Senior Manager, Media Activation

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• Support the forecasting, media planning, and executional strategy for the retail media network.
• Oversee the Sponsored Product Ads workload including distribution of work and staffing across pods, capacity planning, and communicating staffing needs to senior management.
• Provide ongoing support to your team through regular feedback and weekly one-on-ones.
• Maintain an understanding of client goals and marketing objectives and translate them into digital strategies.
• Remain up to date with the media marketplace and opportunities for our clients.
• Build internal/external client and stakeholder relationships.
• Promote 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 overcome internally and with client.
• Ensure that process documents are accurate and are kept current.
• Act as an escalation point on planning and activation best practices, process, and campaign troubleshooting on SPA.
• Lead interviewing, hiring, training, and coaching of new team members.
• Work on special projects as assigned.

Requirements

• 5+ years in digital media planning, activation and/or campaign management.
• 2+ years of hands-on key experience in a Sponsored Product Ad buying platform required (Criteo, Kevel, Moloco, Amazon).
• 2+ years of hands-on experience in programmatic DSPs (DV360, TTD, YouTube) and paid social platforms (Meta, Pinterest, TikTok).
• Experience working within OMS platforms (Salesforce Media Cloud, Placements.IO, Advendio) and workflow management systems (JIRA, Workfront, Monday).
• Comfortable working in a startup environment with changing workflows and priorities.
• Shopper, CPG or Retail Media Network experience.
• Experience managing a team.

Nice to Have

• Experience with retail media platforms such as Pentaleap.
• Knowledge of workflow management systems beyond those listed.
• Additional experience with other digital advertising platforms or tools.

Qualifications

• Educational background not explicitly specified in the description.

Benefits & Perks

• 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.
• Paid parental leave.