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# Manager Search at WPP Media

- **Company:** WPP Media
- **Location:** Jakarta, Indonesia
- **Posted:** 2026-09-11
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-29
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/wppmedia/jobs/5378887008

## Job description

## 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 personalisation at scale. Connected through WPP Open and powered by Open Intelligence, clients see exactly where, how, and why their media investment is working.

For more information, visit wppmedia.com.

3 best things about the job:

- Working in one of the most digitally advanced and forward-thinking media agencies that is globally connected
- Develop your search skill set with exposure to planning, execution, and optimisation process within the search environment
- You will deliver strategy and development for the client in a hyper-competitive, fast-paced environment

In three months:

- Adopted best practices around campaign structure, ad copy guidelines, and campaign optimization techniques
- Take responsibility of looking after client’s search engine marketing business, including accounts management and optimization
- Become familiar with GroupM’s performance proposition and processes (optimization, reporting and billing)
- Demonstrate mastery of all platforms and systems which power search
- Receive great feedback from co-workers and key client contacts as a result of strong communication both internally and externally

In six months:

- Sustainable optimization to elevate client’s search business level and quality
- Learnt how to build a paid search campaign from scratch with minimal supervision
- Been confidently running client accounts independently, meeting all KPIs, etc.
- Regularly contributed to the monthly performance newsletter cover industry updates and trends and in particular how these impact clients and approach to planning.
- Become a trusted advisor through strong justification of recommendations, strong timeline management and delivering outcomes
- Drive the testing of new betas, platforms, and other innovations for our clients

In 12 months:

- Taken on more responsibility and started to get involved in meetings, attempting to upsell new features and services
- Developed relationships with other teams in the agency and started contributing to responses to client briefs
- Assisted the Manager in new business pitches, including background research, defining strategy to preparing presentation material
- Establish yourself with a more strategic thinking senior executive and keep growth an integrated view on whole performance business
- Be able to analyze and provide insights on all the featured covered by the buying platforms

Responsibilities of the role:

- Day to day optimization and management of search campaigns working towards defined KPIs set by clients
- Develop SEM strategy and tactics for campaign and deliver the campaign management
- Generating reports and insights from campaigns and communicating these to the team and smaller clients directly
- Building strong relations with team members with clear and effective communications (spoken, written, and presenting) with ability to influence and gain trust
- Coordinate with other team for integrated insights and client business proposals
- Implementation of single and multi-variant tests to increase campaign efficiency
- Build account structure, optimizations, testing, tracking and overall management
- Contribute to an environment where ‘Innovation as usual’ thrives in everyday work

What you will need:

- Minimum 4 - 6 years’ hands-on experience managing paid search campaigns with a keen interest in all digital marketing disciplines
- Good understanding of Google, Bing, SA360 & Google Analytics
- Must be fluent in written and spoken English, Traditional Chinese & Simplified Chinese
- Keeps up to date with SEM industry changes and the latest practices and procedures
- Build meaningful relationships with team members and suppliers
- Excellent administrative and organizational skills
- Strong attention to detail with high levels of accuracy
- A good work ethic, problem solving and proficient time management skills
- Working knowledge of all Microsoft office software
- Comfortable using Microsoft Excel and manipulating dashboards — an analytical mind that is creative as well as data-driven to identify trends/patterns and insights
- Demonstrate genuine curiosity and interest in our clients & their business
- Bachelor’s degree required; concentration in advertising, marketing, business administration, and/or communications preferred.

## About WPP Media

WPP Media is WPP’s global media collective, bringing together world-class media agencies, talent, and capabilities. We partner with clients to unlock growth by combining strategic thinking, creativity, and performance-driven media solutions.

At WPP Media, our people and culture are at the heart of everything we do. We believe in strong collaboration, trust, and continuous growth to deliver exceptional results for our clients and meaningful experiences for our teams.

Our Core Values

- We're Open: we build trust and enhance understanding by working collaboratively - across our teams, clients, and partners.
- We're Optimistic: we adopt a growth mindset throughout our business, embracing change to unlock our collective potential.
- We're Extraordinary: in pursuit of innovation and growth, we push boundaries and challenge ordinary thinking and the status quo.

