Dentsu Media Senior Business Manager

Job Description:
dentsu Media | Auckland | Permanent | Full time | R1096696
- Be a force for good. Work with iconic brands and make a positive impact to society in Aotearoa.
- Best the best you. We want you to be your best so at dentsu, we have additional wellness benefits, volunteering days, and annual leave that comes with the mahi.
- Innovate to impact. Join an award-winning media team in our newly renovated offices Auckland office.

About us.

dentsu Aotearoa is a uniquely kiwi business raised in New Zealand and born in Japan. We’re an award-winning, world-class agency that prides itself on creating experiences that impact society and challenge the way we think. We are more than an advertising agency. We are positioned at the forefront of innovation. We understand our purpose in society is to create meaningful impact through technology and data, and to craft human experiences through our dentsu Creative, dentsu Media and Merkle brands.

At dentsu Aotearoa we are approximately 250 strong across Auckland and Wellington. We are part of a global network of over 70,000 craft experts across 145 countries, with our global dentsu Group HQ in Tokyo, Japan. When you join us, you are becoming part of one team. One team with diverse talents and a shared ambition to innovate the way brands are built. One team that collaborates across disciplines and boundaries. One team that wants to innovate with a purpose.

What your role and typical day might look like.

As the Senior Business Manager, you’ll be challenged to take on major planning responsibilities in our team, working to pull together media plans that complement the media strategy and ultimately the client brief. As the title suggests they are also responsible for managing their team and are a key player in managing the relationship with the client. The stretch for a Senior Business Manager from a Business Manager is the ability to manage smaller clients (or smaller divisions within large clients) with limited supervision taking on some of the more senior responsibilities on these clients.

Responsibilities could include.
- Maintaining a strong understanding of the industries in client portfolio and New Zealand media marketplace staying up to date with new innovations and technologies
- Oversee the buying and implementation of all media (incl. Digital planning)
- Develop and maintain media schedules across client portfolio, and work with the trading team to oversee the buying of planned TV. Executives and Coordinators in the team to buy planned TV (TV is bought by a separate team)
- Ensure quality control across all documents being sent to the client including but not limited to final buys, post analysis, competitive, media evaluations and schedules
- Prepare and present planning documents in line with strategies developed by strategy team
- To be the central point of coordination for a planning response document managing across the agency (sponsorship, digital, innovation, search etc ) to create a single response to client briefs
- Brief media partners and evaluate their proposals in line with the Convergence Planning process and provide recommendations to clients driving home the creativity, innovation and effectiveness of an idea
- To effectively manage team to ensure progression through the agency, areas of management include recruitment, performance reviews and training

A bit about you.
- At least 4 years’ experience working within a Media Agency or similar environment
- Understanding of media planning, buying and strategy, ideally within New Zealand
- Experience with media platforms such as Pegasus, TVMap, Roy Morgan and Nielsen
- Strong communication and stakeholder relationship management skills with the ability to present ideas and solutions to clients and internal stakeholders.
- Effective organisation skills and time management
- Proven ability to manage a small team of people and work collaboratively
- Excellent negotiation and client service skills

Become a champion for meaningful progress.

If you want to belong to a one global network where opportunities are limitless - we look forward to welcoming you.

Next Steps

Location:
Auckland

Brand:
Dentsu Media

Time Type:
Full time

Contract Type:
Permanent