Programmatic Manager

Company description

At Spark Foundry, our vision is to Fuel Famously Effective Ideas. Famous and Effective. Not one or the other — both. That sounds nice, but to get to famously effective ideas you need some key ingredients.

You need diverse thinkers and diverse thinking. We call this Allsorts. This helps us tackle obstacles through different disciplines and perspectives. You need to thrive on the belief that great ideas are only great if they work. It's not enough to be new or cool or interesting.

Our solutions need to drive a business result. Everything else is vanity. You need to embrace both the art and the evidence. Right and left. Imagination and activation. Insight and technology. Big ideas forensically measured.

All that while being a good human. Sound like you? Sound like where you'd like to be? We'd love to meet you.

Overview

The transformation you will experience.

The Programmatic Manager is accountable for the end-to-end delivery across their clients, delivering all business reviews, as well as heavily assisting the Programmatic & Operations Director with quarterly business reviews, product development, and assistance with new business with regards to programmatic.

This role must ensure the performance of all campaigns within their allocation and that clients' investment delivers against their business objectives whilst also building exceptionally strong relationships with them. The Programmatic Manager will be accountable for the overall quality of the: Programmatic response to brief, define campaign KPI's, and measurement of the campaign alongside the delivery of the programmatic post-campaign report.

Your scope will include:

•      Influencing responses to client briefs and building programmatic media recommendations that achieve strong client outcomes.

•      Ensuring the team is executing a smooth implementation and delivery of programmatic campaigns

•      Excellent data investigative experience and ability to translate insights into actionable recommendations

•      Ability to design test and learn frameworks

•      Management of junior team members

•      Developing strong working relationships with their immediate team and wider agency team

•      Full ownership of all workflow on all campaigns, engaging line managers when required in a timely fashion with no errors

•      Timely and professional client communication

•      Works without direct guidance to meet client objectives and deliverables via innovation

•      Influence client contact, providing key market and business updates to clients, business reviews, education sessions and spearheading responses.

•      Excellent programmatic and/or ad operations experience. Knowledge with significant experience in delivering programmatic campaigns to achieve client results.

•      Deep comprehension of platform features and how it can deliver outcomes for clients

•      Deep knowledge and experience in working with SSP and implementing SPO

•      Strong aptitude in designing and implementing the testing framework

•       Excellent data assessment, insights and reporting aptitude translated into actionable improvements for client outcomes

•      Keeps up to date and has an perspective on industry trends and beta products for testing.

•      Certified across: DV360, CM360, (Amazon, Xandr or TTD desirable).

What type of person will be successful in this role:

•      Preferably educational qualifications.

•      Strong passion and knowledge across programmatic or ad operations role in a media agency or in-house

•      Experience in maintaining client communication

•      Experience in people management

•      Experienced in using:  Microsoft Office - Word, PowerPoint and Excel

•      Certified in using any of the following programmatic platforms : DV360, TTD, or Xandr.

•      Experience using CM360 for trafficking and reporting purposes. Experience in other adservers (Sizmek, Flashtalking, Celtra) nice to have but not essential.

•      Strong comprehension and working knowledge of Australian Media Landscape

•      Excellent comprehension and working knowledge of digital marketing/advertising.

Additional information

Publicis Groupe benefits: Be a part of the Publicis Groupe family, recent winner of the Employer of Choice Awards and one of the world's most progressive and dynamic modern communications businesses. You can learn more about us at

Enjoy all the perks that come with our network offering:

• A comprehensive Wholeself program supporting physical, mindful, and financial wellbeing.
• A creative, lively, and rewarding office environment where people love working with each other, supported by our Publicis Liberté flexibility approach — "working your way with us."
• Access to our Global AI Platform Marcel, connecting Publicis Groupe employees with opportunities for career mobility and collaboration across our global network.
• Extensive Learning & Development opportunities including more than 15,000 learning programs via our online learning platform, Marcel Classes.
• A culture of open feedback and support to reach your goals through our Career Conversations program.
• A committed Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion strategy driven through our Viva Women, Égalité, enABLE, EmbRACE, and Écologique committees.
• Leave benefits including Birthday Leave, Flexible Public Holidays, and an additional 5 days of leave after 2 years of service.
• Work Your World program enabling employees the flexibility to work from anywhere in the world for up to 6 weeks per year.
• Parental leave policy with up to 18 weeks based on tenure, paid primary carer leave, secondary carer swap, and Cub Care leave.
• Access to counsellors, psychologists, and professionals through Sonder, an all-in-one digital wellbeing technology platform designed to support psychological, medical & safety needs.
• A workplace that stands together to provide a more open, supportive, and recovery-forward culture for all employees with life-threatening illnesses. Read more about our Working With Cancer Pledge:
• Proud partners of Diversity Council Australia, Pride in Diversity, Family Friendly Workplaces, Supply Nation, and the Australian Disability Network.

If you don't tick every box in this ad, please don't rule yourself out. Research suggests that women and other people in underrepresented groups tend to only apply if they meet every requirement. We focus on hiring people who share our values of inclusion, collaboration, adaptability, fearlessness, and integrity rather than ticking boxes — so if this role resonates with you, please apply.

Diversity. Inclusion. Equity. More than just words; these are part of our DNA. At Publicis Groupe, we are committed to the inclusion and recognition of all people regardless of race, age, culture, ability, ethnicity, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, and religious affiliation. We believe that to deliver the best solutions to our clients, our people need to reflect the diverse communities in which our clients operate. We value diversity and the skills, knowledge, and experience that difference brings to our culture and solutions.

Uniqueness is powerful; without it, we wouldn't be where we are today. So be you — we like it that way.

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