Global Ad Operations Specialist

Havas Media; Madrid; On-site; EUR 30,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Havas Media Group Spain is seeking a Global Ad Operations Executive to join our Madrid hub. The role involves managing ad campaigns across CM, Sizmek and Adform, ensuring accurate trafficking and client-side tagging for international clients managed in Madrid.

The position requires 6+ months in digital/advertising tech, strong English, and a proactive, data-driven mindset. You will collaborate with planning, traders and tech partners to optimise campaigns and stay current with industry standards.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 6 months experience in digital, analytics or advertising technologies
• Knowledge and/or experience with ad servers is a plus
• Strong interest in technology in the advertising landscape
• Good level of the English language, both written and spoken
• Strong data-driven culture / analytical abilities
• Highly motivated and full of initiative
• Innovation and technologies oriented
• Team player who enjoys working in a collaborative, open environment
• Excellent customer service focus and client-centric orientation
• Strong communication skills
• Methodical, analytical mindset, well-organised, and detail-oriented
• Attention to detail
• Genuine curiosity to learn how things work

Responsibilities

• Manage and traffic campaigns in different ad servers, mainly in CM, Sizmek and Adform
• Understand client advertising stack and data collection ecosystem
• Setup campaign in ad verification platforms (Double Verify, MOAT, Integral Ad Science)
• QA implementation of ads to ensure they meet publisher specifications and ad server requirements
• Troubleshoot ad or tag issues with publishers or ad tech partners
• QA specific naming conventions or other implementation standards applicable by client
• Understand client objectives and how the agency delivers media strategies to accomplish them
• Implement ad servers post activity tags aligned with the tagging strategy and data layer definition
• Provide custom client solutions to specific client tracking needs
• Generate, QA, and troubleshoot implementation of conversion tags
• Exposure to other marketing platforms (DSP, Social Platforms) to understand overall campaign set-up
• Liaise with internal teams (planners and traders) to provide with best-in-class tracking implementations
• Liaise with 3rd party companies to find solutions or troubleshoots issues (tag management, consent, analytics, trading teams, publishers, …)
• Support on building different tools to run and optimise execution of internal processes
• Support media planning discussions regarding trafficking strategies and related measurement needs
• Support to keep knowledge base and client related documentation always up to date
• Stay aware of the latest technologies to improve agency offering

Skills

Tech interest in advertising

English proficiency

Data-driven mindset

Team player

Customer service oriented

Communication skills

Analytical mindset

Attention to detail

Curiosity to learn

Tools

JavaScript

HTML

JIRA

DMPs

CDPs

CRMs

MS Office

Job description

Havas Media Group Spain is seeking a Global Ad Operations Executive to join our Madrid hub. The role involves managing ad campaigns across CM, Sizmek and Adform, ensuring accurate trafficking and client-side tagging for international clients managed in Madrid.

The position requires 6+ months in digital/advertising tech, strong English, and a proactive, data-driven mindset. You will collaborate with planning, traders and tech partners to optimise campaigns and stay current with industry standards.