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IMW mobile media is hiring

Friday, March 13th, 2009

Here’s a quick note from Carl who’s new company, IMW Mobile Media, is hiring. Given the climate, this might be rather useful for some readers!

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Thanks for checking out the roles available for a this new start-up. We will discuss more with you if we get to meet up. There are three roles below, do you fit into one of them? If you think so, please send your CV and a cover note to workwithus [AT] imwteam [DOT] com!

1. Head of Sales

IMW is a new independent MOBILE media agency, created by a team of experienced mobile and advertising experts. We are offering an experienced MOBILE sales person the unique opportunity to join right at the beginning and to enjoy all the benefits of growing a new business and a new team. We are fully funded and have a new funky office in London’s Soho. We are looking for an individual who is able to work and play hard, who will lead from the front with a ‘will do attitude’ and who will build a professional and respected reputation for IMW within the mobile, agency and brand worlds. You need to be customer focused with a commercially mature perspective.

Key Responsibilities:

* Create, execute and manage the sales plan.
* Manage, report and forecast gross profit of the sales pipeline,
* Develop best practises, policies and processes, willing to mentor.
* Evangelize mobile advertising to CXO and operational management to both agencies and advertisers.
* Negotiate and close profitable business.
* Ensure the successful delivery of mobile campaigns and secure repeat business.
* Represent IMW at local industry events.

Required Skills, Knowledge, and Experience:

* Must have significant experience in digital advertising on MOBILE.
* Extensive brand and agency connections with an established positive reputation.
* Good working knowledge of working practises within agencies and brands,
* Team player, who enjoys having a fun time but also able to work and take the lead in a fluid environment.
* Resourceful self starter with good organisation, administration, planning, reporting and communications skills.
* Highly presentable individual

If you read this description and feel that you are the right person to be working with us, stop what you’re doing and Email your CV and a brief cover with why you feel we are the company for you to: workwithus [AT] imwteam [DOT] com

2. Mobile Campaign Planner

IMW is a new independent MOBILE media agency, created by a team of experienced mobile and advertising experts. We are offering an experienced MOBILE campaign planner the unique opportunity to join right at the beginning and to enjoy all the benefits of growing a new business and a new team. We are fully funded and have a new funky office in London’s Soho. We are looking for an individual who is able to work and play hard, who will lead the planning of multiple MOBILE advertising campaigns with household brands, with a ‘will do attitude’ and who will build a professional and respected reputation for IMW within the mobile, agency and brand worlds. You need to be customer focused with a clear understanding of advertising and the planning processes involved.

Key Responsibilities:

* Planning simultaneous MOBILE advertising campaigns ensuring targets are met

* Develop best practises, policies and processes, willing to mentor.
* Assist the Sales Team by understanding advertiser goals and how these can be achieved across multiple advertising platforms.
* Experience using tracking tools and applying analysis to optimise ROI
* Represent IMW at local industry events.

Required Skills, Knowledge, and Experience:

* Must have significant experience in digital mobile advertising planning.
* Good working knowledge of working practises with in agencies and brands,
* Team player, who enjoys having a fun time but also able to work and take the lead in a fluid environment.
* Resourceful self starter with good organisation, administration, planning, reporting and communications skills.
* Negotiation skills as advantage
* Highly presentable individual

If you read this description and feel that you are the right person to be working with us, stop what you’re doing and Email your CV and a brief cover with why you feel we are the company for you to: workwithus [AT] imwteam [DOT] com

3. Campaign Reporting & Analysis:

IMW is a new independent MOBILE media agency, created by a team of experienced mobile and advertising experts. We are offering an experienced MOBILE campaign manager the unique opportunity to join right at the beginning and to enjoy all the benefits of growing a new business and a new team. We are fully funded and have a new funky office in London’s Soho. We are looking for an individual who is able to work and play hard, who will lead the reporting and analysis of multiple MOBILE advertising campaigns with household brands, with a ‘will do attitude’ and who will build a professional and respected reputation for IMW within the mobile, agency and brand worlds. You need to be customer focused with a clear understanding of advertising and the industry standards used in reporting advertising metrics to clients.

Key Responsibilities:

* Produce client campaigns reports from multiple sources in a professional and useful format.
* Provide live campaign analysis of performance identifying and implement optimisation to achieve best ROI
* Look for opportunities with existing campaigns to increase advertiser spend through higher conversion of goals
* Support the Planner/ Buyer in the creation of campaigns understanding goals
* Develop best practises, policies and processes, willing to mentor.
* Assist the Sales Team by evangelizing mobile advertising to CXO and operational management in both agencies and advertisers.
* Ensure the successful delivery of mobile campaigns through appropriate tracking and analysis.
* Represent IMW at local industry events.

