Job title: Business Director
Reporting to: Client Lead – Wavemaker
Location, Country: Bangalore, India
Brief role description:
Wavemaker Bangalore is looking for Business Director. The job entails a wide array of skills such as strategic understanding of the business, spread between urban and rural audiences, understanding media nuances, driving innovative approaches to business solutions. Deep understanding of all media, while always maintaining calm under pressure.
Reporting of the role: Client Lead
3 best things about the job:
- Challenging
- Vertical learning curve
- Fun on the job, with an extremely motivated team
Core responsibilities:
- Understood the business you handle
- Understood the Group M ways of working and are able to navigate through the verticals
- Won client confidence
- Initiated and delivered at least 2 key projects
- Have a vision for business growth.
- Won awards
Additional Responsibilities:
You will need to be proactive, an innovator, and a connector.
The Candidate:
- At-least 7 years’ experience in media strategy / planning / execution / account planning
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Comfortable making & presenting annual, quarterly media strategy & plans.
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With an experience of various responsibilities within the media ecosystem. Should know offline marketing. Knowledge of digital marketing would be a plus.
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Go getter attitude, data analytics, communication skills, good logical reasoning, attention to detail, integrity, empathy, aptitude & dare for innovation.
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Working knowledge of all tools – TGI, BARC, MAP, IRS. Knowledge of digital tools (COMSCORE, Similarweb, Google trends, etc) would be a plus.
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Experience working with multiple stakeholders.
More 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:
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Deep knowledge we have of our clients’ business
- Confidence to challenge what’s gone before
- The support to go further than we thought possible
About India:
2020 brought opportunities for brands to innovate because of which we saw an evolving media stack. The growth of digital is set to soar high because of changing consumer habits. With approximately 500 million smartphone users, low-priced data plans, 45 to 50 million e-commerce shoppers, approximately 60 OTT offerings and a young population, India is a mobile-first internet market. It is also one of the top 10 ad spend markets in the world and is set to climb the ranks. Global big tech corporations have made considerable investments in top e-commerce/retail ventures and Indian start-ups, blurring the lines between social media, e-commerce and mobile payments, resulting in disruption on an unimaginable scale.
At GroupM India, there’s never a dull moment between juggling client requests, managing vendor partners and having fun with your team. We believe in tackling challenges head-on and getting things done.
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.
