Agency: Initiative
Function: Investment
Location: London, United Kingdom
Job Ref#: 13857
Beschreibung und Anforderungen
Position Summary
The Head of Investment is a senior client leadership role, managing media investment for Amazon across Europe.
The Head of Investment works across all Amazon lines of business (e.g. retail, entertainment, web services, recruitment) in the region and drives cross-market collaboration and excellence across countries to deliver strategic and integrated investment solutions.
The role sits within the Rufus EU Hub team, reporting to the EU President, and working closely alongside the EU Head of Digital and the Global Value team.
Key Responsibilities
EU Investment Strategy
- Create cross-market investment strategies to drive value and innovation
- Implement cross-market investment stewardship practices to ensure delivery against KPIs.
- Lead onboarding process for new markets, to establish investment best practice.
- Collaborate with local teams to develop localized investment strategies for new market entry.
- Lead strategic investment brief responses to Amazon stakeholders.
- Act as escalation point for Amazon stakeholders as relates to investment challenges.
- Provide regular thought leadership and marketplace updates across the region.
EU/Global Partnerships
- Lead EU / global media partner relationships to drive unique client opportunities and innovation.
- Partner with the global value team to ensure investment objectives are met within local, regional, and global partnerships.
Stakeholder Management
- Partner with Amazon business leaders to build outstanding relationships with senior client stakeholders based on trust and a clear understanding of clients’ business objectives.
- Partner with Rufus EU President, Head of Digital and Managing Partner, Global Value to drive a cohesive investment approach across the region.
- Partner with key EU and Global media partners and act as centralized POC across the region for all Amazon LOBs.
Desired Skills & Experience
- Experienced in managing global or regional investment for large advertisers.
- Understands investment dynamics of multiple European markets.
- Accurate and analytically sophisticated with strong attention to detail.
- Independent, self-motivated, hardworking team player with a sense of humour.
- Good communication and articulation skills.
- Able to work across cultural boundaries in an articulate and sensitive manner.
- Able to use initiative and problem-solving skills to ad hoc tasks and requests.
- Ability to build professional relationships with client and colleagues.
- Possesses strong communication skills and the ability to write white papers on relevant industry topics
- Adaptable in fast-paced environments; you are decisive, yet also skilled in building solutions and solving problems across multiple teams and stakeholders
- A collaborator who knows how to navigate organizational dynamics across internal and external teams to ensure success
- Ability to deeply immerse into the client’s business, brand, and principles
Employment Transparency
At Mediabrands and Kinesso, we celebrate difference and believe this makes us stronger. Mediabrands and Kinesso are equal opportunity employers and committed to championing an inclusive culture that provides a sense of belonging for all our employees. We do not discriminate against any applicant based on age, disability, race, colour, ethnicity, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, belief, marital status or any other characteristic protected by law.
Please reach out to our Talent Inclusion Specialist Jess at Jess.Richardson@mbww.com if you would like to have a confidential conversation regarding any adjustments that would ensure our recruitment process is accessible for you. Please note requesting a reasonable adjustment will not affect your application.
Über uns
Initiative is different to other media agencies.
We are not trapped by a legacy structure primarily centered on paid advertising. Instead, we are liberated by a new world structure designed to deliver highly differentiated and highly effective communications strategies for our clients.
We are the world’s fastest growing media agency built upon the strongest strategic capability of any agency in the market. Core to this strategic proposition is the belief that the faster a brand can move through culture the more relevant it can become.
We call this Cultural Velocity ™.
Our process is designed to create ideas that move through culture through unique insight, market leading analytics and strategic media brilliance.
Our new world model is comprised of “craft centers” – Client Advice and Management, Strategy, Communications Design, Partnership and Culture, Insights & Analytics.