Mindshare Exchange Executive

**Overview of job**
Mindshare is a part of GroupM, which oversees the media investment management sector for WPP, the world’s leading communication services group. Mindshare is the biggest agency in GroupM that also happens to be one of the world’s largest media investment company. In fact, we are responsible for one in every three ads you see globally.

We are known as a team of dedicated and friendly people, working together to drive the client’s business. We believe that in today’s adaptive world everything begins and ends in media. Our role is to help the growth of client’s business and become their lead business partner. We made this through a consistent culture of original thinking driven by speed, team work and provocation.

We are currently looking for an **Exchange Executive **to join us. In this role, you will be responsible for the day-to-day management of the tactical media plan and its proper implementation, working to implement the brand’s overall media strategy in the context of changing marketplace conditions and opportunities.

At GroupM APAC, our people are our strength, which is why fostering a culture of diversity and inclusion is important to us.
**Reporting of the role**

This role primarily reports to the Exchange Group Head.
**Best things about the job**:

- A learning environment with mentorship from within Mindshare Indonesia, GroupM Indonesia and Mindshare Regional
- Opportunities to work across local and international client and agency teams
- You will always be the at the front line in getting and implementation of the latest insight, trend and new media innovation and technology
- On top of continuing excellence delivery in traditional media, also huge focus on growing the integration with digital planning product including performance or e-commerce, search and content also included.
**Measures of success -**

**In three months, you would have**:

- Adapted and bonded with the internal team across the agency
- Understood past work and plans to the best of your ability within the category/brand that you will handle
- Understood category and brands objectives and the challenges
- Started to build relationships with the key decision makers within the client and agency organisations
**In six months, you would have**:

- Proven yourself as a reliable point of contact for client stakeholders
- Shown significant signs of growth potential within Mindshare
- Integrated effectively and in good manner with clients, teams, vendors and partners
**In 12 months, you would have**:

- Grown existing client businesses

**What you’ll bring**:

- Demonstrates a deep understanding of the of different marketing channels including different roles, advantages, formats, potential partnerships, distribution
- Quickly builds strong relationships with marketing channel owners and leverages these relationships to deliver the best outcomes for Mindshare and our clients
- Demonstrates a high degree of numeracy and IT literacy in order to monitor and manipulate data to deliver the best outcomes for the business, e.g. forecasting, delivery against plan, conforming to share deals
- Understand the implications for the business and communicates potential impact to clients and the Mindshare team
- Filters and adapts the different options and applies good judgement combined with hard facts to select which ideas will produce the best results
- Understands what the client's business needs by understanding the history of the brand and what the client wants it to stand for. Understands the client's strategic intent and the implications for building the client's business
- Communicates information and decisions with the full range of stakeholders involved in a project
- Supports the development of others by expressing positive expectations towards their initiatives and giving constructive feedback
**What you will need**:

- Under graduate degree in communication, media or business management is a plus (Post-graduate/masters preferred)
- At least 1 year of working experience media planning experience or related field. Or experience that requires strong analytical and strategic thinking leadership and team management. Creative capability is a plus.
- Knowledgeable about and experienced with the concepts, approaches and issues involved in tactical media planning
- Familiar with the timelines, processes and needs of the implementation of all media
- Knowledgeable about new approaches to and developments in tactical planning
- Demonstrated critical thinking and problem solving
- Ability to work successfully with teams, handling multiple projects and meeting tight deadlines under pressure
- Ability to make decisions and use critical thinking
- Knowledge and use of various research systems
- Fluency in Bahasa Indonesia and English (both written and spoken)
- Has to understand and able to operate Nielsen tools is important, but what we prefer to see is how you use the relevant data for your clients.
- Open minded