At Omnicom Media, we don't just keep pace with change-we help lead it. Operating across 100+ markets, we bring together world-class talent, technology, and media expertise to deliver smarter solutions and better business outcomes. If you're excited by innovation, collaboration, and making a real impact, we'd love to have you on our APAC team.
The role
Reporting to the Sr. Director Investment – Asia Pacific, the role is to support and manage the regional Value Management & Analytics function for our key global/regional clients to ensure all buying commitments are met.
The candidate will be expected to analyze the investment data and co-ordinate with local Investment teams, account/planning teams covering all Asia Pacific markets. The person will be based out of Omnicom Malaysia office.
This role presents an opportunity to get international exposure across 14 countries in Asia-Pacific region, working on big blue-chip global brands and a potential to grow into various roles within Omnicom APAC network.
Key Responsibilities:
Client Value Management
- Manage cost tracking and reporting across a range of markets including, briefing of data requests to local teams, checking data for accuracy, analysing results, and working with the local teams to capture all value.
- Manage the monitoring and measuring of buying results and value generated for multi-market clients
- Act as a first point of identification of any local trading issues which impact Value delivery, escalating and supporting the line manager where appropriate.
- Assist the Sr. Director in delivering regular Value reporting against tight deadlines, whilst maintaining a high degree of accuracy.
- Querying country buying teams on Value delivery and help to summarise.
- Understand how to work data back to our commitments and be able to identify areas of strengths and weakness in market delivery.
- Be able to assess auditor reports for cross analysis vs our system/reports.
- Share best practices across local markets and support the Sr. Director in roll out of new global Value product initiatives.
- Act as the in-house system expert for the specific team, ensuring the systems are kept up to date with relevant and correct information.
- Work on investment data and create benchmarks/learnings to support decision-making
Internal & External Client engagement
- Prepare country data to share with auditor for validation and benchmarking.
- Work with local agency trading teams, acting in a consultant capacity to ensure they fully understand commitment structures and how to optimise delivery.
- Support Sr. Director in preparing for client presentations.
- Contribute to Global Value meetings and be able to coach/train junior members of the team where needed.
Who you are:
Qualifications & Work Experience:
- Around 5-7 years of experience in an international media agency in planning or planning led buying function & optimization, or in media trading function, or in a media auditing company
- Experience across digital & traditional media planning/buying is essential
- Good data analysis & visualization skills
- Capable of working on extensive data sets in MS Excel and AI
- Prior experience in Buying/Trading would be an added advantage
Technical Knowledge:
- Intermediate / Basic media planning / buying skills across Digital / Offline
- Knowledge on digital campaign optimization and buying metric details across Meta / Google / Programmatic / X / TikTok etc.
- Previous experience of working on Self-Service ad manager platforms (Google/Meta/Programmatic) would be preferable
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office suite (especially Excel) and AI tools
Soft Skills:
- Patience & diligence
- Accountable and results-driven
- Analytical mind-set with excellent attention to detail
- Able to use initiative and problem-solving skills to adhoc tasks and requests
- Ability to present data clearly and succinctly
- Able to work across cultural boundaries in an articulate and sensitive manner
- Good communications skills (English)
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