Total 2 financial planner job vacancies in Singapore

Reporting of the role

This role reports to: Regional Client Lead

Best things about the job:

• You will work on various accounts which will challenge your critical thinking & project management skills
• Learn full media planning skills across all digital media channels from experienced account leads and specialists in digital. Learn and develop working platform knowledge across Search, Social, Programmatic & Analytics
• Opportunity to hone your experience in driving campaign excellence for well-known regional retail and B2B brands.
• Grow your potential in a team culture built on collective energy, passion, collaboration and support.

In this role, your goals will be:

In 3 months:

• Acquire an in-depth understanding of key media platforms, their solutions and ability to apply this knowledge in media planning and evaluation.
• Build positive relationship with clients, media owners and agency partners.
• Acquire a good understanding of the accounts’ way of working, planning process, GroupM’s proprietary tools and other research resources and how it can be applied to formulate insights and campaign plans.

In 6 months:

• Become the go-to-person for clients on campaign matters. Actively participate in clients meeting discussions.
• Own campaign implementation including digital performance monitoring and reporting.
• Competent in project timeline management to ensure timely delivery/campaign launch.

In 12 months:

• Builds credibility by applying understanding of clients’ marketing challenges/priorities in day-to-day communication with clients, agency partners and media owners.
• Own campaign planning including proactive collaboration with various parties to develop compelling media solutions.
• Leading the development of quarterly buying reports and work closely with commercial and finance teams to build annual profitability reports

What your day job looks like:

• Work closely with the account and ops teams to ensure timely and correct campaign setups and provide recommendations on campaign performance optimisation
• Oversight and governance of reporting dashboard, while ensuring regular reporting is delivered on time and accurately across all regional markets with sound analysis and learnings
• Ensure that campaigns are tracked and measured based on agreed KPIs and media efficiencies
• Understand the client’s market position, develop and build relationships with clients, acting as first point of contact on day-to-day requirements
• Develop strong working relationship with key agency and media partners. This will include acting as the first point of contact for operational issues

What you’ll bring:

• Prior experience in advertising industry (media agency, digital agency, creative agency, media owners) will be an advantage.
• You are a team player with good interpersonal skills and you thrive in an energetic and fast paced environment.
• You are analytical and rigorous in thought process: able to interpret client’s marketing objectives and challenges to formulate effective campaign solutions, develop insights, translate campaign data into meaningful learnings
• An affinity for numbers and experience in Excel is highly desired.
• You are eloquent in making presentations and comfortable in speaking up in group discussions

More About Our Company

We are a media services company that accelerates growth for our clients. Our company values of energy, empathy, and impact bind together our diverse global family of 10,000 people from every culture and with every specialist skill you can imagine. You can check out some of our people’s stories on LinkedIn or Instagram or hear about the company in their own words here. We are part of GroupM, the world’s leading media investment company, and WPP, the world’s largest advertising holding group.

At our company and GroupM, we are Open, Optimistic, and Extraordinary.

• Open: We cultivate trust by taking ownership and accountability, and we empathetically and intelligently balance people and client experience in everything we do.
• Optimistic: We mobilize the enterprise, driving our vision forward, and we champion growth and career development so we can all thrive.
• Extraordinary: We harness our shared capabilities to inspire transformational creativity and lead collectively to deliver a seamless client and colleague experience.

GroupM is responsible for more than $60 billion in annual media investment, as measured by the independent research bureau COMvergence. Through its global agencies, data solutions, and innovative practices, GroupM leverages a unique combination of global scale, expertise, and innovation to generate sustained value for clients wherever they do business. Discover more at www.groupm.com.

More About GroupM Singapore

GroupM Singapore operates in one of the most dynamic and exciting environments in the world. Although it is a small domestic market, there is a vibrant media industry that is undergoing rapid evolution as digital technology reshapes the way marketing supports advertisers’ needs. Being at the crossroads of Asia means that aside from the local clients and media owners, we also have a high proportion of multinational clients, renowned brands, and media owners. This makes GroupM Singapore the number one organization to join and develop your career in media investment. GroupM is an equal opportunity employer. We view everyone as an individual, and we understand that inclusion is more than just diversity – it’s about belonging. We celebrate the fact that everyone is unique, and that’s what makes us so good at what we do. We pride ourselves on being a company that embraces difference and truly represents the global clients we work with.rapid evolution as digital technology reshapes the way marketing supports advertisers’ needs. Being at the crossroads of Asia means, that aside from the local clients and media owners, we also have a high proportion of multi-national clients, renowned brands and media owners. Making GroupM Singapore the Number One organisation to join and develop your career in media investment.

