We are the human experience company

We create experiences people love and actions brands need.

When we combine our deep understanding of people with our unmatched expertise in media - magic happens: experiences get invited in, not filtered out.

Data guides us to opportunity, uncovering what people want and how to reach them. Technology makes personalisation and relevance possible. Creativity makes it magic.

Our Philosophy on Strategy & Account Leadership

Strategy & Account Leadership sits at the center of what we do – without it, we can’t bring insight to data or direction that delivers business outcomes.

The Business Unit Director on Absa is expected to be data driven, insights lead and a creative thinker, who strives to make meaningful impact on the business.

You will be required to collaborate with Absa’s creative agency partners to ensure the smooth running of the media requirements on the account. As a BUD in charge of a portfolio on Absa, you will be responsible for ensuring that that the media team meet their deliverables, deadlines and KPI’s collaboratively.

You will need to work seamlessly with the Publicis Media Ad Operations, Data Science, and Buying teams to ensure:

This role demands confidence, presence and the skills to make a meaningful impact. Never just taking and executing orders, Starcom BUDs are expected to direct, inspire and add value at every turn. As a BUD, you will need to be proactive, steer and direct the team, and together with the direct team and in-direct partner teams, solve client, operations and strategic briefs and challenges.

A high level of collaboration, a willingness to teach others and a real desire to push the boundaries is what will be expected. As the portfolio lead you will need to be an example of how to best collaborate with internal and external creative and PR agency partners. As you will be working in an integrated fashion, you will need to constructively highlight possible creative gaps on creative delivery for media execution.

In addition, this role requires a high level of accountability and responsibility over the digital media investments we are entrusted to manage. As a portfolio BUD you need to ensure the team is correctly pacing, tracking and delivering against targets and KPI’s.  

Some working outside the standard working hours may be necessary.

What you can expect in an average week:

You will be involved with numerous brand managers, so it’s important to develop a good understanding and identify specific business needs for each one.

Your average week may include:

Qualifications:

Experience:

Hard Skills:

Soft Skills

Together with the teams on the account (Insights, Planning, Buying & AdOps), you will be required to build, monitor and maintain the following across your portfolio of accounts:

Finance and other Reports

Reports to shared and socialized with the marketing managers, media managers and senior marketing executives, as required.

 Acurately and timeously deliver the following internal reports required internally

Operations

Financial Management

Service

Team 

Meet client KPIs

Optimisation

Data-Lead

Awards & Case Studies

Digital Reporting & Data Science  

You will have the following people report to you: