Associate Director, Media Display New Stream Media
Chicago, IL - USA
Job Summary
Job Description:
As an Associate Director you will be responsible overseeing the strategy and delivery of work for the media planning activation and campaign management of Display Media channels for top-tier Retail Media Networks. You will develop and maintain comprehensive knowledge of client businesses and ensure all client media requirements are executed in a timely and accurate manner. You will align the right resources to meet the clients needs and you will provide coaching and guidance to your direct reports and team. You will work cross-functionally with all teams to support and deliver against media client and company objectives.
Responsibilities:
- Lead the forecasting media planning and executional strategy for the retailers display and video channels.
- Oversee the Display Media Team workload including distribution of work and staffing across pods capacity planning and communicating staffing needs to senior management.
- Lead interviewing hiring training and coaching of new team members.
- Provide ongoing support to your team through regular feedback and weekly one-on-ones.
- Maintain a deep understanding of client business goals and marketing objectives and translate them into digital objectives/strategies.
- Remain abreast of the overall media marketplace and relevant opportunities for our clients.
- Build internal/external client and stakeholder relationships.
- 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 proactively solve problems internally and with the client.
- Ensure that process documents are accurate and are kept current.
- Act as an escalation point on planning and activation best practices processes and campaign troubleshooting.
- Work on special projects as assigned.
Qualifications:
- 5 years in digital media planning activation and/or campaign management
- 2 years of hands-on experience in programmatic DSPs (DV360 TTD YouTube) and SSPs (Google Ad Manager CitrusAd) a must
- 2 years of hands-on experience in paid social platforms (Meta Pinterest TikTok) and familiarity with ad servers (CM360) a plus
- Experience working within OMS platforms (Salesforce Media Cloud Advendio) and workflow management systems (JIRA Workfront Monday) a plus
- Independent self-starter comfortable working in a start-up environment with changing workflows and priorities
- Detail-oriented organized and articulate; able to work well under pressure
- Shopper CPG or Retail Media Network experience is a plus
- Thirst for knowledge and innovation keen to make a difference in a growing business with existing clients
- Possess outstanding written and verbal communications skills especially strong presentation skills
- Experience managing a team preferably in a Retail Media Environment
- 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 holidaysper year
- Paid sick and safe leave and
- Paid parental leave.
Location:
New YorkBrand:
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Required Experience:
Director
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.