Sr. Manager- Media Management

PURPOSE OF POSITION:

- We at SIEL are one of the largest media spenders across Digital & Traditional Media. We run over 500 campaigns/year across Mobile & Consumer Electronics business.

- Media is one of the biggest drivers of our business & plans for various categories need to be designed basis shopper behavior for the particular category.

- Media plans need to be crafted on the basis of business objectives, stage in lifecycle & available budgets for each campaign. The same requires understanding of translation business objectives into media objectives.

- It also entails working with cross functional teams (internal & external) to implement, deliver on objectives aligned.

- The incumbent will be responsible for managing media planning, execution, reporting and in sighting for a part of Samsung product portfolio.

JOB RESPONSIBILITY:

1. Media Planning:

- Understand business objectives for every campaign & translate the same to media objectives

- Build a campaign approach note thatencompasses ATL & Digital channels for building media plans basis briefs

- Brief agency teams for developing plans to achieve media / business objectives

- Critically evaluate media plans &align plans with stakeholders & business teams

- Operationalize aligned plans &optimize the same basis ongoing learnings

- Manage optimization across platforms including GMP & campaign reporting through tools like dataroma etc.

- Report plan achievement & capture learnings for future campaigns to drive efficiencies

- Support planning team by creating best-practices learning log with clear actions,conclusions, implications, and recommendations

- Provide media recommendations to Product & IMC teams basis ongoing learnings

2. Media Strategy:

- Support & strengthen quarterly refresh of Media framework deployed @ SIEL with learnings on a rolling basis

- Manage fool-proof mechanism of market sensing, competition media activities ular monitoring of SoE/SoV

- Support building of Market Mix modelling for the category to identify key levers to drive various parts of the portfolio

- Maintain a learning-log of Industry Best practices to ensure planning principles continue to evolve

3. Stakeholder & Agency Management:

- Manage stakeholder expectations from brief to post campaign analysis for multiple campaigns across the portfolio

- Manage a large team of cross-functional experts from various verticals like Planning, platforms, execution, reporting & analytics in order to prioritize work delivery & overall co-ordination interims of plan deliveries.

KEY RESULT AREAS:

- To plan and execute full-funnel Media campaigns & crystallize learnings across portfolio

- Establisheda weekly / monthly / quarterly cadence on media management, reporting & insight sharing

- Optimize deployment of tools for automation & reporting across media platforms.

COMPETENCIES:

MEDIA MANAGEMENT: Needs to display deep understanding of media channels, their deployment & data availability across digital ecosystem & ATL channels

DATA MANAGEMENT: Excellent knowledge of analytics tools such as Salesforce,Datorama, GA, Adobe, Omniture & Publisher reporting dashboards

ANALYTICS & INSIGHTING:

- Deriving insights from analyses of paid digital media activities across multiple platforms including Video, eCommerce,display, social and SEM.

- Building full funnel learning from cross tabulation of data from ATL & Digital sources.

AGENCY MANAGEMENT: Ability to manage large teams across agencies working on different platforms. Ensuring adherence to aligned cadence.

PROJECTMANAGEMENT: Strong project management skills in order to ensure automation projects are delivered basis aligned GANTTs.