Associate Director, Commerce & Retail Media

Job Description:

• Maintain an understanding of client business goals and marketing objectives and translate them into digital objectives/strategies.
• Remain up to date with the media marketplace and opportunities for our clients.
• Build internal/external client and stakeholder relationships.
• Develop client specific media best practices SOPs and ways of working.
• 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 problem solve internally and with the client.
• Oversee team workload including distribution of work and staffing across pods capacity planning and communicating staffing needs to senior management.
• Lead interviewing hiring and training of new team members.
• Provide ongoing support to your team through regular feedback and weekly one-on-ones.
• Ensure that process documents are accurate and are kept current.
• Be an escalation point on planning and activation best practices process and campaign troubleshooting.
• Work on special projects as assigned.

• 5 years in digital media monetization strategy planning activation and/or campaign management
• 2 years of retail media experience potentially specialty retail experience
• 2 years of hands-on experience in a digital planning/buying role including platform experience across programmatic DSPs (DV360 TTD YouTube) paid social platforms (Meta Pinterest TikTok) and/or SSP/Ad Servers (GAM DCM Criteo CAD)
• Experience working within OMS platforms ( Advendio) and workflow management systems (JIRA Workfront Monday)
• Experience with management of planning/buying on digital OOH platforms
• Comfortable working in a startup environment with changing workflows and priorities
• Desire for knowledge and innovation keen to make a difference in a growing business with existing clients
• Experience managing a team
• Proficiency in Word Excel and PowerPoint

• 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.

At dentsu we believe great work happens when were connected. Our way of working combines flexibility with in-person collaboration to spark ideas and strengthen our teams. Employees who live within a commutable distance of one of our hub offices currently located in Chicago metro Detroit Los Angeles and New York City are required and expected to work from the office three days per week (two days per week for employees based in Los Angeles). Dentsu may designate other Hub offices at any time. Those who live outside a commutable range may be designated as remote depending on the role and business needs. Regardless of your work location we expect our employees to be flexible to meet the needs of our Company and clients which may include attendance in an office.

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