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MEDIA DIRECTOR

We're on the lookout for an exceptional Media Director with a profound grasp of media planning and buying, remarkable leadership abilities, and a track record of media management success. As our Media Director, you'll take the reins, overseeing a team of media experts, crafting media strategies, nurturing client relationships, and steering the ship towards the pinnacle of media excellence.

Responsibilities:

Strategic Leadership:

• Chart the course for our media department, ensuring it sails in alignment with our company's vision and objectives.
• Cultivate a culture of innovation, collaboration, and ceaseless improvement within the media team.
• Keep a finger on the pulse of industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices in media planning and buying.
• Spearhead the adoption of novel tools, technologies, and methodologies that will amplify our media operations.

Team Management and Development:

• Lead, guide, and mentor a squadron of media planners, buyers, and analysts, fostering their professional evolution.
• Set departmental goals, delineate KPIs, and oversee the team's triumphant execution of media strategies and campaigns.
• Offer unwavering support and direction to team members, forging a fertile soil for collaboration and high-performance outcomes.
• Conduct performance assessments, dispense constructive feedback, and pinpoint prospects for skills enhancement and training.

Client Relationship Management:

• Construct and maintain formidable bonds with clients, serving as a strategic collaborator and a reliable confidant.
• Tune in to client objectives, target audience specifics, and the North Stars of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to craft potent media strategies.
• Orchestrate periodic tête-à-têtes and communications with clients, delivering updates, addressing concerns, and unveiling media recommendations.
• Illuminate pathways to outdo client expectations and elevate client contentment to lofty altitudes.

Media Strategy Development and Execution:

• Conspire with clients and in-house troops to conceive comprehensive media strategies in perfect harmony with client objectives and target audience.
• Undertake market reconnaissance, audience scrutiny, and competitive intelligence-gathering to scaffold decisions in media planning.
• Articulate media objectives, sculpt KPIs, and raise the scaffold of measurement frameworks to appraise campaign triumph.
• Isolate the choicest media medley, channel selection, and targeting strategies to amplify campaign impact.

Campaign Monitoring and Optimisation:

• Supervise the orchestration of media campaigns through a plethora of channels, keeping a vigilant watch over performance and key metrics.
• Infuse guidance and recommendations for campaign fine-tuning predicated on insights and data analysis.
• Collaborate seamlessly with media vendors, publishers, and partners to haggle rates, secure placements, and fine-tune media inventory.
• Stay au courant with industry trends and emerging media platforms to harness nascent opportunities.

Financial Management:

• Stand sentinel over media budgets, ensuring sagacious allocation and judicious media spend optimisation.
• Tend to campaign costs, parley rates, and lay the groundwork for thriftiness.
• Collaborate in symphony with finance and accounting units to certify precision in financial reporting and budget stewardship.

Qualifications:

• A bachelor's degree in PR, Media, Communications, Marketing, Commerce or a cognate field. An MBA or advanced degree holds an illustrious place on the podium.
• A glittering track record in media planning and buying, adorned with leadership triumphs.
• A fluent vernacular in media channels, from digital to traditional, and even the emerging constellations.
• Leadership qualities that resemble a lodestar, guiding a team to resplendent outcomes.
• Communicative prowess that bridges the chasm between clients and internal teams, a cornerstone for forging lasting relationships.
• The gift of strategic thinking, which enables you to gaze into the future, anticipate hurdles, and craft innovative media strategies.
• Analytical prowess that transforms data into actionable insights, a trait that adds a symphony of value.
• An affinity for details, coupled with organisational and time management skills that rival the finest watches.
• The agility to thrive in a fast-paced milieu, conducting a crescendo of multiple projects and deadlines.
• Knowledge of industry trends, emerging technologies, and the paragon of practices in media planning and buying.

This is an example of one of the expert roles the team at S2M have placed previously. If you are looking for Media Director job opportunities in Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne or any other Australian city, simply register your resume with S2M.

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