Partner - Client Leadership

**Overview of job -**

Mindshare is an agency of GroupM, world’s largest media investment company and are a part of WPP. In fact, we are responsible for one in every three ads you see globally. We are currently looking for a **Partner** to join us. In this role, you will be responsible for the overall delivery on the Largest FMCG brand of India. You will need to have a good managerial skill set, strategic bent of mind, excellent communication and presentation skills, digitally savvy, collaborative mindsets (internal and external), driving the innovation and new age solutions, grooming the team and make them future-ready.

You will be the key custodian of building a rapport and relationship with the senior management team at the client’s end. Someone who can understand client business, challenges, and craft the strategic media solution to deliver the key business/ brand / media KPIs.

You will need to understand the new age eco-system of data, digital, content, and able to craft the newer disciplines seamlessly into the offering for the client.

At GroupM APAC, our people are our strength, which is why fostering a culture of diversity and inclusion is important to us.

**Reporting of the role**

This role reports to the Principal Partner - Client Leadership (Cluster lead)

**3 best things about the job**:

- You get to work on the biggest advertiser of the country
- Lead strategic thinking & integrated solutions across the Personal Care category
- Ability to work under pressure and short turnaround time keeping you nimble and agile in this challenging work environment. (we see this as a positive learning experience)

**In this role, your goals will be**:
**In three months**:

- Establish leadership stance among key stakeholders both on client and agency side
- Translate the client’s needs into clear direction for Mindshare and GroupM resources working on the account
- Become completely familiar with the client’s organizational structure, planning process, marketing calendar and the needs of key stakeholders
- Understand the Mindshare way of working and can navigate through the verticals

**In six months**:

- Foster strong client relationships across the client portfolio for self and team and have a strong understanding of the client’s key business requirements
- To be recognized as their trusted advisor, execute “media first” innovations and deliver exceptional ROI for the client
- Lead the change in digital, data and content ecosystem. Identify opportunity and collaborate with internal team / potential partners to deliver the best possible solution
- Demonstrated the ability to guide and coach team, helping them improve their strategic thinking skills and capabilities as well as their digital, data and content knowledge

**In 12 months**:

- Work in closely on innovative projects that help drive further growth
- Build client satisfaction by soliciting critical feedback

**What your day job looks like at Mindshare**:

- Provide strategic thinking, innovative communication planning and hard-core media fundamental knowledge to craft out innovative integrated brand strategies
- Acts as a client visionary by bringing a highly valued perspective to the client based on a deep understanding of their business, issues and opportunities. Should be able to lead strategic conversations on Media, communication planning that drives business outcomes
- Manage and motivate team to effectively deliver to client needs and goals
- Ensure timely team appraisals and clear development goals for team members; identify and follow through on appropriate training and career development for the team

**What you’ll bring**:

- High integrity while maintaining positive, open relationships
- Show a depth of understanding of the industry, business, brands and consumers and can dial up his servicing skills with senior management stakeholders at client beyond the media team, including business and marketing as well.
- Understanding business principles and good practice and perceives issues in both financial and commercial terms.
- Highly passionate, collaborative, outgoing, creative media leader and thinker
- Strong presentation skills.
- Articulation of thoughts/ideas/media solutions is a critical ask for this role
- Stakeholder management
- Business acumen
- Acute inquisitiveness and understanding of an entrepreneur’s mindset
- Ability to understand mediums beyond ATL

**Minimum qualifications**:

- Minimum 10 years+ total work experience in media business consultancy, market research/analytics or a strategic planning role, of which at least 3-4 years have been spent working on media/communications planning related business. FMCG experience (client / agency) will be a definitive added advantage
- Excellent communication/presentation/client management skills

**More about Mindshare**

We were born in Asia in 1997, a start up with a desire to change the media world. Now we are a global agency with more than 7,000 employees in 116 offices a