Role Summary and Impact

EssenceMediacom, part of WPP, is a new breed of media agency. Grounded in analytics & insights and powered by data & technology, we believe in the power of media and creative to drive breakthroughs for the world’s best brands. We help clients understand the modern marketing paradox and discover the breakthroughs brands need to win with their consumers. We are designed for the new communications economy — built on data & technology, built for people & algorithms, built around diverse schools of thought, built to test & learn at scale, and, crucially, built to evolve.

The Implementation & Activation Coordinator is a critical foundational role responsible for establishing operational excellence and supporting the day-to-day work that delivers effective campaigns. You will ensure best-in-class, consistent implementation, optimization, and reporting, working closely with your manager to produce best-in-class solutions, offer unparalleled service, and deliver against targets. This role is key to maintaining operational efficiency and contributing directly to client success through meticulous execution and strong foundational support.

Core Responsibilities

• Support the booking, loading, optimizing, material instruction, and tracking of client media campaigns in line with best practices.
• Ensure all financial and compliance processes are followed with 100% accuracy, including bookings, loadings, account queries, and monthly proforma checks.
• Contribute to the construction of insightful and progressive post-analysis reports.
• Establish an understanding of client challenges, objectives, and initiatives, helping to build the agency's reputation for outstanding client service.
• Communicate and collaborate openly with internal key stakeholders on delivery and reporting.
• Begin developing relationships with junior-level clients as it relates to activation and in-scope services.
• Engage with media partners to build knowledge of the media landscape, core media principles, and capabilities of each media touchpoint.
• Engage with internal product teams, including WPP Media proprietary solutions, to understand their offerings and relevance to clients.
• Positively contribute to team meetings, leading some sections and owning follow-ups.
• Bring innovation and creativity to the table, leveraging insights from across the market.

Skills and Experience

What Makes You Great

• Keen interest in the media industry and a desire to work with market-leading partners and technologies.
• Inquisitive and demonstrates a desire to understand and know more.
• Exceptional attention to detail and ability to prioritize tasks effectively.
• Problem-solving mentality with a results-driven approach.
• Clear and effective communicator.

Life at WPP Media & Benefits

Our passion for shaping the next era of media is powered by our commitment to Be Extraordinary, investing in our employees to inspire transformational creativity. We also Lead Optimistically, firmly believing in and Championing Growth and Development for every individual. This commitment allows WPP Media employees to leverage the extensive global WPP Media & WPP networks to pursue their passions, build vital professional connections, and learn at the cutting edge of marketing and advertising.

We Create an Open environment built on trust and respect, where everyone feels they belong and has opportunities to progress. This inclusive culture is fostered through a variety of employee resource groups and frequent in-office events showcasing team wins, sharing thought leadership, and celebrating holidays and milestone events.

WPP Media is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without discrimination or regard to characteristics. We believe the best work happens when we're together, fostering creativity, collaboration, and connection in this open and supportive environment. If you require accommodations or flexibility, please discuss this with the hiring team during the interview process.

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Role Summary and Impact

EssenceMediacom, part of WPP, is a new breed of media agency. Grounded in analytics & insights and powered by data & technology, we believe in the power of media and creative to drive breakthroughs for the world’s best brands. We help clients understand the modern marketing paradox and discover the breakthroughs brands need to win with their consumers. We are designed for the new communications economy — built on data & technology, built for people & algorithms, built around diverse schools of thought, built to test & learn at scale, and, crucially, built to evolve.

The Implementation & Activation Director plays a pivotal role in delivering best-in-class implementation planning and buying across Social, Search, Programmatic, and E-Commerce channels. This role ensures client campaigns are executed and amplified effectively, efficiently, and with a future-facing approach, powered by data, technology, and automation. You will cultivate strong, trusted relationships with clients, providing strategic guidance and leading activation efforts to achieve client objectives. As a leader, you will also be responsible for motivating and empowering your direct reports, fostering a culture of continuous learning and growth.

