AD Operations, Manager Job Description
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AD Operations, Manager Job Description
- Influence with creativity and insight to translate cross-platform business challenges (audience measurement, viewability, interactivity, ) into executional tactics at scale
- Perform thorough QA checks on ad creative and custom programs
- Monitor and optimize campaign metrics for delivery and performance
- Assist in the day to day management of the ad operations coordinator(s)
- Conduct research materials and prepare presentations for the GM and the digital team
- Maintain communications for the digital team and the GM of Digital with other Senior Management, the organization as a whole, and other external stakeholders including partners, sponsors and university athletic departments
- Manage the digital team's calendar of events, team meetings and team projects and general organization
- Maintain and document communication with external resources
- Lead organization and implementation of events
- Other duties as assigned by supervisor and team
- Strong experience with data analysis in Excel
- Multi-lingual preferred – German, Italian or French
- Experience working with mobile Rich Media vendors such as Celtra, Crisp Media, Flite, Adcade
- Experience with Windows applications including Microsoft Word, Excel, Access and PowerPoint
- Strong interpersonal skills and a demonstrated ability to work effectively independently in a team environment
- Demonstrable experience within Ad Ops and web ad-serving technologies, particularly display and video, latterly with a distinct skew towards the programmatic space
AD Operations, Manager Job Description
- Provide ad specifications and gather assets from agencies & clients
- QA, troubleshoot and traffick 3rd party tags
- Monitor campaigns throughout lifecycle, communicating with sales planning, agencies and vendors on status, issues and optimizations
- Provide delivery and performance reporting updates during and at the completion of campaigns
- Manage rich media ad builds with external vendors build additional ad products using self service third party ad serving and building tools
- Have the opportunity to develop and build new Rich Media product offerings for desktop, tablet and mobile
- Stay up to date on current and upcoming technology advances in the industry
- Play a key role in providing feedback and recommendations to improve process and efficiencies
- Assist in creating process and support documents to be used as training resources for the team
- Provide back up support for all team members
- Excellent client and interpersonal skills
- Multi-lingual a plus – German, Italian or French
- Strong experience with web analytics applications
- Strong knowledge of ad serving technologies, including DoubleClick, Triton, Operative, 24/7 Real Media or Atlas
- Minimum of 3-5 years experience managing advertising or marketing projects for digital execution
- Quick learner and able to rapidly acquire and apply technical knowledge
AD Operations, Manager Job Description
- Appropriate management and resolution of performance issues
- Identifying individual training needs and assisting in the conduct of training and development efforts, regionally
- Developing and maintaining effective relationships with management team to manage Clinical Operations staff in a matrix environment
- Maintaining good working relationships with internal and external clients to ensure opportunity for acquiring additional new business
- As required, managing the conduct of on-site Clinical Quality Control Visits for Clinical Operations staff (either by performing visits or reviewing reports/outcomes of visits)
- Communicating status of assigned workload of direct reports for metric reporting
- Performing review of direct report billable hours and monthly review of associated utilization, and escalation of outliers to management team for mitigation
- Manage day to day responsibilities of the ad operations traffickers
- Support and train the team of traffickers
- Work with client team to coordinate implementation of ad-serving (trafficking), rich media, branding studies, and all other advertising technologies
- Experience with third party ad servers (DFP, DSM, CheckM8, VAST video) a plus
- A successful candidate will have one to three years of experience using DFP
- 3 to 4 years of experience in ad serving and ad management technologies such as Doubleclick for Publishers (DFP-Premium), Flite, AdX, Rubicon, and/or FatTail AdBook
- Good analytical and problem-solving abilities, along with an ability to collaborate across departments
- Superb troubleshooting skills and strong attention to detail
- Ability to thrive in a fast paced environment to manage multiple projects and tight deadlines
AD Operations, Manager Job Description
- Identify and recommend solutions to help streamline pre-and post-sales process for campaign execution
- Review and update trafficking documentation for best practices and training to be used by partners and internal resources
- Monitor placements and campaigns for performance and develop strategies to increase ad product performance
- Develop benchmarks for determining campaign and ad product success
- Outline requirements, ad specs and QA new ad products as needed
- Proactively present new features and functionality to management to keep pace with industry trends and business objectives
- Act as liaison between sales, product, tech and editorial teams
- Create automated monitoring solutions to detect ad delivery anomalies
- Oversee monthly billing process with finance
- Monitor monthly billing and reconciliation other financial reporting
- MS Excel expertise required
- Bachelor’s Degree or 2+ years' experience in Digital Ad Operations
- Strong project management and communication skills BA/BS required
- 2-4 years Digital Ad Ops and Trafficking experience with proficiency in DFP
- Ability to exercise discretion and independent judgment on a daily basis
- Bachelor degree with 3+ years of experience in digital media, ad operations and/or project management duties
AD Operations, Manager Job Description
- Work initially with Google Dfp and relevant internal teams to devise the strategy, develop and agree rules in order to deliver at pace the Media Business’s ambitious programmatic growth plans
- Be an expert, leader and champion in programmatic best practice
- A senior hands on role, someone who can lead but also implement is key
- Educate the sales team and wider business on application and benefits of monetisation of programmatic media - providing knowledge and ad operations training
- Monitor and track and report on programmatic revenue and campaign performance
- Use your strengths in analysis and communication to traffic and QA campaigns/Creatives across desktop, mobile, tablet, and video
- Solve problems as they arise in delivery and creative areas
- Build reports from various third party platforms to monitor campaign delivery/effectiveness and account for third party discrepancies
- Drive workflow and communication with cross-functional partners in Account and Project Management to ensure deadlines are met and campaigns have successful outcomes
- Ensure clients are appropriately billed for campaign delivery
- Experience managing projects and timelines
- Available and able to work flexible hours and weekends when necessary
- Experience with Google Docs, MSFT Office and other applications ideally across Mac and PC environments
- Ability to learn web based applications like wikis, Google Apps, Dropbox, Box, Hootsuite, Basecamp
- Enjoy college sports
- Previous AdBook and DFP experience preferred