Senior Manager - Account Management
Dentsu · Posted Oct 26
Integrated advertising, marketing, media, and business transformation services
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About the role
The role sits within Carat, a Dentsu media agency, and focuses on integrated media planning across ATL, digital, social, content, influencer, and performance channels for the Tamil-speaking market. The team works with clients, media partners, and regional stakeholders to deliver insight-led media solutions aligned with brand and business objectives. This Senior Manager will develop media strategies, manage client relationships, oversee campaign execution and performance reporting, and ensure culturally and linguistically accurate Tamil-language communication.
What you will do
- Develop integrated media plans across ATL, digital, social media, content, influencer, and performance marketing channels.
- Translate client marketing objectives into effective media strategies and communication plans for relevant target audiences.
- Understand Tamil-speaking consumer behavior, regional media consumption patterns, cultural nuances, and market trends to develop relevant media recommendations.
- Plan channel mix, audience targeting, budget allocation, campaign scheduling, and reach and frequency objectives.
- Identify opportunities to integrate traditional and digital media for stronger campaign effectiveness.
- Conduct competitor analysis, category research, and media landscape assessments to support strategic recommendations.
- Collaborate with media buying teams, publishers, digital platforms, and vendors to ensure effective campaign planning and execution.
- Manage day-to-day client relationships and serve as a key point of contact for media planning and campaign-related requirements.
- Understand client business objectives and recommend integrated media solutions aligned with brand priorities.
- Prepare and present media plans, campaign proposals, performance reviews, and strategic recommendations.
- Coordinate with internal teams to manage campaign timelines, deliverables, approvals, budgets, and status updates.
- Proactively address client requirements, resolve challenges, and ensure timely delivery of campaign commitments.
- Identify opportunities to improve client satisfaction, strengthen account relationships, and expand integrated media services.
- Oversee the execution of integrated media campaigns across relevant traditional and digital channels.
- Track campaign performance against agreed KPIs, including reach, impressions, engagement, CTR, CPC, CPM, CPL, conversions, and ROAS, as applicable.
- Coordinate with analytics and performance teams to evaluate results and identify optimization opportunities.
- Prepare campaign reports, post-campaign analyses, and actionable recommendations for clients.
- Monitor media budgets, campaign spends, schedules, and deliverables to ensure efficient utilization of resources.
- Ensure quality, consistency, and timely execution across all campaign touchpoints.
- Work closely with strategy, creative, content, digital, performance, media buying, analytics, production, and external agency teams.
- Ensure alignment across media recommendations, creative messaging, regional content, and campaign execution.
- Coordinate with regional media partners, publishers, vendors, and platform representatives as required.
- Manage multiple campaigns simultaneously while maintaining planning quality and delivery standards.
- Contribute to process improvements, campaign documentation, and effective reporting practices.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Advertising, Media, Mass Communication, Business, or a related field.
- 7 to 10 years of relevant experience in integrated media planning, media strategy, account management, or client servicing within an advertising or media agency.
- Fluency in reading and writing Tamil is mandatory. Candidates must be able to review Tamil-language campaign communication and assess linguistic and contextual accuracy.
- Strong understanding of ATL, digital media, social media, content, influencer marketing, and performance marketing.
- Experience in integrated media planning, audience targeting, media budget allocation, campaign execution, and performance reporting.
- Understanding of Tamil Nadu's regional media landscape, consumer behavior, and cultural nuances is highly desirable.
- Strong client management, presentation, communication, and stakeholder coordination skills.
- Ability to analyze campaign data and translate insights into actionable recommendations.
- Proficiency in MS Excel, PowerPoint, Google Workspace, and relevant media planning and reporting tools.
- Strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced agency environment.
- Effective delivery of integrated media plans aligned with client objectives.
- Accurate and culturally relevant Tamil-language campaign communication.
- Strong client relationships and timely campaign delivery.
- Efficient media budget management and performance optimization.
- Seamless coordination across internal teams and regional media partners.
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Dentsu
Dentsu Group Inc. is an integrated growth and transformation partner to the world's leading organizations, delivering comprehensive media, customer experience management (CXM), and creative services. Operating globally across approximately 120 countries, the agency combines deep human insights, creative innovation, and advanced data technologies to accelerate business growth. Headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, Dentsu has a rich heritage of shaping the advertising and marketing industry since 1901.
- Industry
- Advertising
- Company size
- 67000+ employees
- Founded
- 1901-07-01
- Location
- Tokyo, Japan
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Funding
Public Company
- 2022-03-29Post Ipo
Leadership
Takeshi Sano
Representative Executive Officer, President & Global CEO
Yoshimasa Watahiki
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Executive Officer & Global CFO
Beth Ann Kaminkow
CEO, Dentsu Americas & Chief Global Client Officer
Yuichi Toyoda
CEO, Dentsu APAC
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