GroupM is an equal opportunity employer. We view everyone as an individual and we understand that inclusion is more than just diversity – it’s about belonging. We celebrate the fact that everyone is unique and that’s what makes us so good at what we do. We pride ourselves on being a company that embraces difference and truly represents the global clients we work with.

Overview of the Job

We are looking for a Planner with integrated or digital media planning and implementation experience. You must possess a proven track record in orchestrating best-in-class media strategy and execution that drove tangible business growth for your clients in the Singapore market, and own existing relationships with media vendors.

This position will suit individuals who are driven to excel in a fast-paced media agency environment across diverse client portfolio and are able to work well under pressure. You should also be a confident and articulate presenter/communicator as you will be expected to front client relationships and present campaign strategy and media recommendations.

As a Planner, you must possess a working knowledge of how traditional and digital channels interplay in the media ecosystem. You are expected to bring with you the relevant experience in developing media strategies based on consumer insights, leading internal agency teams and steering external partners to deliver compelling solutions to achieve clients’ campaign objectives and KPIs.

Reporting of the role:

This role reports to the Group Account Director

3 Best Things About the Job:

1. Working with a high performing client business team to drive best in class communication strategy, integrated channel planning and result-oriented implementation for well-known local brands and renowned international brands.
2. Opportunities to work with specialist teams in GroupM to gain a diverse spectrum of experience across digital, content, media.
3. A culture built on collective energy, passion, collaboration and support

Measures of Success

In 3 months:

• Build good rapport with clients. Proactively participate in meeting discussions with clients and agency partners.
• Acquire a good understanding of client’s marketing objectives and ability to apply this knowledge in day to day communication with clients.
• Competent in planning all digital and traditional media channels.
• Own projection management, ensure smooth workflow and clients and team members are up to speed on all tasks.
• Rigor in setting and tracking campaign KPIs. Ensure effective and accurate optimisation and delivery of performance utilising all relevant internal teams, agency processes and tech

In 6 months:

• Establish credibility by applying understanding of client’s business and competitive landscape in day to day communication and formulation of strategic solutions.
• Able to confidently lead meeting discussions with clients and agency partners.
• Holistic digital thinking is carried across channel planning and drive innovative solutions beyond tried and tested with outcomes that can be clearly measured.
• Strong ability to assess attribution of marketing activities (eg. owned and earned) to paid channel performance to optimise overall campaign performance.

In 12 months:

• Build trusted advisor relationship with clients. Able to support the broader strategic output for clients’ marcom needs.
• Fully competent in developing and articulating compelling campaign solutions to successfully sell in campaign recommendation or new initiatives that lead to incremental revenue growth for the agency.

What Your Day Looks Like in Wavemaker:

• Develop strong campaign solutions based on Wavemaker’s proprietary consumer journey planning framework, from category/brand/consumer insights to strategy and channel recommendation.
• Drive strategic and tactical innovation across diverse mix of media channels that will yield tangible marketing/business results for clients.
• For the Integrated Manager / Associate Manger role, project management is a key part of your scope. You will develop overall media strategy, own campaign deliverables and assertively collaborate with internal teams to ensure all parties are up to speed on what needs to be delivered by when.
• As the overall campaign account guardian, you will steer internal teams / external stakeholders to deliver good quality and exceptional work by proactively evaluating and providing POV on the output of their work.
• Evolve use of measurement systems to provide greater insight into ROI of media plans and ensure the team delivers on agreed KPIs.
• Manage expectations of multiple stakeholders (among internal teams, client teams and other agency partners) to deliver quality work in short turnaround time.

What You Will Need:

• Proven track record in owning strong client relationships.
• Competent in juggling different work streams at the same time, you must be a strong project manager with a flair in managing relationships with multiple stakeholders.
• A creative thinker who constantly seeks new ideas/inspirations to bring fresh perspectives to internal teams and clients.
• Some experience in junior team management (such as coaching on media planning and managing client’s expectations, ensuring rigor in thinking, etc.)
• Resilient, able to work with demanding client expectations and challenging deadlines.

About Wavemaker

We always believe there is a better way to grow our clients and our people.

We do this by positively provoking growth for our clients and people. We work with clients to help them grow and shape their consumers’ brand decisions and experiences through media, content, and technology. We have one single attitude – Positive Provocation.

Our name is our mission and our method. To make waves, you need to be provocative, even fearless. We always make sure we have each other’s backs through our inclusive culture. 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 attitude of Positive Provocation is enabled by:

• The deep Knowledge we have of our clients’ business
• The confidence to Challenge what’s gone before
• The Support to go further than we thought possible

We are a part of GroupM, WPP’s global media investment management company. Discover more on wavemakerglobal.com, Twitter and LinkedIn