Ad & Programmatic Operations Executive

Footballco; London; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

Footballco, a leader in football media, is seeking an Ad & Programmatic Ops Executive in London. This role involves overseeing ad campaigns across various platforms, requiring strong organizational and communication skills. Ideal candidates will have a proactive attitude and some operational experience in media or ad tech.

Qualifications

• 0-2 years in operations role at a publisher, media owner or ad tech vendor.
• Experience with Google Ad Manager and/or SSPs/ad tech vendors.
• Highly organized, with the ability to prioritise.

Responsibilities

• Support set up, monitoring, and analysis of campaign performance.
• Conduct regular discrepancy checks & troubleshoot technical issues.
• Deliver campaign reports and regular metric based reporting.

Skills

Problem solving

Attention to detail

Communication

Time management

Interpersonal skills

Tools

Google Ad Manager

Excel

Google Analytics

Job description

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Global Head of Talent Acquisition @Footballco

Footballco is the world's leading football media company, built for the next generation of fans. Our mission is to give fans more of the game by building football communities that entertain, inform, and inspire action. We cover everything in football from news and analysis, original reporting, and social media content, to web stores, video, podcasts, newsletters, and live scores. With over 3 billion video views per month, 100 million social followers globally, and a reach of 650 million across web, social, and video platforms, Footballco is the world’s largest football media company and one of the largest digital media companies in sport globally.

About The Role

Footballco is seeking an Ad & Programmatic Ops Executive to work across two teams that are responsible for the successful delivery of revenue across direct sold campaigns and indirect revenue. You will support the set up, monitoring, and analysis of campaign performance, across display, video and app that run across Footballco’s portfolio of websites. You will also work closely with the programmatic team on implementing new partners and driving revenue. This role will need to handle multiple requests from different teams internally so attention to detail and organisational skills are imperative. The ideal candidate would be an excellent communicator with an aptitude and hunger to learn new technologies and a proactive approach.

What You'll be doing:

• Work with various internal departments to implement and oversee the delivery of ad campaigns across display, video and app
• Test, traffic and troubleshoot new creatives and 3rd party tracking
• Proactively optimise campaigns at regular intervals and communicate delivery concerns
• Provide internal and external technical support for campaign related issues
• Conduct regular discrepancy checks & trouble-shoot any technical issues
• Deliver campaign reports and regular metric based reporting to all areas of the business
• Reconcile delivery figures and handle any additional billing queries
• Support the technical implementation of programmatic and ad tech integrations across Footballco’s portfolio
• Manage and prioritise own workload, take ownership of all assigned tasks and provide output within the deadlines
• Identify and escalate issues ahead of time to help reduce financial implications

What you have:

• 0-2 years in an operations role at a publisher, media owner or ad tech vendor
• Ability to multi-task
• Experience with Google Ad Manager and/or SSPs/ad tech vendors
• Problem solving approach and the ability to think critically
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Highly organised, with the ability to prioritise and efficient in time management
• Positive, proactive attitude and enthusiastic
• High Attention to detail, accuracy, and reliability
• Significant proficiency in Excel
• Some experience using debugging tools, such as Charles & Fiddler (not essential)
• Use of analytics tools (e.g., Google Analytics, Core Web Vitals)
• Experience working with OMS/CRMs

Footballco is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, and will not be discriminated against based on age, race, gender, colour, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability or any other protected category.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Not Applicable

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Advertising and Consulting

• Industries

  Internet Publishing and Technology, Information and Media

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