About MediaCom

London-headquartered MediaCom are the ‘content + connections’ media agency. They transform communications through systems thinking. MediaCom plan and buy media for their global clients.

MediaCom are led by Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Stephen Allan and the company has 7,000 employees in 125 offices across 100 countries. Work is coordinated from hubs in London, New York, Miami and Singapore.

The firm is part of GroupM and a member of WPP’s media-investment management operation.

MediaCom offer specialist services in digital, ROI and direct response, consumer insights and research, business science, sponsorship, and sports marketing.

Specialist divisions include MediaCom Interaction, an in-house digital-media agency, and MediaCom Business Science, a team of market analysts.

Clients come from sectors that include automotive, consumer goods, retail, pharmaceutical, telecommunications, entertainment and fashion. At the 2016 M&M Awards, the business was named Global Agency of the Year for the sixth time in eight years.

What is it like to work for MediaCom

My Manager

83% of staff agreed:

My manager cares about me as an individual

Staff are supported with coaching and mentoring both before and after they’ve attended management development programmes. Feedback is positive, with most staff agreeing to be part of an internal ‘coaching bank’.

83% of staff agreed:

My manager cares about me as an individual

Personal Growth

89% of staff agreed:

The experience I gain from this job is valuable for my future

The agency creates an environment where people can thrive. Through career mobility, they create opportunities for people to move across clients, departments and markets. This is enabled through an internal careers fair, job swaps, and ‘enforced’ client moves after two years.

89% of staff agreed:

The experience I gain from this job is valuable for my future

My Team

90% of staff agreed:

My team is fun to work with

The company wanted to reinvigorate its ‘people first’ mantra, so it created A Place to Grow, with four key strands: grow your career; grow you; grow together; and grow the industry. At a top hotel, ten people presented and six people’s growth stories were seen on video.

90% of staff agreed:

My team is fun to work with

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