Supervisor, Platform Utility - GroupM - Portland, OR

It’s a once in a lifetime opportunity. Be the person responsible for the growth of our client’s Platform Utility Team.

You will lead strategy, planning, operations, reporting and day to day management of all Utility campaigns

The Platform Utility team is one of the fastest growing global initiatives, responsible for developer relations, product launches, new analytic offerings, etc.

Mindshare Portland

Of our 116 offices across 88 different countries, Mindshare Portland is one of the smaller offices in our network.

We’re all bound by a few things that remain important: strategic vision, an understanding of the fundamentals, an eye for innovation, curiosity and passion.

We collaborate extremely closely with our agency partners, media or creative – in fact a vast majority of all our successes have come about as a result of our strong partnerships.

On top of that, to drive the conversation of what media can do with our clients, and as the source of inspiration for the Mindshare agency as a whole, it’s vital that we’re both interesting and have a point of view.

Reporting structure:
You will work directly with & report to the Global Comms Director– Alan Trinkle. Team members will be available to assist but this position is primarily set up to be autonomous (one person running the show, activation, trafficking, reporting, etc.)

The Role:
As a supervisor working on Platform Utility support, you’ll get a chance to join the most exciting Mindshare office in the world and work on one of the biggest names in the advertising industry.

Your role will be to lead the immediate campaigns for Facebook’s developer outreach and long term vision of how we interact within the media landscape.

You’ll have to manage the day to day relationship with our clients, the creative teams (internal at Facebook, external, etc.), collaborate closely with our local teams around the world when needed, drive innovation, new thinking, setup new process, tools, reporting and to lead the MS Portland Platform Utility initiative.

You will be dealing directly with vendors, negotiations, etc. on a global scale. This will primarily be a digitally focused initiative covering any/all of the following markets: NA, Canada, UK, France, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, Russia, Israel, Nordics, CEE, Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, China, Taiwan, Indonesia, India, Thailand, Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Columbia.

There will potentially be event sponsorship/activations with traditional media attached but a strong digital background is top priority. Programmatic buys, search, email, social, etc. are of extreme interest. Atlas ad serving and capabilities will be part of day-to-day work so any history there is a bonus.

Your focus will be on delivering the best every day, on ensuring 100% client satisfaction and best in class media thinking.

The Person

Ultimately, we need someone who has robust, digital media experience, intermingled with account management experience. One who gets how communications planning and media work together and wants to revolutionize the way we operate as a team.

The person we hire will have to be a ‘self starter’. This team structure is brand new, so you’ll have to be someone who can drive a vision and be independent. Innovation, efficiency, & problem solving is something which needs to be front and center of your day to day. We work on a quick-moving client activating media in some of the most difficult places around the world so that needs to be something you’re OK with.

Manage the account like clockwork, know the detail and be able to dream big.

Principal accountabilities:
1. Account management

• Run the day to day client relationships

2. Planning

• Influence the briefing approach by providing innovative media thinking/insights in the campaign development process.


• Build out the consumer landscape


• Lead development of global media playbooks, assisting in the conversion of idea to execution from global campaign creation to new territory planning.


• Develop and present plans to global clients.


• Prepare ongoing campaign report document identifying key actionable learning.

3. Media Innovation

• Lead the identification of innovative targeting capabilities against the unconnected.


• Attend, Participate and lead briefing, brainstorms, ideation sessions.


• Work closely with agency partners (creative or media, global or local) to bring innovation to life.

4. Territory management

• Not immediate but potential to work with local Mindshare offices globally (London, Singapore, etc.)

5. Relationships

• Continuing to develop close relationships with senior clients, our colleagues at other agencies and potential media partners.


• Potential travel to SFO on a weekly basis

Key competencies:

• Curious and connected: Expose the broader team to new thinking on an ongoing basis


• Inventive: Foster a creative environment. Create stimulus for people to think differently and challenge others to look at opportunities in fresh ways.


• Build Relationships: Maintains a regular contact base with the markets, clients, media and relevant partners. Actively seeks opportunities to mobilise our network.


• Open and collaborative: Develops monthly/periodic forums for sharing with other teams/markets. Lobbies internally to ensure appropriate action.


• Initiative and Drive: Acts as a role model for proactivity, tenacity and decisive action by consistently driving improvements in performance and organisational effectiveness.


• Challenge: Takes entrepreneurial calculated risks, isolates opportunities on a monthly/periodic basis, acts on these opportunities by mobilising the team.

Key skills & knowledge:

• Media knowledge: The role requires depth and breadth in understanding the Global media industry.


• General Skills: Excellence in communication, presentation and lateral thinking. Advanced use of IT software (MS Office & Apple keynote)


• Detailed skills: Excellent analytical, written and numerical skills.


• Creativity and innovation: Develops innovative solutions to marketing challenges


• International: Top technologically advanced global markets

If you value speed, provocation, and teamwork, then you belong at Mindshare.

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