Planning & Trading Executive

Delivering Smarter, Faster, Accountable Media We exist to grow our clients businesses through Smarter, Faster, Accountable media services.

Smarter: We use our clients’ data to drive growth.

Faster: We have media, data and creative production under one roof to deliver an agile advantage.

Accountable: We demand that we are accountable to our clients’ business growth.

Born as a specialist performance media agency, we apply a performance mindset to a full range of integrated marketing solutions, from media to creative, data and technology. Our mission is to grow our clients’ revenue through regression-based media planning complemented with human insight to help determine the optimal balance between brand and performance media

Role Overview

As a Planning & Trading Executive, you’ll play an integral role in delivering media campaigns for some of Australia’s most recognised brands, working across both offline and digital channels. You’ll gain hands-on exposure to the full media lifecycle from planning and buying through to campaign delivery, reporting and optimisation, while working closely with experienced Managers, Directors, clients and media partners.

This is a great opportunity for an ambitious media professional looking to build on their agency experience, broaden their channel expertise and take greater ownership of client campaigns. You’ll work across a diverse portfolio, contribute to strategic media recommendations, build strong industry relationships and develop your client-facing skills in a collaborative and supportive team environment.

This role is suited to a media professional with 12- 18+ months’ agency experience who is ready to take the next step in their Planning & Trading career.

Key Responsibilities

Implementation Planning & Trading

• • Confidently plans, manages and executes plans across all offline channels
  • Confidently uses & understands all buying tools (included but not limited to AQX, eTam, Roy Morgan, Nielsen Answers, Move, Eram)
  • Responsible for the day to day trading and delivery of all campaigns within client portfolio (buying competencies across all channels, including Television buying, weekly tracking & reporting across R&F goals, TARP delivery, CPM delivery, budget management and quality parameters). Where relevant attend briefings from the Client Lead
  • Assists the Manager in delivering accurate, punctual and high quality pre-, mid- and post- campaign reporting for the client across all relevant channels
  • Lead/share market knowledge as key channel champions with broader agency and clients
  • 100% proficiency and accuracy with all financials, budget control, account queries, loading MI’s and Proformas.
  • Accountable for invoicing process accuracy
  • Active role in briefing the media owners & publishers
  • Proactive in terms of highlighting issues with buys, media developments, trends or marketplace conditions that impact buying performance, to be raised with the Manager when identified.
  • Assists the Manager in delivering regular competitive reports and updates to the client, including analysis and insights.
  • Assists the Manager throughout the planning process, to help deliver a media recommendation across all relevant channels that is innovative/creative, will achieve the client’s objectives and is cost effective.
  • Assist the Manager and Director in analyzing and evaluating media responses
  • Develops/adheres to an effective organization and filing system to ensure that documents can be located easily if required later or by colleagues in your absence.
  • Supports the business and team on new business pitches and other ad hoc projects when required by the Director and/or senior leadership team
  • Approach your work with a ‘can-do’ attitude and deliver best in class client service every day.

Relationship Building

• Builds relationships within the team and wider agency team
• Builds relationships with junior members of client teams
• Builds relationships with junior members of media providers and publishers.

Quality Control

• Ensures that all tasks assigned to you are delivered within the allocated time frame to avoid delays to client deliverables.
• Takes pride in all work delivered and ensures the presentation and design is impeccable and consistent with Atomic 212° brand guidelines

What You Will Bring

• Minimum 12-18 months experience media planning/trading in an agency environment
• Developing media buying/negotiation skills
• Understanding of all implementation and buying systems (BCC, eTam, Asteroid, eRam, Move)
• Developing an understanding of all media channels, with the ability to identify the strengths and weaknesses of each channel and the impact these have in delivering on the client objectives
• Critical analysis of all survey/market data ensuring informed buying decisions.
• Attention to detail with high levels of accuracy
• Basic understanding all key mediums and how the marketplace impacts media buys
• Can gain insights from competitive data and understand the impact on our client’s business, looking for insights that will guide the media strategy
• Start to think laterally about the potential solution to a request or client issue.
• Ability to effectively communicate – written and verbal.
• Start to develop presentation skills
• Problem solving mentality
• Ability to manage a broad scope of tasks and manage time & workload to deliver on deadlines
• Shows initiative and seeks out new projects and tasks whenever possible
• Knowledge of Google sheets/Excel and Mac literate.

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What we can offer:

Publicis Groupe benefits: Be a part of the Publicis Groupe family, recent winner of the Employer of Choice Awards and one of the world's most progressive and dynamic modern communications businesses. You can learn more about us at www.publicisgroupeanz.com.

Enjoy all the perks that come with our network offering:

• A comprehensive Wholeself program supporting physical, mindful, and financial wellbeing.
• A creative, lively, and rewarding office environment where people love working with each other, supported by our Publicis Liberté flexibility approach — "working your way with us."
• Access to our Global AI Platform Marcel, connecting Publicis Groupe employees with opportunities for career mobility and collaboration across our global network.
• Extensive Learning & Development opportunities including more than 15,000 learning programs via our online learning platform, Marcel Classes.
• A culture of open feedback and support to reach your goals through our Career Conversations program.
• A committed Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion strategy driven through our Viva Women, Égalité, enABLE, EmbRACE, and Écologique committees.
• Leave benefits including Birthday Leave, Flexible Public Holidays, and an additional 5 days of leave after 2 years of service.
• Work Your World program enabling employees the flexibility to work from anywhere in the world for up to 6 weeks per year.
• Parental leave policy with up to 18 weeks based on tenure, paid primary carer leave, secondary carer swap, and Cub Care leave.
• Access to counsellors, psychologists, and professionals through Sonder, an all-in-one digital wellbeing technology platform designed to support psychological, medical & safety needs.
• A workplace that stands together to provide a more open, supportive, and recovery-forward culture for all employees with life-threatening illnesses. Read more about our Working With Cancer Pledge: https://workingwithcancerpledge.com/
• Proud partners of Diversity Council Australia, Pride in Diversity, Family Friendly Workplaces, Supply Nation, and the Australian Disability Network.

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