Fresher Planning Executive Job Opportunities – Monitor Publications Limited (MPL)
Job Title: Planning Executive
Organisation: Monitor Publications Limited (MPL)
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
Reports to: Planning Officer
About Us:
Monitor Publications Limited (MPL), a Nation Media Group Company is Uganda’s most influential media house, operating The Daily Monitor, Saturday Monitor and Sunday Monitor newspapers, 93.3 KFM, 90.4 Dembe FM, Nation Couriers and the Monitor Business Directory.
Job Summary: The Planning Executive will primarily harmonise advertising processes and operations for improved efficiency and effectiveness within the advertising department.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Ensure correct bookings are made daily from all advertising team
- Confirm and proof read all incoming artworks before they are send to pre-press
- Co-ordinate with designers and sales team on artworks needed for client approvals
- Provide a proper entry book to facilitate planning at designing level and ease of reference for deadlines
- Provide assistance to Planning Officer in regard to bookings made within each week
- Ensuring all orders are correctly signed with all policy requirements observed in terms of discounts allowed, correct authority signatories completed before entering in to daily booking reports
- Assist in sending daily booking reports to all managers in the department and credit control
- Co-ordinate creatives, visual selling tools for all Business Executives by design teams to ensure deadlines and timely delivery
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The ideal candidate for the Planning Executive should preferably hold a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Commercial Printing, Display or Design or a related field
- Two years of working experience in a similar busy work environment
- Accuracy
- High sense of initiative
- Good organizational, analytical and problem solving skills
- Self-motivated, innovative and creative
- Friendly and able to work independently and with a team
- Flexible and willing to accommodate different tasks
- Excellent communication skills
- Ability to meet deadlines
- Good knowledge in IT office applications
How to Apply:
Al suitably qualified and interested candidates should send their applications, detailed CVs and academic documents with daytime telephone number(s) addressed to:
The Head of Human Resource,
Monitor Publications Ltd.,
P.O. Box 12141, Kampala, Uganda.
E-mail to: resourcing@ug.nationmedia.com
Deadline: 23rd March 2018
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