Core Responsibilities

• Cultivate strong, trusted relationships with clients at intermediate to senior levels.
• Maintain an in-depth understanding of client challenges, objectives, and initiatives, clearly articulating these to your team and media partners.
• Proactively recommend tactics and opportunities that resolve client challenges and objectives.
• Ensure strict adherence to activation commitments and client contractual obligations.
• Construct and present effective, future-facing Implementation plans grounded in strategic priorities and data-led optimization recommendations.
• Maintain an in-depth knowledge of the media landscape, confidently articulating core media principles and how each touchpoint fuels client growth.
• Collaborate closely with internal product teams, including GroupM proprietary offerings, to clearly articulate benefits and identify growth opportunities.
• Seek, communicate, and implement continuous improvements across all aspects of the role.
• Lead client media audits, media negotiations, and billings forecasting.
• Motivate and empower direct reports to achieve individual, team, and organizational goals.
• Conduct regular 1:1 check-ins, annual career conversations, and performance reviews with direct reports.
• Champion company values, fostering strong connections, solution-oriented perspectives, and collective team success.

Skills and Experience

What Makes You Great

• Significant experience in performance channels within a media or marketing environment.
• Proven stakeholder management experience.
• Passion for the industry, with robust craft and leadership experience.
• Strong, up-to-date media landscape knowledge, able to confidently articulate macro consumer trends and their challenges/opportunities.
• Problem-solving mentality.
• Clear communicator with strong presentation skills.
• Highly collaborative, with the ability to unite diverse teams and perspectives.
• Results-driven, with the ability to identify and clearly articulate successes and their drivers.
• You feel empowered to bring your authentic self to work and contribute to great teamwork, knowing your individual ideas and thoughts will be welcome.

Life at WPP Media & Benefits

Our passion for shaping the next era of media is powered by our commitment to Be Extraordinary, investing in our employees to inspire transformational creativity. We also Lead Optimistically, firmly believing in and Championing Growth and Development for every individual. This commitment allows WPP Media employees to leverage the extensive global WPP Media & WPP networks to pursue their passions, build vital professional connections, and learn at the cutting edge of marketing and advertising.

We Create an Open environment built on trust and respect, where everyone feels they belong and has opportunities to progress. This inclusive culture is fostered through a variety of employee resource groups and frequent in-office events showcasing team wins, sharing thought leadership, and celebrating holidays and milestone events.

WPP Media is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without discrimination or regard to characteristics. We believe the best work happens when we're together, fostering creativity, collaboration, and connection in this open and supportive environment. If you require accommodations or flexibility, please discuss this with the hiring team during the interview process.

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Implementation & Activations Executive
(Traditional Media)

 A Leading WPP Media Brand, Wavemaker positively provokes growth for clients by reshaping consumer decision-making and experiences through media, content, and technology. Our name is both our mission and our method. We do our best work for brave brands and people who relish being challenged to go further and faster, together.

The Role
The Implementation & Activation Executive is an important emerging role, establishing operational excellence and responsible for supporting day-to-day work that delivers effective campaigns, ensuring best-in-class consistent implementation, optimisation, and reporting. Working very closely with your manager, you will produce best-in-class solutions, offer unparalleled service and deliver against targets. The role involves the development and application of specialist technical skills.

Your Primary Responsibilities:

• Grow an understanding of client challenges, objectives & initiatives.

• Proactively recommend tactics and opportunities that resolve client challenges and objectives.

• Activate approved media plans, ensuring campaign deliverables are met consistently, across all touchpoints.

• Book, load, confirm, traffic, optimise, track and post analyse client media campaigns, applying insightful context and immaculate attention to detail throughout.

• Openly communicate and collaborate with all internal key stakeholders on delivery and reporting regularly.

• Contribute to great teamwork with a supportive and positive can-do attitude.

• Collaborate closely with your manager to identify, collate and showcase examples of great work from within the team, both internally and externally.

• Be a positive face of the agency at industry events, either related to clients’ category or our media partners.

What Makes You Great:

• Keen interest in our industry and excited to work with market leading partners & technologies.

• Inquisitive and demonstrates desire to understand and know more.

• Ability to prioritise tasks effectively, ensuring that the most important and urgent ones are identified and addressed first.

• Results driven with the ability to identify and clearly articulate what’s working and why.

• Problem solving mentality.

• Attention to detail.

• Clear communicator.

