Associate Director, Commerce & Retail Media

Job Description:

As an Associate Director, you will be responsible overseeing the strategy and delivery of work for the media planning, activation, and campaign management of the Sponsored Product Ads (or "SPA") Media channel for top-tier Retail Media Networks. You will develop and maintain comprehensive knowledge of client businesses and ensure all client media requirements are completed in a timely and accurate manner. You will align the right resources to meet the client needs and you will provide coaching and guidance to your direct reports and team. You will work cross functionally with all teams to support and deliver against media, client, and company objectives. You will report to the Director of Media.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the forecasting, media planning, and executional strategy for the retailer onsite Sponsored Product Ad channel.
• Oversee the Sponsored Product Ad Media Team workload including distribution of work and staffing across pods, capacity planning, and communicating staffing needs to senior management.
• Lead interviewing, hiring, training, and coaching of new team members.
• Provide ongoing support to your team through regular feedback and weekly one-on-ones.
• Maintain an understanding of client business 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
• Ensure that process documents are accurate and are kept current.
• Escalate issues on planning and activation best practices, process, and campaign troubleshooting.
• Work on special projects as assigned.
  
  
  

Qualifications

• 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 a must (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, ideally in a Retail Media Environment
  
  
  

The annual salary range for this position is $68,000-$110,400. Placement within the salary range is based on a variety of factors, including relevant experience, knowledge, skills, and other factors permitted by law.

Benefits available with this position include:

• 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, and
• Paid parental leave.
  
  
  

Dentsu also complies with applicable state and local laws regarding employee leave benefits, including, but not limited to providing time off pursuant to the Colorado Healthy Families and Workplaces Act, in accordance with its plans and policies. For further details regarding Dentsu benefits, please visit www.dentsubenefitsplus.com.

To begin the application process, please click on the "Apply" button at the top of this job posting. Applications will be reviewed on an ongoing basis, and qualified candidates will be contacted for next steps.

Location:

USA - Remote - New York

Brand:

Iprospect

Time Type:

Full time

Contract Type:

Permanent

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