JOB SUMMARY
Campaign Planning –
Responsible for leading the full funnel media agenda (awareness, engagement and conversion) – Ensure campaign journey developed across key channels per audience sub segment, leveraging past learnings
Oversee and Ensure audience segments are turned into actionable media plans and ensuring integration into holistic channel plans feeding into the Media blueprint
Identify opportunities for data collection (based on brand data strategy), value exchange, 1st party data leverage along the campaign journey per segment
Connecting with measurement team to ensure data loops are being fed back onto plans. Responsible for leading development of AB variant testing plan and agency briefing
Responsible for fostering partnerships with media JBP players to drive data led marketing use cases - explore new partnerships and expand current ones with increased data focus
Lead holistic search management, integrated into programmatic
Campaign deployment and Optimisation
Ensure media plan in flight optimization and drive campaign performance based on agreed KPIs with Agency Partner;
Pinpoint trends in the data from DSPs and analytics suites/dashboards and turn them into optimizations and/or actionable items
Oversee Media agency to deliver following
Execution against 1st pty data and augment with 2nd and 3rd pty data aligned to brand JTBD to execute real time data led marketing
Inflight optimisation of communications plan, dynamic, real time allocation of budgets based on KPIs, including AB testing
Execution of predefined triggers and plan - Deploy MMF / Tentpole activations like Singles day/Black Friday/ market events /tentpoles/planning for agility command centres and drive brand opportunities during these events.
Operations health and excellence
Lead “ULTRA” - Unilever’s programmatic trading hub for the market. Day to day leader with programmatic /biddable media technology partners
Responsible for the health and performance of the programmatic offering in the market with increased adoption in media plan. Work with the global media team to improve programmatic media practice including managing/updating the tech stack
Oversee bidding, inventory supply, frequency, and ensure audience strategies are delivered
Responsible for media operations and governance around the use and deployment and collection of data by the media teams and agencies
Oversee Media agency to deliver following
Deploy DDM via programmatic, with clear KPIs on increased efficiency, better brand safety
Deploy search across the full consumer journey, with increased efficiency and effectiveness across multiple audiences
Responsible for the capture of quality 1st party data, in line with agreed timelines and processes set by Unilever
Create capability/training sessions to upskill brand teams on digital marketing. Scale best practice and learning as part of Agency process
Experience Required:
Passion for the social & digital world and its implications for business. Very high willingness to learn .
High “bias for action” and leadership. Right Mental Attitude – open communication & walk the talk
Four or more years’ experience and superior knowledge of media, digital, programmatic, performance marketing or similar. Probably gained in a leading multinational media agency, advertiser or global digital platform.
An excellent English language communicator with senior stakeholders, peers and reports (conversational and presentational)
Excellent listening skills and the ability to understand and articulate customer needs in business and more technical vocabulary, e.g. to convert a Marketer’s request into a stimulating media brief.
Experience managing relationships in a large, multinational, matrix organisation.
Experience working as or with marketing stakeholders/agencies and an understanding of their likely challenges and information requirements.
Secondary traits (“nice to have”)
Experienced project manager, particularly in terms of project planning, forecasting demand and managing human resource accordingly
Hands-on experience of eCommerce and Social Commerce, from a media perspective.
Facilitation and capability building skills. Able to contribute to a significant change programme.
Cross-cultural sensitivity and working capability.
Organisational change-agent mind-set
Agile and Scrum experience is a plus
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