Associate Consultant (Programmatic, SME) in London

An exciting opportunity has become available to be part of our fast-growing team and to be a key part of the Creative function within the Client Strategy department. This role provides an outstanding opportunity to join a growing global integrated marketing advisory and will provide an ambitious individual with valuable experience for progression and development.

The Company mediasense is a global, independent advisor that brings the clarity, connection and confidence modern marketers need to fuel growth. We help marketers eliminate waste and maximize the impact of their most significant investments at scale. Our ambition is to define and own an entirely new category – recognized as the world’s most trusted, independent and impactful marketing advisor. We do this by elevating how clients operate, how agencies deliver, how platforms perform, and how all parts of the ecosystem connect. Because progress doesn’t happen in isolation, it takes alignment, intelligence, and trust. That’s what we enable. That’s what we stand for. That’s Unified Marketing Intelligence.

mediasense is designed around how we help marketers optimize and transform through best-in-class structure and governance (Organization), partners and platforms (Ecosystem), governance and controls (Assurance), and measurement and effectiveness (Science). We have the proven ability to effectively support large, complex organizations and deliver multiple projects simultaneously. As evidenced through our strong track record with clients, we pride ourselves on the consistent high quality of service delivery and the ability to accelerate transformation and growth. mediasense has over 200 employees across London, New York, Singapore and New Delhi.

What We Offer

• Hybrid working
• Initial 28 days holiday (before bank holidays) with an accrual of 4 days over first 4 years of service
• Day off for your birthday + 10 days annual leave purchase per year
• Length of service awards
• Work from any location in the world up to 4 weeks per year
• Bonuses: Discretionary company bonus scheme & new business bonus, employee referral bonus
• Pension & Group life insurance
• Private healthcare, enhanced parental, Employee assistance program, Annual season ticket loan, Cycle to work scheme + Tech & voucher schemes
• Eye test & contribution towards glasses for VDU
• Charity Day plus fund raising events for charity
• Learning & development opportunities
• Frequent events- such as summer, winter & bi-weekly socials
• Free fruit & snacks + building linked benefits such as being dog friendly, access to gyms & complementary gifts, classes or discounts

The Role

mediasense are looking for an Associate Consultant (Programmatic SME) to support the Digital Practice in the delivery of high-quality digital audit and advisory to clients. It is a thriving area as clients continually seek greater support as they navigate through an increasingly complex landscape. The role will be hybrid - with working from our London office expected three days a week including a Tuesday, the Services Department anchor day.

In this role, your key responsibilities will vary as we work on a project basis, problem-solving for clients on many different types of projects. Examples of day-to-day work may include:

• Working as part of project teams to deliver our two main digital audit products (DiPA Diagnostic and DiPA Tracking) and advisory services for our clients.
• In depth analysis and evaluation of digital media campaigns providing supporting observations, insights and recommendations to drive improvements in the efficiency and effectiveness of the delivery.
• Working with visualisations of client data to identify key performance trends and data signals.
• Reviewing agency and partner best practices and providing a point of view on what best practices should be adopted globally.
• Creating global Programmatic best practices for clients and their agency teams to adopt.
• Leading communication with agencies to ensure projects are set up to succeed, establishing project timelines and ways of working and ensuring all parties are held to account on these agreements.
• Supporting pitch management projects to help clients evaluate agency digital capabilities, propositions, process submissions and commercial offerings.
• Providing on-going knowledge updates to internal teams on current and emerging digital media practices.
• Managing, mentoring and training Senior Analysts and Analysts on projects to deliver our digital audit products to a high standard.
• Engaging with clients to confidently present and articulate our digital audit outputs.

The Candidate

You are a media professional with Programmatic media experience from a media agency, ad-tech, consultancy, client side or similar. You have great knowledge of key platforms such as DSPs, ad servers, ad verification tools. You are enthusiastic about keeping up to date with developments in media and marketing. You have strong analytical skills and are able to interrogate data to derive insights for stakeholders. You are naturally inquisitive with a desire to help drive better outcomes for your clients.

The ideal candidate will have the following:

• A minimum of 3 years’ Programmatic media experience
• Experience trading in and reporting from specific Programmatic platforms (e.g. DV360, Amazon DSP, The TradeDesk, Ad Server, verification tools etc.)
• Strong analytical skills; ability to synthesise data sets from different platforms to build insights and inform strategic recommendations.
• Confidence translating quantitative insights into a clear narrative, identifying what’s important to tell the client and why
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
• Excellent organisation skills with strong attention to detail.
• Experience working with clients from various sectors and markets and complex organisations.
• A self-starter with a sense of autonomy and initiative, who is also able to work well independently and in cross-functional teams.
• The ability to prioritise across a variety of projects.
• A positive and proactive attitude to find solutions to problems, constructively balancing speed and quality to deliver.
• Strong project management skills with the ability to lead workstreams from start to completion.
• A passion and enthusiasm for media, for making a change in our industry and for delivering great work for clients.
• The ability to maintain up to date weekly timesheets for accurate business reporting.
• Demonstrate core mediasense values: curious minds, courageous hearts; stronger together, smarter together; do the right thing, always; and raise the bar, then raise it again.

The following are preferable, but training will be provided:

• Experience with the data visualisation tool Tableau.

Please note that can only consider candidates who already have the right to work in the UK and do not require, now or in the future, visa sponsorship.