Harrison and Star

Senior Director, Digital Activation

Harrison and Star$120K — $230K *
Media
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of digital experience, with a minimum of 5 years in a leadership role mentoring teams.
  • Preferred experience in the entertainment category.
  • Technical and strategic knowledge of programmatic, search, and social buying is essential.
  • Familiarity with Ad Technology stacks and implementation processes is required.
  • Strong analytical skills, particularly related to the entertainment industry.
  • Understanding of marketing technologies like web analytics and attribution tools.

Responsibilities

  • Lead daily optimization of performance campaigns across programmatic platforms.
  • Develop and maintain relationships with key digital partners to capture market opportunities.
  • Direct and manage a team of Digital Activation specialists across multiple markets.
  • Ensure alignment between Integrated Planning, Strategy, and campaign performance goals.
  • Implement Business Intelligence tools and new media measurement techniques.
  • Provide insights and thought leadership on Digital Activation strategies within the marketing ecosystem.
  • Oversee budget management and KPI setting for digital campaigns.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work in a diverse and inclusive team environment.
  • Access to ongoing career development and mentoring.
  • Exposure to cutting-edge marketing technology and innovation.
  • Engagement with high-profile clients in the entertainment industry.
  • Working in a collaborative atmosphere with cross-functional partners.
Full Job Description
Agency:
Omnicom Media

Job Function:
Media

Job Subfunction:
Media Activation

Job Description:
Senior Director, Digital Activation

As a Senior Director, you will play a critical role leading the day-to-day set up and optimization of performance campaigns across multiple programmatic buying platforms - and lead the team as the main point of contact for the strategy to improve campaign performance. You will define, execute and optimize digital programmatic media channel strategies and initiatives ensuring that pacing, performance and the Digital Activation Process is activated correctly across the area of responsibility is the primary focus of this job.

Responsibilities:

Extensive understanding of all major digital biddable platforms, product offerings and their respective capabilities
Deep understanding and proven excellence within hands-on-keyboard (activation) nuances and best practices across all biddable platforms and ad-serving operations
Ensures highest levels of performance and thought leadership within specialist divisions (search, social, programmatic, ad-ops and tagging), including creating and circulating POVs
Develops and maintains strong relationships with key digital partners and keeps teams abreast of first to market opportunities, tech, data, and regulation updates
Key stakeholder in leading upfront deals and negotiations (JBPs)
Creating and driving best-in-class biddable digital media strategies that deliver against client objectives within search, social and programmatic channels for assigned client
Providing inputs and guidance around campaign design, including requirements for success and optimal use of biddable platforms
Working side by side with Integrated Planning team to ensure tight coordination of campaign setup, adjustments and optimization performance is efficient and effective
Working with Strategy team to understand goals, address client needs, and communicate results and insights back to clients
Implementing Business Intelligences tools and new capabilities (e.g., new supply & data sources, new media measurement techniques, etc.)
Accountability over client's budgets
Developing strong relationships with clients, key digital platform partners and global counterpart colleagues
Setting Budgets, KPI's and measurement framework
Collaborating with MarSci Team for development and implementation of Test and Learn agenda and framework.
Delivering credible thought leadership on Digital Activation's role in the Marketing ecosystem, providing a multi-year vision of the program and lead proactive insights on channel opportunities through both short-term and long-term business lenses
Leading communication of Digital Activation's tech/data needs with cross-functional partners (Product Management, Analytics, IT, etc.) to ensure seamless deployment of digital campaigns and effectively report results to all stakeholders
Ability to effectively manage costs while exceeding performance goals and maintaining quality standards.
Excellent communication skills, ability to distill key ideas for non-digitally centric teams
Managing and mentoring a large team of Digital Activation specialists, providing day-to-day guidance as well as career growth and development, across multiple markets.
Directing and managing external agency and vendor teams of 25+
Ensuring team manages and efficiently optimizes programs within budget and KPI goals
Tracking innovation within the industry, and evaluate and identify new partners and technology that will drive best-in-class channel strategies for Hearts and our clients

Qualifications:

10+ years digital experience, including a minimum of 5 years' experience managing, mentoring, and nurturing a diverse team in a fast-paced organization
Experience within the entertainment category preferred
Technical and strategic understanding of programmatic, search and social buying and activation required.
Experience working with Ad Technology stacks and implementation processes
Strong knowledge of marketing technologies & tools (Web analytics, tag management, ad servers, attribution)
Strong analytical skills and understanding of entertainment industry KPI's
Exceptional analytics skills, and confidence acting on marketing data and insights
Comprehensive biddable platform, (search, social and programmatic), campaign setup knowledge across (but not limited to), Google (Google Ads, DV360, Amazon, Meta, TikTok, Snap)
Working knowledge of 3rd party verification tools, including IASCalifornia: $120,000.00-$230,000.00

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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1986
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