Digital Ad Operations Manager

at  Dentsu

Job Description:

dentsu Media | Auckland | Permanent full time

• Be a force for good. Work with iconic brands like Air New Zealand, Woolworths, DB Group and Heinz-Watties to make a positive impact to society and Aotearoa.
• Best the best you. We want you to be your best so at dentsu we have additional wellness benefits, volunteering days, and leave for employees who do the mahi.
• Innovate to impact. Join an award-winning media team in our newly renovated offices Auckland office.

About us.
dentsu Aotearoa is a uniquely kiwi business raised in New Zealand and born in Japan. We’re an award-winning, world-class agency that prides itself on creating experiences that impact society and challenge the way we think. We are more than an advertising agency. We are positioned at the forefront of innovation. We understand our purpose in society is to create meaningful impact through technology and data, and to craft human experiences through our dentsu Creative, dentsu Media and Merkle brands.
At dentsu Aotearoa we are approximately 300 strong across Auckland and Wellington. We are part of a global network of over 70,000 craft experts across 145 countries, with our global dentsu Group HQ in Tokyo, Japan. When you join us, you are becoming part of one team. One team with diverse talents and a shared ambition to innovate the way brands are built. One team that collaborates across disciplines and boundaries. One team that wants to innovate with a purpose.
Your purpose.
You’re an experienced Ad Operations Specialist, proven in your craft by working with large clients in from another an advertising agency or media supplier background. You oddly love the hustle of a busy, fast paced environment, which is great because you’ll be working across a group of clients and teams across varying industries, so being able to prioritise and juggle different goals and challenges is a valued skill you thrive at.
As the Ad Ops Manager, you and the team are tasked to deliver best in class digital operations across digital planning, tracking, campaign management and reporting. You enjoy collaborating across teams, especially with data, analytics and technology teams, to ensure that we have best in class data capture, organisation and activation products available to us. You’ll also be supporting aspiring Ad Ops professionals to share ideas, help review solutions, provide recommendations and general mentorship to team members to help them grow their understanding of the digital media and advertising industry in Aotearoa.

What the day to day might look like.

• Operation of campaign management and brand safety platforms such as CM360 and IAS.
• Development, implementation, adoption, and consistency delivery of processes and operations for optimised ad performance.
• Delivering objectives of the Ad Operations team, including performance, data quality, publisher communication, error rates, specification adherence, campaign reporting and revenue.
• Implementing data tagging structures in line with tracking plans and data collection strategies.
• Data collection and tagging responsibility, making sure tags set up and tracking across all clients to ensure robust data collection and quality.
• Working with Group Digital Director on the development of products and services, including helping to deliver product roadmaps, activation of new tools, technologies and capabilities, and expand offline products into a digital environment.
• Building knowledge and understanding across other implementation areas such as search and programmatic media buying.
• Continual review and improvement of processes to create best practice and approaches to optimisation and digital campaign management.

About you.

• 3+ years of experience in either ad operations or digital media industry.
• Experience managing several stakeholder relationships and priorities across suppliers, internal teams, stakeholders and clients.
• Knowledge of analytical methodologies and tactics to optimise data driven marketing campaigns (i.e., segmentation, predictive response models, etc.).
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to draw conclusions based on large data sets
• In depth working knowledge of the Google Technology stack, particularly Google Ad Manager and Google Tag Manager
• A natural multitasker to support multiple projects in a fast-paced environment and able to learn and apply new concepts and tools quickly
• Strong listening, negotiation, presentation, verbal and written communication skills, ideally comfortable in a consultative, client-facing environment

Be a champion of meaningful progress.
At dentsu Aotearoa we are proud of our diverse and inclusive culture. It enables our employees to bring the best version of themselves to work, which in turn fosters innovation, and generates better outcomes for our people, partners, and communities.
We encourage applications from people with disabilities, of all ages, nationalities, backgrounds and cultures to apply. If you want to contribute towards how we represent ourselves, you can join one of our communities/committees that drive awareness and inclusion at dentsu Aotearoa.
Next Steps.
To join us at dentsu Aotearoa register your interest to our
dentsu careers page
.
Please note, we are only able to consider applicants who possess (or are in process if) working rights for New Zealand
Location:
Auckland
Brand:
Dentsu Media
Time Type:
Full time
Contract Type:
Permanen

Please refer the Job description for details