Senior Manager

The Senior Manager, Productivity will be a remote position in the NY area that supports the Global and North American Productivity team including the Associate Director and Productivity Management Lead in productivity reporting. Productivity reporting is the tracking, measurement and reporting of buying performance and savings commitments on nominated dentsu's Global and North American clients across nominated markets and media types. Productivity reporting ensures that all pricing commitments are met on these clients using the existing productivity methodology and reports are also subject to external auditor validation.

• You will communicate benchmarking methodology and productivity targets to local market buying/client heads
• You will be responsible for ongoing tracking of media buying performance management (productivity) across nominated dentsu media clients and markets
• You will be responsible for the delivery of reported buying data in line with agreed methodology and timing
• You will prepare monthly savings reports and client presentations where necessary
• Inputs data, analyses data and tracks savings to provide reports back to the teams using Excel (can perform complex functions) or web tools
• You will work closely with dentsu media and Investment teams in other ad hoc or data analysis projects
• You will contact and build relationships with external Media Auditors ensuring that all evaluation, auditing and benchmarking functions are favorably managed, and savings are validated correctly
• You will be responsible for troubleshooting investment management issues – identifying and resolving specific market delivery issues

Requirements

• You have at least 4+ years experience in either media buying, auditor or data analysis
• You have knowledge of the media planning/buying process
• You have solid numeric and Excel skills essential
• You have excellent data management capabilities