Top Jobs: This week’s employment opportunities

Each week Campaign Brief posts available positions within the industry (free for direct hires). Email your vacancies to martin@campaignbrief.com (please place “Employment Opportunities” in the email subject) by 5.00pm Tuesday for listing on Wednesday morning.

Are you looking to make a positive impact on the brands and businesses you work with? To do work that is challenging and imaginative?  Are you a passionate collaborator who goes above and beyond to delight your clients? Do you feel like a change and more of a challenge?

We’ve got just the thing you’re looking for.  A sparkly, shiny new career at 303LOWE. Just in time for Christmas.  Right now, we’re seeking Business Directors, Managers and Coordinators.

Head into the new year with a new job, new clients, new place, surrounded by shiny, happy people.

Wrap up your CV and send to Derry Simpson – derry.simpson@303lowe.com.au. She loves opening presents.

Plus…

• DIGITAL COORDINATOR – VIZEUM

• SALES ACCOUNT MANAGER – MCN PERTH

• AGENCY SALES EXECUTIVE – CHANNEL NINE PERTH

• SEVEN TWENTY x 30

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DIGITAL COORDINATOR (ENTRY LEVEL POSITION) – VIZEUM

•  Are you passionate about media, communications or marketing?

•  Establish a career in a global network and work in a fun and dynamic team.

Vizeum is a young, smart, progressive communications agency with an entrepreneurial spirit and a challenger attitude, forming part of the global Dentsu Aegis Network. We don’t start with a media plan or which channels to invest in. We approach our client’s business or marketing opportunities as a strategic advisor and look at the full range of communication options available.

This is a rare opportunity to join an agency known for its strategy and rewarding and recognising its people.

As an organisation we pride ourselves on being values led. Our vision globally is to innovate the way brands are built and we base this vision on our five key values of being Agile, Pioneering, Ambitious, Responsible, and Collaborative. Our values are core to the way we operate and think.

This is an entry level media role within a supportive and passionate team. In this role you will be assisting the team with managing digital media campaigns for a range of key clients. Exposure to these businesses would be great for someone who is interested in learning about the industry.

Key Responsibilities

• Working with Media Manager/Planner to prepare campaign reports and campaign analysis
• Assisting with the preparation of presentation materials including media strategies and research documents
• Preparing media schedules based on the agreed media strategy and media mix
• Managing the day to day administration of campaign activity including resolution of day to day campaign issues, invoicing and update of media plans in accordance with optimisation and any changes to budget
• Liaising with media suppliers for planning, buying, booking, performance monitoring, optimisation and reporting of campaigns
• Liaising with traffic team for campaign testing, deployment, tracking and changes
• Regularly collating competitive media material
• Fulfilling administrative tasks on behalf of the team as required

Skills/Attributes/Experience required:

• Attention to detail
• Willingness to learn
• Developing communication skills
• Developing negotiation skills
• A proactive and ambitious team player
• Basic understanding of Australian media

If this role sounds like you and you love the look of the work we do, please apply via the Job Vacancies section of our website.

We look forward to hearing from you!

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SALES ACCOUNT MANAGER – MCN PERTH

MCN is responsible for the advertising interests of 15 capital-city free-to-air channels from Ten Network, 70 subscription television channel brands across Foxtel, 118 premium digital publishers websites and online catch-up and streaming TV service tenplay. Additionally MCN represent 3 IPTV services, 19 Digital-Out-Of-Home-TV screens within major retail centres, plus advertising integration on Qantas’ domestic and international in-flight entertainment service. You can find out more at www.mcn.com.au

MCN currently has a vacancy for an Account Manager within the Sales team in Perth. The Account Manager will be responsible for maximizing a combination of TV and Digital revenue for MCN across a wide portfolio of channels and sites. The Account Manager is required to develop and service relationships with Media agencies, Digital agencies and key clients to provide strategic and creative sales opportunities across MCN channels.

The broad responsibilities for this role include:

• Reaching revenue targets each month and quarter; including personal targets, team targets, channel targets and site targets.
• Build and nurture relationships with Media agencies and Digital agencies and ensure that campaigns deliver value.
• Proactively develop timely and relevant briefs with new, creative and sellable ideas.
• Acquire new advertisers and retain existing advertisers.
• Demonstrate teamwork by working effectively and liaising with internal departments as well as external parties.
• Effectively manage a co-ordinator by monitoring performance against targets and KPI’s, conducting regular performance reviews and planning and executing formal and informal training.
• Ensure booking schedules are accurate and oversee campaign delivery and post analysis.
• Being proactive in sourcing opportunities to address revenue needs.
• Track revenue against targets.

