Associate Director, Media Display - New Stream Media at dentsu | Chicago, IL | $96K/yr – $125K/yr

dentsu

Associate Director, Media Display - New Stream Media

Chicago, IL (Hybrid)

$96K/yr – $125K/yrManager5+ years expFull time

Posted 6 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own the end-to-end display and video paid strategy for a retail client, turning business goals into programmatic activation, team leadership, and cross-functional alignment.

Growth Infrastructure: Align forecasting, planning, and activation across display and video to hit client KPIs.
People/Ops: Hire, coach, and manage the Display Media Team while maintaining staffing and capacity.
Partnerships: Build client relationships and drive cross-team alignment on process, roles, and governance.

Job Description

Responsibilities

Lead the forecasting, media planning, and executional strategy for the retailer’s display and video channels.
Oversee the Display Media Team workload including distribution of work and staffing across pods, capacity planning, and communicating staffing needs to senior management.
Lead interviewing, hiring, training, and coaching of new team members.
Provide ongoing support to your team through regular feedback and weekly one-on-ones.
Maintain a deep understanding of client business goals and marketing objectives and translate them into digital objectives/strategies.
Remain abreast of the overall media marketplace and relevant opportunities for our clients.
Build internal/external client and stakeholder relationships.
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 proactively solve problems internally and with the client.
Ensure that process documents are accurate and are kept current.

Requirements

5+ years in digital media planning, activation and/or campaign management
2+ years of hands-on experience in programmatic DSPs (DV360, TTD, YouTube) and SSPs (Google Ad Manager, CitrusAd) a must
2+ years of hands-on experience in programmatic DSPs (DV360, TTD, YouTube) a must
2+ years of hands-on experience in paid social platforms (Meta, Pinterest, TikTok) and familiarity with ad servers (CM360) a plus
Experience working within OMS platforms (Salesforce Media Cloud, Placements.IO, Advendio) and workflow management systems (JIRA, Workfront, Monday) a plus
Independent self-starter, comfortable working in a start-up environment with changing workflows and priorities
Detail-oriented, organized and articulate; able to work well under pressure
Shopper, CPG or Retail Media Network experience is a plus
Possess outstanding written and verbal communications skills, especially strong presentation skills
Experience managing a team, preferably in a Retail Media Environment
Proficiency in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint

Preferred

Familiarity with ad servers (CM360) a plus
Experience working within OMS platforms (Salesforce Media Cloud, Placements.IO, Advendio) and workflow management systems (JIRA, Workfront, Monday) a plus
Shopper, CPG or Retail Media Network experience is a plus
Proficiency in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint

Benefits

Medical, vision, and dental insurance,
Life insurance,
Short-term and long-term disability insurance,
401k,
Flexible paid time off,
At least 15 paid holidays per year,
Paid sick and safe leave, and
Paid parental leave.

dentsu

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We are dentsu. We team together to help brands predict and plan for disruptive future opportunities and create new paths to growth in the sustainable economy. We know people better than anyone else and we use those insights to connect brand, content, commerce and experience, underpinned by modern creativity. We are the network designed for what’s next.

Founded in 2001

Tokyo, JP

18K employees (4,521 in marketing)

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