Associate, Partnerships

Position Summary

The Associate in Partnerships is an entry level position within Initiative requiring an eager, proactive and energetic person who is interested in beginning a career in media. The Associate is an important position within the integrated investment process and supports the team as they build a go to market approach across all media disciplines including TV, BVOD, Radio, Print, Digital & Cinema. This person should like working with numbers, have strong communication skills, work well in a team environment and have a level of curiosity that infects the entire team that works with you on campaigns. 

Job Responsibilities

• Maintain client’s schedules in accordance with their goals.
• Respond to client requests proactively.
• Proactively seek out mentorship and learning from other Discipline leaders at Initiative (Strategy, Analytics, Communications Design, Client Advice).
• Attend company events and department wide meetings.
• Learn key programs and tools.
• Distribute, collect and organise client campaign information.
• Assist in reporting and tracking campaign delivery, budgets, savings and value, ensuring accuracy for internal team.
• Assist in evaluating partner proposals.
• Responsible for smooth running of day-to-day activities.
• Maintaining campaign delivery across Print, Digital & Cinema.
• Enter data onto systems and ensure it reflects accurate client budgets.
• Update client teams with delivery summary.
• Assist with traffic issues.
• Integral in campaign set up and execution. 
• Be responsible for billing discrepancies and produce resolutions.
• Participate in analysis and post campaign evaluation.
• Coordination and scheduling of partner and team meetings.
• Participate in departmental projects as requested.

Desired Skills & Experience

• Proficiency with Microsoft programs, especially Excel and PowerPoint.
• Ability to communicate concisely and clearly, both written and oral.
• Strong organisational and analytical skills.
• Proven ability to work independently and as part of an integrated team.
• Detail-oriented, organized, conscientious, with the ability to multi-task and work well under tight deadlines in a fast-paced environment.

Initiative is different to other media agencies.

We are not trapped by a legacy structure primarily centered on paid advertising. Instead, we are liberated by a new world structure designed to deliver highly differentiated and highly effective communications strategies for our clients.

We are the world’s fastest growing media agency built upon the strongest strategic capability of any agency in the market. Core to this strategic proposition is the belief that the faster a brand can move through culture the more relevant it can become.

We call this Cultural Velocity ™.

Our process is designed to create ideas that move through culture through unique insight, market leading analytics and strategic media brilliance.

Our new world model is comprised of “craft centers” – Client Advice and Management, Strategy, Communications Design, Partnership and Culture, Insights & Analytics.