Saatchi & Saatchi

Manager, Precision

Saatchi & Saatchi$75K — $120K *
Media
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Four years of experience in display and video media buying
  • Deep understanding of media planning, programmatic buying, and familiarity with relevant platforms
  • Two years in a people management role
  • Strong DSP platform knowledge with active campaign optimization experience
  • Exceptional organizational and management skills
  • Strong analytical and quantitative skills
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills
  • Four-year college degree required
  • Familiarity with generative AI tools for ideation and research is a plus

Responsibilities

  • Direct and manage daily workflow of client campaigns
  • Collaborate with media strategy teams to build campaign plans
  • Ensure quality in client deliverables and recommendations
  • Lead development of strategic proposals across teams
  • Take ownership of campaign execution and performance monitoring
  • Communicate value proposition and processes for agency accounts
  • Engage in forecasting exercises for senior management
  • Adopt account management and program management best practices
  • Assist in mentoring and developing team members
  • Contribute to best practices documentation for team collaboration
  • Develop and maintain quality control procedures for campaigns
  • Participate in strategy sessions for campaign optimization
  • Foster a teamwork and collaboration culture

Benefits

  • Medical coverage
  • Dental and vision benefits
  • Disability insurance
  • 401K plan
  • Parental and family care leave
  • Family forming assistance
  • Tuition reimbursement
  • Flexible time off
Full Job Description
Overview

Digitas' world-class Precision team is responsible for all digital media activation in this increasingly addressable world, including display, video, mobile, audio, and native. With a deep understanding of media platforms, data, and targeting strategies and razor-sharp analytical skills, our Precision specialists deliver optimal solutions that drive our clients' business forward.

We're looking for an outstanding Manager-someone who can win the hearts of clients, inspire their teammates, and skillfully juggle multiple pieces of business. This is a unique opportunity for an experienced digital media star to actively drive performance for some of the largest brands on the planet. In this role, you can make a real difference in our clients' business and our own.

Sound like you? Read on.

Responsibilities

What you'll do:

As a Manager, you'll be responsible for oversight of analysts and senior analysts on a day-to-day basis. You will ensure your analysts are properly equipped to handle tasks such as campaign management activities, including campaign setup, optimization and maintenance, QA, performance reporting, and billing reconciliation. You will also play a role in all of these areas ensuring that campaigns are set up properly according to best practices, providing final QA and confirming all aspects of a campaign are running smoothly. You'll provide feedback on optimization recommendations from analysts when needed and help guide their development in this area. You will provide input in the construction of client decks and status documentation. You will be responsible for the growth and development of analysts on the team and will provide feedback to ADs and above on developmental progress and any needs of the team.

Most importantly, you must possess a strong inner drive to redesign the digital media landscape, enjoy working with some of the finest minds in the industry, and want to be a part of something truly unique that will have a lasting impact.

Day to day your role includes:
  • Directing and managing the daily workflow of all Digitas client campaigns, including proposal development, campaign activation and maintenance, and post-buy recaps
  • Interfacing with media strategy teams to build strategic campaign plans, communicate recommendations, and identify and deliver new solutions in a collaborative fashion
  • Prepare client deliverables ensuring quality, and that recommendations and work products are sound and viable
  • Owning the development of strategic proposals, coordinating across teams to account for all relevant inputs and sharing with your associate director for alignment and pressure testing
  • Assuming accountability and ownership of campaign execution for assigned client accounts as well as monitoring and reporting on campaign performance
  • Understanding and effectively communicating our value proposition, technology, and processes as related to the growth of current and prospective agency accounts
  • Participating in forecasting exercises for senior management
  • Adopting established account management standards and program management best practices and ensuring processes are being followed - you will be responsible for holding your team accountable
  • Assisting in training, mentoring, and developing team members
  • Contributing to the development and documentation of best practices for improving communication and collaboration within the team and the group
  • Developing and maintaining quality control procedures for campaign implementations
  • Participating in regular sessions to share and learn new strategies for optimizing and enhancing campaign performance
  • Embracing and encouraging a culture based on teamwork, collaboration, and intellectual curiosity

Qualifications

  • Four or more years of experience in display and video media buying
  • In depth understanding of media planning and programmatic buying, and familiarity with Google Marketing Platform, The Trade Desk, or similar buying platforms
  • Two or more years of people management experience
  • Strong knowledge of DSP platforms and active campaign optimization experience
  • The ability to organize and manage your work and that of the junior staff on the team
  • Strong analytical thinking and mathematical/quantitative skills
  • Solid presentation skills and comfortable presenting to key stakeholders
  • Excellent communication and writing skills-you're poised, precise, and above all, kind when relating to others
  • A four-year college degree
  • Familiarity with prompt-based interaction and commonly used generative AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Google Gemini, DALL• E, Midjourney) is a plus, especially for tasks like ideation, research, or content generation.


Got the sparkle? Apply if you believe your unique skills are a fit. We'd love to hear from you.

Additional information

Our Publicis Groupe motto "Viva La Différence" means we're better together, and we believe that our differences make us stronger. It means we honor and celebrate all identities, across all facets of intersectionality, and it underpins all that we do as an organization. We are focused on fostering belonging and creating equitable & inclusive experiences for all talent.

Publicis Groupe provides robust and inclusive benefit programs and policies to support the evolving and diverse needs of our talent and enable every person to grow and thrive. Our benefits package includes medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401K, as well as parental and family care leave, family forming assistance, tuition reimbursement, and flexible time off.

Compensation Range: $75,050 - $120,159. This is the pay range the Company believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting. Consistent with applicable law, compensation will be determined based on the skills, qualifications, and experience of the applicant along with the requirements of the position, and the Company reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time. Temporary roles may be eligible to participate in our freelancer/temporary employee medical plan through a third-party benefits administration system once certain criteria have been met. Temporary roles may also qualify for participation in our 401(k) plan after eligibility criteria have been met. For regular roles, the Company will offer medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401k, and paid time off. The Company anticipates the application deadline for this job posting will be 06/26/2026.

About Saatchi & Saatchi

Saatchi & Saatchi is a global advertising agency headquartered in New York City. The company was founded in London in 1970 by brothers Maurice and Charles Saatchi and is now part of the Publicis Groupe, a French multinational advertising and public relations company. Saatchi & Saatchi has over 6,000 employees in 114 countries and provides a range of advertising and marketing services to clients in various industries, including automotive, consumer goods, financial services, and telecommunications. The company is known for its creative and innovative advertising campaigns, including the iconic 'Nothing is Impossible' campaign for Toyota. Saatchi & Saatchi has won numerous awards for its work, including Cannes Lions, Clios, and Effies.
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