Digital Performance Manager

The Company:
  
Performance Manager (Programmatic & Social) for an award winning Global Digital Marketing agency that is driving real results and growth for businesses across Australia. This digital marketing agency belongs to Australia’s most influential media organisation with more than 150 prestige brands across news, sport and lifestyle. If having the backing from a Australia’s largest media group to deliver industry-leading digital marketing campaigns excites you then you’ll enjoy providing the very best data, technology, insights and strategic advice to your clients of all sizes within Australia.
  
So are you passionate about Digital Performance, Programmatic & Social, the broader media industry and being a key player in the growth of the Programmatic team?
  
The Opportunity:
  
Come join my client's fast growing Digital team, you will help execute the tactical planning, implementation and activation of digitally purchased media campaigns, leveraging a combination of real-time and guaranteed buying across both open exchange, direct publishers and Social platforms. The Digital Performance Manager will perform in-platform trading techniques and analyses delivery and performance across the client portfolio (Programmatic and Social clients). The role partners with the Campaign Management team to offer account optimisation strategies to drive performance.
  
Success in this position is measured by delivery of a campaign ROI, which can range from Branding (e.g. awareness, consideration, intent) to Performance (e.g. usage, acquisition, ROAS). Overall customer retention and satisfaction is a priority KPI for this role, so attention to detail is a must have.
  
The Performance Manager will be responsible for:

• Executing bid and buy strategies across social, mobile, video and display adhering to client performance and pricing guidelines
• Ensuring full delivery and performance standards of advertising campaigns are met
• Strategic recommendations and opportunities for improvement in bid and buy strategies
• Adhering to the appropriate SLA's during daily activities
• Communicating with your Team Lead on process and analytics improvement opportunities
• Creating robust post campaign analysis by utilising data via Demand Side Platform buying tool
• Leveraging your deep understanding of actionable optimisation opportunities to execute on these;
• Providing recommendations to improve upon weekly and monthly performance reports
• A safe pair of hands when it comes to technical support, troubleshoot underperforming or under delivering campaigns and discrepancies
• Assisting in training and development of junior operations and client services staff when required
• Proactively providing input to operational ways of working based on day to day involvement in the process.

The ideal Performance Manager will be:

• 2+ years experience working in the Programmatic (1.5 years min) and Social (1 year min) digital media buying & planning space with focus on strategy and execution
• Ideal candidate would come from an agency background working on numerous client accounts/projects.
• Hands on experience in setting up programmatic & social campaigns and managing/optimising end to end.
• Extensive experience working on and leading projects towards tight deliverables. Being approachable and a strong mentor for more junior members of the team.
• Highly experienced in-platform execution experience managing campaigns and making decisions (Facebook Ads Manager and The Trade Desk/DV360 as a minimum
• Confident in making business decisions based on interpreting data and asking relevant questions
• Organised and able to manage multiple tasks simultaneously, time management is crucial for a Trader
• Charismatic, direct and proactive with the ability to build credibility internally and externally
• Able to articulate information in a concise and compelling manor
• Proactive and engage with your team members, have a ‘can do’, positive and flexible attitude
• An excellent listener to understand our clients and other teams requirements
• Able to take ownership of your day-to-day 

What’s in it for you?

• Supportive and friendly environment that encourages innovation, collaboration and creative thinking.
• Fun, fast-paced and excellent opportunities for growth and development.
• Comprehensive digital marketing onboarding provided
• Training for the Associate Programmatic Trader position
• Training for the Digital Performance Manager position, including end-to-end management of digital media campaigns such as setup, launch, optimisation and reporting.
• Make a difference as part of Australia’s most influential media organisation
• On-site gym and wellbeing centre
• Opportunity to innovate, challenge the norm and pioneer the way forward
• Work with some of Australia's most recognised and prestigious brands.

So here it is, your opportunity to join a leader in their space who is a true investor in their people! You will enjoy working in a team environment and collaborating with others to solve problems and deliver exceptional work.
  
What are you waiting for?
  
Apply now and one of the White Bay team will reach out to start the conversation