Ooh Manager

**Company Description**

Spark Foundry make up part of a thriving global media network and are part of the Publicis Groupe, one of the world’s leading communications groups. We are globally connected with over 8,000 employees in 110 offices across 70 countries.

**Who We Are in the UK?**

**Spark Foundry, the Acceleration Agency.**

We help brands to identify, learn and respond to opportunities faster than the competition.

Every client has an area of their business they need to accelerate, from short-term goals to long-term transformation.

We’ve proven our approach during the most difficult year on record. Now we’re using it to provide a launchpad for their future.

Come be an accelerator with us.

**How we accelerate**
- **Planning**: an approach that works in practice rather than theory, arming planners with the ability to create cutting edge campaigns
- **Intelligence**: a suite of tools that give definitive answers to big questions, and uncovers actionable insights about real people
- **Trading**: a model built on flexibility and trusted relationships, underpinned with bold guarantees
- **Relationships**: a culture of asking challenging questions to better understand the brief - we are not a 'yes’ agency
- **People**: a strong history of recruiting talent from diverse backgrounds and accelerating their careers

**Key Accountabilities and Responsibilities**

Growth Strategy

Responsible for delivering billings targets and strategic KPIs on allocated clients. As well as contributing to New Business workflows (pricing grids/written submission/idea development and presentation/managing account transitions).

Working with the Business Director and Client Director; responsible for inputting into the Agency and 'Key Client’ development plans, taking ownership of delegated actions and providing regular progress reports.

Responsible for ensuring all relevant Client information (personnel changes, business challenges, contractual changes/risks) are captured, classified, constantly updated and appropriately shared with stakeholders (Spark, PMX, Ops). Ensuring issues are avoidedin advance and all positive situations capitalised on.

Responsible for supporting the Business Director and Client Director in the delivery of an inspirational and educational OOH Event Calendar that catalysts advocacy in the planning community and drives growth.

Responsible for proactively working with the wider Publicis Media OOH team to identify best practices, lessons learned and case studies to continually improve the offer. Responsible for marketing this collateral to agency planners and clients.

Planning & Account management

Responsible for capturing briefs and developing responses which represent the best interests of our clients, maximise trading efficiencies, champion creativity, and ultimately drive business results.

Responsible for delivering outputs with strong rationales informed by data, rigorously thought out plans, accurate and insightful reporting.

The Account Manager is responsible for delivering the following across their own campaigns:

- Full use of the 'Planning & Buying Framework’ to deliver high quality solutions which maximise growth.
- Purl compliance to support accurate reporting and increased efficiency and automation.
- Following Standard Operating Procedures with Central Trading and Activation to ensure contractual guarantees (i.e. PRFs) and commercial considerations (i.e. APEX) are met, whilst always meeting client objectives; and all campaigns effectively trafficked.
- Proactively engaging different activation disciplines to drive OOH integration with other media.
- Acute attention to detail and cascading of best practice down to junior team members; inclusive of financial due diligence (invoice queries swiftly resolved/timely billing) and completion of admin tasks.

**Qualifications**
- Good communication and presentation skills with the ability to influence a broad range of external and internal stakeholders.
- Good relationship builder, who pro-actively builds and maintains agency and client contacts to become a trusted advisor.
- Good understanding of business commercial priorities and relevant client deliverables.
- Good leadership skills to motivate, manage and mentor junior team members.
- Good trading and negotiating skills to ensure high conversion of briefs to bookings; that meet the client’s objectives and commercial requirements.
- Thorough understanding of digital media concepts, propositions and digital services.
- Strong project management skills to manage varying volumes of work in a fast-paced environment.
- Demonstrates a collaborative approach to sharing of ideas and business intelligence which supports the overall performance of the function and the business.

**Additional Information**

We are diverse though our experience, people and the clients we look after - and we celebrate that diversity. Our people hold us accountable to our beliefs and via regular surveys and our grass roots D&I team, The Collective, and internal next generationboard, Firestarters, we hold regular events and work continually towards generating ideas, initiatives and educating our people to ensure we are a diverse and inclusive agency.