Digital Manager

at  Dentsu Aegis Network

The purpose of this role is to assist the team in their day to day duties and coordination of campaigns and initiatives
Job Title:
Digital Manager
Job Description:

Dentsu Media | Auckland | Permanent full time

• Flexible working for a balance that suits you, your team, and clients
• Additional annual leave after 2 years of service plus additional wellness days each year
• Unlimited learning opportunities with our global online learning platform, dentsu University
• Join a collaborative, close-knit team in Auckland CBD

About us
When you join dentsu Aotearoa, Asia Pacific’s largest and most awarded Agency Network, you’re becoming part of one team. A team with diverse talents in creative, media, experience, and technology. And one with a shared ambition: to innovate the way brands are built.
As a Digital Manager at dentsu Aotearoa, you’ll be joining a high performing team and a global dentsu community of over 60,000 in over 145 countries. Our collaborative and agile ways of working mean you’ll develop versatile skills and be exposed to new and exciting thinking. Combine that with a pioneering spirit at making a positive impact on brands, society, and each other and you’ll soon realise why we’re at the forefront of the digital economy.
What your role and typical day might look like
A Digital Manager takes on the majority of the online planning responsibilities in the team, working to pull together media plans that complement the media strategy, non-digital planning and ultimately the client brief. As the title suggests they are also responsible for managing their team and are a key player in managing Media relationships with the client.

Responsibilities could include

• Oversee the buying and implementation of all online activities and to develop and maintain online media schedules across client portfolio and platforms.
• Ensure quality control across all documents being sent to the client including but not limited to tracking/optimizing reports, post analysis, competitive, media evaluations and schedules.
• Contribute to the planning documents being built in line with strategies developed by strategy team.
• Brief media partners and evaluate their proposals in line with the ICP process and assisting the Digital Director on annual publisher negotiations.
• Sell recommendations to clients driving home the creativity, innovation and effectiveness of an idea.
• Requirements gathering and keeping clients, partners and internal teams up to date with performance and progress of existing campaigns, and ideate opportunities to improve performance if needed.
• Staying up to date with industry trends and supplier innovations and evaluating the right solutions to adopt for our clients to achieve amazing brand and performance results.
• General administrative tasks such as scheduling, billing/invoice, timesheets etc.

A bit about you

• At least 3 years’ experience within a media or advertising agency or similar environment in a digital led planning, buying and client service capacity.
• Understanding of the NZ digital media landscape, staying up to date with new innovations and technologies, such as Meta, Google Ads, GA4 and Campaign Manager (CM360).
• Familiar with the digital planning tools including but not limited to Meta Campaign Planner, DV360/Google Ads Reach Planner, CCS Planner, etc.
• A collaborative attitude and proactive communicator, able to present ideas to teams and clients, bring people together on a journey and get stuck in to make things happen.
• Effective time management and planning skills, with an eye for detail for accurate invoicing, planning and execution.
• Confidence in the area of media negotiation, presenting new ideas, articulate value and innovative solutions.
• Competent/intermediate level experience with MS office applications, in particular Excel, Word and PPT.

Become a champion for meaningful progress:
At dentsu Aotearoa, our diverse and inclusive culture enables our employees to bring their whole selves to work and be proud of doing so. For us, this is the foundation for great innovation which, in turn, generates better outcomes for our people, partners and communities. This is why we encourage applications from people with disabilities, and of all ages, nationalities, backgrounds and cultures.
If you want to belong to a one global network where opportunities are limitless – we look forward to having you join us.
Next Steps
Sound exactly like the sort of role for you? Apply now!
Location:
Auckland
Brand:
Dentsu Media
Time Type:
Full time
Contract Type:
Permanen

• Oversee the buying and implementation of all online activities and to develop and maintain online media schedules across client portfolio and platforms.
• Ensure quality control across all documents being sent to the client including but not limited to tracking/optimizing reports, post analysis, competitive, media evaluations and schedules.
• Contribute to the planning documents being built in line with strategies developed by strategy team.
• Brief media partners and evaluate their proposals in line with the ICP process and assisting the Digital Director on annual publisher negotiations.
• Sell recommendations to clients driving home the creativity, innovation and effectiveness of an idea.
• Requirements gathering and keeping clients, partners and internal teams up to date with performance and progress of existing campaigns, and ideate opportunities to improve performance if needed.
• Staying up to date with industry trends and supplier innovations and evaluating the right solutions to adopt for our clients to achieve amazing brand and performance results.
• General administrative tasks such as scheduling, billing/invoice, timesheets etc