MBM is one of NZ’s leading strategic media companies with offices in Auckland and Wellington. We work with many of New Zealand’s best-known brands and provide our clients with services including cross-channel media strategy and planning, negotiations and media buying, digital campaign management, paid search & SEO, social media, analytics and data science, plus content strategy and production. We have won numerous awards for our work including IAB Digital Agency of the Year 2019 and 2020 and Beacons Media Agency of the Year 2021. We strive for doing great work and cultivating a supportive, respectful and fun company culture.

This role is responsible for media trading and television buying across a designated portfolio.  The role is crucial to providing excellence in trading, working within a strong and skilled specialist team.

Reporting to the Head of Investment, and working with the MBM Account Service teams you will execute trading negotiations for radio, cinema, print, out of home and manage buying and delivery for a designated portfolio of television clients.

What you will do

• Managing TV buys for specific clients to achieve the best possible results- working alongside planners to execute. Includes buying, daily monitoring, optimizing, post analysis, budget management, contract reviews, ensuring campaign delivery is on point
• Providing planning support information where required, eg. audience trends analysis, assessing sponsorship opportunities and providing advice on TV planning principles and other buying analysis
• Reporting and document preparation, as required
• Review ratecard releases and pricing information, forming a view on how these impact clients and pivots required to minimize impacts
• Checking invoices are accurate via Pegasus
• Support the training and mentoring of junior staff
• Be responsible for the offline media negotiations, within your designated client portfolio, ensuring best in market rates and value are delivered for our clients.  It is anticipated you will work with the planning teams, to negotiate with media partners and help maintain the profile of the MBM trading philosophy in market
• Build strong relationships with media suppliers, ensuring you are a core member of the team
• Identify first to market opportunities- sponsorship, innovation and new media products
• Attending client meetings as needed
• Help keep the wider team informed about the developments in offline media channels, understanding too, the broader view of the video ecosystem
• Assist with pitches as and when required, from a trading view point
• Work with the Head of Investment to manage trading forecasting across all channels for designated portfolio.

About you

• 5-7+ years media experience
• Sound experience in TVMAP and the Nielsen suite of tools
• Be punctual
• Prioritise workloads to ensure work of the greatest importance to the business is undertaken with urgency and to a high standard
• Support and help develop a positive workplace culture
• Demonstrate excellent interpersonal communication skills
• Responsibly manage all business resources within accountability levels

Our offer to you

Be a part of the Publicis Groupe family one of the world’s most progressive and dynamic modern communications businesses enjoying all the perks that come with our network offering:

• Work with a diverse team where we value all the benefits of harnessing differences for our people, our clients and our business
• A committed Diversity and Inclusion and Belonging strategy driven through our Viva! Women, Égalité and Wholeself programs
• Work Your World program enabling employees the flexibility to work from anywhere in the world for up to 6 weeks per year
• A creative, fun and rewarding office environment backed up by our Publicis Liberté flexibility approach “working your way, with us!”
• Access to employee benefits including –wellness programmes, learning and development opportunities, network events
• Confidential 24-hour support via our employee assistance programme.

Publicis Groupe, believes that our people are our greatest asset. Our people are chosen for their personalities, their ethics and professional qualities without any exclusion, preferential treatment or discrimination. We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer and do not discriminate by reason of age, gender, gender identity, race, sexual orientation, nationality, religion or disability or any other difference. We encourage applications from all qualified individuals and will provide appropriate assistance for candidates with disabilities or special needs throughout the recruitment process upon request.