Trading Director

Role: Trading Director, SEA
Location: Singapore

**What you'll do**
We're MiQ, a global programmatic media partner for marketers and agencies. Our people are at the heart of everything we do, so you will be too. No matter the role or the location, we're all united in the vision to lead the programmatic industry and make it better.

As Trading Director, you'll have the chance to:
Team lead for all SEA campaign management
- Set pace, rigor, and direction across the team and all campaigns
- Build and uphold campaign best practices / quality assurance
- Deliver consistent campaign-wide success, driving retention and revenue growth
- Directly trade strategically critical campaigns where necessary

Be a technical and operational figurehead
- Timely and accurate day-to-day operational decision making
- Resolve campaign challenges, troubleshooting where necessary
- The go-to person for SEA related operational and technical inquiries
- Up-sell existing clients, introducing full-suite of product capabilities

Develop and implement innovative operational practices
- Consistent innovation within trading, optimisation, reporting, insight, and product
- Transitions innovative ideas into action, team-wide best practice adoption
- Builds and maintains team-wide buy-in and adoption, maximising business impact
- Implements new product capabilities into existing and new client campaigns

Manage, coach and train team of SEA Traders
- Overall responsibility of SEA Traders, direct management of Trader Manager
- Regular input and improvements for each team members campaigns
- Coach and develop team; up-skill soft, commercial, and core-competencies

Internal financial forecasting and campaign-wide portfolio management
- Campaign-wide portfolio management; performance, pacing, delivery vs. targets
- Manage monthly and quarterly delivery against business financial targets
- EOM billing, reconciliation, and business financial reporting/commentary

Shape strategy and direction of SEA trading, operations, and product
- Join and contribute to SEA Leadership team
- Build and deliver against SEA management team goal strategy
- Identify trends, opportunities, and potential risks affecting trading activities

**What you'll bring**
- Proven experience working in programmatic, hands on keyboard trading
- A thorough understanding of programmatic, a technical problem-solver
- Evidence of maximising commercial opportunity via trading and operational excellence
- High proficiency across global programmatic platforms i.e. DV360, TTD, Xandr et al
- An understanding of how programmatic compliments marketers search/social strategy
- Detail-oriented with an ability to prioritize projects/tasks simultaneously and to completion
- High degree of self-motivation
- Eagerness to work in a 'start-up' environment that will rapidly iterate, an entrepreneur
- Professional verbal, presentation, and written communication skills
- Evidence of strong people management, employee development and building high performing teams
- Ability to excite and influence stakeholders across all departments
- Alignment with MiQ's core values/culture
- A can-do attitude, with a dream to grow alongside us.

We've highlighted some key skills, experience and requirements for this role. But please don't worry if you don't meet every single one. Our talent team strives to find the best people. They might see something in your background that's a fit for this role, or another opportunity at MiQ. If you have a passion for the role, please still apply.

**What's in it for you**
MiQ is incredibly proud to foster a welcoming culture. We do everything possible to make sure everyone feels valued for what they bring. With global teams committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion, we're always moving towards becoming an even better place to work.

**Values**:
Our values are so much more than statements**. **They unite MiQers in every corner of the world. They shape the way we work and the decisions we make. And they inspire us to stay true to ourselves and to aim for better. Our values are there to be embraced by everyone, so that we naturally live and breathe them. Just like inclusivity, our values flow through everything we do - no matter how big or small.
- **We do what we love**:

- Passion
- **We figure it out**:

- Determination
- **We anticipate the unexpected **-** **Agility
- **We hold each other accountable**:

- Unity
- **We dare to be unconventional **-** **Courage

**Benefits**:
Every region and office has specific perks and benefits, but every person joining MiQ can expect:

- A hybrid work environment
- New hire orientation with job specific onboarding and training
- Internal and global mobility opportunities
- Competitive healthcare benefits
- Bonus and performance incentives
- Generous annual PTO, paid parental leave, with two additional paid days to acknowledge holidays, cultural events, or inclusion initiatives
- Employee resource groups designed to connect people across all