Overview of job
MediaCom is an agency of GroupM, the world’s largest media investment company and are a part of WPP. In fact, we are responsible for one in every three ads you see globally. We are currently looking for a Senior Planner / Planner to join us. In this role, you will be responsible for overall media strategy development, acting as the first point of contact for operational issues with key agency and media partner.

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 reports to Business Director.

3 best things about the job:

1. Opportunity to learn integrated media planning skills from the experienced team lead
2. Opportunity to learn full media planning skills across all traditional & digital media activities
3. Work with young and energetic team

Measures of success

In three months:

• Become familiar with all relevant media and finance systems, and the team processes
• Provided support to the team as well as build knowledge of the media landscape

 In six months:

• Master client reporting and tracking of booked media
• Started to build relationships with the key decision makers within the client and agency organizations

In 12 months:

• Confidence and precision in updating media schedules and participate to construct a media campaign
• Be the person whom the client goes to for day- to-day activities. Able to propose ideas and activities to answer identified challenges

What your day job looks like at MediaCom:

• Contribute to overall media strategy development. This will include the ability to understand and interpret briefs and the application of insights to develop marketing and communications solutions
• Understand the client’s market position to achieve optimal negotiation for clients
• Ensure regular reporting is delivered on time and accurately
• Ensure that campaigns are tracked and measured based on agreed KPIs and media efficiencies
• Develop and build relationships with clients, acting as first point of contact on account requirements
• Develop strong working relationship with key agency and media partners. This will include acting as the first point of contact for operational issues
• Keep current on media trends, identify and implement local media initiatives

Minimum qualifications:

• Eagerness and willingness to learn and contribute to a team, and to help support a fast-paced team
• Excellent spoken English and Chinese, strong communication skills
• Willingness to be hands-on and a team player
• with 3-4 years’ experience working in media agency
• less experiences will also be considered as Planner

We offer 5 days work week, an attractive remuneration package and excellent career development opportunities. Interested parties, Please send your resume stating your present and expected salary together with your cover letter to Click Here!

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More about MediaCom

MediaCom is “The Content + Connections Agency”, working on behalf of its clients to leverage their brands’ entire system of communications across paid, owned and earned channels. By focusing on the totality of our clients' communications, we deliver step-changing media effectiveness improvements, transforming our clients’ business through systems thinking. We employ 1800 people in 23 offices across 15 countries around Asia Pacific.

Our people are at the heart of everything we do; we firmly believe in our “People First, Better Results” philosophy and want to be certain that work is always challenging, engaging and satisfying. We aim to ensure that our employees’ skills are constantly evolving, and so provide all MediaCom staff with training and development.

We were named the best-performing media agency of 2017 (Recma New Biz Balance 2017 report). In terms of new billings alone, MediaCom topped the charts with over $1.6bn in new clients (Recma New Biz Balance 2017 report). We are named the Media Agency Network of the Year by Festival of Media Global Awards (2018/2017), AdWeek (2017), Campaign (2017) and M&M Global (2017). 

For more information, visit www.mediacom.com
Find us on Twitter @mediacomglobal
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Join us on LinkedIn at linkedin.com/company/mediacom 

About Hong Kong

Hong Kong’s small yet highly dynamic and efficient media market means it gets to operate with agility. Its internet and digital penetration continues to grow year-on-year, and has the highest smartphone penetration in Asia Pacific at 87%, while tablet ownership clocks in at 57%. Hong Kong’s digital market boasts a healthy mix of local, regional and global players, providing new opportunities in the media space.

If you want a future in media and communications, and believe in Hong Kong’s belief of “work hard, play hard”, there is clearly no place more vibrant, challenging and exciting than Hong Kong, where opportunities for you to innovate and grow are unparalleled.