Senior Programmatic Manager Dubai, United Arab Emirates - Group M Worldwide Inc.

Description

GroupM Nexus brings together 9,000 practitioners globally across ad ops, addressable content & TV, AI, commerce, programmatic, search and social, among others, to deliver transformational outcomes across digital channels and platforms and create exciting new career paths for our people.

The Programmatic Manager will be responsible for managing and optimising campaigns. While also developing programmatic plans which exceed our client's expectations whether branding or ROI driven.

Contributing to the execution of programmatic media activity you will work closely with the programmatic account director & global hub teams.

To execute best in class programmatic strategy whilst developing insightful commentary through data analysis.


Reporting to:
Associate Director- Programmatic, MENA


Key responsibilities of the role:
Campaign Management

Oversight of the implementation, management, and daily optimisation of campaign activity. To ensure that you excel in reaching your client objectives and KPIs.

Competently create media plans designed to achieve specified KPI.

Understand the products and solutions that could be relevant for clients that have been developed within the group.

Take ownership of some elements of the testing plans of your clients and suggest innovative ideas for testing, including planning, executing & evaluating tests with methodical accuracy.

Client and Partner Management

Create/design programmatic strategy for client portfolio, ensuring strategy is clear and most appropriate to the client's objectives and KPIs.

Direct client servicing exposure with regular contact via weekly calls, campaign briefings and presenting performance in detail.

Complete client reporting and analyse campaign results extracting insight to provide recommendations for future activity.

Develop strong relationships with media owners and other service providers to select the most appropriate suppliers for campaigns.

People Management

Working with your line manager to ensure the effective management of more junior team members and your direct reports in Dubai, ensuring workloads are sufficiently monitored & prioritised to ensure deadlines are met.

Working with line manager and team leadership to help train and develop junior team members. Leading by example to motivate and encourage those with less experience.

Operational Excellence

The appropriate use of tools to drive accountability in programmatic buying, operational efficiencies, and actionable business insights, with the scoping of agreed client outputs.

Ensure financial accuracy, integrating the planning and buying process, and reconciliation of spends, including client terms and programmatic fees, via buying templates and processes.

Support on the day-to-day QA process, minimizing errors and ensuring consistent and accurate adherence to process with both teams locally and in the Global Hub.

Experience Required:
Passionate about programmatic activation and driving continued excellence.

Confidence in core trading platforms, DV360, TTD and Amazon.

Have experience in GCC market is a must

Nice to have, experience working with mobile DSPs or on app download campaigns

Ability to translate technical and complex points to non-technical audiences and coach others to do the same.

Analytically minded with an aptitude for handling large data sets to identify trends and actionable insights

Ability to develop and execute comprehensive testing roadmaps in the Programmatic space – audience, media, creative

Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, will be particularly important in building & developing client and supplier relationships

Ability to communicate effectively with people from all diverse backgrounds, cultures, countries.#J-18808-Ljbffr