Media Buyer on Brandhouse, across all media.1. Account Management• Hold responsibility for delivery of service• Attend client / team meetings• Maintain key stakeholder relationships (agencies, brands, portfolios)• Develop negotiation strategy in conjunction with Business Unit Head2. Media Buying, Administration & Budget Management • Implement the approved media plan• Provide clear briefing to media owner sales representatives, to solicit offers• Negotiate the best deals in terms of efficiency, effectiveness, price, quality and value added opportunities of the agreed media plan• Strive for optimal savings on all media buying• Evaluate any special offers or opportunities and inform the advertiser of such offers and opportunities as soon as such occur• Follow up performance of plan against the brief and given budget, and final media insertion schedule, in buying reviews• Reconcile monthly billings against PO’s• Recommend alternatives where applicable• Amend or cancel bookings as and when required by Client, re-negotiating deals in order to avoid penalties wherever possible• Negotiate maximum compensation for non-adherence to booking parameters or poor quality repro• Respond to ad hoc requests from Client and PlannersKPA’s;• Buying Media• Negotiating• Ensuring client is billed correctly• Admin/Filing Management

Senior Media Buyer for Brandhouse

At Media Shop I was doing all the electronic media buying for the Shoprite Brand. Including, Computicket, Liquor Shop and Medirite, Cross Boarder Africa Divisions. This included all radio and TV, outdoor and digital media elements.

I was responsible for all media bookings for these clients and to ensure that all relevant media is billed accordingly. I also did small amount of implementation planning on some of these clients.With my various clients, I booked and covered all media types, from print through to outdoor. I was also responsible for doing various flow plans and cost estimates for my portfolio of clients.

• I was responsible for all the online media buying for a number of our clients and their brands.• All of our clients were USA based and media was therefore targeted at the USA, UK, and the Canadian (English markets).• Job spec included sourcing, researching and the costing all new media opportunities, proposals and media ventures.• This included all the media cost negotiations, media placements and terms and conditions of the media contracts.• Function of the online media buying was to build brand awareness and grown market share within the relevant industry and target audiences.• I was also responsible of briefing new creative to design for the various online assets and email campaigns that were approved. This was done irrespective on new or repeat campaigns.• Once new creative was ready, I tagged all assets and mailers with tracking tags and then sent these out to the relevant media owner.• I was also responsible for all the PPC bidding and monitoring across the search engines used (Yahoo; Google). The function of this was to ensure that the client has the best possible search term rankings with in the search engine at the lowest possible cost.• Daily reports were monitored for new acquisitions and the cost of these acquisitions against the relevant campaigns, to see if we were reaching the ROI targets.• I was responsible for the monthly budgets and marketing spends. Comparing our planned budgets against that of actuals and keeping track of these targets.• I liaised with the foreign market heads (French, Japan, Spain and German), to include their activity on the market reports and spend reports.• I liaised with Retention and VIP to ensure that new purchasers were happy. I also liaised with the 24hour call centre to resolve any complaints or issues that new customers may have.• I monitored various forums and news rooms for any market related changes, online regulations and gaming legislations and industry news.

Job functions included the booking of media space, material deadlines, and commitment discount negotiations.Over and above the media buying function I was responsible for the loading and maintaining the commitment discount database for all three of the OMD branches, JHB, CPT and DBN.IT Support and Finance