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Ref: KP955-469
Job description / Role
The Digital Manager manages all day to day planning/client service activity. Reporting to the Client Leadership Director & Head of Digital, the Manager provides media planning recommendations internally and directly to the client. The Manager oversees preparation of media plans and other deliverables, and supervises media plan implementation. The Manager is also in charge of executing media plans.
Job responsibilities:
• Responsible for planning, buying and reporting to assigned accounts
• Develop and build strong working relationships with internal teams
• Responsible for mentoring, training, and team building
• Manage vendor relationships
• Assist the Associate Director/Director in creating media plans, strategically and efficiently
• Assist the Associate Director/Director in setting overall direction for program planning and negotiating strategies
• Initiate creative and business building ideas
• Oversee plan negotiations and media team activities
• Magnify the buying power of every dollar spent
• Maintain status reports to ensure efficient workflow in order to meet deadlines and write reports of key meetings
• Lead internal meetings with other departments and call on agency resources to strengthen ideas
• Build a comprehensive media knowledge base and synthesizes information into ideas
• Staff supervision, training and development as well as serving as a positive role model with a hard work ethic and vigorously reviewing all work to ensure high quality standard
• Writing and presenting presentations
• Maintaining client contact
Requirements
• Bachelor’s degree
• 3+ years of experience
• Prior experience working in an Interactive/Digital environment
• Strong leadership and Strategic Thinker
• Detailed oriented
• Team player
• Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills
• 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
• Ability to effectively utilize media research and reporting resources
• Technical proficiency, particularly with media systems and MS Excel, Word and PowerPoint
Passion for digital
Curious about digital developments, i.e. search, social, mobile
Has a specific specialization in either search, social, mobile or content.
Thought leader
Preferably an Arabic speaker.
About the Company
Since 2010, our team has successfully placed some of the world’s finest graduate to mid and C-level talent in organisations across EMEA and APAC, and it all comes down to our niche approach and understanding of the market place, skill sets and trends.
From our offices in Dubai, Riyadh, London and Singapore, we run a sector specific operation. Meaning we specialise in your industry and are able to completely understand your vision, provide market insights and intelligence, and deliver the best talent to fit seamlessly into your operations.