Programmatic Trader

Role: Programmatic Trader

Reports Group Trader Manager

Location: Sydney

**THE OPPORTUNITY**

We’re MiQ, a programmatic media partner for marketers and agencies. We’re experts in data science, analytics and programmatic trading, and we’re always ready to react and solve challenges quickly, to make sure our clients are always spending their media investments on the right things in the right places. Our business keeps growing and we keep getting better because we keep hiring smart new people. People who can challenge conventions and shake things up. People who want to connect with people all over the world to make great things happen. People who are as excited by the opportunities of programmatic marketing as us.

**JOB RESPONSIBILITIES**

Your main responsibilities will include:
Campaign Execution
- Excellent campaign performance - deliver client success across a diverse portfolio of accounts
- End to end campaign ownership and performance monitoring
- Use data to enhance buying decisions, resulting in overachievement vs. client
- stated KPIs and internal profit objectives
- Use insights to build client rapport to up-sell and earn incremental opportunity

Portfolio Management
- Deliver on-point margin and retain clients
- Grow client business via surpassing KPIs, delivering insights and building relationships
- Use data, analysis, and trading expertise to deliver campaign ahead of pace and
- maintain performance

Internal Collaboration
- Seamlessly communicate with commercial teams on product/capabilities positioning and growth strategy
- Take initiative to support others and deliver teaching / training sessions
- Work with MiQ global central departments to aid in any of the following:

- Ad operations
- Pre-campaign Analysis
- Post-campaign insight reporting
- Troubleshooting

External Communication
- Very confident in content creation and delivery for external meetings
- Attend and participate in external meetings - deliver insight pieces and Q&A
- Strong emphasis on delivering clients actionable insights via weekly commentary and end-of
- campaign reports

Innovation
- Regularly use campaigns to test and implement innovative ideas
- Maintain and evolve trading/operational processes and best practices
- Share results to encourage team-wide adoption of new insights, targeting tactics, optimisation methods and ways of working
- Motivated by learning opportunities and is inquisitive

**REQUIRED EXPERIENCE**
- At least 1 year experience trading programmatic campaigns.
- Commercial experience - clear evidence of servicing clients to a high standard. In addition to working closely with internal commercial departments to either holistically grow revenue and / or develop advertiser partnerships through delivery of performance, insight and relationship
- Experience working in client-facing environment would be an advantage

**REQUIRED SKILLS**
- Strong mathematical and analytical skills are essential
- Attention to detail
- Technically and analytically astute within the field of digital programmatic trading
- The ability to work with large datasets in Excel files and BI internal tools
- A working knowledge of statistical models
- Strong working knowledge of SQL, R, Python or Bonsai (especially) is an advantage
- A Problem Solver - You are excited by challenging problems and you enjoy working though complex solutions.
- Always learning - You know what you know and what you don’t want and are always looking to those around you to teach you something new.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
- Alignment with MiQ's core values/culture
- A ‘can do' attitude to provide energy, drive and enthusiasm
- A dream to grow your career as the company scales

**BENEFITS**
- 25 days holiday + public holidays
- Private health cover for you and your family
- Flexible working policy
- 2 extra paid days of Inclusion & Diversity leave per year
- Continuous education and training
- Global Mobility policy
- Referral bonus scheme
- A caring, casual work environment

WHAT WE VALUE IN OUR PEOPLE
- Passion - We love and live what we do
- Determination - We always find a way to figure it out
- Unity - We hold each other accountable. We win and lose as a team
- Agility - We anticipate the unexpected, embrace and adapt to change
- Courage - We dare to think unconventionally