Director, Media Operations

Responsibilities

• Creating and delivering on the vision of the media ops organization
• Lead account team to drive rapid development of processes, standards, and innovative solutions
• Serve as the day-to-day client lead for all BAU needs
• Proactively partner and lead across global/regional/local market team peers to facilitate effective communication, collaboration, and feedback channels as required
• Lead for defining and managing technology-driven processes that enable efficient resource and time management to drive effective and efficient media buying & management, globally
• Drive and share the vision for ad/mar tech evolution for the client brands, globally
• Provide expertise across data sources to drive development of governance solutions (processes, technologies, etc.) to ensure visibility to goals and requirements across reputation, brand, financial, efficiency, and execution requirements
• Support the broader OMD team in implementing the planning process, while ensuring alignment with other cross-functional agency teams and client partners
• Drive rapid development of processes, standards and innovative solutions
• Drive and share the vision for tech evolution for the client brand

Requirements

• Advanced experience in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint
• Pivot tables, web queries, advanced functions
• Demonstrates strong attention to detail
• Experience and understanding of Media Operations – processes and workflows
• Experience and understanding of campaign management platforms including advanced knowledge of – Media Ocean (PRISMA, DDS), Google Campaign Manager (CM360), Google Ads, Facebook Ads Manager, and Programmatic DSPs (e.g. DV360, The Trade Desk, Yahoo)
• Experience and understanding in working with Ad Operations and Trafficking teams
• At least 6-8 Years of relative media experience; proficiency in digital or ad operations is a plus
• Comfortable working with budgets and numerical values
• Budget/pacing and billing in an agency environment
• Exceptional organizational skills, applied through an ability to manage multiple projects at once

Preferred

• Buying experience on an Agency Investment team – any channel
• Experience setting up Campaigns/Packages/Placements in Media Ocean’s buyer workflow
• Familiarity with business intelligence tools such as Alteryx, Tableau, Datorama, and PowerBI
• Familiarity with planning tools such as Plan It or Media Tools
• Familiarity with project management tools like HIVE and Smartsheets
• Previously worked with Offshore Teams in any location, in any capacity
• Understanding of Financial Operations workflows and/or agency billing process