Research shows that candidates from underrepresented backgrounds often don't apply for roles if they don't meet all the criteria. At WPP Media, we strongly encourage you to apply if you’re interested: we'd love to know how you can positively impact our team with your experience!

Apply now and share your CV via the link! 

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 Implementation & Activation Manager

 A Leading WPP Media Brand, Wavemaker positively provokes growth for clients by reshaping consumer decision-making and experiences through media, content, and technology. Our name is both our mission and our method. We do our best work for brave brands and people who relish being challenged to go further and faster, together.

The Role The Implementation & Activation Manager is an important role, ensuring operational excellence and responsible for driving day-to-day work that delivers effective campaigns, ensuring best-in-class consistent implementation, optimisation, and reporting. Working very closely with your Director, you will produce best-in-class solutions, offer unparalleled service and deliver against targets. The role involves the development and application of specialist technical skills, as well as solid people management.

Your Primary Responsibilities:

• Cultivate strong, trusted relationships with clients at an intermediate level, as it relates to implementation planning & activation.

• Proactively recommend tactics and opportunities that resolve client challenges and objectives.

• Ownership of the media plan, including reconciliation, and the update of plan changes, with detailed updates for internal stakeholders.

• Able to construct and present robust Implementation plans, that are grounded in strategic priorities.

• Oversee workflow of direct reports, swiftly escalating issues as they arise.

• Conduct fortnightly 1:1s, annual Career Conversations and Performance Reviews with direct reports.

What Makes You Great:

• You feel empowered to bring your authentic self to work, and contribute to great teamwork, knowing your individual ideas and thoughts will be welcome.

• Keen interest in our industry and excited to work with market leading partners & technologies.

• Inquisitive and demonstrates desire to understand and know more.

• Ability to prioritise tasks effectively, ensuring that the most important and urgent ones are identified and addressed first.

• Results driven with the ability to identify and clearly articulate what’s working and why.

• Problem solving mentality.

• Attention to detail.

• Clear communicator.

Research shows that candidates from underrepresented backgrounds often don't apply for roles if they don't meet all the criteria. At WPP Media, we strongly encourage you to apply if you’re interested: we'd love to know how you can positively impact our team with your experience!

Apply now and share your CV via the link! 

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Implementation & Activation Associate Manager
(Traditional Media)

About WPP and Wavemaker: WPP is the creative transformation company. We use the power of creativity to build better futures for our people, planet, clients and communities. For more information, visit wpp.com.WPP Media is WPP’s global media collective. In a world where media is everywhere and in everything, we bring the best platform, people, and partners together to create limitless opportunities for growth. For more information, visit wppmedia.com At WPP Media, we believe in the power of our culture and our people. It’s what elevates us to deliver exceptional experiences for both our clients and each other. In this role it will be critical to embrace WPP & WPP Media’s shared core values: o Be Extraordinary by Leading Collectively to Inspire transformational Creativity. o Create an Open environment by Balancing People and Client Experiences by Cultivating Trust. o Lead Optimistically by Championing Growth and Development to Mobilize the Enterprise. A Leading WPP Media Brand, Wavemaker positively provokes growth for clients by reshaping consumer decision-making and experiences through media, content, and technology. Our name is both our mission and our method. We do our best work for brave brands and people who relish being challenged to go further and faster, together.

The Role The Implementation & Activation Associate Manager is an important role, ensuring operational excellence and responsible for driving day-to-day work that delivers effective campaigns, ensuring best-in-class consistent implementation, optimisation, and reporting.

Your Primary Responsibilities:

• Cultivate strong, trusted relationships with clients at a junior and intermediate level, as it relates to implementation planning & activation.
• Proactively recommend tactics and opportunities that resolve client challenges and objectives.
• Take the lead in delivering best in class campaigns, in line with all planned parameters, in an efficient, effective, compliant, and future facing way, in line with WPP Media best practice.
• Lead the development and presentation of insightful and progressive post analysis reports.
• Oversee workflow of direct reports, swiftly escalating issues as they arise.
• Motivate and empower direct reports to achieve individual, team and org goals.

