Senior Associate, Commerce Programmatic

Chicago, IL (Hybrid)

$45K/yr – $90K/yrSenior Level2+ years exp

Posted 7 weeks ago

Top 1% of applicants do these two things.

The other 99% submit and hope. You're about to do something different.

Job Summary

Own end-to-end programmatic retail media activation across multiple networks, driving audience strategy, campaign setup, bid optimization, and cross-network reporting to hit client KPIs.

  • Programmatic Activation: Lead setup, bid recommendations, budgeting, and performance optimization using Pacvue, Skai, or Epsilo.
  • Retail Partner Engagement: Directly connect with key retailer networks in partnership with the client.
  • Insights & Compliance: Audit creative tags, ensure launch accuracy, and prepare regular performance reports with optimization insights.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • assist in tactical activation and day-to-day media management of programmatic-based activations.
  • heavily involved in the audience and creative strategy development, competitive research, day-to-day campaign setup, management, and reporting of programmatic media buys.
  • focused on programmatic activations across several retailer media networks and DSPs, including but not limited to Amazon, CitrusAd, Criteo, The Trade Desk, Walmart, etc.
  • connect directly with the retail media networks at each of the key customers on behalf of, and in partnership with the client.
  • supporting the Manager, Programmatic Commerce as we seek to maximize retail media investment for our client accounts.
  • Manage programmatic media activations across several retailer media networks and DSPs.
  • Execute campaign setup, bid recommendations, and budgeting to ensure overall client goal attainment, including the use of retail bid management technologies where applicable such as Pacvue, Skai, and Epsilo.
  • Optimize client accounts to meet their established KPIs.
  • Ensure on-going campaign compliance to GroupM established guidelines and best practices.
  • Prepare campaign performance reports on a weekly, monthly, and quarterly basis.
  • Identify insights and optimizations utilizing historical data and competitive research.
  • Address technical issues with programmatic campaign serving.
  • Understand key drivers of performance on various ecommerce platforms and marketplaces.
  • Assist with reconciliation, invoicing/billing, trafficking, and mapping data to our internal media campaign management platform.
WPP Media logo

WPP Media

Media is changing. So are we. We are WPP's global media collective, built for the AI era.We bring the best platform, people, and partners together to create innovative solutions that deliver unparalleled growth for brands - in every market, every day.

30K employees (6,827 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
159.3K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$9.9K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
34.3%
Direct
46.3%
Referral
10.7%
Social
5.7%
Paid
2.7%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~30.1K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
6,288 (21% of company)
Median Career Experience
10 years
Median Tenure
4.2 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
21