Company Description

　　About Spark Foundry:

　　Spark Foundry is a global media agency that exists to bring HEAT – Higher Engagement, Affinity, and Transactions – to brands. By combining flawless media fundamentals with aggressive innovation, Spark inspires consumers to pay more attention; to care more about our clients’ brands; and to buy more products and services from them.

　　Balancing the nimble spirit of a startup with the powerhouse soul of Publicis Media, Spark Foundry delivers the best of both worlds to a client roster that spans some of the world’s best and most beloved brands and companies. We combine boutique-caliber insights and service with the buying clout and first-look access of a global leader, bringing the heat to challenger brands that want to act like giants, and to giant brands that want to act like challengers.

　　With a bottom-up culture that celebrates diversity and aims for all voices to be heard, Spark has become a magnet for the industry’s best talent, with one of the best retention rates in the industry. And by applying a whole-person approach to professional and personal development, Spark develops a workforce that is well prepared for today’s challenges, and also poised to create meaningful careers in the years to come.

　　Because we know that heat arises the intersection of complementary forces, our professionals come from myriad disciplines and backgrounds: data, analytics, and insights; content and creative production; communications and strategy; finance and marketing; and sociology, psychology, and other liberal arts disciplines.

　　Job Description

　　Overview:

　　Responsible for generating strategic media initiatives and leading all aspects of media planning for key client account.

　　Role Objectives:

　　Responsible for developing, implementing, and executing strategy to define the future direction of Client business

　　Actively listen to Clients and continually identify opportunities to lead thinking

　　Team leader for Client interaction fostering positive relationships

　　Identifies key target insights based on Client brief necessary for formulating communication strategy

　　Evaluates composition of a wide range of media vehicles to determine which would most effectively reach the target audience 

　　Effectively communicates and solicits agreement of best opportunities for Client

　　Ensure the quality of work for all Client deliverables

　　Serves as key resource for local markets in defining media strategy and media plans

　　Supervising, training, and developing staff (managing workload, delegating, and managing projects and resources, performance management)

　　Develop process improvements and best practices to ensure consistency, flexibility, and efficiency resulting in solutions that meet or exceed Client expectations

　　Serves as leadership and content development coordinator for all Client presentations

　　Ability to cross sell interagency products and services

　　Collaborate with business intelligence/analytics, data and investment teams to identify consumer learning needs and drive consumer insight generation, analysis/interpretation

　　Qualifications

　　10+ years of relevant experience with progressive levels of responsibility and business acumen in marketing and communications and team management

　　Must have online and offline media experience.

　　Offline experience will be TV, Print, Radio, OOH.

　　Online experience will consist of Display, Search, Social, and Mobile, and Content Marketing.

　　Fluency with Media Tools and solid understanding of Digital Planning tools

　　Proven experience and success in presenting plans to Client and influencing top level Client decisions

　　Demonstrated critical thinking skill and strong problem-solving skills – navigates effectively through difficult issues, builds required consensus to drive business needs and results

　　Excellent leadership, management and motivational skills

　　Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills – effectively presents formal POV internally and externally

　　Excellent organizational, interpersonal, and quantitative/analytical skills

　　Strong Client presentation skills and business writing skills

　　Demonstrated expertise in strategic planning and Client relations

　　Detail oriented and proven ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment.

　　Critical assessor of talent – builds and motivates high performing teams

　　Able to direct long range planning and the development of programs to maximize organizational resources

　　Design and manage projects, resources, stakeholders, participants, and deadlines

　　High results orientation and able to effectively juggle and prioritize many competing demands – high tolerance to effectively manage change

　　Additional Information

　　All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

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