Journey Further
Programmatic Manager
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About the Role
It’s never been a more exciting time to work in media and you will be at the forefront of excellence working across the digital media landscape to build pioneering strategies that deliver impactful results. You will work across planning, activation, reporting and strategy in partnership with our clients, our suppliers and other agency teams.
What you will do
- Create high performing campaigns for the world’s leading brands across display, video, audio, gaming, OOH and CTV
- Deliver insightful reporting and confidently present optimisations, strategies and results to clients
- Develop pioneering strategies to deliver maximum results. Use existing campaign learnings to optimise strategy and activation
- Work directly with clients to deliver exceptional results, supported by senior members of the team
- Day to day management and optimisation of programmatic campaigns across a suite of DSPs and ad platforms
- Build, analyse and interpret large datasets to extract insight and opportunities
- Produce clear, compelling performance reports for clients. Articulate results into learnings which impact longer term strategy
- Direct line of communication with your clients keeping them informed of direction of travel
- Develop testing roadmaps and optimise toward client goals
- Collaborate with internal teams to align media strategy with broader digital activity
- Support the rollout of automation, scripts and data-driven workflows
- Support in new business pitches and create supporting materials
- Maintain a strong understanding of industry changes, trends and best practices
- Provide proactive client communication, sharing insights and recommendations regularly
- Document processes and contribute to improving ways of working
- Mentor junior team members where appropriate
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Requirements
- Significant experience working in paid media
- Experience using Ad platforms, DSPs and Campaign Manager
- Solid understanding of Google Analytics, GA4 and other 3rd party measurement tools
- Comfortable with analysing large data sets
- Confident presenting your ideas and findings to senior stakeholders
- An eye for creative and appreciation of its role in online media buying
- Experience in Digital is essential, but it would be advantageous to be experienced in offline media buying or CTV and DOOH
Note: Whilst we are ideally looking for someone at Manager level we would consider someone at a more junior level who has genuine ambitions to learn and grow quickly.
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Process
Please apply via our website. You must apply directly through the website; any applications made via other means will not be considered.
- 1st Stage - Interview with Talent Acquisition team
- 2nd Stage - Interview with Senior Manager of the Programmatic Team
- 3rd Stage - In-person task-based interview
Diversity & Inclusion
Journey Further takes pride in creating an environment where everyone can be themselves. This starts with recruitment.
We pledge to make our roles as open as possible and to provide equal opportunities to everyone that is kind enough to give us their time. All recruitment decisions we take will be based solely on the positive skills and behaviours that applicants display and absolutely nothing else. We do not discriminate based on any personal characteristic, we are a people first agency and we care about and celebrate individuals.
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