Vice President, Client Services, India

About WPP Media

WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands. With exceptional talent, trusted data and intelligence, and world-class partnerships – all united by our pioneering agentic marketing platform, WPP Open – we help clients navigate change, capture opportunity, and deliver transformational growth.

WPP Media is WPP's AI-driven media operating unit, bringing together media, data, and partnerships to deliver creative personalization at scale. Connected through WPP Open and powered by Open Intelligence, clients see exactly where, how, and why their media investment is working.

3 best things about the job:

• You get to work on the biggest advertiser of the country
• Lead strategic thinking & integrated solutions across the Personal Care category
• Ability to work under pressure and short turnaround time keeping you nimble and agile in this challenging work environment. (we see this as a positive learning experience)

What your day job looks like at Mindshare:

• Provide strategic thinking, innovative communication planning and hard-core media fundamental knowledge to craft out innovative integrated brand strategies
• Acts as a client visionary by bringing a highly valued perspective to the client based on a deep understanding of their business, issues and opportunities. Should be able to lead strategic conversations on Media, communication planning that drives business outcomes
• Manage and motivate team to effectively deliver to client needs and goals
• Ensure timely team appraisals and clear development goals for team members; identify and follow through on appropriate training and career development for the team

What you’ll bring:

• High integrity while maintaining positive, open relationships
• Show a depth of understanding of the industry, business, brands and consumers and can dial up his servicing skills with senior management stakeholders at client beyond the media team, including business and marketing as well.
• Understanding business principles and good practice and perceives issues in both financial and commercial terms.
• Highly passionate, collaborative, outgoing, creative media leader and thinker
• Strong presentation skills.
• Articulation of thoughts/ideas/media solutions is a critical ask for this role
• Stakeholder management
• Business acumen
• Acute inquisitiveness and understanding of an entrepreneur’s mindset
• Ability to understand mediums beyond ATL

Minimum qualifications:

• Minimum 10 years+ total work experience in media business consultancy, market research/analytics or a strategic planning role, of which at least 4-5 years have been spent working on media/communications planning related business. AUTO experience (client / agency) will be a definitive added advantage
• Excellent communication/presentation/client management skills