Please read our [Privacy Notice](https://www.wppmedia.com/pages/privacy-policy#:~:text=WPP%20Media%20Privacy%20Notice%20for%20Recruitment) for more information on how we process the information you provide.

## About WPP Media

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: WPP Media is WPP's global media collective that combines AI, data, and creative to deliver intelligent growth for the world's leading brands.
- **Entity Type**: Division of Public Company (WPP plc – LSE: WPP, NYSE: WPP)
- **Headquarters**: New York, United States
- **Founded**: Not publicly available (parent WPP plc founded 1971; WPP Media formed as a unified media collective in recent years)
- **CEO**: Brian Lesser (CEO, WPP Media)

## Core Business
- **Industry**: Advertising Services, Media Planning & Buying, Marketing Technology
- **Target Customers**: B2B and B2C enterprise brands across all sectors; global clients include major Fortune 500 companies
- **Mission or Purpose Statement**: "Intelligent growth for the AI era" – helping brands harness data, AI, and media to drive measurable outcomes.

## Products & Services
- **Open Media Studio (OMS)**: An end-to-end media delivery platform integrated with WPP Open, enabling scaled creative, production, data, commerce, and personalized media execution. (SaaS/Platform)
- **Open Intelligence**: An AI-enabled data solution that unifies fragmented data across ecosystems into predictive marketing intelligence, supporting privacy-first activation. (Data & Analytics Platform)
- **Data and Technology Consulting**: Consulting services for data strategy, technology architecture, advanced analytics, audience insight, cloud integration, and platform adoption. (Service)
- **Media Management & Delivery**: Expert activation, smart investment, strategic partnerships, and proprietary media solutions powered by AI and advanced analytics for personalized advertising at global scale. (Service)
- **Service and Strategy**: Dedicated teams offering deep sector expertise, creative strategy, and business outcomes aligned with client goals. (Service)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed separately (parent WPP plc market cap approx. £8 billion as of July 2025)
- **Key Metric**: $65 billion in managed media annually (from wppmedia.com)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: WPP is publicly traded; works with hundreds of global brands including many Fortune 500 companies. Key technology partners include major cloud and AI providers.
- **Growth Signals**:
  - 40,000+ media experts worldwide
  - 160 offices across 80+ markets
  - 1,600+ active job postings (LinkedIn, July 2025) with +8.7% monthly job growth
  - Strong investment in AI-first capabilities and privacy-forward data unification

## Competitive Advantages
- **Scale**: One of the largest media buying organizations globally, managing $65B in media.
- **AI Integration**: End-to-end platform (OMS + Open Intelligence) deeply embedded with AI for predictive analytics, automation, and personalization.
- **Integrated Ecosystem**: Unique ability to unify media, data, creative, production, and commerce under one roof.
- **Global Reach**: 40k+ experts in 80+ markets providing local insights with global execution.
- **WPP Network**: Access to 100,000+ experts across WPP's integrated agency network.

## Strategic Focus
- **AI-Driven Growth**: Embedding AI across all capabilities to deliver smarter, faster, more measurable outcomes.
- **Privacy-First Data Unification**: Building Open Intelligence as a secure, cross-ecosystem data platform that respects consumer privacy.
- **Talent Development**: Investing in AI-enabled learning frameworks and internal mobility to future-proof skills.
- **Sustainability & Inclusion**: Part of WPP's broader commitment to building better futures for people, planet, clients, and communities.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Described as open, optimistic, and extraordinary – with emphasis on collaboration, innovation, and challenging the status quo.
- **Growth**: AI-enabled learning framework, cross-team mobility across WPP’s global network of 100k+ experts.
- **Work Environment**: Hybrid/office-based roles across 160 offices; global opportunities in 80+ markets.
- **Perks**: Competitive compensation, performance-based rewards, access to cutting-edge AI tools, and work with leading global brands.
- **Team**: Join a collective of 40k+ media experts, data scientists, technologists, and creatives.

## Sources
1. [wppmedia.com](https://www.wppmedia.com/)
2. [WPP Media Company Info](https://www.wppmedia.com/company-info)
3. [WPP Media Careers](https://www.wppmedia.com/careers)
4. [WPP Media – What We Do](https://www.wppmedia.com/what-we-do)
5. [WPP Media LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/wpp-media)
6. [WPP Media Greenhouse Careers](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/wppmedia)

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