Media Director

Location: Bengaluru

Diversity Preference:
Female

Role:
Director, Media

Years of

Experience:

12+ years

Job Location:

Bangalore (Indiranagar)
Work Type:
Hybrid

About US:

At Assembly, we help brands find the change to fuel business growth. We are an award-winning global brand performance agency, home to 1,600 talented people across 25 offices globally. We create unique data, technology and media solutions that enable faster and smarter problem solving and an inspired, collaborative workplace culture.

At Assembly we embody three core values:

Show Up- actively contribute to a space of personal and collective growth;

Make Change- embrace obstacles as opportunities, taking intentional steps to drive positive change; andWin Well- approach success with integrity, responsibility, and a commitment to collaboration, understanding that the journey is as important as the destination. Together, we create an environment that fosters continuous learning, adaptability, and a shared passion for making a meaningful impact.

We are a growth mind-set, meritocratic, and high-performance business with a progressive outlook in all that we do. As our position in the market evolves, we’re looking for a Media Director to head our Business Operations across MENA and India.

Responsibilities :

Manage team members that work within our global delivery network
Owns daily client communications and directs staff and other functional departments
Supervises project briefs and collaborate with account leads on media briefs and pre-requisites.
Oversee campaign QA process (Social, Programmatic & Paid Search) and troubleshoot issues
Team management including reviewing utilization rates, participating in the hiring and recruiting process, and developing employees for career progression.
Manages career paths by coaching and mentoring direct reports.
Ensure service levels and tactics are keeping with strategic goals and that service levels are met
Leads initiatives to design and build reporting tools, information dashboards, data generators, and other end-user information portals or resources
Brings expertise or identifies subject matter experts in support of multi-functional efforts to identify, interpret and produce recommendations based on company reporting and data needs
Organize and upkeep internal trainings and documentation on standard operating procedures, while continuously looking for ways to improve the overall collaboration and operations
Serve as escalation point of contact for day-to-day accounts to help rectify concerns and ensure action plans are created, implemented, and completed
Formulate account specific service tactics, utilizing team orientation.
Selects, develops, and evaluates personnel ensuring efficient operation of the function
Holds associates accountable for their work by setting expectations, achieving commitments, providing feedback, and evaluating effectiveness
Provide technical leadership in the organization and direction to individual contributors
Works with Strategy & Analytics to help set strategic vision for the account.
May monitor the research and analysis of the account’s (industry) markets, competition, and makes presentations on strategic wins, service scope expansion on future market proposition
May assist with analysis of product or platform specific penetration, potential, and future industry trends and makes recommendations based on findings
Identifying opportunities within the BU to keep the engagement smooth with the agency POCs.
Lead performance initiatives which include Identifying the top/ bottom performers in the team and reward/ create PIP basis their performance

Job Specific skills :

Excellent understanding of digital eco-system, with deep understanding of ad platforms and activation expertise
Extensive client-facing experience to lead digital governance initiatives
Strong leadership, communication skills and ability to engage with planning teams and brand leaders at the client side
Experience in planning, strategy, managing and activating multichannel campaigns (Organic Search, Social, Facebook, You Tube)
Be solution driven, innovative and proactive with how you drive performance for your accounts
Confidence and experience of working on…