Senior Media Manager (Paid Social & Programmatic)

Who We Are

VML, part of WPP, is a leading creative company that combines brand experience, customer experience, and commerce, creating connected brands to drive growth. VML is celebrated for its innovative and human first, award-winning work for blue chip client partners including AstraZeneca, Colgate-Palmolive, Dell, Ford, Microsoft, Nestlé, The Coca-Cola Company, and Wendy's. The agency is recognized by the Forrester Wave™ Reports, as a Leader among Marketing Creative and Content Service Providers, Commerce Services, Global Digital Experience Services, Global Marketing Services and, most recently, Marketing Measurement & Optimization. In addition, VML’s specialist health network, VML Health, is one of the world’s largest and most awarded health agencies. VML’s global network is powered by 26,000 talented people across 55 markets, with principal offices in Kansas City, New York, Detroit, London, São Paulo, Shanghai, Singapore, and Sydney.

About WPP

WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands. We unite cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company – powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth. For more information, visit WPP.com.

About The Role

VML is seeking a Senior Media Manager to oversee and deliver media campaigns for a large client. This role works alongside a team of performance media experts to ensure client goals are met by creating and overseeing campaigns across selected channels (Paid Social, Display, Video, Native, OTT & more)

What You’ll Do

• Plan | Understand client goals and business objectives to translate into achievable Media KPIs. Match a client’s business objective with targetable and relevant audiences and advise what media channels will be most effective to reach these Audiences.
• Activation | Deep understanding of how to activate in specific media channel(s); define channel segmentation within platforms in order to achieve the objectives that are set out by the media plan; identify, understand and define scalability to ensure spend can increase effectively within a channel(s).
• Operations | Identify cross channel and in-platform optimization needs and implement changes to level set performance; identify efficiencies within client channels to be more effective with media operations; approve media invoices against media platform spends; monitor and manage digital platform spend and performance pacing; work closely with other Media Managers and perform campaign check ins and ensure that all required campaigns are live/paused/ended; follow required operations department processes.
• Performance | Work with Associate Media Director and team to define KPIs and objectives for each brand, product, and service; work with analytics to ensure tagging is in place to track identified objectives, KPIs, and goals; lead Media Optimization meetings.
• Communicate | Clearly articulate what success would look like for the team and continuously assure that the work is inline with a client’s needs.
• Collaborate | Work closely with the Paid Media Strategists and Campaign Managers to deliver on client goals and objectives. Integrate with other service line within the agency (Analytics, Account Management, and Project Management)
  
  

Who You Are

• A strong communicator, able to articulate complex ideas clearly and concisely.
• A relationship builder, adept at fostering positive connections with outside vendors, clients, and internal teams.
• A detail-oriented individual who can work effectively under pressure.
• Passionate about digital and emerging media, with a keen interest in staying ahead of industry trends.
• A quick learner, eager to acquire new skills and tools.
• Proactive and resourceful, always looking for ways to improve processes and outcomes.
  
  

What You’ll Need

• 3-5 years of paid digital media experience, agency experience highly preferred
• Strong grasp of and ability to navigate digital tools and platforms, particularly in Meta, Linkedin, Pinterest, Tiktok (and other paid social tools) as well as Programmatic DSPs such as DV360, The Trade Desk (or other DSPs)
• Experience in activating paid media plans that align to an overarching strategy.
• Ability to utilize data to inform audience segmentation.
• Understanding of paid media measurement and optimization
  
  

The base salary range for this position at the time of this posting is indicated below. Individual compensation varies based on job-related factors, including location, business needs, level of responsibility, experience, and qualifications. We offer a competitive benefits package, click WPP Benefits for more details.

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$45,000—$100,000 USD

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