Senior Programmatic Specialist
Johannesburg - South Africa
Job Summary
Job Description:
Key responsibilities:
- Advanced knowledge of audience segmentation and targeting strategies including first-party data onboarding lookalike modelling and contextual targeting.
- Advanced skills implementing and optimising via DV360 and other DSPs (e.g. The Trade Desk Amazon DSP Adform) and ad servers (e.g. Campaign Manager 360 Magnite Hivestack).
- Familiarity with analytics platforms such as Google Analytics Adobe Analytics or similar for performance tracking and attribution modelling.
- Leads innovation initiatives testing new formats (e.g. CTV audio DOOH) and emerging technologies.
- Develops and maintains playbooks for campaign setup optimization and reporting.
- Creates Programmatic strategic and tactical plans with a focus on driving brand awareness through to conversion-based objectives
- Troubleshoots campaigns set up tag management brand safety set up performance and pace fluctuations
- Applies daily campaign pacing adjustments to deliver campaign budgets and performance
- Builds/Delivers end of campaign evaluations in which campaign performance data is translated into key learnings for the agency and/or the client.
- The trader can select the right KPIs and trends / insights for this campaign-end evaluation and can distil next steps for future campaigns
- Maintains an in-depth knowledge of the Programmatic ecosystem keeping up to date with new ad technology functionality and understanding the potential opportunities presented by specific technology
- Works directly with the internal digital team to ensure all tracking is in place and mapping correctly and continuously monitor campaigns to ensure everything is serving correctly
- Educates clients and internal stakeholders on programmatic capabilities trends and performance insights. Responsible for the operational success of accounts ensuring deliverables are met on time and on budget
- Exports data from the ad server interface and combines it in a correct way with DSP data points if needed
- Ensures both yourself and the team are skilled up across programmatic platforms i.e. (DV360 Amazon The Trade Desk Adform)
- Working closely with the Senior Management Team to share improvement ideas feedback on team & present results.
Client Service20%
- Managing media brand expectations
- Deadline and Project management
- Strategy guidance and input to drive the business objectives.
- Responsible for the quality of work.
- Attend key client and media brand meetings
- Support and drive the teams in the development of key client growth strategies in line with broader business objectives driving output and agency collaboration
Experience:
- 6 Years : Senior
Location:
SandtonBrand:
IprospectTime Type:
Full timeContract Type:
PermanentRequired Experience:
Senior IC
About Company
Dentsu is an integrated growth and transformation partner to the world’s leading organizations. Founded in 1901 in Tokyo, Japan, and now present in approximately 120 countries.