Practice Head - Media House

Practice Head

The Practice head for India leads a team of 12-14 practice specialists. The leader will work in collaboration with vertical experts and a larger network of 200+ client teams, and with 25-50 preferred industry partners. The practice head will be responsible for the P&L of the practice, instrumental in managing the regional teams, identifying new content streams, building new partnerships and looking at consumer focused content solutions for brands across mediums. The person should have worked on brands across the industries and mediums with a major skew towards digital as a platform

Responsibilities of the role :

- Conceptualizing and leveraging use of content for brands for active engagement with consumers & meeting brand challenges/ objectives

- Evangelizing the use of content in brand media plans for teams across clients.

- Management and running of a profit centre responsible for services rendered across Content (TV, Film, Digital, Social, Mobile, Sports and Live Events) for Clients

- Development, pitching and execution of projects across media touch points and clients / relevant media partners

- Deal negotiation and closure with broadcasters, film and TV producers, Sports and Events rights owners for a win-win proposition for all parties concerned

- Supervision of production budgets, contracts and other commercial terms between all parties involved

Desired candidate profile :

A smart / sharp leader who :

- Has an entrepreneurial spirit and is self-motivated

- Has great client servicing skills

- Has market relationships in the Entertainment and Film sectors

- Has a keen understanding of audience behaviour and can show an ability to draw actionable insights from it

- Understands the various genres of television and film and has created content for the same (all mediums along with digital preferable)

- Will need to have a minimum experience of 15 years to a maximum of 18 years

About the agency :

The agency has a team of around 2,500 people across 55 markets worldwide work for some of the world's most well -known advertisers and has been the fastest growing agency network over the last five years.