary product and service teams to ensure you can clearly articulate the benefits of their inclusion, with a focus on identifying growth opportunities that can transform outcomes.
• Seek to find, communicate and implement improvements in all aspects of the role.
• A pivotal role for client media audits, negotiations and billings forecasting, working hand in hand with your key stakeholders to deliver client KPI’s.

People

• Motivate and empower direct reports to achieve individual, team and organisational goals.
• Conduct fortnightly 1:1s, annual Career Conversations and Performance Reviews with direct reports.
• Liaise with the People Team to resolve any team disputes to ensure a safe and productive team environment.
• Continuously champion company values to build strong and trusted connections, solution-oriented perspectives and demonstrate that you genuinely care for collective team success.

Growth & Marketing

• Identify, collate and showcase examples of great work from within the team, both internally and externally.
• Build the agency’s reputation by contributing to entries for awards and competitions and by contributing to industry thought leadership.
• Actively contribute to new business development and pitching as needed