Implementation and Activation Director
On-siteSydney, New South Wales, Australia
Sydney, New South Wales, AustraliaOn-siteFull TimeSenior LevelEnterprise
Full TimeSenior LevelEnterprise
Job Summary
Lead implementation planning and activation for award-winning agency brands, serving as the senior point of contact for clients while managing vendor relationships and driving agenda execution. Deliver best-in-class media solutions by constructing strategic plans grounded in data-led optimization, ensuring flawless campaign delivery against KPIs and contract commitments. Provide expert market insights to stakeholders and champion technology adoption through collaboration with internal teams and state craft leaders. Motivate the team through regular 1:1s and performance reviews, fostering a high-performing culture focused on continuous learning and knowledge sharing. Build industry reputation by contributing to awards and thought leadership while actively supporting new business development and pitching efforts.
Required Qualifications
- Leadership role experience
- Operational excellence oversight
- Day-to-day output delivery for effective campaigns
- Best-in-class consistent implementation
- Optimisation
- Reporting
- Application and oversight of specialist technical skills
- Strategic vision
- Expert perspectives and POVs on recent market trends or developments
- Regular meetings with vendors and partners
- Building outstanding client service reputation
- Robust understanding of in-scope services of clients
- Process for completing work above and beyond
- Innovative strategic insights
- Expertise on client's business, industry and competitors
- Exceptional knowledge of the media landscape
- Confident articulation and training on media principles
- How each media touchpoint can fuel growth for clients
- Identification and leadership of product innovation opportunities
- Collaboration with internal WPP Media teams
- Articulation of benefits of internal team inclusion
- Conversion of growth opportunities
- Overall delivery of client campaigns & KPIs
- Flawless accuracy
- Support of state and national craft leaders
- Identification and implementation of tools, technology, data, and automation solutions
- Ensuring maximum adoption of best practice
- Motivation and empowerment of team
- Achievement of individual, team and organisational goals
- Conducting fortnightly 1:1s
- Annual Career Conversations
- Performance Reviews with direct reports
- Liaison with the People Team
- Resolution of team disputes
- Championing company values
- Building strong and trusted connections
- Solution-oriented perspectives
- Demonstration of genuine care for collective team success
- Fostering knowledge sharing
- Continuous learning around point of views, trends, and relevant skills
- Identification, collation and showcasing of great work from within the team
- Contributing to entries for awards and competitions
- Contributing to industry thought leadership
- Active contribution to new business development
- Pitching
- Empowerment to bring authentic self to work
- Contribution to great teamwork
- Keen interest in industry
- Excitement to work with market leading partners & technologies
- Inquisitiveness
- Desire to understand and know more
- Ability to prioritise tasks effectively
- Identification of most important and urgent tasks
- Addressing important and urgent tasks first
- Results driven
- Identification of what's working
- Articulation of why what's working
- Problem solving mentality
- Attention to detail
- Clear communication
- Establishment of collaborative relationships with all key stakeholders
- Strong understanding of agency and group proposition
- Core processes
- Way of working
- Immersion in the team
- Understanding of status of all active and upcoming campaigns
- Delivery on all aspects of the role
- Efficient, effective, and proactive delivery
- Owning processes for specific allocated clients/campaigns
- End-to-end ownership
- Regular updates on campaign performance
- Excellent attention to detail
- Strengthened key stakeholder relationships
- Great teamwork consistently
- Greater ownership for campaigns and clients
- Responsibility and volume
- Strong relationships with publishers
- Representation of the agency team
- Ensuring campaigns are delivered to the highest quality
Desired Qualifications
- Feel empowered to bring your authentic self to work
- Contribute to great teamwork
- Knowing individual ideas and thoughts will be welcome
- Keen interest in our industry
- Excited to work with market leading partners & technologies
- Inquisitive
- Demonstrates desire to understand and know more
- Ability to prioritise tasks effectively
- Ensuring most important and urgent ones are identified and addressed first
- Results driven
- Ability to identify and clearly articulate what's working and why
- Problem solving mentality
- Attention to detail
- Clear communicator
- Established collaborative relationships with all key stakeholders
- Strong understanding of and can clearly articulate the agency and group proposition
- Core processes
- Our way of working
- Immersed yourself in the team
- Understanding of the status of all active and upcoming campaigns
- Demonstrated your ability to deliver on all aspects of the role
- Efficient, effective, and proactive way
- Owning the processes for specific allocated clients/campaigns
- End to end
- Ensuring manager and wider team are regularly updated
- Performance of each campaign
- Demonstrating excellent attention to detail
- Strengthened your key stakeholder relationships
- Deliver great team work consistently
- Taking on greater ownership for campaigns and clients
- Responsibility and volume
- Building strong relationships with publishers
- Representing the agency team appropriately
- Ensuring campaigns are 7 delivered to the highest quality
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