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The role involves managing budgets, ensuring campaign goals and value are delivered, adhering to best-practice standards and helping define strong implementation processes.\nWe’re looking for someone with 3-5 years of media experience, with a particular focus on offline media buying, who can play a key role in managing campaigns end-to-end. This includes briefing media partners and consolidating responses into recommendation packs.\nExperience using SMD is important, and experience buying TV is preferred.\nCritically, this role will also evolve from managing and developing junior team members to increasingly managing AI agents.\nKey Responsibilities\nExecute and optimise media buying activities across various channels and platforms to achieve campaign goals and deliver value.\nAssist in the management and deployment of AI agents across the implementation process.\nImplement media buys in alignment with best-practice guidelines and established processes.\nPerform in-flight and post-campaign media optimisations to enhance performance and efficiency.\nReconcile media buys as required, ensuring alignment with media finance processes.\nManage media buys, including briefing media partners and consolidating responses into recommendation packs.\nCollaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless execution and delivery of media campaigns.\nMonitor and report on campaign performance, providing actionable insights for continuous improvement.\nHelp manage junior and support members of the team, building their media buying capability and supporting their career development.\nBuild strong relationships across the media partner market to help bring big ideas to life and drive value for clients.\nWhat You’ll Bring\n3+ years of media buying experience, with a strong focus on offline media such as TV, radio and out-of-home advertising.\nProven experience managing media buys and working directly with media partners.\nExperience using SMD.\nStrong analytical skills, with the ability to interpret data and make informed decisions.\nExcellent organisational and time-management skills, with the ability to manage multiple campaigns simultaneously.\nExcellent communication, negotiation and relationship-building skills.\nFamiliarity with media finance processes and reconciliation.\nProficiency with media buying tools and platforms.\nStrong communication and collaboration skills.\nAn ability to work effectively across multidisciplinary teams.\nPreferred Skills\nKnowledge of traditional and digital media buying practices.\nKnowledge of industry best practices and emerging media buying trends.\nExperience buying TV.\nA strong interest in technology and AI, which will be an important part of the Accenture Song Media proposition.\nWhy Accenture Song?\nAt Accenture Song, systems aren’t simply built. They’re reinvented.\nYou’ll be part of a team transforming how data, media and technology come together to drive growth and creativity at scale.\nThis role provides an opportunity to combine established media buying expertise with emerging technology and AI, helping shape a more intelligent and technology-enabled approach to media implementation.\nBecause the future of marketing won’t be powered by platforms alone.\nIt will be architected for reinvention.\nAbout Accenture\nAccenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services-creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.Visit us atwww.accenture.com\nEqual Employment Opportunity Statement for Australia:\nAt Accenture, our intention is to foster a culture and a workplace in which all of our people feel a sense of belonging and are respected and empowered to do their best work. \nAs part of our talent strategy, we hire and develop people who have different backgrounds, different perspectives and different lived experiences. These differences ensure that we have and attract the cognitive diversity to deliver a variety of perspectives, observations and insights which are essential to drive the innovation needed to reinvent, and we hold our leaders accountable for ensuring we have the most innovative and talented people in our industry.\nWe encourage applications from all people, and we are committed to removing barriers to the recruitment process and employee lifecycle. All employment decisions shall be made without regard to age, disability status, ethnicity, gender, gender identity or expression, religion or sexual orientation and we do not tolerate discrimination. If you require adjustments to the recruitment process or have a preferred communication method, please email  and cite the relevant Job Number, or contact us on +61 2 9005 5000.\nLearn how Accenture protects your personal data and know your rights in relation to your personal data. 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