Senior Media Executive

About
Mindshare is the MENA region's premier global communications group, located in
‎10 countries across the GCC, Levant, and North Africa. As the first
independent agency launched in the region, Mindshare MENA has been a pioneer
in the field of creative communications since ‎1999. Each office is dedicated
to forging competitive marketing advantage for businesses and their brands
based on the values of speed, teamwork and provocation. Mindshare is part of
GroupM, which oversees the media investment management sector for WPP, the
world's leading communications services group.
‎3 best things about the job
* Working on one of the most prestigious accounts, you will have great exposure to integrated campaigns across all channels with a focus on digital.
* You will also work alongside a diverse and talented team in a collaborative team environment.
* Attain a strong understanding of cross channel media strategy by working on the fastest growing and diversified category.
* Working on advanced Global & Local accounts with a strong agenda for digital maturity.
The Senior Media Executive will work with the manager and multiple
internal/external partners to plan and execute holistic media plans to
ultimately contribute to the business growth of the category in charge. This
person would have to be comfortable working in a fast-paced team, but also act
as a strong project manager that can manage multiple work streams and adapt to
business change.
Responsibilities & Accountabilities:
* Supporting the manager for holistic agency briefing and full funnel media planning across both offline and digital touchpoints (TV, OOH, search, social, partner, display, and other offline and digital channels) in collaboration with Brand and Direct E-commerce teams.
* Working collaboratively with external agency partners to come up with the optimal media plans and making sure they get executed to plan.
* Project management and quality control of running media campaigns (new product launches, marketing promotions, brand campaigns).
* Media asset management from briefing into the creative team, to processing them to be run on media as planned.
* Continuous analysis of performance vs. plan, whilst driving relentless data driven optimization across channel, audience, creative and conversion.
* Manage day to day budgets across media activities.
* Other associated duties as required.

What are the measures of success?
* You will have consistently delivered brilliant work to the client.
* You will have delivered improvements in performance by proactively identifying opportunities.
* You will have successfully helped to upskill the wider team, to ensure best in class planning, implementation, and performance.
About you:
* ‎2-‎3 years media / digital marketing experience in either agency or client-side within relevant industry.
* English - Arabic (Excellent verbal and written skills).
* Solid understanding of multiple media platforms and channels incl. Google Marketing Platform, Facebook Business Manager etc.
* Good analytical and interpretation skills to drive action from insight and tell simple stories using the numbers and analysis.
* Demonstrable project management and collaboration skills to obtain the best results and / or problem solve.
* Objective driven; understanding the objective of the project/task and focusing to take actions that would help reach that objective.
* Problem solving; be able to critically and actively analyze situations, spot issues, and present viable solutions.
* Team worker: should be able to build strong and cooperative relationships, work cross-functionally with a wide range of people, and managing all stakeholders.