Required Skills, Knowledge, and Experience:

* Must have significant experience in digital advertising reporting and analysis, ideally in MOBILE understanding industry reporting metrics.
* Significantly ‘advanced’ user (absolute Whizz!!) at Excel and the ability to manipulate data from multiple sources and present visually at CXO level.
* An understanding of SQL programming/ database manipulation and extraction or a strong willing to learn fast.
* Good working knowledge of working practises with in agencies and brands.
* Team player, who enjoys having a fun time but also able to work and take the lead in a fluid environment.
* Resourceful self starter with good organisation, administration, planning, reporting and communications skills.
* Highly presentable individual who loves data!

If you read this description and feel that you are the right person to be working with us, stop what you’re doing and Email your CV and a brief cover with why you feel we are the company for you to: workwithus [AT] imwteam [DOT] com

New hires at Flirtomatic HQ

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008

Got this in from Mark Curtis, top man at mobile flirting success story, Flirtomatic who incidentally picked up best marketing campaign (on behalf of their Strongbow win).

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Hi Ewan

How’s things? We still ought to have that drink!

Just wanted to send you a quick email this morning to keep you in the loop. I was told it would be better to drop you a note about our new appointments, rather than send you a press release.

We’ve just added four more people to our London team. We’ve taken on a new Graphic Designer (George Mayou), an interaction designer (Jaeseung Chang), a Project Manager (Elizabeth Hansen) and a new front-end Developer (Leonardo Lanese).

It’s been a very good year for us so far and we’ve made a lot of progress but we’ve still got lots more to do. We’ve got some good ideas about how we can deliver the best possible service to our users and we’ve got some major developments planned as a result. We’re by no means perfect and we know we can give our users a better service. These new hires are driven by our desire to develop what we have at the moment, a lot further.

Keep up the great work.

Mark

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Thanks for taking the time to write in Mark — it is a lot better getting emails rather than bare-bones press releases. The feedback from everyone reading is a lot more positive. Congratulations to your new hires! Perhaps we can get you on to the MIR Show sometime soon Mark.

If you’d like to do business with Mark at Flirtomatic, drop me a note and I’ll connect you.

I also need to add Mark into the all new Mobile Industry Review Who’s Who in Mobile. Mental note.

New Postings on the Job Board

Sunday, October 5th, 2008

Have you checked out our Job Board lately? That lovely little button at the top will take you to a page listing positions that are available and candidates that can possibly fill the position you may have. Take a look!

If you’re looking to hire, or looking to be hired, whack an emailover to me (Krystal) and we’ll get it posted!

Job Board updated!

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008

We’ve had some new postings on the Job Board, make sure you check them out!

Looking to hire or looking to be hired? Send it over!

Job Board up and running!

Monday, August 25th, 2008

Hello everyone!

Our job board is now up and running, although I can’t for the life of me figure out how to make it link to that handy little JOBS button up at the top there. So until I can get a hold of our fearless leader, you can access it by clicking here

Looking for a job or looking to hire? Send it over to me and I’ll get it posted :)

Jobs Section goes live Monday!

Thursday, August 21st, 2008

You’ve been asking for it, and now you’ve got it. Our Jobs section of Mobile Industry Review is just about ready to go, and will be live Monday. I’m taking it under my wing.

If you’re looking for a new position or have a position you’re looking to fill, whack me over an email with a brief description of you and what you’re looking for, or a brief description of the position, and we’ll get it posted!

Jobs, job board, opportunities

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008

Last week I asked people looking for opportunities to whack me their CVs or a few lines about their skills, so I could publish them up as an experiment here on SMS Text News.

I also asked those looking to hire to email in with details.

I’ve got some stuff to put up now and I’m going to give it a go. The concept here is to see if we can help out by acting as the trusted third party, enabling both people and companies to retain their privacy whilst we connect them personally.

(Although in some cases, I’ve got clearance to publicly mention the companies.)

So here we go. In a moment I’m going to start by posting up profiles of folk and opportunities. I ask for your patience whilst we examine the best format for this.

I suspect that ideally we’d create a separate area or feed if we began doing this a lot. Meantime let’s see how we get on.

As always, knock me your views or enquiries via ewan@smstextnews.com.

