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SalaryLocation: Office location will be determined dependent on the right applicant, as we have offices based in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth and BrisbaneABOUT GROUPM:
GroupM is the leading global media investment management company serving as the parent to WPP media agencies including Mindshare, EssenceMediacom, Wavemake, GroupM Nexus, Acceleration and GOAT. With 1,000+ people based across Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth, GroupM's primary purpose is to maximize performance of WPP's media agencies by operating as leader and collaborator in trading, content creation, sports, digital, finance, proprietary tool development and other business-critical capabilities. GroupM's focus is to deliver unrivalled advantage to its clients, stakeholders, and people. Combined with GroupM's global scale, our media investment decisions-guided by brand safety, leading privacy principles and premium relationships- represent 1 out of 3 ads in the global marketplace. Through modern investment services, we put money against goals that move businesses forward.ROLE OUTLINE
The 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 biddable media.
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.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
- 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
- Identify and lead product innovation opportunities for your clients and with your teams.
- Lead biddable projects across your client remit, working collaboratively with stakeholders to define and deliver success
- 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
- 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
- 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
