Digital & Affiliate Sales Operations Manager EMEA

My client is a leading global media and entertainment company in the development, production, and marketing of entertainment, news, and information to a global audience.

As a Digital & Affiliate Sales Operations Manager EMEA (interim) , you will work with the in-house advertising agency.

Role Responsibilities:

• Deliver recommendations and advice on campaign optimisation and experience based strategy to guarantee delivery of campaign goals and objectives

• Partner with the wider Catalyst team and coordinate complex campaigns, including native advertising solutions, to ensure a smooth launch

• Lead the inventory management and reporting, tracking ongoing monetisation of International digital advertising. Provide availability analysis and make informed recommendations on pricing and product development

• Ensure and oversee delivery of reliable setup, tagging and trafficking of digital advertising campaigns across platforms and geographies

• Responsible for escalated QC and QA troubleshooting and problem resolution with creative, tags, clicks, tracings and impressions discrepancies

• Provide live campaign analysis and audience performance management to deliver advertiser KPI’s

• Ensure compliant technical delivery of standard, richmedia and responsive creative across all devices, screens and platforms

• Oversee billing approval and reconciliation

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• Collaborate with a network of established digital partners to seamlessly deliver campaigns, revenue goals, and evolve new products for sale

• Maintain relationships with existing affiliate partners and proactively seek out new tech partners for programmatic, PMP deals and header bidding

• Partner for smooth delivery across affiliate platforms

• Manage the set up and on boarding of tech and programmatic vendors

• Overview testing and quality assurance of new products

Management Responsibilities:

• Attract, retain and develop Digital & Affiliate Sales Ops Coordinators

• Delegate agreed responsibilities, coach and support the team to ensure they meet their objectives

• Foster a spirit of teamwork and unity among team members

Skills Required:

• Previous experience in digital advertising sales operations

• Thorough knowledge and understanding of online and TV advertising sales, including programmatic, mobile and apps

• Experience of media sales and media planning on TV and Digital platforms

• Understanding of responsive design applied to website, ad slots and ad formats

• Operational experience of DFP, familiarity with rich media tags, basic understanding of Java Scripts, CSS, HTML5 and responsive design

• Solid understanding of internet technologies and 3rd parties (DoubleClick, Sizmek, AdForm etc.)

• Experience with Google Ad Exchange, LiveRail, The Rubicon Project, AdSlot and other programmatic platforms desirable

• Fluency in digital media language (CTR, CPMs, eCPMs, SSPs, DMPs etc), and digital measurement (UUs, PVs, Dwell, Viewability)

• Experience of order management systems: Operative One, and Google Suite products including Google Analytics and Social Media

• Knowledge of video ad serving (FreeWheel MRM Preferred) and DFP ad serving platforms

• Presentation skills and the ability to create compelling pitches

• Strong communication, negotiation and influencing skills

• Ability to work in a fast paced and changeable industry

• Fluency with MS Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Outlook)

• Knowledge of the international media industry

• A team ethic and collaborative mind-set

• Willing and able to travel

• Eligible to work in the EU

If this role is of interest and you are available to start on short notice then please drop me a copy of your CV to BJeffries@welovesalt.com

Start Date: ASAP

Day Rate: Dependent on experience paid via Limited Company or Umbrella Company

Contract Length: 6 – 12 Months

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