Nexus | Associate Performance Manager Sydney, Sydney

Description
Position at GroupM Nexus
ABOUT GROUPM
GroupM is the leading media investment management company globally, incorporating media agencies including EssenceMediaCom, Mindshare and Wavemaker, as well as specialist business unit, Nexus working across all things performance and adressable.
With 800 people across Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, and Adelaide, our primary purpose is to deliver unrivalled advantage to its clients, stakeholders, and people.
About Wavemaker
We believe there always is a better way to grow. We positively provoke growth for our clients by reshaping consumer decision-making and experiences through media, content and technology. The Wavemaker way is globally consistent. Fueled by the world’s most powerful consumer data, we understand where and how marketing can intervene decisively to help brands win more sales.
Our name is our mission and our method. To make waves, you need to be provocative, even fearless. We do our best work for brave brands and people who want to be challenged to go further and faster. We know it’s not easy, but if it’s in you, we will get it out of you.
Our 7,600 people across 90 markets provoke growth for some of the world’s leading brands and businesses. Our attitude of Positive Provocation is enabled by:

• deep knowledge we have of our clients’ business
• confidence to challenge what’s gone before
• the support to go further than we thought possible

ROLE OUTLINE
The Associate Performance Manager delivers success across all facets of the business. Highly skilled in every aspect of biddable, you are accountable for managing a developing a portfolio of clients. Able to confidently lead a small team of people, you set the highest standard for operational excellence, and maintain a market-leading view of best practice.
Passionate about technology and digital media, you are the team expert on how to deliver best-in-class biddable activation and outcomes while nurturing a junior team of practitioners.
Reporting to: Performance Director
KEY RELATIONSHIPS

• Collaborating closely with internal teams
• Establishing strong relationships with relevant media, data, and technology partners
• Foster deep trust and understanding with agency client teams
• Contribute to great teamwork in your immediate team

WHAT YOU SHOULD SPEND YOUR TIME DOING
People – 30% of your time

• Manage team workflow, delegating tasks effectively, making sure goals are set & met, and highlighting concerns with your director
• Hold constructive and meaningful performance evaluation meetings with reports each month, setting clear KPIs and monitoring achievement
• Assist in the training and development of junior members of the team

Product – 30% of your time

• Ensure all output is of the highest standard, and conforms to GroupM's best practices across planning, implementation, optimisation, and reporting
• Oversee the end-to-end biddable process across your team, ensuring QA compliance and use of best practice
• Lead biddable projects across your client remit, working collaboratively with stakeholders to define and deliver success

Client – 20% of your time

• Support your director in the delivery of strong implementation plans that meet client objectives
• Offer expert perspectives and POVs on recent market trends or developments, ensuring they're shared with stakeholders
• Meet with vendors and partners to drive your client's agenda, creating opportunities for junior team members to get involved

Commercial – 20% of your time

• Ensure your team are delivering on time and accurate commercial tasks, including training & education
• Seek and implement improvements to ways of working that increase efficiency and effectiveness of commercial operations
• Support director on investment decisions, audits, and forecasting

WHAT MAKES A GREAT ASSOCIATE PERFORMANCE MANAGER

• Attention to detail: monitoring the quality and accurate of your own work, and that of others
• Organisation: you track progress and completion of activities to accomplish objectives, working effectively under short deadlines
• Team & collaboration: lead your team to achieve common goals, initiating collaboration with others
• Communication: take the initiative to keep other people informed, and tailor messages to suit others’ needs
• Analytical: distinguish between critical and irrelevant information, can deal with complex challenges
• Flexibility: confident in handling changing circumstances and ambiguity, also guiding others
• Proactivity/taking the initiative: achieves ambitious but realistic goals, coaches others on how to focus their energy on achieving results
• Problem solving: autonomously solves complex problems with minimal supervision, and proactively follows up after implementing a solution