WFA Sourcing Forum: Tight Briefs, Focused Scopes and Value Creation

marketing management consultants

Tight Briefs�Focused Scopes�

and Value Creation

Mark Bowling TrinityP3

October 2015 For WFA Procurement Meeting, Singapore


Are your conversations about fees like this?

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Local, Regional And Global

TrinityP3 works across Asia-Pacific including Australia, China and SE Asia with offices in Sydney, Melbourne, Hong Kong and Singapore and globally through our membership in the Marketing FIRST Forum (M1F). M1F is a global collective of like minded marketing professionals providing global expertise and local knowledge to assist marketers achieve maximum marketing potential and value. TrinityP3 and M1F are aligned to provide globally consistent services, tools and processes but with local market knowledge. The M1F structure often mirrors our clients own business unit structures. Thus, as a united team we work efficiently and effectively to the benefit of our clients.

View more information on M1F at http://www.m1f.org


Our Scope of Work

Marketing Performance Services: 1.  Marketing business

alignment. 2.  Budget KPI and ROI

setting. 3.  Marketing structure

process review. 4.  Marketing planning

process review. 5.  Sustainable marketing

assessment. 6.  Relationship

performance evaluation.

Agency Performance Services: 1.  Strategic supplier alignment/

Relationship management. 2.  Supplier search. 3.  Agency selection / Pitch. 4.  Media buying benchmarking. 5.  Agency assessment

modelling. 6.  Contract reviews. 7.  Contract negotiations. 8.  Scope of work management. 9.  Rate card review

(Ad Cost Checker).

Delivery & Implementation Performance Services: 1.  Engagement agreements. 2.  Relationship performance

evaluation. 3.  Production management

assessment. 4.  Production transition

management. 5.  Sustainability assessment. 6.  Results report assessment. 7.  Media performance

assessment.

View our full scope of services at http://www.trinityp3.com/services/

TrinityP3 has more than 15 years experience and expertise in providing specific services to achieve maximum marketing potential. These services are provided to our clients on both a project basis and as part of a more expansive optimisation process.


Scope Fulfillment

•  Checklist all the things you are paying for

•  Are you getting everything?


Diligence in Delivery

•  Checklist ongoing •  Procurement liase with Marketing on

delivery •  Helps assess quality and value of the

Scope deliverables

Deliverable Delivered?

Quality

1 2 3 4 5

Weekly Reporting

Monthly Newsletter

Daily Campaign Optimisation Summary

Quarterly Competitive Review

Quarterly Business Review

Half-Year CEO Check in


Comfort Zones are Dangerous


Scope Review

•  Checklist all the things you need for the business

•  Do you need to change your SOW?


Tight Briefs and Detailed SOWs Save Money

•  Out of Scope work can be up to 180% of the cost of In-Scope work

•  If 40% of your agency work is Out of Scope, then your agency fees could be 22% over budget

WORK COST

Out of Scope

In Scope


How do you know how much to pay?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZofzH468NA


Remuneration Models

•  Most common remuneration models: •  Commission & Service Fees •  Resource Package Fees (Retainer) •  Variable fees based on actual hours •  Project Fees •  Hybrids

•  Latest Trends: •  Move from cost to value based •  Return of the commission •  Incentive based models


Performance or Incentive

•  Benefits: •  Improved agency performance. •  Improved advertiser performance. •  Goal alignment and congruence.

•  Types: •  Bonus - additional to the agreed profit margin. •  Cost recovery - represents all profit. •  Shared risk and reward - agency puts % of margin at risk

and advertiser meets that % in pool. •  Earn back - agency puts % of margin at risk to be paid in

results.


Performance Criteria

•  Business Performance (Hard) •  E.g. sales, traffic, profit, market share, volume growth,

etc. These can be measured by the same criteria that the advertiser uses for their internal bonus systems.

•  Advertising Performance (Medium) •  EG: product awareness, ad awareness measures,

consumer measures, attitude ratings, persuasion, purchase intent, awards, brand equity, image, effectiveness awards, etc.

•  Agency Performance (Soft) •  Relates to the evaluation of agency functional areas:

account services, creative and media in terms of: performance, service, relationship, cost efficiencies, etc


Moving from Input/Costs to Outcome/Value

•  Most of the existing models are input / cost based that reward volume of work and not effectiveness.

•  The current best practice is to move to an output based / pricing model that fixes the value based on output.

•  The leading trend is for a value based remuneration model where the reward is based on the value created or contributed.

•  Therefore the global remuneration trend is summarized by:


Inputs vs Outputs vs Outcomes


5 Challenges of Performance Payments

1.  Agencies are hesitant to link compensation to performance

2.  The performance criteria prove difficult to agree on

3.  The scope of the incentive is too narrow 4.  It proves difficult to budget the payment 5.  Disputes over the payment of the

incentive


Common Mistakes

•  Negotiating one variable, such as the overhead and profit multiple and miss the other variables

•  Using average cost per FTE (divide the total cost by the number of FTEs)

•  Not agreeing total or maximum billable hours


Ongoing Hygiene Problems

•  Accounting for total man hours


How many working hours in a year?

Salary $100,000 $100,000 $100,000 Billable Hours 1540 1650 1840

Multiple 2.4 2.4 2.4 Hourly Rate $156 $145 $130




•  Assessing Team Dynamic and Relationship


Understanding Valuable Relationships


Tapping into the best talent

•  Demand Agency Org Charts – are you aware of the size and structure of the agency

•  Are Management part of ‘Overhead’? Are heads of capabilities actively involved in your business? What proportion of their time are you getting?

•  Track award winning business from your agency – why are your team not winning? Is another client getting a ‘better’ team? If so, why?




•  Assessing Team Dynamic and Relationship

•  Reviewing Capabilities and Agency Product


Assessing Agency Capabilities

•  Don’t underestimate the value of a capabilities review with your roster agencies

•  Agencies usually only provide to clients what they are requested and do not have time to update you on their progress in other areas

•  Calibr8or is launching to help assess agency capabilities and performance


Benchmarking Agency Rates

•  Agency costs are difficult to break down

•  No standard costs are followed and limited resources to assess where your stand

•  Benchmarking is one simple solution


Accessible to Clients and Agencies


Are you compensating for DAMAGES?

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