What Makes You Great:

• You feel empowered to bring your authentic self to work, and contribute to great teamwork, knowing your individual ideas and thoughts will be welcome.
• Keen interest in our industry and excited to work with market leading partners & technologies.
• Inquisitive and demonstrates desire to understand and know more.
• Ability to prioritise tasks effectively, ensuring that the most important and urgent ones are identified and addressed first.
• Results driven with the ability to identify and clearly articulate what’s working and why.
• Problem solving mentality.
• Attention to detail.
• Clear communicator.

Research shows that candidates from underrepresented backgrounds often don't apply for roles if they don't meet all the criteria. At WPP Media, we strongly encourage you to apply if you’re interested: we'd love to know how you can positively impact our team with your experience!

Apply now and share your CV via the link!

#LI-PROMOTED

About WPP Media

WPP is the creative transformation company. We use the power of creativity to build better futures for our people, planet, clients and communities. For more information, visit wpp.com.

WPP Media is WPP’s global media collective. In a world where media is everywhere and in everything, we bring the best platform, people, and partners together to create limitless opportunities for growth. For more information, visit wppmedia.com

At WPP Media, we believe in the power of our culture and our people. It’s what elevates us to deliver exceptional experiences for both our clients and each other. In this role it will be critical to embrace WPP & WPP Media’s shared core values:

• Be Extraordinary by Leading Collectively to Inspire transformational Creativity.
• Create an Open environment by Balancing People and Client Experiences by Cultivating Trust.
• Lead Optimistically by Championing Growth and Development to Mobilize the Enterprise.

About EssenceMediacom: A Leading WPP Media Brand

EssenceMediacom is a new breed of media agency. Grounded in analytics & insights and powered by data & technology, we believe in the power of media and creative to drive breakthroughs for the world’s best brands. We help clients understand the modern marketing paradox and discover the breakthroughs brands need to win with their consumers. We are designed for the new communications economy — built on data & technology, built for people & algorithms, built around diverse schools of thought, built to test & learn at scale, and, crucially, built to evolve.

Role Summary and Impact

The Implementation & Activation Executive position has a crucial role within the team, providing the foundations for success for our clients. You are responsible for all aspects of campaign implementation, optimisation, monitoring, and reporting. Working very closely with your manager, you will produce best-in-class solutions, offer unparalleled service and deliver against targets.​

Role responsibilities:

Clients

• Establish an understanding of client challenges, objectives & initiatives.
• Help build on the agency's reputation for outstanding client service.
• Clear understanding of the in-scope services of your clients and the process for completing work above and beyond.
• Begin developing relationships with clients at a junior level, as it relates to activation.

Product

• Engage with our media partners to build knowledge of the media landscape and understanding of core media principles and the capabilities of each media touchpoint.
• Engage with internal product teams including WPP Media proprietary solutions teams to ensure you have an understanding about their offerings and relevance to our clients.
• Bring innovation and creativity to the table, leveraging insights from across the market.
• Support the booking, loading, optimizing, material instruction and tracking of client media campaigns, in line with marketplace best practice processes and ways of working, applying insightful context and immaculate attention to detail throughout.
• Support the construction of insightful and progressive post analysis reports.
• Responsible for ensuring all financial and compliance processes are followed with 100% accuracy, including bookings and loadings, account queries and monthly proforma checks.

People

• Openly communicate and collaborate with all internal key stakeholders on delivery and reporting regularly.
• Positively contribute to team meetings, leading some sections and owning follow-ups

Skills and Experience

• You feel empowered to bring your authentic self to work, and contribute to great teamwork, knowing your individual ideas and thoughts will be welcome.​
• Passion for our industry with relevant experience and excited to work with market leading partners & technologies.​
• Well developed, up to date, media landscape knowledge (confidently able to articulate current audience insights). ​
• Attention to detail. ​
• Ability to prioritise tasks effectively, ensuring that the most important and urgent ones are identified and addressed first. ​
• Problem solving mentality. ​
• Clear communicator. ​
• Results driven with the ability to identify and clearly articulate what’s working and why. ​

Life at WPP Media & Benefits

Our 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. WPP Media employees can tap into the global WPP Media & 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.

WPP Media is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without discrimination or regard to characteristics. We are committed to fostering a culture of respect in which everyone feels they belong and has the same opportunities to progress in their careers.

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