WHY YOU WANT TO WORK AT SPARK FOUNDRY

Let’s be honest –in this industry, sometimes we complicate things that should be simple. Here is the bottom line: we want YOU to join us if you are truly passionate about guiding marketers on how to best connect their brands with people. It doesn’t get much simpler than that. At Spark Foundry, we have a unique approach and provide the support to help you do this. In fact, our approach is built on creating the space for ideas that lead to smart work, and Spark Foundry is built to celebrate and develop YOUR ideas.

WHO WE ARE

Throughout our rich history, we’ve taken pride in our ongoing legacy of and commitment to constant evolution. It’s in our DNA to evolve. By melding the spirit of a startup and the soul of a powerhouse across our business, we aim to bring modern heat to brands – the kind of heat that arises at the intersection of startup and powerhouse; of data and content; of art and science; of old and new. Energy and innovation fuels our startup spirit, while the unrivalled marketplace clout, exclusive partnerships, and global practice capabilities we have at our disposal as a full-service Publicis Media agency deliver our powerhouse soul for our clients. We hope you’ll take a few moments to learn more about us, and to begin thinking about how we might put “the power of plus” to work for you. To learn more, visit www.sparkfoundryww.com

Perform media buying activities across all mediums and provide accurate reporting and investment services to both Investment and Business Management teams.

• Deliver highly competitive rates across all media outside of master media deals (speak to other AMs for benchmarks)
• Must have total knowledge and understanding of client media contracts and implement all aspects correctly
• Present proactive, relevant media opportunities to client at planning stage and continuously throughout the year
• Provide client with latest market intelligence relevant to their business on a regular basis - e.g. email client weekly of a top rating program that they have bought into, create hype and excitement around each campaign
• Ensure media post reports are completed 1-week after all consolidated data for burst arrives and results are presented to the team including learnings.
• Must provide full campaign post report including media learning's and strategic insights
• Apply learning's from previous campaigns in all relevant reports i.e. Annual Competitive / Full campaign post etc.
• Complete monthly competitive with true insights and learning's
• Responsible that all reports are executed correctly and in agreed time
• Investment planning and implementation
• Investment delivery and management
• Campaign management and optimisation
• Financial Management
• Ensure that campaign spend does not exceed planned costs

• Must have strong internal relationships, able to cooperate and work effectively with others towards optimal client solutions. AM’s need to work with many specialists across the business e.g. investment/search/strategy, therefore being able to work effectively with everyone is very important
• Capable of making decisions in high pressure situations.
• Solution focused and strives to seek outcomes that are positive for all parties.
• Able to confidently and efficiently manage priorities for themselves and the team
• Strong interpersonal and problem solving skills
• Must be able to present to clients (and in other forums) to group of circa 10+ people, and/or equivalent level of authority
• Develop and present detailed implementation, media recommendations, post analysis and competitive analysis
• Incorporate market insight into trading, tracking and reporting of campaigns
• Providing the business management team with market intelligence which would impact planning at campaign level
• Effectively utilise all available tools to perform trading, reporting, research and analysis, such as: BCC, eTAM, ZOOM TV Optimiser, ZOOM Planning Tools, TARDIIS, eRAM, Asteroid, MOVE and Microsoft Office
• Core digital tools include Nielsen Answer, Ad Relevance, Social Tools, Bench tools, Google Insights
• Competent in all media buying and planning fundamentals
• The position requires a relevant tertiary plus at least 2 years of relevant post-qualification work experience or a minimum of 5 years of relevant work experience
• Thorough understanding of all media channels and industry tools
• Key Participant in developing strategic proposals for clients
• Exceptional relationship building skills

Here at Spark Foundry we are proud of our culture and the many fantastic benefits we offer our staff. We have a crack team of the best organisers, party planners and culture vultures who organise awesome Spark Foundry agency events for us all to get together. Whether this be in conjunction with our awesome 12 publishing partners, or just the Spark Foundry team it’s a chance to have fun and discover what’s new in our cities. Events range from Bingo with a twist, trivia, trampolining and more!