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The MultiChoice Group is a multinational media and entertainment group headquartered in South Africa, Dubai and the Netherlands with principal operations in pay television, video entertainment, advertising and content security. Brands within the Group include DStv, GOtv, SuperSport, M-Net, DStv Media Sales, Showmax and European-based content security leader Irdeto. We’re proud to say we serve 20 million subscribers across more than 50 African markets, with a successful history of identifying and adapting to industry trends, allowing us to continuously deliver the best in entertainment.
By joining our passionate and creative team, you can help us achieve our objectives of expanding our pay-TV and SVOD (Subscription Video On demand) subscriber bases, improving advertising sales, spearheading cutting-edge technology, supporting local content and providing an exceptional customer experience.
Join Africa’s most loved storyteller!
Location
Johannesburg
- To demonstrate real passion, care and vision for the brands in your portfolio.
- Together with the team, successfully meet the client's contracted KPI's and the commercial targets.
- To be accountable for the successful delivery of media plans, schedules and budget management sheets. To deliver accurate implementation plans on time, every time.
- To ensure the best channels selections take place on every plan - the best stations, programs and touchpoint recommendations are made on every schedule.
- You will work closely with the digital strategist/planner and may be requested to assist from time to time.
- All post-campaign reports to completed and delivered accurately and on time.
- All TV rating and KPI tracking requirements are to input into the live digital dashboards.
- Ensure collaboration and alignment with Agencies and Clients.
- To deliver ongoing incremental media improvements, based on live optimization reports, and post campaign analyses.
- Resolve planning related issues with a solution driven mindset, whilst maintaining strong relationships with colleagues, agency partners and clients.
- Ensure budgets are properly managed and financial losses mitigated due to under / over-spends.
- To grow and deliver world-class planning and trading excellence.
- Manage quality of work in terms of:
- Accurate consolidated flowplans (where required, offline and online) within budget.
- Developing media plans and coordinating bookings with contractors where neccessary
- Post-campaign analyses.
- Negotiating best deals and managing admin related to deals
- Lead the billing process on your portfolio of CPL clients.
- Manage billing queries with Sales Team
- Build and maintain solid client relationships
- Attend status meetings.
- Attain bonus-related client KPIs for planning.
- Attend meetings scheduled by Sales and Global teams
- Keep your Telmar, Arianna, Landmark and Digital (Istar, Amplitude etc) training up to date and participate in required training sessions.
Qualifications
- Advanced Telmar training to be updated annually - Survey Time, Transmit,
Experience:
- At least 5-8 years of media planning experience
Hard Skills:
- Able to effectively project manage
- High attention to detail
- Numerically strong and analytically able
- Strong communicator with effective interpersonal relationships across team and clients
- Advanced IT skills including Microsoft Word, best-in-class Power Point, Excel, Outlook and web-based applications.
- The ability to synthesize and reduce different inputs to create a well-considered and accurate representative view.
- English fluency and language skills for effective business writing
- Strong presentation skills
- Solid data interpretation and analytics skills
- Be able to exercise strategic principles and structured thinking to tackle business development projects assigned by client
- Be able to select appropriate frameworks, tools and approaches to use in solving client problems
- Develop strategic implementation presentations from strategy data relevant to client business
- Must be open to learning digital and comfortable handling conversations with clients about digital platforms whilst having the support of a digital planner.
- Must be able to lead in agency/client meetings and have a strategic discussion
- Will be working closely with Sales teams on all reporting
Soft Skills
- Is open to constructive feedback and challenges accordingly.
- Is effective at building relationships and working as a team
- Shows leadership and decision-making ability
- Manages change well - adapts and remains flexible to business priorities
- Ability to collaborate without ego as well as work effectively independently
- Is willing to transfer skills and share knowledge openly
- Ability to self-start and self-manage
Multichoice Disclaimer
MultiChoice has a COVID-19 mandatory vaccination policy to ensure a productive and healthy workplace. By submitting your application for employment, you warrant to MultiChoice that you are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and accept that you will be required to submit your vaccination certificate during the recruitment process. In processing your information we will comply with the requirements of the Protection of Personal Information Act.