Vodafone’s recruiting for it’s Online Business Unit

Monday, January 21st, 2008

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Got this from the Netimperative newsletter. There’s a little ad on the right hand of the newsletter containing this text:

At Vodafone we’re about to launch a brand new Online Business Unit that will turn this area of our business into a market-leading star. The plans and backing are all in place.

Now, we’re on the search for a team of experts to propel the project forwards.

But don’t take our word for it - hear more from the internet itself at www.vodafone.co.uk/webspeak

Could be good, especially if you’re on the hunt for a new project yourself.

Here’s what they’re looking for:

Strategy Development and Finance Governance
Here, you’ll use your financial expertise to support the management team in monitoring our performance and making sure the whole team meet and beat financial targets. You’ll work with plans and budgets and influence business cases.

Commercial Development
Giving deal support to OBU, you’ll forge commercial relationships and open up new revenue streams. You’ll also oversee our existing third-party partnerships and future deals to ensure we keep to the letter of the law and further our business vision.

Portal
Driving the strategic direction of co.uk to ensure Vodafone delivers a continuous, industry leading Portal experience to customers. You’ll be as switched on as I am - providing customers with choice and a really fantastic journey so that all their needs are met speedily and efficiently.

Pricing Analysis and Propositions
You’ll be our champion of pricing best practice and support the OBU research team models by designing new pricing plans for initiatives including tariffs, new product pricing and online services.

Online Marketing
Taking ownership, you’ll manage the delivery of KPIs that ensure our commercial and strategic objectives are achieved.

Online Marketing (Planning)
Setting and tracking marketing targets, you’ll make sure OBU delivers value across the company. That will involve designing the best possible marketing strategy and ensuring delivery against the plan.

Product Management
It will be up to you to make sure we don’t just meet customer needs; we surprise them with products and services that nobody else in the market place can offer. You’ll make sure that together, we implement Vodafone’s plans smoothly and build a stable platform for future developments.

Very exciting.

Check out this page here for the introduction and more details. You’ll also notice an EXCEEDINGLY lame piece of introduction text — “Hello, it’s me, the internet”

It’s written as though it’s the internet talking to you. For a moment I was elated — I thought perhaps the Managing Director of the Online Business Unit might have stuck his/her head above the parapet and posted the introduction. A demonstration of independent thought, perhaps.

But no.

Some marketing chappy has knocked it up as though the ‘internet’ is writing to you.

They say my head’s in the clouds. That I’m a dreamer. That the things I talk about just can’t be done. Well, what do they know? Pleased to meet you, I’m the internet, and I know that with unbridled enthusiasm we can achieve anything we set our minds to.

Well that’s a load of shit, isn’t it.

After all, I’m working with the world’s leading telecommunications company. Vodafone does the extraordinary every day. And now it’s my time to shine.

Do they write this stuff just to WIND ME UP?

The internet IS NOT WORKING with the world’s leading telecoms company.

The world’s leading telecoms company is steadfastly avoiding the internet — that is — DATA. Vodafone’s fine if you want to visit eBay Mobile. Or check the news on BBC News mobile.

But piss off. Piss RIGHT off if you’d like to upload a photo via ShoZu. That’ll be four pounds per 1mb photo, please. Yes, you thought you’d bought the 120mb data pack. No. That’s the 120mb ‘web’ pack. There’s a difference. Stay in the Vodafone zoo and you can use up your 120mb normally. Head out to the internet and it’s an entirely different and hugely expensive cost. Hardly right, then, to have the internet writing to you, is it?

Total rubbish. Next, have a read of this delightful prose:

I’ve always worked hard. I’ve always felt valued. But now that people are spending more and more time online, it’s crucial to our commercial vision that I step up and become the site of choice in mobile telecommunications.

Oh please.

PLEASE stop.

“Become the site of choice in mobile communications?”

Tell me now that Vodafone isn’t trying to create yet another on-deck-but-online homepage? I hope not…………..

So I’m looking for experts in Strategy and Business Planning, Marketing, Portal and Product Management to take the lead in a totally new Online Business Unit in Newbury. A broader team who can give me more than a facelift. Who will create a hub where people try and buy the latest products and services, pay bills, network and, well, do anything we put our minds to.

Give me “more than a facelift?”

Geez, yes. It’s a hub. Oh dear.

You never know, perhaps it will all change. Maybe they’ll extend unlimited web to mean unlimited data too.

We want you to think big. We want you to think bravely. And create your own piece of history by leaving your mark on me and making sure I become the market leader.

I’m

ok

Speechless.

Here’s hoping this Online Business Unit is actually going to do some interesting and exciting things. Stay positive, MacLeod!


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