Partnerships Associate Director
Overview of job
This Partnerships Associate Director role is a key link between our Global Investment specialists and EssenceMediacom Client Account teams, working to define and deliver joint business plan (JBP) partnership opportunities for key global clients. This role will be supporting the Senior Director in the delivery of Global JBPs for PlayStation, with opportunity to work on additional clients within the group. This role will also work in tandem with Strategy leads and Account teams to identify relevant media partners, to then develop integrated investment strategies with, delivering best in class, progressive, strategic client partnerships.
Aided by support from the team, the Partnerships Associate Director will work closely with the Snr Director and account team, to define client’s JBPs with media partners, such as Google, Amazon, Meta and TikTok, to maximise client benefits, and then work to manage deployment and delivery of these commercial and strategic benefits, throughout the year. Cooperation with, and ordination of, local and regional market teams will be central to this, to ensure a consistent approach and successful execution of the negotiated benefits.
This role will require high levels of coordination and organization as it will involve management of a complex client and agency structure.
Partnerships Director
The Partnerships Associate Director will need to gain a deep understanding of our client’s businesses and will need to apply their digital (and to a lesser extent, offline) landscape and strategic knowledge to ensure that the client partnership team delivers the most effective plans to deliver on the client’s objectives and the changing entertainment marketing landscape.
They will be responsible for managing partner relationships and workstreams associated with the client JBPs with the key digital vendors (Meta, Amazon, Google, etc.) to ensure that our clients gain maximum benefits from trading deals brokered and JBPs. Measurement is a key part of the role, so this role is also responsible for ensuring that digital investment associated with the JBPs is tracked and reported back to the client, to ensure full transparency of pacing versus any investment endeavours in place.
Reporting of the role
This role reports to the Global Head of Partnerships.
Responsibilities of the role:
Strategic Skills
External Relationship Management
Delivery Excellence
General tasks:
People Responsibilities:
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What we can offer you.
- Company pension scheme
- Private medical insurance
- 25 days holiday (increases with length of service)
- Life assurance
- Permanent health insurance
- WPP share options scheme
- Discretionary bonus scheme
- Free eyecare vouchers and money off glasses
- Extensive training and development
- Corporate gym memberships
- Cycle-to-work scheme
- Interest-free travel loan
- Free breakfast (cereal and fruit)
- Smart shopper (online discount on a variety of products)
Sounds good? We’d love to hear from you!
About EssenceMediacom
We are a global communications agency leading with breakthrough thinking, building explosive growth for brands, and helping our clients see the bigger picture. Our daring global network of 10,000 influencers help our clients breach traditional boundaries in media, uncover novel ideas, and unleash exponential growth. EssenceMediacom challenges conventional thinking to build, propel, and supercharge our clients’ businesses at scale and lead our industry in critical areas such as diversity, equity, inclusion, and sustainability.
EssenceMediacom understands that our people are tasked with big goals: building breakthrough growth for brands and leading with breakthrough thinking in our industry. Our people are at the heart of this work because their ideas will enable us to decode the intersections of people, content, and technology to bring our aspirations to life. Our success is down to our eclectic, diverse, and talented people. EssenceMediacom is a place for us to grow our careers and expand our horizons. EssenceMediacom is committed to building an agency culture that supports our people, puts diversity at the forefront of our operations, and creates an opportunity for all. This collective culture will be our “new power” where ideas are freely exchanged, and collaboration is actively encouraged in a place where you can innovate in our hyperconnected world.
*Although we cannot make guarantees, we welcome conversations about flexible working for all roles at EssenceMediacom London*
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