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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.
Key Responsibilities
* Trading Delivery: Work with local market trading teams to track media value delivery according to the agreed methodology, ensuring a clear understanding of trading commitments and measurement. Consolidate media value delivery across media channels, markets, and regions, lead solution‑focused approaches where needed, and actively participate in discussions with auditors to resolve issues.
* Analysis: Handle large data sets, ensure quality assurance in data, spot anomalies, and ask questions to ensure accuracy and robustness of data.
* Media Knowledge: Build expertise in global media knowledge of markets, channels, measurement metrics, methodologies, and trading metrics. Share knowledge and support junior team members in their learning, with a proactive and engaging approach to continuous learning.
* Market Intelligence: Develop market intelligence in areas such as media price inflation, media channel evolution, and media landscape changes; keep the team and clients aware of such changes and any potential impact.
* People and Project Management: Manage and develop more junior team members, support deliverables in a timely manner, ensure high‑quality output, and develop their knowledge and skillset. Manage client and auditor deliverables within the team. Multi‑task in a fast‑paced environment, prioritise, adapt at short notice, and maintain a solutions‑focused approach.
* Relationship Focus: Work with many global markets, develop collaborative relationships with local teams, internal team members, clients, and 3rd‑party auditors where relevant. Demonstrate a thoughtful, considered, and fair approach in discussions around issue resolution.
* Team: Actively participate in the Investment team, workstreams, and contribute to a collaborative team environment.
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.
Key technical skills: maths, Excel, attention to detail, advanced analytics and data visualisation, experience with Alteryx, Tableau, Power BI, and any VBA/macro writing skills.
Strong organisational, communication, and problem‑solving skills, a proactive and friendly approach, and the ability to develop and nurture relationships with a wide range of colleagues. Essential requirement: strong written and spoken English language skills.
Life at WPP Media & Benefits
We invest in our employees to help them do their best work and are committed to employee growth. We provide competitive medical, group retirement plans, vision, and dental insurance, significant paid time off, preferential partner discounts, and employee mental health awareness days.
Equal Opportunity & Accommodations
WPP Media is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without discrimination or regard to characteristics. We are committed to fostering a culture of respect in which everyone feels they belong and has the same opportunities to progress in their careers.
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