CACE Hub Planning and Buying Manager

Description Position at Wavemaker
The CACE Hub Planning and Buying Manager plays a key role within Wavemaker, driving global media planning and buying exercises.
Increasingly, this role involves working with our specialist experts in the CACE (Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Armenia, Mongolia) to help clients develop and execute changes across their business.
In this role, you will be dedicated to the CACE Region and be a core member of the Wavemaker Turkey team, coordinating the effortsin Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Armenia, Mongolia.
To do so, the CACE Hub Planning and Buying Manager will oversee, drive, and manage the media strategy, planning, and buying coordination of across Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Armenia, Mongolia. You will manage and oversee your client day-to-day, building highly effective interpersonal relationships to become a key strategic advisor for your client and for CACE Region Buying & Planning teams.
Responsibilities:
• Be the key point of contact for the client alongside client leadership and channel leads, to build a strong day-to-day relationship and conduct the planning and delivery of the media strategy and plan (from brief to execution).
• Work closely with activation specialists (offline channels) to ensure all media plans deliver cross-channel and in-channel innovation.
• Build and manage relationships with key media partners, bringing fresh thinking and new ideas to the agency, team, and clients from testing new tactics & innovation to creating editorial partnerships.
• Be the voice of the outside world, bringing in industry inspiration to ensure the wider team is plugged into global trends and innovations.
• Manage reports, competitive analysis and coordinate teams to ensure they build decent presentations to deliver.
• Work seamlessly with other OPCOs and markets as needed to ensure best-in-class delivery.
Requirements:
• Attitude is crucial – we are looking for someone who is curious, wants to push boundaries, contest the status quo, and create amazing work that drives growth. You need to have a minimum of 4 years’ experience gained in a buying/planning role in a media agency, especially with regional clients.
• Proven record of building strong client and team relationships and trust through expertise and passion for client service.
• Experience in communications planning on large clients.
• Strategic thinker with a passion for problem-solving and curiosity to learn.
• A self-starter - resourceful on how to approach a problem and will think creatively about where to find insight and what data sources to use - not afraid to challenge the norm and bring new ideas and insights.
• Ability to mine complex data sets for insights; experience in finding insight from digital platforms.
• Comfortable on their feet, able to lead conversations with clients and stakeholders.
• Strong storytelling ability with the skill to stitch together complex ideas into a simple, succinct narrative.
• Proactive and solutions-focused.