Senior Manager, Media Activation

**Just Global**:
At Just Global we live and breathe B2B and believe in igniting B2B relationships. Our independent, global team actively engages with clients to put our deep technical knowledge and unique perspectives of markets and buying processes to work. We maximize insights, we spark creativity, and we leverage technology to inspire brand loyalty and drive reoccurring revenue. We are the heart of B2B.

**What you are accountable for**:
The Senior Manager, Media Activation is accountable for driving and supporting all aspects of the media activation process and workflow including the integrated workings of cross-channel platforms for a select group of accounts. This role plays an integral role as an integration lead working in close collaboration with the media strategy team translating strategies into media plans while also responsible for ensuring flawless execution and activation of plan across all channels. Proven leadership experience, established mentorship success stories, extensive integrated media experience and strategic thinking are all vital in this position.

**What you are responsible for**:
**Internal**
- Champion the cross-channel planning and activation process and workflow for active campaigns across select group of accounts
- Act as key integration lead collaborating with media strategy, omnichannel, social, search and content syndication teams throughout the full life cycle of active campaigns
- Oversee and support management and maintenance of active media plans within media planning platform, ensuring integrity of plans at all times for select group of accounts
- Maintain quality control while ensuring projects and campaigns are executed completely, correctly, accurately, and efficiently for clients
- Troubleshoot issues/concerns and work with online partners to resolve as needed
- Ensure tactics and vendors utilized are GDPR compliant and ensure all internal processes and procedures are followed, including those specific to certain clients based on their own contractual agreements
- Work in close collaboration with Media Strategy team translating plan to inputs for activation; consult on optimizations throughout campaign life-cycle to meet and/or exceed performance goals
- Remain fully embedded in all aspects of the campaign including the planning process, through campaign execution and measurement
- Lead and own regular budget pacing at overall plan level and monthly actualization process for select group of accounts
- Participate in larger team projects on the future of media buying and activation
- Exhibit the ability to anticipate and solve problems
- Own and foster growth in the relationships with agency partners, where applicable

**Customers**
- Work closely with account and media strategy leads to ensure strong senior client relationships on select group of accounts
- Discover and deliver new and innovative solutions to executing cross-channel media activations based on specific client business issues and challenges

**Market Knowledge**
- Keep current with industry trends and ongoing platform evolutions and solution innovation as it pertains to activating media across select group of accounts
- Core understanding and knowledge across digital media landscape including programmatic and leading ad tech platforms
- Participate and contribute to agency thought leadership initiative, as applicable

**Management Responsibilities**
- Manage workflow of assigned accounts by ensuring tasks are properly delegated across relevant team members
- Oversee cross-channel process to achieve flawless execution and streamlined operations for select group of accounts
- Ensure process and activation best practices are used across select group of accounts
- Support internal training and development initiatives specific to agency media operations and activation process, from media launch to final reconciliation

**What you’ll bring [knowledge, skills, and/or experience]**:
**Knowledge**
- Agency knowledge
- B2B Marketing - Client Knowledge
- B2B Marketing - Industry
- B2B Marketing - Media Activation
- B2B Marketing - Media Planning
- B2B Marketing - Vendor landscape

**Skills**
- Active listening
- Analytics platforms: Google Analytics, Adobe Analytics
- Challenge mediocrity
- Commercially astute
- Eye for detail
- Organized
- Other platforms: Asana, Basis, Nexelus
- People management
- Presentation skills
- Prioritizing
- Problem-solving
- Solutions oriented
- Stakeholder management
- Upwards management

**Experience**
- 5+ years experience in a digital marketing environment, agency and/or client experience
- 3+ years experience with media planning/execution platforms
- 2+ years managing a team of direct reports
- 1+ years experience leading process and workflows across multiple teams and functions

**What it means to work at Just Global**

**Being a Just teammate means working in alignment with our Values**

**Cultivate Relationships**
- Build rapport first.
- Put yourself in their shoes.
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