Media Director/Business Unit Head at Hamilton Lloyd and Associates

Reports To: The Group CEO

Job Summary

• The core function of a Media Director/Business Unit Head is to create strategic media concepts and most effectively plan to meet the marketing objectives and needs of the clients’ briefs.

Job Responsibilities
Media Director:

• Developing innovative and effective communication solutions
• Maintaining effective relationships with clients and ensuring in depth knowledge of their business and its needs
• Development and Supervision of media concepts and plans
• Identifying and delivering unique and innovative strategies to leverage brand strength
• Researching past brand or product strategies and results, competitive actions, consumer behaviour and changes to the marketplace
• Understanding and interpretation of research, market data and systems
• Generation of appropriate reporting such as competitive consumer trends and media consumption patterns
• Searching for and delivering new, innovative and relevant communications ideas beyond traditional media and presenting these to clients
• Sourcing of global insights/ideas for communications options
• Prepare presentations for business tenders and pitches
• Assist in training of senior / middle level executives in Media Strategy.

Business Unit Head:

• Optimal retention of all existing clients to ensure delivery of service level all year round.
• Identification of new opportunities and mobilization of resources across the network to ensure successful tendering and pitch of such opportunities.
• Ensure profitable management of division’s business.
• Work with Finance and other specialist sister units to ensure proper cross selling of services across the group.
• Work closely with Human Resources and Executive Management to identify Talent development, management and retention program for team members.

Personal Specification

• Media and market research interpretation application and validation
• Commercial thinking
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Energised and Enthusiastic
• Creative and innovative
• Communication across all level
• Numerate and analytical
• Budget setting and management
• Negotiation
• Forecasting
• Delegation
• Diplomacy