
Manager, Digital Planning and Operations
Paramount
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Office
Location: London • United Kingdom
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About the role
- Lead end-to-end digital campaign planning across direct and programmatic channels, ensuring activity aligns with sales policy, commercial guidelines and operational capability.
- Collaborate with Sales teams to provide feasibility assessments, delivery forecasts and best-practice guidance, covering streaming, digital video, social and programmatic media.
- Oversee the operational delivery of digital campaigns from launch through completion, ensuring activity meets contractual commitments and delivery expectations.
- Track and interpret campaign performance, identifying optimisation opportunities and communicating risks, insights and solutions clearly to Sales and stakeholders.
- Ensure digital delivery reporting is accurate, timely and reliable, covering impressions, pacing, yield and post-campaign analysis.
- Lead the operational performance of programmatic and third-party partnerships, including forecasting, reporting and reconciliation.
- Design, evaluate and evolve digital planning and sales operations workflows to increase efficiency, accuracy and scalability.
- Build trusted, collaborative relationships with Sales, Finance, Ad Operations, BI, Product and Technology teams.
Requirements
- Demonstrated experience in digital planning, digital sales operations, programmatic or ad operations within media, broadcasting or streaming environments.
- Strong understanding of digital advertising delivery models, including forecasting, pacing and impression-based campaigns.
- Proven experience partnering cross-functionally with Sales, Finance, BI and Ad Operations teams.
- Strong analytical capability, with the ability to interpret complex data and turn insight into action.
- Well-developed organisational and stakeholder management skills.
- Hands-on experience with programmatic platforms, ad servers and CRM systems (e.g. FreeWheel, Google Ad Manager, Salesforce, Operative).
- Exposure to paid social advertising platforms (e.g. Google Ads, Facebook Ad Manager).
- Experience supporting revenue recognition, reconciliation or accrual processes.
- People management experience or senior-level mentoring capability.
- Experience working across multiple markets or international regions.
Benefits
- Attractive compensation and comprehensive benefits packages.
- Generous paid time off.
- Unique opportunities to make meaningful connections and build a vibrant community, both inside and outside the workplace.
- Opportunities for both on-site and virtual engagement events.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
digital planningdigital sales operationsprogrammatic advertisingad operationsforecastingpacingimpression-based campaignsanalytical capabilityrevenue recognitionreconciliation
Soft Skills
stakeholder managementorganizational skillscollaborative relationshipsmentoring capabilitycross-functional partnershipcommunication skillsproblem-solvinginsight interpretationefficiency improvementrisk communication