Flipkart - Media Manager

Key Skills & Strengths - 

- Leading & Managing mass media and provide guidance to the brand teams on leveraging opportunities in the offline/digital arena keeping in mind brand business tasks

- Work closely with media agencies and brand/category teams and ensuring successful implementation & execution of all media plans

- Recommend the right media priorities, mix, weights, schedule and so on, using competitive benchmarking, campaign insights and consumer truths

- Provide critical inputs for enhancing effectiveness and efficiencies on the Planning, Buying and Creative fronts

- Develop & maintain benchmark media processes & improve upon the same

- Utilize available media vehicles effectively & create new opportunities/innovations at tactical and strategic levels

Functional Competencies:

- Actual hands-on exposure to media planning

- Exposure to digital from a strategic planning perspective

- Analytical skills and understanding of media markets, both technical & operational

- Managing diverse & multiple teams from marcom, category, agency and publisher sides

- Ability to deliver in a fast-paced environment

- Personal desire & capability to improve existing best practices

Behavioural Competencies:

- Be a point of origin for new thoughts, practices and processes and show personal effectiveness in terms of planning philosophies and platforms.

- Maintain a Zero Tolerance stance on the operational front- Reporting, Paperwork, Audit requisites, Procedural integrity and so on.

- 4-6 years in of experience in a Media Agency or similar organization. Strong expertise in media planning and fundamentals