Implementation & Activation Executive - SEM

WPP Media Limited; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 70,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Wavemaker, a leading WPP Media brand, is seeking an energetic Paid Search (Implementation & Activation) Executive in Melbourne. You will support day-to-day campaign execution, optimise activations across channels, and deliver consistent, best-in-class results for clients by applying technical skills and collaborative problem-solving.

You will work closely with your manager, ensure accurate reporting, and represent the agency positively at industry events and client meetings.

Qualifications

• Understanding client challenges and objectives.
• Ability to prioritise tasks to meet deadlines.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical mindset.

Responsibilities

• Grow understanding of client challenges, objectives & initiatives.
• Proactively recommend tactics to resolve client challenges and opportunities.
• Activate media plans, ensuring campaign deliverables are met across touchpoints.
• Book/load/traffic/optimise/post-analyse campaigns with attention to detail.
• Communicate regularly with internal stakeholders on delivery and reporting.
• Collaborate with the team and management to showcase great work.

Skills

Client understanding

Prioritisation

Results driven

Problem solving

Attention to detail

Clear communication

Curiosity

Job description

About WPP Media

WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands. With exceptional talent, trusted data and intelligence, and world-class partnerships – all united by ourpioneeringagentic marketing platform, WPP Open – we help clients navigate change, capture opportunity, and deliver transformational growth.

About WPP Media

WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands. With exceptional talent, trusted data and intelligence, and world-class partnerships – all united by ourpioneeringagentic marketing platform, WPP Open – we help clients navigate change, capture opportunity, and deliver transformational growth. WPP Media is WPP's AI-driven media operating unit, bringing together media, data, and partnerships to deliver creative personalisation at scale. Connected through WPP Open and powered by Open Intelligence, clients see exactly where, how, and why their media investment is working. For more information, visit wppmedia.com.

Paid Search (Implementation & Activation) Executive

A Leading WPP Media Brand, Wavemaker positively provokes growth for clients by reshaping consumer decision-making and experiences through media, content, and technology. Our name is both our mission and our method. We do our best work for brave brands and people who relish being challenged to go further and faster, together.

The Role

The Paid Search (Implementation & Activation Executive) is an important emerging role, establishing operational excellence and responsible for supporting day-to-day work that delivers effective campaigns, ensuring best-in-class consistent implementation, optimisation, and reporting. Working very closely with your manager, you will produce best-in-class solutions, offer unparalleled service and deliver against targets. The role involves the development and application of specialist technical skills.

Your Primary Responsibilities

• Grow an understanding of client challenges, objectives & initiatives.
• Proactively recommend tactics and opportunities that resolve client challenges and objectives.
• Activate approved media plans, ensuring campaign deliverables are met consistently, across all touchpoints.
• Book, load, confirm, traffic, optimise, track and post analyse client media campaigns, applying insightful context and immaculate attention to detail throughout.
• Openly communicate and collaborate with all internal key stakeholders on delivery and reporting regularly.
• Contribute to great teamwork with a supportive and positive can-do attitude.
• Collaborate closely with your manager to identify, collate and showcase examples of great work from within the team, both internally and externally.
• Be a positive face of the agency at industry events, either related to clients’ category or our media partners.

What Makes You Great

• Keen interest in our industry and excited to work with market leading partners & technologies.
• Inquisitive and demonstrates desire to understand and know more.
• Ability to prioritise tasks effectively, ensuring that the most important and urgent ones are identified and addressed first.
• Results driven with the ability to identify and clearly articulate what’s working and why.
• Problem solving mentality.
• Attention to detail.
• Clear communicator.