Manager, Content & Partnerships

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Manager, Content & PartnershipsWavemaker - GroupM

About Wavemaker

Wavemaker is a billion-dollar revenue agency that sits at the heart of GroupM and WPP. Our ambition is to be the most distinctive and admired media, content and technology agency in the world. Wavemaker is a global network that operates locally in over 90 countries and 139 offices. We are aligned behind our purchase journey obsession, and we help our clients translate audience behaviours and insights in to smart decisions for today and tomorrow.  Our commitment to our clients it to be the “Future Makers’.  We demonstrate this in how we think, how we work and our relationship to technology and content to better serve their needs.  We are leading the way in re-inventing the role of a media agency in the digital age, embracing media planning and buying, but fit for the modern marketing requirements of seamlessly connecting media, content and technology. To do this, we attract experts from diverse backgrounds that can share in our vision for the future.We believe in the essential relationship between the vitality of our 8,500 people and our commercial success.  This can best be encapsulated in the values we uphold, and the way in which we demonstrate our commitment to them.  We are Passionate, Agile, Collaborative, Entrepreneurial and Diverse (PACED) With PACED as our backdrop, we require our people to be self-starters, with high standards. We know that ‘great teams still have star players’, and we expect everyone to bring their own uniqueness to the party and contribute their value with their own flair.  We do not tolerate exclusion of team members and their ideas.  We are here to make waves with our clients, and we can only do that as a collective.

Content & Partnerships Team

Looking for a team where you can collaborate, build ideas and let your creativity flow? We’re the team for you. Our team helps our clients bring award winning ideas to life. We lead brainstorms, foster creativity within the agency and across teams and develop and implement custom activations for our clients. The long and short of it? If it’s custom, we do it. This could mean a custom media led program, and experiential build, a entertainment integration into a film or series, custom gaming activations or influencer campaigns.Role context:

• We are looking for a Content Manager to help build big stunty ideas and activations for our entertainment client. They will be responsible for helping to translate entertainment briefs from clients into custom programs and will be responsible for selling those ideas in and helping to execute them flawlessly.
• The Content Manager will have to wear many hats and be able to seamlessly flow between different types of programs, with knowledge and expertise across each. Whether it be gaming campaign, sports, influencer, experiential or integrations into films.
• The Content Manager is responsible for the day-to-day needs relating to custom partnerships, leading conversations with partners and clients throughout the execution process.
• You will work closely with the Group Director of Content & Partnerships but also be tasked with collaborating and working closely with investment and planning teams across the accounts. You will also need to tap into and create strong relationships within the content team and the experts across verticals to drive campaign success.

Responsibilities

• Organize and host brainstorms with internal teams and clients across every brief.
• Partner with investment team to develop, send and evaluate RFPs to partners – your role will especially be important in seeding the right ideas from our brainstorms to the right partners.
• Develop tactical custom program recommendations that meet the needs of the brief or go beyond.
• Meet with vendors and partners to understand the players in media, what they can do and when we should tap them for campaigns.
• Negotiate partnership deals that deliver the most value to clients.
• Serve as project manager for custom programs and content partnerships, ensuring all parties are accountable for meeting deadlines and delivering within approved plan parameters.
• Collaborate with Wavemaker colleagues across departments (e.g. planning, investment, data sciences) to ensure content partnerships are an interconnected part of the media plan.
• Supervise the content creation process, including providing clear input on key deliverables such as storyboards and content rough cuts, as well as attending production when applicable to ensure content produced delivers on strategy.
• Write client presentations, briefs, pitches, and POVs.
• Cultivate client relationships, demonstrating a keen understanding of their business and how content fits within it.
• Develop junior team members foundational understanding of content and client services.

Requirements

• Strong understanding of the role of content and custom programs and their ability to drive client success.
• Strong understanding on entertainment landscape or entertainment industry.
• Cross discipline knowledge and experience when it comes to custom programs: Gaming, Experiential, Content, Sports, Entertainment integrations.
• Working knowledge of content development process, production and distribution.
• Proactive, a team player, demonstrate leadership and have genuine curiosity about digital and marketing
• Proven experience in building strong client relationships
• Flair for presenting creative ideas
• Can proactively jump in where and when needed! We need someone who isn’t afraid to pull a chair up to the table and partner with the existing team to deliver excellence for our clients.

Life at GroupMOur passion for shaping the next era of media includes investing in our employees to help them do their best work, and we’re just as committed to employee growth as we are to responsible media investment. GroupM employees can tap into the global GroupM & WPP networks to pursue their passions, grow their networks, and learn at the cutting edge of marketing and advertising. We have a variety of employee resource groups and host frequent in-office events showcasing team wins, sharing thought leadership, and celebrating holidays and milestone events. Our benefits include competitive medical, vision, and dental insurance, significant paid time off, preferential partner discounts, and employee mental health awareness days.     GroupM is WPP’s media investment group and the world’s leading media investment company with a mission to shape the next era of media where advertising works better for people. The company is responsible for more than $60 billion in annual media investment, as measured by the independent research bureau COMvergence. Through its global agencies Mindshare, Wavemaker, EssenceMediacom, and mSix&Partners, and cross-channel performance (GroupM Nexus), data (Choreograph), entertainment (GroupM Motion Entertainment) and investment solutions, GroupM leverages a unique combination of global scale, expertise, and innovation to generate sustained value for clients wherever they do business. Discover more at www.groupm.com. GroupM provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees without regard for factors such as race, religion, national origin, colour, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, protected veteran status, disability, or other protected status. GroupM is committed to providing reasonable accommodation to, among others, individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans. If you need an accommodation because of a disability to search and apply for a career opportunity with GroupM, please send an e-mail to [email protected] or call (212) 297-8507 and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. The base salary for this position at the time of this posting may range from $60,000 to $140,000. Individual compensation varies based on job-related factors, including business needs, experience, level of responsibility and qualifications. We offer a competitive benefits package, please visit https://www.wpp.com/people/wel... for more details.