We are seeking a dynamic and experienced Senior Digital Media Ad Operations Manager to lead our ad operations team for the EMEA region. The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of digital advertising technologies, strong leadership skills, and a proven record of optimizing ad campaigns to maximize business impact and performance. The role requires attention to detail, a strong executor of digital campaigns across various platforms, and navigate complex workflows and processes. Executing and overseeing digital ad campaigns to meet performance and delivery goals with a passion to improve the way we work, will form the core set of responsibilities. The candidate has a strong familiarity with display programmatic, video, paid social ads, audio, direct buys, connected TV, PMPs, working across multiple DSP, building audience sets via SSP, analytics and attribution etc.
Responsibilities:
· Lead the EMEA Ad Operations team across a multitude of digital programs ranging from brand to demand and including global campaigns.
· Business Impact: Align Ad Operations strategy to business objectives and revenue goals, ensuring maximum campaign return.
· Campaign Optimization: Oversee the optimization of digital advertising campaigns across multiple channels and platforms to achieve maximum ROI and efficiency.
· Campaign Trafficking: Oversee campaign trafficking, tagging, QA and campaign set-up across EMEA markets
· Compliance and Quality Assurance: Ensure compliance with industry standards, privacy regulations, and ad quality guidelines to uphold brand reputation and client satisfaction.
· Data Analysis: Utilize data analytics and reporting tools to analyze campaign performance, identify trends, and provide actionable insights to the strategist and other stakeholders.
· Budget Management: Manage ad operations budget effectively, allocating resources appropriately to meet campaign objectives and revenue targets.
· Partner with the AdTech team to evaluate and implement ad tech solutions and platforms to enhance campaign performance, audience targeting, reach and operational efficiency.
· Build and maintain relationships with key advertising partners and vendors to ensure access to innovative technologies and industry best practices.
· Provide technical support regarding creative and advertising capabilities. Well versed with dynamic ads using Ads Creative studio/ Double click and other leading marketing solutions.
· Share global best practices and innovate with market firsts.
· Troubleshoot technical issues related to campaigns and ad technology usage.
· Partner with other internal teams and stakeholders to ensure ad execution aligns with our overall digital acquisition strategy.
· Oversee budget and billing and ensure spends linearity.
· Ability to present compelling data driven stories in the most impactful, concise way to senior stakeholders.
· Innovation: Laying out a structured innovations roadmap, orchestrating best in class tests and that are thoroughly evaluated, documented and implemented. Working with global peers to share insights, best practices and scale innovation.
Team Management
· Lead a group of enthusiastic digital ad ops experts.
· People development. Mentoring and upskilling talent, ensure career growth trajectories for the team and helping them overcome daily challenges.
· Operating with empathy.