Advertising manager career

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Advertising managers supervise staff and plan and direct the promotion of products or services for an organisation or company.

Advertising managers supervise staff and plan and direct the promotion of products or services for an organisation or company.

What would you do as an Advertising manager?

Advertising managers

  • usually work regular business hours but may work weekends and evenings
  • usually work in offices but may travel locally to meet clients
  • need to be creative, organised and communicate well

Tasks

  • manage advertising campaigns for clients
  • manage relationships between clients and agencies
  • brief creative teams on campaigns
  • develop ideas that match client needs
  • create plans for media advertising
  • prepare budgets for advertising campaigns
  • book spaces for advertisements in media
  • make sure campaigns meet deadlines and budgets
  • measure campaign progress and share updates
  • review campaign results for improvements

How can you become an Advertising manager?

You usually need a qualification and experience to become an advertising manager.

You may need

  • a relevant tertiary qualification in sales and marketing, communication and media or similar area
  • experience in similar work

If you're in school

You usually need NCEA Level 3 to do the study or training for this job.

Qualifications

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Study Marketing in our Bachelor of Business for a stronger focus on commercial strategy, or in our Bachelor of Communication for a more creative approach to campaigns. Both build the marketing and campaign skills this career needs, and like all our undergraduate degrees, both include work-integrated learning.

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