Manager, Programmatic

Starcom Mediavest Group Germany Gmbh

$75K — $120K *
Retail & Consumer Goods
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of programmatic media experience, specifically on Walmart Connect and Amazon DSP required.
  • Experience with The Trade Desk and/or DV360 is a plus.
  • Familiarity with retail media networks like Citrus Ad, Criteo, and Instacart is advantageous.
  • Proficient in advanced spreadsheet functionalities including VLOOKUP and Pivot Tables.
  • Strong decision-making skills based on industry knowledge.
  • Experience with campaign performance reporting and analytics tools.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and execute high-quality connected commerce campaigns on Walmart Connect and Amazon DSP.
  • Manage campaign set-up, optimization, and provide platform training to the team.
  • Utilize Amazon resources to enhance campaign performance and remain updated with platform innovations.
  • Supervise and mentor a Specialist/Sr. Specialist, delegating tasks and setting performance goals.
  • Create detailed reports on campaign strategy and performance for internal stakeholders.
  • Collaborate with vendors to provide strategic recommendations based on insights and client goals.
  • Manage budgets, documentation, and timelines for all client-facing engagements.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive wellness and benefits offerings including paid family care and adoption support.
  • Flexible time off policies including vacation, sick days, and identity days.
  • Tuition assistance for ongoing education.
  • Option to work remotely for up to 6 weeks a year through the 'Work Your World' program.
  • Support for professional development through matching gift programs and employee resource groups.
  • Robust health and wellness reimbursements to support work/life balance.
Full Job Description
Job Description

We're looking for a Programmatic Manager. Programmatic and/or biddable media experience on Walmart Connect and Amazon DSP is required. Candidates without this experience will not be considered. Candidates must reside in a commutable distance to our Atlanta, Chicago or New York office.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:
  • Partially client-facing role developing and flawlessly executing best-in-class connected commerce campaigns, mainly on Walmart Connect and Amazon DSP.
  • Hands-to-keyboard set-up, management, and optimization of campaigns on Walmart Connect and Amazon DSP. Provide training and troubleshooting to the rest of the team on this platform.
  • Work with eCommerce team to ensure full Amazon resources are being utilized, such as the Amazon Brand Innovation Lab and Amazon Marketing stack. Keep current on Amazon display/DSP innovations and new features.
  • Supervise and train a Specialist/Sr. Specialist. This is a people-managing role. You will be responsible for training, setting goals, and overall supervision of the Specialist.
  • Supervise creation of reports and presentations highlighting the campaign set-up and final plan with internal teams. Report back on campaign performance.
  • Collaborate with vendor and team to provide campaign data, insights and strategic recommendations based on client objectives, media strategy and results
  • Develop clear understanding of campaign set-up, performance and reporting structure and clearly set and communicate performance expectations with internal teams.
  • Proactively communicate with Director and team. Proactive communication is especially important in today's world of remote work.
  • Management of budgets, ensuring all client facing documents are accurate, and all vendor savings are documented for financial reporting.
  • Management of program trackers and timelines.
  • Management of vendor partners.

SKILLSETS REQUIRED:
  • Ability to proactively organize and prioritize workload to manage timelines and deliverables
  • Extremely high attention to detail.
  • Sound decision-making skills based on industry, agency, and client knowledge.
  • Prior hands-to-keyboard Walmart Connect and Amazon DSP experience required. Experience on The Trade Desk and/or DV360 is a plus.
  • Experience with other retail media networks is also a plus (such as Citrus Ad, Criteo, Quotient, Promote IQ, Pacvue, Instacart, etc.)
  • Experience with verification software (MOAT preferred), Google Ads, and Google Campaign Manager also a plus, but not required.
  • Robust spreadsheet skills (both Excel and Google Sheets) with confidence to use, daily, basic formulas, advanced formulas, VLOOKUP, and Pivot Tables.
  • Collaborative with willingness to listen and learn
  • Comfortable with proactive communication via email, Teams and phone calls.


Additional Information

The Power of One starts with our people! To do powerful things, we offer powerful resources. Our best-in-class wellness and benefits offerings include:

Paid Family Care for parents and caregivers for 12 weeks or more
Monetary assistance and support for Adoption, Surrogacy and Fertility
Monetary assistance and support for pet adoption
Employee Assistance Programs and Health/Wellness/Comfort reimbursements to help you invest in your future and work/life balance
Tuition Assistance
Paid time off that includes Flexible Time off Vacation, Annual Sick Days, Volunteer Days, Holiday and Identity days, and more
Matching Gifts programs
Flexible working arrangements
'Work Your World' Program encouraging employees to work from anywhere Publicis Groupe has an office for up to 6 weeks a year (based upon eligibility)
Business Resource Groups that support multiple affinities and alliances

The benefits offerings listed are available to eligible U.S. Based employees, are reviewed on an annual basis, and are governed by the terms of the applicable plan documents.

We also offer medical and voluntary benefits to our freelancers and temporary employees. Voluntary benefit options include supplemental medical insurance, transportation, and parking benefits, legal benefits, pet insurance, and auto and home insurance.

You must be actively employed for 90 consecutive calendar days in order to be eligible for Publicis medical and voluntary benefits. You will also be eligible to participate in the Publicis 401(k) Plan after you complete 1,000 work hours in a consecutive 12-month period.

Compensation Range: USD $75,050.00 - USD $120,159.00/Annually. 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 8/19/2026.

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