Digital Manager

Goodstuff; Greater London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Goodstuff is seeking a Digital Manager in Greater London to lead planning, buying and optimisation across display, social and video. You will manage a Digital Executive, develop their skills, and act as a primary client contact for a growing portfolio.

Reporting to the Digital Director, you’ll drive efficiency and strategic insights. You will negotiate with media partners, deliver performance reports, and ensure campaigns meet client KPIs while keeping up with latest product updates and

Qualifications

• Proven digital advertising experience across multiple channels.
• Strong understanding of display, video and paid social campaigns.
• Experience with ad servers, pixels/tracking and brand safety tools.

Responsibilities

• Manage delivery of planning, buying and in-flight optimisation across display, social and video to hit client KPIs.
• Oversee briefing responses, client communication and campaign trafficking with the Digital Executive.
• Lead client relationships and day-to-day contact with a portfolio; set objectives and develop the team.
• Deliver reports with insightful commentary and post-campaign analysis.

Skills

Campaign planning

Display advertising

Video advertising

Paid social

Ad servers & brand safety

Data analysis & reporting

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

This is a special opportunity for a brilliant candidate to join the Digital team as a Digital Manager.

The successful candidate will be directly responsible for brief responses, campaign implementation and planning & buying across a range of channels, in addition to the management, training, and development of a Digital Executive. Externally, much of this role will be client facing. This is a great opportunity for the right candidate to become a key point of contact for clients across their team’s current portfolio.

Reporting to Digital Director.

• Manage the delivery of best in class planning, buying and inflight optimisation - primarily across display, social and video - to ensure that client KPIs are hit.
• Ensure campaigns are trafficked correctly (with the assistance of the Digital Executive), with any additional client-specific tracking requirements adhered to.
• Lead response to briefs from clients with support from the Digital Director.
• Direct liaison and management of client relationships including leading the day-to-day contact with a client portfolio.
• Holistic line management and development of a Digital Senior Executive and Digital Executive, including active management and objective setting.
• Be responsible for the implementation and control of both new and existing processes within the team to ensure efficiency of delivery.
• Assist when required with booking and reconciliation, including support on finance queries.
• Keep up to date with the latest product updates and betas from key partners and innovate with them across the client portfolio on relevant campaigns.
• Being able to negotiate value for clients with our media partners.
• Deliver client reports along with high standard commentary and insights to the client on a regular basis, including responsibility of post campaign analysis.
• Maintain strong media owner relationships with existing partners and explore new emerging tech
• Assist the team in identifying new potential opportunities for clients with sound supporting data
• Instil Digital Director with confidence and trust to manage their own tasks and responsibilities for the above

The requirements

• Proven experience in digital with a detailed grasp of tech – ideally including display, video, paid social channels, adservers and brand safety partners.
• Good understanding of how other channels interact with Digital (eg PPC, SEO)
• Confident, clear, and concise communication both verbal and written
• Helpful, friendly and proactive attitude
• Strong attention to detail
• Highly numerate with a passion for data
• Team player – support the wider digital team proactively and positively
• Comfortable with Microsoft Office, particularly Excel and PowerPoint
• Be able to construct a basic presentation with strong narrative
• Organised – managing a portfolio of different clients
• Advanced organization skills and excellent time management
• Works at pace, with the ability to work to and deliver against set and often tight deadlines
• Be able to listen and apply regular feedback and training, take personal responsibility for own development (ample development of craft skills and soft skills will be provided)
• Ability to think around problems and get to inventive solutions
• Embodies and inspires the Goodstuff values

Made of different stuff

Goodstuffers are a group of individuals made of different stuff. Collectively we shine in support of our mission: to be the World’s most inventive media agency. Our invention is born out of divergent thinking in an inclusive environment which comes together to create something truly original and good. Truly Goodstuff.

To support this, we have an Equal Opportunities Policy; except we call ours the Do the Right Thing Policy. It’s simple. We believe in fairness. That means, first and foremost, we recruit on merit and ability. We treat each other, fairly, with dignity and respect – we give a shit. We create an inclusive environment in which everyone belongs. When we recruit, promote, train, or reward we do that on the basis of aptitude and ability. We help and encourage everyone at Goodstuff to realise their full potential.

Any form of discrimination or harassment, less favourable treatment, or victimisation based on age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership status, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation will not be tolerated.