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The primary role of the Media Manager is to maintain client leadership and service management through the delivery of the ROI+ vision – the relentless pursuit of marketing-led growth

 Media Manager Responsibilities:

• Client Management -  establishes and maintains trusted client relationships taking a proactive approach in partnering with clients to deliver key Media KPIs
• Agency leadership – takes an active role in providing campaign planning support and guidance as required across other agency teams
• Partner Agency Relationships – Takes an active role in building proactive support and insight for partner agencies
• Media Owner Relationships – Takes an active role to build trusted media owner relationships
• Involvement in new business process pitches
• ROI+ Planning  - delivery of innovative and effective campaign planning recommendations
• ROI+ Implementation  - the management of media implementation across all media including smart ROI+ effectiveness metrics – with support from Digital team

Delivering the Media Manager Attitude

• Actively demonstrates an enthusiastic energy level delivering a can-do attitude that showcases a passion for Zenith’s vision and our clients business
• Showcases a  dedication and commitment to self-learning and development  
• Demonstrates initiative to help members of wider team and wider Zenith where appropriate
• Shows willingness to assist in any miscellaneous tasks that arise

Core Responsibilities

• Manages client media expectations in partnership with the Business Director, helping to develop & lead team to deliver the highest standard of work and service
• Maintain strong working relationships with clients, focusing on building trusted partnerships – driven by communication
• Proactively anticipate clients’ media requirements with a view to both short term and longer term client needs  
• Ensures clients are informed on general media industry topics which may affect their business
• Attends brand planning workshops, client presentations and any other client meetings that require presence from Zenith
• Manage the preparation of client documentation and financial reconciliation across client business
• Managing the accurate and timely delivery of media reporting
• Manages the workflow of the group to ensure that tasks are delivered on time and the team are continually learning
• Work closely with BD to identity opportunities for diversified services
• Maintains an active understanding of client profitability and team financial performance and Management

To excel is this role you must have the below required skills; 

• Strong communication
• Strong Relationship building skills (client, internal)
• Productive and self-motivating
• Proactive
• Strategic thinking skills
• Clear critical thinking and problem solving approach
• Strong business computer skill-base
• Budgeting skills
• Business acumen
• General understanding of the role of each medium
• General understanding of the agency’s media systems: e.g. CMI, Roy Morgan, Pegasus, Industry monitoring systems such as Adquest, Netratings, and Office (Excel, Word, Powerpoint)

** Only successful candidates will be contacted 

** You must have NZ working rights to be considered for this position