Jonathan Kerr Email & Phone Number

Barcelona, Ct, Es

Amsterdam Area

Key Responsibilities: - Employ strong communication skills to establish relationships with the agency global trading team and account team to agree and deliver media value targets - lead on the development and implementation of the long term strategic plan and priorities, ensure plans meet agreed delivery targets and translated into committed value - Promote compliance by leading on the evaluation and auditing process in close collaboration with the agency accountability team - Extract and analyse audit findings, manage and co-ordinate the change roadmap, handling changes as they arise and keeping stakeholders focused on the agreed change outcomes and benefits - Support with high level decision making by providing regular internal updates of media value improvement to global media and digital leads - End to end management of the media inflation alignment process on a market and channel level - Design and implement processes to prepare media AOP by establishing standards and procedures, measure results against standards, and make necessary adjustments - Ensure company objectives are met by playing a key role in setting year value targets - End to end management of all financial audit programs in collaboration with local markets and auditors

Barcelona, Spain

Key Responsibilities:- Responsible for setting up a brand-new Global Accountability department from scratch, built the internals from the ground up, including the entire staff recruitment cycle, creating job descriptions, and onboarding of staff- Led the recruitment of the department, sourced candidates from external applicants, managed budgets.- Accountable for the training and direct management of personnel, maximised productivity through ongoing performance monitoring and review- Demonstrated strong company insights by creating accountability elements of PRIP across a range of global clients- Served as trusted advisor by providing innovative recommendations for annual value targets across global client portfolio- Constant contact with local trading and accountability teams to explain commitment structures, provide support and cascade knowledge- Applied commercial thinking to assist both global pitch team with audit and trading intelligence, as well as global IT development team with technical audit expertise- Created agency global auditing methodologies for both cost and KPI measurement across all media channels including Digital, agreed with the auditors and clients- Worked closely with clients, media auditors and lawyers to produce and agree auditing and trading related global MSA schedules - Managed agency relationship with global media auditors agreeing best practice - Served as first point of contact and client advisor on all accountability issues, as well as audit results, translated findings to deliver improvement plans for individual markets- Achieved department financial and PRIP objectives by managing client value delivery, analysing variances, and initiating corrective actions.- Acted as company representative across all industry initiatives, such as EACA Media Auditing guidelines and WFA Inflation methodology

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