Strategy Executive

职位描述 Job Description

Mindshare │ Executive, Strategy

The mission:

As an Executive for Mindshare Shanghai’s strategy team, you will support in elevating strategic thinking across the agency and helping teams provide rigorous, data-driven work for their respective account needs.

This role reports to a Strategy Partner / Director and sits within the Mindshare China central product team under the agency’s Chief Product Officer.

You are a recent graduate who is curious about the world of marketing and media. With your desire to kickstart your career, you will support in making media-focused data analyses and research for clients while helping build the agency’s strategic capabilities. To do this effectively, you will be trained and exposed to a wide range of challenges involving media and non-media levers. Hence, an analytical and curious mind will go a long way to methodically solve problems and provide the necessary inputs for key projects.

Why join:

1.    Join the biggest and most awarded media agency in China – under the largest market communications network worldwide, servicing the most iconic brands globally

2.    Be part of an elite team that solve critical and pressing issues throughout the agency with significant exposure across clients, categories, levels, and functions 

3.    Do the best work of your career by employing cutting edge media advertising that involve the latest in strategy, data, technology, creativity, and commerce

How you will bring success:

Contribute to strategic thinking

Provide strategic and analytical inputs to ensure that the team’s work is always insight-led, grounded on data, and consistently aligned with key objectives

Build relationships

Collaborate with stakeholders within and outside the agency to aid in understanding the media and business needs of key accounts

Integrate knowledge

Begin connecting disparate information from across disciplines and topics to generate actionable ideas and insights

Develop product and talent

Aid in innovating the agency’s strategic offerings in the form of frameworks and tools while upgrading the talent training capabilities within the agency

Help scale solutions

Diffuse the latest thinking, innovation and solutions across the agency with a pulse for new media frontiers and technology in China and outside

Support agency growth

Contribute in developing and executing new business projects and mapping new growth opportunities for the agency

Boost agency profile

Develop thought leadership and insights to enhance credibility and presence of the agency in the wider industry, within and beyond China

What superpowers you need:

1.    Analytical problem-solving

Demonstrated aptitude for quantitative and structured reasoning to craft strategic recommendations – in university or a professional setting (0-1 year of work experience). Degree in a quantitative-oriented field a plus but not required

2.    Integrated reasoning

Ability to understand the stories behind data and piece together information from various sources to arrive at logical conclusions

3.    Curiosity

Desire to know and question – using research skills to uncover new insights and better understand untapped opportunities in the landscape

4.    Effective storytelling

Knack for preparing and formulating data-driven narratives to convince your team and other audiences of your point of view

5.    Cross-functional collaboration

Skill in engaging stakeholders across functions, adapting working style and communication to accomplish assigned tasks

6.    Operational discipline

Capacity to deliver quality output efficiently even amidst high pressure and multiple projects of varying natures and timelines

7.    Language

Business level proficiency in Mandarin and English

About Mindshare

Mindshare, the global media agency network, and part of WPP, the largest marketing communications network in the world, has more than 7,000 employees, in 116 offices across 86 countries. Mindshare is China’s most awarded media agency locally and globally, consistently winning Campaign Agency of the Year since 2014. Mindshare China is dedicated to leading integrated marketing in the industry, for which it was recognized as Mobile Marketing Agency of the Year Asia Pacific by the MMA in 2017. Our aim is to be the place where our employees do the best work of their career, and our China employee satisfaction rates lead the global network.

To learn more about Mindshare and our philosophy of Adaptive Marketing, visit us at www.mindshareworld.com

About China

China is now the second largest media market, and the world’s most vibrant digital market, growing at double the rate of the US. In 2013, China surpassed the US in e-commerce, and the speed and scale of change in the market is unparalleled. Global CEOs are looking to China to drive growth, and brands are rushing to keep pace.

If you want a future in media and communications, there is clearly no place more vibrant, challenging and exciting than China, where opportunities for you to innovate and grow are unparalleled.

GroupM APAC is committed to fostering a culture of diversity and inclusion. Our people are our strength so we respect and nurture their individual talent and potential.