We are looking for a talented and driven individual who is passionate, knowledgeable and excited about the media landscape, TV Sales and the digital space. This role would ideally suit someone who has had substantial (3+) experience in Broadcast advertising Sales, Agency Sales or Digital advertising and/or a similar role.

To be successful in this role you must demonstrate the following attributes:

• Technical understanding and capability;
• Working knowledge of Microsoft programs;
• Ability to present to individuals and groups and construct excellent documentation supporting responses to brief and proactive proposals;
• Excellent communication skills, both written and oral;
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills;
• Ability to build and maintain strong working relationships both externally and internally;
• Excellent attention to detail and ability to prioritise, time manage and multi-task;
• Broad understanding of Mobile and Programmatic platforms.

If you have these attributes and are looking to further your career within a vibrant and evolving media and sales company then we want to hear from you, send your CV to jobs@mcn.com.au

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Nine Entertainment Co. is Australia’s most expansive entertainment company with a footprint that extends across TV and Digital, including the Nine Network, and Mi9. The NEC creative solutions team Powered by Nine, connects brands with consumers in the most meaningful way, delivered at scale.

The Nine Network, including Channel Nine, GO! and Gem, is the leading network in the advertiser-preferred demographics. The Nine Network’s leading shows include The Voice, The Block, Big Brother and leading sports broadcasting content from the National Rugby League and Cricket Australia. Reaching 11.1 million Australians each month, Mi9 includes 60+ premium content sites including ninemsn, the Daily Mail Australia and the digital home of Channel Nine, 9Jumpin. Mi9 sells Microsoft’s suite of advertising products including Xbox, Skype, Outlook & Windows 8; while also leveraging their world leading technology, data, insights and innovation.

• Maximise revenue and share from your agency and client portfolio.
• Develop and execute an agency sales strategy to deliver YOY revenue, yield and share growth, including the creation and sale of premium sponsorships.
• Develop and foster commercially effective relationships with key stakeholders.
• Actively promote the Nine Entertainment Co. brand by evangelizing our positioning in market. Be an exceptional day-to-day representative of the Network in your assigned agency portfolio.
• Be ready and willing to be part of an industry and organisation that is every-changing and growing, and be ready to adapt to this change as it unfolds.

Key Performance Indicators

Achieve Budget, Share and Yield targets within your agency portfolio.

• Maximise revenue volume and share within your agency territory, whilst improving yield.
• Understand and interpret agency territory, including historical clients and spends, actively drive revenue that delivers YOY volume, share and yield growth across your agency territory.
• Dissect weekly Adex reports for your agency, understand it and work with the agency to rectify share shortages based on negotiated deals.
• Effectively respond to briefs and negotiate volume, share and yield outcomes that deliver on agency targets – in conjunction with you Group Business Manager.
• Defend and retain strategically important business, as outlined in your GBM bottom’s up build / portfolio strategy.
• Attack and win new business
• Forecast weekly predicted revenue to come in the upcoming months

Contribute towards NEC premium revenue targets.

• Sell sponsorships, promotions, in-program activations and cross platforms executions to deliver commercially profitable outcomes for NEC.
• Align with Mi9 and Powered by Nine counterparts to deliver a profitable NEC outcome where relevant and applicable.
• Actively and proactively work with your GBM to grow this skill set.
• Up skill your coordinator in their capability to convert premium spot sales on your behalf.

Manage, mentor and train your coordinator.

• Manage and train your coordinator to ensure they are the best coordinator in your agency portfolio when compared to external competitors.
• Train your coordinator in media metrics; maths and lingo.
• Manage and up skill your coordinator to ensure they are fully prepared to take on all tasks required of them.
• Take an active role in the recruitment of a new coordinator if required.
• Lead and mentor your coordinator, acting as a guide and strong manager they can aspire to.

NEC Sales Brand Ambassador:

• Develop, maintain and foster commercially effective relationships with agencies that enable you to frequently and actively promote Channel Nine and Nine Entertainment Co. products and services.
• Ensure the promotion and enhancement of NEC’s good name and reputation.

Trusted, Passionate, Highly Effective and Actively Contributing member of the Channel Nine sales team.

• Demonstrate passion and enthusiasm for our business and it’s future.
• Consistently seen as an active, positive, vocal and proactive sales person both internally and externally.
• Contribute ideas to the betterment of our organisation, via your GBM
• Implement process, system and performance standards with your assistant that ensures achievement of agreed targets.
• Be seen as a trusted member of our team.
• Actively promote transparency and collaboration whilst discouraging negativity and gossip. Do not stand for bullying in any way.

We require a minimum of 3 years full time experience within a sales or media organisation.

Please note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

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