Associate Director / Director (Digital)

As a key leadership member of the team, you are highly collaborative, a self-starter, with strong problem solving and analytical ability, with a track record of a “test & learn” mindset. With hands‑on knowledge and leadership mindset in the latest tools and trends of digital media covering areas from programmatic to paid social and paid search, brand safety and analytics, you can create programs and recommendations to leverage insights and data you observe. You can work at speed and in an agile way to meet the needs of fast‑moving clients.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead a team comprising of local and regional specialists to ensure the timely and accurate planning and delivery of digital campaigns.
• Manage, coordinate and communicate with cross functional and client working teams to deliver commercial success.
• Ensure relationship between clients and agency teams are optimised through delivery of performance.
• Create cross-channel and platform strategy and budget recommendations, track, optimise and report campaign measurements and deliver performance benchmark guidance.
• Own and maintain brand safety requirements across processes, teams and campaigns.
• Work with external partners to drive test and learn initiatives with innovation agenda.
• Drive data partnership and deal negotiation.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree
• 8-10+ years in digital media, with special emphasis on digital and an expert understanding of ad:tech solutions across display, mobile, video, social and search.
• Excellent interpersonal, verbal, written communication and presentation skills.
• Intuitive withstrong commercial acumen and work ethic.
• Ability to lead projects independently from start to finish, working with internal and external teams to make decisions and maintain forward momentum.
• High competency level in analysis & insight generation; demonstrated advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills.
• Experience managing and delivering against performance KPIs.
• Excellent time management / project management skills, with ability to manage detail work and communicate project status effectively to all levels.