We are looking for enthusiastic graduates to join our friendly, fun investment team! This role is a great first step to begin your media career- learn more from one of our current investment graduates…

As an Investment Executive in the Digital, Print and Radio department, I have many day to day responsibilities. Although some teams will have a direct relationship with the client, we tend to liaise directly with the planning team who brief us on the client’s requirements and we then manage the relationship with the media owners. We must ensure we are spending with the right suppliers for the objectives of the brands and negotiate the best deal for the client. It requires great time management skills to split time between the parties to satisfy needs.

We regularly meet media owners to find out what new products or opportunities they have that would be of interest to our clients and also dive into the wider market to see what competitors are doing and get our clients involved in in terms of advertising.

Alongside communication and management skills, excel skills are also necessary for the role as we use excel, alongside many other different programs and systems, to create detailed plans and put together delivery reports for the campaigns on a daily basis. Therefore good analytical skills and a detailed mind are great to succeed in this position. An imaginative and creative mind is also useful as we often create supporting PowerPoint decks to support the proposals to the planners which include more creativity and explanation of the plans we create, plus follow up analysis and reviews.

Aside from building relationships within the workplace with the rest of our team, department and suppliers, it is also important to strengthen these relationships in more sociable environments so we often go out during the week to help increase the productivity within the office and take a break from more stressful times at work!’

Main responsibilities:

• Negotiation – appropriate pricing and quality as agreed with team on client deals
• Effective implementation –  optimal scheduling, placement and optimisation for client and agency
• Admin – working with Ops team to meet deadlines and ensure accurate delivery
• Specialist contribution – demonstrating digital and print knowledge
• System usage – utilisation of all new and standard systems and research tools

Key Outcomes

•            Develop an understanding of the roles of digital, precision, programmatic and print

•            Grow an understanding and delivery of efficient planning and buying

•            Build relationships with Investment team, managers, planning and media owners

•            Help team to achieve high client service scores and grow understanding of business

•            Contribute to creativity in media solutions, scheduling and trading

•            Contribute to most financially efficient delivery of value and quality

•            Active involvement across Investment and agency e.g. dept meetings, brainstorm sessions

Tasks within the role…

·       Understand and calculate gross, net and client costs

·       Working with excel to develop formulas, schedules and pivot tables

·       Calculate campaign reach

·       Negotiation through the email and the phone for rates

·       Making bookings and add these to the systems

·       Trafficking of digital campaigns, and reporting these back

·       Check on live campaigns

·       Build relationships within the team, with media owners and media planners

Person Requirements

-          Enthusiasm and a desire to begin your media career

-          Excel skills (basic formula and pivot tables)

-          Proficient numeracy skills.

-          An understanding of media agencies

-          Negotiation and strong communication skills