Investment Manager

The Investment team are primarily responsible for the trading and delivery of our agencies and clients’ campaigns, ensuring that we are hitting any measurements and commercial targets. As a manager within the team, you will be responsible for assisting the investment directors to ensure we hit our targets.

RESPONSIBILITIES AND RELATIONSHIPS_

• Responsible for the trading & negotiation, agree & control price across bookings and client accounts.
• Continue to work with Investment team to fulfil their buying requirements, delivering campaigns of the highest quality while maximising value.
• Comprehensively understand the media owners, their business and be an internal brand ambassador. Conduct quarterly huddle sessions with media owners reporting on trends and forecasts in an aim to increase collaboration and promote smoother working relationships.
• Work with the Planning team and the rest of the Investment Team in negotiation, quality buying and delivery of approved campaigns
• Provide expertise for the business, externally & internally communicating any relevant changes in the marketplace. Present trends and forecasts at internal huddle sessions.
• Contribute to the development of internal documentation to supply Planning Team with pricing and availability in a relevant, consistent, efficient, and accurate manner.
• With the Investment and Planning Team – deliver relevant KPI requirements and guarantees. Build relationships with the auditors. Attend your own key client audits where relevant.
• Work with the Investment team to help meet all relevant commercial targets maximising profitability for group.
• Strive for maximum efficiency in plan creation and workflow process.
• Actively contribute to tools, systems and communication creation to improve the output of the team.
• Support your investment & planning team in key client reports and weekly figure updates if required.
• Feed into Post campaign reporting in terms of achieved value.
• Develop and grow industry knowledge through attendance of internal and external training programmes.
• Endeavour to pro-actively grow and develop key client business alongside the planning teams

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR_

• Previous administrative experience – OOH experience a bonus but not essential.
• Communication and negotiation skills
• Strong attention to detail
• Microsoft office

OUR VALUES AND HOW WE WORK TOGETHER_

WE ARE BOLD_

As industry provocateurs and pioneers, we respectfully challenge the status quo, take pride in our people, big ideas and partnerships.

• We challenge respectfully
• We lead the way

WE ARE HUMAN_

We are a diverse collective of changemakers who value respect, fairness, and integrity and expect the same in return.

• We value collaboration and togetherness
• We are empathetic

WE ARE SMART_

Our trailblazing spirit and learning centric culture ensures our knowledge provides maximum value to each other and our clients.

• We grow and learn
• We are trusted
• We are mission possible

Talon is an equal opportunities employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where all individuals can thrive. We seek to employ and develop a workforce representative of the markets that we serve and brands that we represent. #J-18808-Ljbffr