Digital Media Manager, Programmatic

Nutley, NJ (On-site)

$113K/yr – $169K/yrSenior Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 5 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own end to end programmatic media operations and drive cross functional activation planning for Reckitt brands, with a strong focus on planning, execution, optimization and a scalable, data driven approach.

  • Ownership: Manage end to end programmatic campaigns across brand pods with regular status updates and cross team collaboration.
  • Strategy and planning: Co-create digital activation plans with audience, performance and content teams, advising on the annual channel plan.
  • Team and scaling: Lead offshore associates and push unified planning and automation to lift media consistency and best practice.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Senior channel lead: Be the day-to-day point of contact across programmatic campaigns across your Brand Pods – providing channel planning recommendations and regular communication across the status of your campaigns your team manages
  • Campaign planning: Co-create digital activation plans in collaboration with audience, performance & content teams to ensure campaigns are set-up for success. Act as a source of deep channel expertise when advising on full year channel brand planning
  • Campaign optimization: Oversee the end-to-end execution and optimization across video and display platforms to ensure campaign budgets and targeting are managed in line with the media plan targets, budgets and campaign best practices
  • Team management: Manage a team of offshore digital associates, ensuring that key tasks across your campaigns are effectively managed in line with agreed Reckitt processes and deadlines are adhered to
  • Scaling campaign best practice: Support the Digital Trading lead in adopting a unified approach to campaign planning, activation & optimization across programmatic channels to facilitate the scaling of best practice & use of automation to drive better media consistency
  • Driving in-platform innovation: Identify new testing opportunities that will help drive our media activations forward across programmatic channels, through working with industry partners and internal stakeholders to propose new test & learns during weekly status calls and brand planning meetings
  • Finance management: Provide monthly media actualizations to Reckitt finance teams to account for the net media and digital platform fees across the campaigns you are responsible for managing

Requirements

  • Minimum of 5 years’ experience in digital media buying across programmatic media
  • Significant experience in directly managing programmatic campaigns using major Demand-Side Platforms (DSPs) like The Trade Desk, Amazon DSP or Google DV360
  • Strong understanding of paid advertising capabilities across YouTube using advanced strategies involving audience, placement and contextual targeting strategies
  • Involvement in managing publisher relationships and curating deals, including the set-up of Private Marketplace, Programmatic Guaranteed buys
  • Well versed in presenting key performance recommendations to senior stakeholders
  • Has acted in an advisory role to educate others on the practical implications when attempting to execute specific media tactics in-platform
  • Experience using project management tools (Jira, Monday.com etc)
  • Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Business, or a related field preferred
  • Previously worked at a major digital agency working on an FMCG brand a plus

Preferred

  • Previously worked at a major digital agency working on an FMCG brand a plus
  • Obtained industry recognized certifications across major programmatic platforms
  • Previously managed a team of junior media traders/associates desirable

Benefits

  • parential benefits
  • Employee Assistance Program to promote mental health
  • life insurance for all employees globally
  • medical, prescription, dental, vision, and life and disability insurance
  • paid time off for vacation, sick and Company recognized holidays
  • a 401(k) plan
  • 16-week paid parental leave or 26 weeks for the birthing parent
  • adoption and fertility support
  • tuition reimbursement
  • discounts
  • global share plans
  • short-term incentives to recognise, appreciate and reward your work
  • pay for performance philosophy
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