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Salary - £40,000-£45,000 - Salary is dependent on experience and will be assessed in line with the candidate’s skills, knowledge, and relevant expertise.
The Role…
TheHGSProgrammatic Sales team creates high value solutions for advertisers by engaging the key audiences of Hearst’s premium sites through optimised media placements.Working closely to supportthe HGS Sales teams, the widerGlobaland Hearstpartner publishersbycollaboratively deliveringthebest of breed client service and strategic visionto drivegrowthin programmatic revenues.
As ourGlobalProgrammatic StrategyManager,you will represent Hearst within their Programmatic division driving innovations through programmatic direct channels leveraging the wider Hearst proposition and technology.
Main Duties…
Global Programmatic Revenue Growth
• Work with wider team to deliver revenue growth across your agencies & clients in various markets
• Support Global activations and pitch preparations for Global programmatic campaigns
• Work closely with Global markets on pitching programmatic campaigns across Hearst and Hearst partner publishers network worldwide
• Working with internal sales, data, product and TAM teams to build clients strategy and activate programmatically
• Deliver results in line with the clients programmatic strategy
• Campaign activation, management and reporting
• Working closely with HGS Sales teams, global operations, data teams and TAM teams to ensure that all deals are setup and transacting correctly
• Support troubleshooting across any deal activations with TAM teams and external agency teams
• Monitor campaign performance with internal TAM teams, PMP spending and delivery and share these insights with the agency and/or client direct programmatic teams to help increase and upsell future programmatic activity with Hearst Global.
• Attend key industry events, where relevant
• To be an ambassador of Hearst and its values.
You may be required to undertake such further duties as your skills, qualifications and experience allow and/or as may be assigned to you from time to time.
What We Are Looking For…
Essential
Commercial / client facing experience
Digital advertising experience
Programmatic experience
Understanding of programmatic ecosystem
Troubleshooting skills, with the ability to overcome challenges and problem-solve
Strong analytical skills
Proficient in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint
Self-starter with the ability to multi-task and with a proven ability to handle multiple deliverables with tight deadlines
Understanding of the programmatic industry and opportunities publishers have
Have worked with Google Ad Manager and are familiar on how a PMP/PG deal works and ability to trouble shoot deals
Solid ad techunderstanding(both platforms and overall industry)
Commercial / sales experience (not essential – but great addition)
Benefits…
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