Associate Director, Local Investment

Publicis Media Exchange (PMX) is the investment arm of Publicis Media, supercharging our agencies and clients to drive smart application of investment by leveraging scale, marketplace innovation, deeper partnerships, and intelligence. PMX is at the forefront of the converging marketplace, solving industry challenges and executing data-informed, tech-enabled media to help marketers connect with consumers in a measurable way.

Publicis Media Exchange (PMX) is the investment arm of Publicis Media, supercharging our agencies and clients to drive smart application of investment by leveraging scale, marketplace innovation, deeper partnerships, and intelligence. PMX is at the forefront of the converging marketplace, solving industry challenges and executing data-informed, tech-enabled media to help marketers connect with consumers in a measurable way.

Ignite your career as a Associate Director, Local Investment in the Publicis Media Exchange! As an experienced Media Investment Professional, you already know that Local Media is dynamic and more important than ever, providing clients with market specific strategies that maximize results while reducing waste. Publicis Media Exchange has re-imagined Local Media bringing together our Collective, Digitas, Razorfish, Spark, Starcom, Infinite Roar and Zenith agency leads.

Discover the difference that PMX has to offer. Join our team and you could be doing your best work on behalf of our envied client roster. The Publicis Media Exchange activates across all local media channels too, including Television, Radio, Streaming Audio, and Digital Video (OTT/CTV/VOD). Our Client leads bring it all together, the direct link between our clients, our teams and the continuously evolving marketplace.

In this role your ability to problem solve, communicate clearly, and engage across all stakeholders will be pivotal to our success.

• Bring strong thought leadership to client and team engagements.
• Prepare and present Local Landscape and marketplace to internal teams and external clients.
• Prepare and Present Buy Summary, Added Value, Posts, Audit reports and POVs on market opportunities to strategy counterparts and clients.
• Oversee Supervisor Client Lead(s) and Negotiators for skill development, time and expense reporting, goal and performance reporting.
• Assist Director with projects, VBS integrations and reporting, deliverable progress/timeline management.
• Build relationships with senior Management in the vendor community.
• Manage team training program participation across multiple topics; lead sub committees for team challenges / innovation; mentor Managers/Supervisors to further growth.
• Collaborate with Planning/Strategy & Client Leads brainstorm for increased innovation in client communication and / or productivity.
• Drive process automation improvement to decrease team level of effort.
• Analyze market level costs and collaborate with PMX on pricing benchmarks.
• Participate in New Business
  - Prepare and Present all areas of Local Media.

This is a perfect opportunity for you if you have 7+ years experience in Local Media and are a confident communicator with great people skills, proven leader, approachable, collaborative, responsible and accountable. It would be preferred that you have advanced knowledge of Microsoft Suite (specific attention to Excel and PPT), as well as experience with OX, Prisma, SQAD, and Tapscan. If you enjoy delivering polished presentations and know how to package, merchandise and sell-in concepts and new opportunities, we want to talk to you!

• Strong thought Leadership.
• Knowledge of market and industry trends
  - Prepare and present Local Landscape and marketplace to internal teams and external clients.
• Prepare and Present Buy Summary, Added Value, Posts, Audit reports and POVs on market opportunities to strategy counterparts and clients.
• Supervise Client Lead(s) and Negotiators for skill development, time and expense reporting, goal and performance reporting.
• Assist Director with projects, VBS integrations and reporting, deliverable progress/timeline management.
• Build relationships with senior Management in the vendor community.
• Manage team training program participation across multiple topics; lead sub committees for team challenges / innovation;
  Mentor Managers/Supervisors to further growth.
• Collaborate with Planning/Strategy & Client Leads brainstorm for increased innovation in client communication and / or…