Salary
💰 $68,000 - $110,400 per year
About the role
- This is a remote opportunity.
- As an Associate Director, you will be responsible overseeing the strategy and delivery of work for the media planning, activation, and campaign management team of top-tier retail media networks.
- You will develop and maintain an intimate knowledge of client businesses and ensure all client media requirements are accomplished in a timely and accurate manner.
- You will align the right resources to meet the client needs and you will provide coaching and guidance to your direct reports and team.
- You will work cross functionally with all teams to support and deliver against media, client, and company objectives.
- You will report to the Group Director of Media Strategy & Monetization.
- Responsibilities:
- Maintain an understanding of client business goals and marketing objectives and translate them into digital objectives/strategies.
- Remain up to date with the media marketplace and opportunities for our clients.
- Build internal/external client and stakeholder relationships.
- Develop client specific media best practices, SOPs, and ways of working.
- Drive alignment across internal and client teams for establishing processes, ways of working, and cross-functional roles and responsibilities.
- Identify challenges and process-related roadblocks, and problem solve internally and with the client.
- Oversee team workload including distribution of work and staffing across pods, capacity planning, and communicating staffing needs to senior management.
- Lead interviewing, hiring and training of new team members.
- Provide ongoing support to your team through regular feedback and weekly one-on-ones.
- Ensure that process documents are accurate and are kept current.
- Be an escalation point on planning and activation best practices, process, and campaign troubleshooting.
- Work on special projects as assigned.
Requirements
- 5+ years in digital media monetization strategy, planning, activation and/or campaign management
- 2+ years of retail media experience, potentially specialty retail experience
- 2+ years of hands-on experience in a digital planning/buying role, including platform experience across programmatic DSPs (DV360, TTD, YouTube), paid social platforms (Meta, Pinterest, TikTok) and/or SSP/Ad Servers (GAM, DCM, Criteo, CAD)
- Experience working within OMS platforms ( Placement.IO , Advendio) and workflow management systems (JIRA, Workfront, Monday)
- Experience with management of planning/buying on digital OOH platforms
- Comfortable working in a startup environment with changing workflows and priorities
- Desire for knowledge and innovation, keen to make a difference in a growing business with existing clients
- Experience managing a team
- Proficiency in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint