Manager, Digital Activation (Programmatic)

New York City, NY (Hybrid)

$50K/yr – $95K/yrManager3+ years expFull time

Posted 5 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Client facing ownership over media strategy and spend projection, with a strong eye on data-driven optimization and cross-team alignment.

  • Client-facing activation and performance planning across media, with clear spend and outcome projections.
  • Uncover opportunities and deliver concise, decision-ready insights to clients.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Develop recommendations based on media and marketing objectives, referencing historical data to develop spend and performance projections
  • Ensure strategy and approach is integrated with other media
  • Evaluate new ad and targeting products
  • Lead status calls with partners and client teams
  • Key contact for clients, ensuring prompt and clear responses to client questions and requests
  • Build, or assist in crafting, POVs on technologies, platforms, best practices, and creative opportunities
  • Oversee implementation of Awareness and DTC media plans
  • Check for accuracy, timeliness and quality of launches, optimizations, and tests
  • Coordinate with team members to prioritize planned and ad hoc deliverables
  • Help refine internal processes to improve workflow and train new team members

Requirements

  • Minimum of 3+ years of experience in a Digital Strategy or Activation role
  • DTC experience strongly preferred - Client facing experience
  • Bachelor’s degree (preferably in Business, Marketing, or Management & Entrepreneurship)
  • Experience managing and mentoring at least one team member, providing thought leadership to junior team members
  • Must be comfortable analyzing and presenting data - experience effectively using Excel & PowerPoint required
  • Collaborative nature and experience with media owners, agency business units, and creative agency partners
  • Thorough knowledge of the principles of marketing/advertising, understanding of media concepts and creative requirements

    Benefits

    • Health insurance, vision insurance, dental insurance
    • 401(k), Healthcare Flexible Spending Account, Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account
    • Vacation days, sick days, personal days, paid parental leave
    • Paid medical leave, STD/LTD insurance benefits
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    PHD

    Welcome to PHD.Powered by our next-generation network, PHD’s advanced thinking - Intelligence. Connected. - combines data, technology, and human expertise collaboratively to achieve greatness.This is how we are one of the world’s most awarded media agencies, and currently ADWEEK’s Global Media Agency of the Year.We have around 6,500 people in 81 offices across 74 countries, all connected in one platform, Studio. Studio, which launched in 2018, allows our account teams, planners, and strategists worldwide to collaborate to create online campaigns, producing 70,000 unique ideas from across the agency, together.This is how we transform experiences.This is how we move brands and businesses forward.www.phdmedia.com

    Founded in 2006
    London, England, GBR
    5K employees (1,376 in marketing)

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