Senior Investment Executive

Company Description

At Zenith, we are a connected team with purpose. We are driven to create new perspectives through modern media. We believe marketing is a powerful investment that can build and grow brands and increase business profitability. So we unlock opportunities for growth by placing consumer behavior, attitudes, and insights at the heart of everything we do. We pride ourselves on delivering return on investment, imagination, and insight.

Central to this vision is the knowledge that we are only as good as our people. To grow our clients' business, we need to attract, retain, develop, and grow the brightest talent in the industry. We know it is not the sum of one but the sum of all of us that make us great. Our behaviors are: Be Bold, Be Kind, Be Better Together.

We’re determined to eradicate any barriers that prevent our people from achieving their fullest potential.

We offer progressive flexible working options to everyone at all levels — it’s not a policy. It’s behavior-led and reinforced through our values.

Mental health & wellbeing is something we consider a priority — it's championed by our own people internally and is a regular conversation.

We have a lot of fun — we’re constantly looking at reinventing how we’re connecting with each other.

Overview

The Senior Investment Executive role on the Subway team is a hands-on, mid-level position focused on media activation and campaign implementation across digital and out-of-home (OOH) channels, with a strong emphasis on Gen Z targeting.

This person will support the end-to-end media process, from onboarding and briefing to buying, trafficking creative, reconciling spend, and reporting. They’ll play a key role in mentoring and guiding three coordinators, while working closely with an Investment Manager and Director. The role involves regular negotiations with media vendors, managing material delays, tracking added value and bonuses, and contributing insights for planning and activation. While digital experience is preferred, there’s room to upskill, especially in client communications and broader media channels like cinema, audio, and sponsorships (e.g. Love Island).

The team is collaborative, fun, and well-resourced, with creative and media sitting side-by-side, and operates primarily in Australia with some New Zealand involvement. This is a great opportunity for someone looking to branch out from TV and expand their media expertise in a dynamic, integrated environment.

Responsibilities

Product

• Assist the development of Media implementation Plans and Responses
• Execute the activation of campaigns to meet planned objectives - Accurate buying, tracking and campaign management

• Ensure all key campaign reports are accurate and delivered to deadline
• Pre campaign reports collated with key insights into market and factors that could influence final campaign delivery
• Post campaign reports are completed and presented to the team within 4 weeks from end date.
• All campaign reports to focus on the key market trends which have influenced delivery with a core insight on what should be optimised to drive a consistent/stronger result for future campaigns.
• Support the Investment Manager with the creation of market intelligence reports for clients - Market Landscape, SMI Revenue Updates, Quarterly Market Reviews
• Assist Investment Manager with monthly reports including TV strike rates, Digital tracking, CPM/CPT tracking, Added Value, Savings and any other reports requested
• Responsible for negotiating competitive rates (In line with agency benchmarks) across all media outside of master media deals
• Assist IM in negotiation of make goods, compensation and shortfalls across all media channels
  

Commercial

• Manage the implementation of financial process for team. This includes:
• MBA and PO numbers tracking
• Managing the delivery of invoicing to deadline whilst applying Zenith best practice process
• Collation of compliance audit deliverables
• Facilitating the upload of any 3rd party auditing data ensuring it is accurate and to deadline
• Understand and manage the delivery of all client-media contracts
• Accurately update all client contract controls
• Managing Weekly team WIPs with Investment Manager highlighting partners we need to prioritise to hit deal commitments
• Support IM with accurately compiling key client reports - KPI tracking reports, Auditing reports, Global requests etc.
  

Team

• Train all IC and IEs on media industry tools - Roy Morgan, eTam, BCC, eRam, MOVE etc.
• Support IM on development of IC and IE annual KPI and support them in delivering those goals
  
  

External Partners

• Build key relationships with Media - focus on strong connection with AMs and AEs
• Manage all external Media Owner WIPs with IM. Focus on:
• Campaign Management
• Two way feedback - what is working and what we need to improve
• Insight into client challenges
  

Client

• Build client relationships - focusing on strong connection with brand managers
• Confidently present campaign updates to brand teams - Market Updates, Implementation Plans and Responses, Post Campaign Reports
• Manage client WIPs, co-ordinating minutes and following up on deliverables with the client.
• Contribute to achieving client satisfaction score of 8 or above
  
  

Qualifications

• 3-4 years within the media industry
• Competent in all media buying and planning fundamentals
• Strong Financial Acumen
• Client management skills
• Technically strong across all industry tools
  
  

Additional Information

Publicis Groupe benefits: Be a part of the Publicis Groupe family, recent winner of the Employer of Choice Awards and one of the world's most progressive and dynamic modern communications businesses. You can learn more about us at www.publicisgroupeanz.com.

Enjoy all the perks that come with our network offering:

• A comprehensive Wholeself program supporting physical, mindful, and financial wellbeing.
• A creative, lively, and rewarding office environment where people love working with each other, supported by our Publicis Liberté flexibility approach — "working your way with us."
• Access to our Global AI Platform Marcel, connecting Publicis Groupe employees with opportunities for career mobility and collaboration across our global network.
• Extensive Learning & Development opportunities including more than 15,000 learning programs via our online learning platform, Marcel Classes.
• A culture of open feedback and support to reach your goals through our Career Conversations program.
• A committed Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion strategy driven through our Viva Women, Égalité, enABLE, EmbRACE, and Écologique committees.
• Leave benefits including Birthday Leave, Flexible Public Holidays, and an additional 5 days of leave after 2 years of service.
• Work Your World program enabling employees the flexibility to work from anywhere in the world for up to 6 weeks per year.
• Parental leave policy with up to 18 weeks based on tenure, paid primary carer leave, secondary carer swap, and Cub Care leave.
• Access to counsellors, psychologists, and professionals through Sonder, an all-in-one digital wellbeing technology platform designed to support psychological, medical & safety needs.
• A workplace that stands together to provide a more open, supportive, and recovery-forward culture for all employees with life-threatening illnesses. Read more about our Working With Cancer Pledge: https://workingwithcancerpledge.com/
• Proud partners of Diversity Council Australia, Pride in Diversity, Family Friendly Workplaces, Supply Nation, and the Australian Disability Network.
  
  

If you don't tick every box in this ad, please don't rule yourself out. Research suggests that women and other people in underrepresented groups tend to only apply if they meet every requirement. We focus on hiring people who share our values of inclusion, collaboration, adaptability, fearlessness, and integrity rather than ticking boxes — so if this role resonates with you, please apply.

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Uniqueness is powerful; without it, we wouldn't be where we are today. So be you — we like it that way.

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