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Role Summary and Impact

We are looking for a digital specialist across display and programmatic to continue their career as Account Director. This person will assume day-to-day responsibility and strategic digital planning across the display and programmatic space for Richemont (Cartier, Van Cleef, Piaget), Kenneth Green and Coca Cola, and will also help oversee a team of more junior staff responsible for the everyday running of the account.

Experience managing a team of digital specialists, preferably in an agency environment, would be of benefit. This person will also be required to develop strong relationships with clients, suppliers, and other stakeholders becoming a trusted voice for all things display and programmatic. As such the ideal candidate is someone with extensive knowledge of digital advertising across key platforms.

You hold excellent knowledge of the UK digital media landscape and are well-versed in planning and activating across digital media. You have strong communication and project management skills and can engage with stakeholders effectively. You will also work closely with other media specialists to oversee delivery of an integrated plan, often taking the lead in using digital/social to link other media channels and understanding how other media plans fit in the system.

You will be responsible for delivering exceptional and exciting digital work as well as the output of a manager for a team of planners.

Key Responsibilities

• Client & Partner Management
• Responsible for delivering on the overarching display and programmatic strategy across the account(s) and ensuring this ties in with the wider digital and comms strategy.
• Acting as a key digital point-of-contact for your client(s) ensuring their continuing confidence in the quality of the team and agency’s digital output.
• Demonstrating a deep understanding of the media and technology developments that influence your client’s business. Able to identify opportunities to test and innovate in the display & programmatic space, presenting these opportunities to stakeholders and securing client backing.
• Managing internal and external stakeholders to ensure multiple projects can be delivered simultaneously and to the required standard.
• Building and maintaining relationships with the key media partners and tech platforms.

• Campaign Management
• Overseeing the production of comprehensive digital media plans (+ supporting material) that align with client’s objectives and KPIs. Able to clearly articulate the rationale for proposed campaign tactics (channels, budget, audience, formats etc.) and present these back, both to internal and external stakeholders.
• Responsible for the end-to-end setup (from brief to end of campaign report) of digital campaigns across all relevant platforms/partners, working with 3rd party vendors and in-house programmatic teams to ensure accurate setup of campaigns.
• Responsible for maintaining the standard of regular quality assurance (QA) checks undertaken by those working on the account to ensure campaigns are set up to defined best practice standards (and helping to evolve these best-practices as necessary).
• Working with team to ensure the standard and accuracy of weekly/monthly campaign performance reports. Leading client calls on a regular basis and supporting the wider team to present results as necessary.
• Ensuring all performance commentary delivers valuable insight and recommendations to clients. Working with the team to identify trends and recommend actions to capitalise/mitigate these trends as necessary.
• Ensuring the standard of end-of-campaign reporting and quarterly/annual reviews. Leading standalone research projects as required by the client.

• People Management
• Ensuring the effective management of 1 or 2 Digital Planner Buyers, ensuring workloads are sufficiently monitored & prioritised to ensure deadlines are met.
• Work with your team leadership to help train and develop entry level team members. Leading by example to motivate and encourage all those with less experience on the team.
• Communicate clearly and in a timely manner with internal and external stakeholders as required across email, chat, video and in-person. Leading presentations where necessary.

• Operational Excellence
• Identify opportunities to test and innovate in the digital space. Presenting these opportunities to stakeholders and securing client backing. Developing these into initiatives that can be used to further evolve the standard & efficiency of digital buying across the wider team.
• Developing tailored testing/learning agendas for clients that drive clear and actionable insight.
• Working closely with planning team + other channel specialists to ensure our digital activity complements and enhances the wider marketing mix.
• Collaborating on thought-leadership pieces and POVs for the agency.
• Responsible for the accurate and effective management of agency finance processes. Ensuring the immediate team fulfils the mandatory finance process in a timely and accurate manner to ensure prompt payment/invoicing and minimise finance queries.

Skills and Experience

At WPP Media, we believe in the power of our culture and our people. It’s what elevates us to deliver exceptional experiences for both our clients and each other. In this role it will be critical to embrace WPP & WPP Media’s shared core values:

• Be Extraordinary by Leading Collectively to Inspire transformational Creativity.

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