Director

Director Roundel Media

PRIMARY FUNCTION

This role leads the Roundel Media capabilities in Bangalore. The person is expected to be a key player in setting media strategies for Roundel managed service campaigns in partnership with the Partner Solutions Group, Program Management, Performance & Insights and Go-To-Market teams in Minneapolis and Bangalore. The incumbent sets the strategy and annual goals across the global capabilities of media planning, trading & optimization and ad operations for the full funnel investments in managed services. The role acts as a catalyst and stakeholder for the Roundel product capabilities supporting operations, campaign performance and automation from Bangalore.

The person is expected to unlock value of a set of connected capabilities from Bangalore and plays an active role in delivering compelling advertising and media solutions to brands/companies while ensuring joyful guest experiences.

This role requires a strong ability to demonstrate strategic planning, business acumen with a keen eye on whats happening on the broader media landscape, proactive decision making and strong execution rigor. Must be able to work in a fast-paced, highly interactive environment interfacing between senior leadership and middle management and the team at large.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities

Demonstrate strong expertise in retail / ecommerce media and applicability within the evolving retail media eco-system to provide thought leadership and best practices to the organization.

Partner with cross-functional teams across Roundel (sales, account management, creative, performance & insights) teams to understand brand and retailer growth objectives and translate these priorities into actionable retail media playbooks/ strategies that drive omni-channel demand and conversion

Influence product management leadership on key priorities for operational excellence and media performance.

Build talent strategies to attract, engage, retain and develop talent across the Roundel Media teams.

Establish and maintain clear communication between US and India teams, business partners.

Identify and lead projects individually and through leaders: defining operational & project scope, collecting requirements, providing analysis/development plans, and ensuring that leaders are working closely with Minneapolis teams during execution of operations and projects.

Establish and grow relationships with key decision-makers such as Vice Presidents, Sr. Directors, Directors and key leaders from India and Minneapolis to drive strategic business initiatives.

Ensure that team members are highly motivated and performing to their full potential by:

Providing insightful, motivating and constructive feedback to the team, helping them gain insights about themselves, their effectiveness and the organization.

Help the team integrate their goals and capabilities with the organizations emerging needs.

Identify and attract key individuals with the critical capabilities needed by the organization.

Sets clear goals and objectives with ongoing coaching, performance evaluation and feedback to build the best team and do the best work

Engages and inspires team to achieve challenging goals and high standards of performance.

Ensure self-development by being proactive in identifying and participating in training and development programs, classes, seminars or work experience to strengthen capabilities for future performance.

Drive cross pyramid collaboration to grow contextual knowledge

Support the Roundel strategic priorities, including Merch, Marketing and Digital focus areas

Focus on financials. Improve effectiveness of the team by introducing new systems and procedures and or improving existing processes.

Ability to bring external points of view (e.g. industry best practices) to fuel the innovation roadmap for media strategy

Key Competencies:

Ability to work horizontally across Marketing & Digital and enterprise to ensure clear understanding of Targets strategic roadmap, M&D priorities and Roundel business goals

Deep understanding of business strategy, implementation/operational best practices and resource planning

Strategic thinker with effective, diplomatic and proactive leadership skills.

Critical thinking-ability to brainstorm on complex problems and leverage thought leadership to provide solutions

Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to read people and connect with various audiences

Highly credible, collaborative, and resourceful style with the ability to work independently and as a team player.

Demonstrated ability to operationalize strategies across key stakeholder groups

Strong executive presence and communication skills with ability to present in a variety of settings to teams and senior leadership

Analytical acumen, demonstrated ability to deep dive into data, extract insights and provide guidance on actions

Root cause analysis and problem solving.

MINIMUM JOB REQUIREMENTS:

Bachelors degree or higher in Business, Management, Strategy and Operations or other related field

10-15 years experience in advertising/ digital media; desired is 8-12 years of experience in leading large teams

Influential - able to engage and negotiate with business leaders and teams

Continuous improvement mindset with structured problem solving skills

Excellent verbal and written communication skills; ability to influence senior leadership

Strong collaborator with highly effective relationship and partnership skills

Demonstrated ability to be strategic and proactive, taking an integrated and data-driven approach

Understanding of digital creative production & ad serving technology

Self-starter, capable of setting goals and reporting progress against them.