Harrison and Star

Associate Director, Digital Activation

Harrison and Star$70K — $125K *
Media
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience in media planning and digital buying with a focus on social platforms such as META and TikTok
  • Proven track record in managing media teams and client relationships
  • Strong analytical skills with experience working with large data sets
  • Ability to effectively manage multiple priorities with a keen attention to detail
  • Exceptional communication skills, especially in conveying technical concepts to non-digital teams
  • Demonstrated ability to influence and collaborate with cross-functional teams
  • Proficiency in MS Excel with mentoring capability for others
  • Familiarity with 3rd party verification tools, like IAS, and campaign workflow tools, such as Prisma.

Responsibilities

  • Lead digital activation efforts and ensure effective planning and execution of digital buys
  • Enhance client service by being responsive and detail-oriented
  • Strategize framework development aligned with client business objectives
  • Set team direction that fosters growth and leverages learning experiences
  • Direct multiple user touch points affecting creative and messaging strategies
  • Translate consumer insights into actionable media strategies
  • Forge strategic partnerships and serve as a subject matter expert for clients and internal teams
  • Oversee campaign creation and daily operations of the activation team
  • Manage campaign budgets efficiently
  • Facilitate client conversations regarding digital media performance and strategy
  • Coordinate closely with the broader activation team for optimized campaign management
  • Implement new capabilities and business intelligence tools for media measurement.

Benefits

  • Inclusive workplace focused on developing and celebrating diverse talent
  • Structured approach to training and employee development
  • Opportunity to work on innovative media platforms and tools
  • Access to the latest industry insights and methodologies
  • Collaborative team environment that supports professional growth.
Full Job Description
Agency:
Omd

Job Function:
Media

Job Subfunction:
Performance Media

Job Description:

Associate Director, Digital Activation(Paid Social)

The Associate Director plays a key role as a day-to-day lead for development of plans, executing digital buys, ensuring pacing and performance are optimized, client interaction, working with internal teams and leading the team responsible for digital activation. Ensuring that the Digital Activation Process is used correctly across the area of responsibility is a critical focus of this job.

A positive attitude and willingness to "roll up your sleeves" is also critical to get the job done. Experience working with across several media channels is preferred and a curiosity in emerging media platforms is a must.

Responsibilities
  • Bring proactivity and leadership to the clients and the team
  • Familiarity with shopping-focused ad units across Meta and TikTok is essential.
  • Provide excellent client service by being responsive, accountable and detail oriented
  • Build sound strategic frameworks that ladder up to client business goals
  • Set the tone and strategic direction of the team; built around growth and application of learnings
  • Understand and direct multiple user touch points that can influence creative and messaging strategies
  • Own consumer insights and inspire tactical representations of strong, clear media strategies
  • Develop strategic partnerships and provide subject matter expertise to clients, partners, internal teams etc.
  • Overseeing campaign creation and implementation and directing the day-to-day operations of the activation team
  • Effectively manage budget
  • Leading and providing inputs and guidance around work around campaign design, tactic implementation, determining what path to buy (manual IO or programmatic), defining requirements for success and optimal use of demand side platforms
  • Managing the daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly client conversations related to digital media
  • Working side by side with the broader activation team to ensure tight coordination of campaign setup, adjustments and performance is efficient and effective
  • Overseeing billing and reconciliation process.
  • Implementing Business Intelligences tools and new capabilities (e.g., new supply & data sources, new media measurement techniques, etc.)


Qualifications
  • 5+ years of experience in media planning and expert knowledge of digital buying, hands-on experience using META, TikTok, Shopping focused tools
  • Experience managing media teams and client relationships
  • Experience working with large data sets and understanding of methodologies for evaluating data
  • Ability to self-manage, juggle multiple priorities, and pay strong attention to details
  • Excellent communication skills, ability to distill key ideas for non-digitally centric teams
  • Proven ability to work with and influence cross-functional teams
  • Strong knowledge of MS Excel and ability to coach others in shortcuts
  • Working knowledge of 3rd party verification tools, including IAS
  • Hands-on experience with campaign workflow tools, including Prisma

$70,000 - $125,000

Omnicom's policy requires employees to work in the office for a minimum of three days a week, unless additional in-office days are directed by their agency or manager. Our objective is to increase this requirement over time, and many of our agencies as well as Omnicom's corporate group already require five days of in-office attendance.

Omnicom is committed to hiring and developing exceptional talent. We agree that talent is uniquely distributed, and we're focused on developing inclusive teams that can bring the best solutions to everything we do. We strongly believe that celebrating what makes us different makes us better together. Join us-we look forward to getting to know you. We will process your personal data in accordance with our Recruitment Privacy Notice.

Link to Recruitment Privacy Notice: https://www.omc.com/privacy-notice

About Harrison and Star

Harrison and Star is a healthcare advertising agency that provides marketing and advertising services to pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. The company offers a range of services including brand strategy, creative development, digital marketing, and market research. Harrison and Star was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in New York, New York.
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Founded
1986
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