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Senior Media Consultant
| Job title | Senior Media Consultant |
| Department | Xelsion Media |
| Reports to | Head of Media |
| Hours of work | Full time – 5 days a week flexible hours |
| Salary | Basic salary commensurate with experience + performance-related pay + profit share. |
Staff responsibilities
The Senior Media Consultant is responsible for developing detailed plans for prospective and existing clients, ensuring a strong focus on client requirements. They have primary account management responsibilities, prioritising clear & accurate communication, while taking on campaign management and media trading duties across platforms. The post holder is also required to deliver some technical elements including dynamic creative production.
Summary of position
Xelsion works with advertisers and publishers directly, offering 4 core areas of digital media services:
We are looking for an exceptional candidate to join our small team who will play an active role in the sales process, by working to understand client requirements, in order to create detailed, bespoke plans covering all areas of our service provision. The Senior Media Consultant must keep abreast with the latest industry developments in order to provide informed consultancy to prospective and current clients and speak with confidence in sales pitches and client meetings.
A key focus of the role will be on account management, which involves plan implementation and campaign management & optimisation to help provide a cross-platform, unified customer view for our clients and ensure all objectives are met. We place a strong emphasis on great communication and so the ability to present data in a clear and meaningful way for the client is essential. Advanced knowledge of Excel and data visualization tools such as Power BI would therefore be an advantage. The post holder will also be required to undertake creative production tasks from time to time and so an understanding of HTML5 and Doubleclick Studio is desirable.
Xelsion has traditionally been a buy-side specialist but has a growing revenue stream working with publishers on the sell-side to help them sell inventory programmatically. Familiarity with the sell-side, including publisher adservers, Google Adx, header-bidding and yield optimization are a plus.
The Senior Media Consultant will contribute to the development and maintenance of marketing and promotional material, including Xelsion website content and as a young digital business with innovation at its core, entrepreneurial input is welcome along with ideas for growing the business and implementing new processes.
The company has a digitally connected, geographically distributed team, which collaborates with the help of technology. Permanent desk space and the hub of operations is in a dynamic start up co-working environment in Farringdon, London.
Primary responsibilities
Personal specification
| Essential | Desirable | |
|---|---|---|
| Qualifications & training | 2.1 from reputable university | Qualifications in Google Adwords and Google Doubleclick suite of products |
| Experience | 3 years digital media experience, relationship management, media planning, basic finance, working and communicating as part of a team | Familiarity with sell-side including publisher adservers, header-bidding and yield optimization. |
| Qualities and attitude | Passion for digital, numerate, logical, rigorous, professional, open, flexible, patient | Entrepreneurial, innovative, creative |
| Product knowledge | MS Office suite including advanced knowledge of Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Power BI, Google DoubleClick products, AppNexus, Facebook interface & trading tools, Google Adwords, LinkedIn Advertising, HTML | Bing, WordPress, CSS, Javascript, design products e.g. photoshop, statistics packages, Google Adx |
Competencies
Note: This job description is not exhaustive and will be subject to periodic review. It may be amended to meet the changing needs of the business. The post-holder will be expected to participate in this process and we would aim to reach agreement on any changes.
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Media Analyst
| Job title | Media Analyst |
| Department | Xelsion Media |
| Reports to | Head of Media |
| Hours of work | Full time – 5 days a week flexible hours |
| Salary | Basic salary commensurate with experience, performance-related pay, plus profit share. |
Staff responsibilities
The Media Analyst will take responsibility for the detailed analysis and reporting of client advertising campaigns and Xelsion performance, with the key objective of spotting trends and patterns in the data and acting on these to improve key metrics.
Summary of position
Xelsion works with advertisers and publishers directly, offering 4 core areas of digital media services:
The Media Analyst will collate data from a variety of systems and perform detailed analysis on the data before preparing reports to communicate the findings to colleagues and clients.
Current data analysis is done using excel workbooks and R, which is suitable in the short term, but given the quantity of data that is available for analysis, Xelsion is constantly evaluating 3rd party statistical analysis software, and will be looking for the Media Analyst to lead the tender process and selection of these software packages.
The role reports directly to the Head of Media who will rely on data analysis and recommendations from the Media Analyst to negotiate deals and oversee all partnerships with media suppliers and advertisers.
As a young digital business with innovation at its core, entrepreneurial input is welcome along with ideas for growing the business and implementing new processes.
The company has a digitally connected, geographically distributed team, which collaborates with the help of technology. Permanent desk space and the hub of operations is in a dynamic start up co-working environment in Farringdon, London but candidates should also be comfortable, motivated and happy working from home – or wherever they happen to be.
Primary responsibilities
Personal specification
| Essential | Desirable | |
|---|---|---|
| Qualifications & training | 2.1 from reputable university in numerate discipline | Google Adwords qualified |
| Experience | Statistical analysis | Relationship management, media planning, basic finance |
| Qualities and attitude | Passion for digital, numerate, logical, rigorous, professional, open, flexible, patient | Entrepreneurial, innovative, creative |
| Product knowledge | Advanced Excel | Databases, stats package, reporting tools, data visualization, R, AppNexus, Facebook, Google Adwords, LinkedIn, Twitter |
Competencies
Note: This job description is not exhaustive and will be subject to periodic review. It may be amended to meet the changing needs of the business. The post-holder will be expected to participate in this process and we would aim to reach agreement on any changes.
New Business Consultant
| Job title | New Business Consultant |
| Department | Xelsion Media, London |
| Reports to | Head of Media |
| Hours of work | Full time – 5 days a week flexible hours |
| Salary | Basic salary commensurate with experience, performance-related pay, plus share options. |
Staff responsibilities
The New Business Consultant role requires a motivated, creative, results-oriented individual with a drive to further their career in the digital media industry and grow the Xelsion business. The role will be responsible for identifying new business opportunities, in the UK and globally, and securing the business with the support of the Media Consultant.
Summary of position
Xelsion works with advertisers and publishers directly, offering 4 core areas of digital media services:
The New Business Consultant will spearhead Xelsion’s frontline sales. The post holder is responsible for building and managing the sales pipeline by identifying new business opportunities and promoting our key products and services to potential clients. To this end the New Business Consultant will contribute to the development and maintenance of marketing and promotional material, including Xelsion website content. The post holder must place a high priority on understanding client requirements in order to brief the Media Consultant to develop bespoke media plans and secure long-term, productive commercial relationships.
As a young, digital business with innovation at its core entrepreneurial candidates with ideas for growing the business and implementing new processes are welcome.
The company has a digitally connected, geographically distributed team, which collaborates with the help of technology. Permanent desk space and the hub of operations is in a dynamic start up co-working environment in Farringdon, London but candidates should also be comfortable, motivated and happy working from home – or wherever they happen to be.
Primary responsibilities
Personal specification
| Essential | Desirable | |
|---|---|---|
| Qualifications & training | 2.1 from reputable university | Sales training |
| Experience | B2B sales experience | Proven track record in digital media sales |
| Qualities and attitude | Passion for digital, numerate, logical, rigorous, professional, open, flexible, patient | Entrepreneurial, innovative, creative |
| Product knowledge | MS Office suite | LinkedIn, WordPress, CRM, Facebook |
Competencies
Note: This job description is not exhaustive and will be subject to periodic review. It may be amended to meet the changing needs of the business. The post-holder will be expected to participate in this process and we would aim to reach agreement on any changes.