Manager, Reservation Buying, Media Delivery and Operations

About WPP Media 

WPP is the creative transformation company. We use the power of creativity to build better futures for our people, planet, clients and communities. For more information, visit wpp.com. 

WPP Media is WPP’s global media collective. In a world where media is everywhere and in everything, we bring the best platform, people, and partners together to create limitless opportunities for growth. For more information, visit wppmedia.com 

At WPP Media, we believe in the power of our culture and our people. It’s what elevates us to deliver exceptional experiences for both our clients and each other. In this role it will be critical to embrace WPP & WPP Media’s shared core values: 

• Be Extraordinary by Leading Collectively to Inspire transformational Creativity. 
• Create an Open environment by Balancing People and Client Experiences by Cultivating Trust. 
• Lead Optimistically by Championing Growth and Development to Mobilize the Enterprise. 

Role Summary & Impact

If you live and breathe digital marketing, we want to talk to you. We are looking for a Manager - Reservation Buying to develop, track and optimize digital marketing campaigns.

You should have a strong grasp of current digital ecosystem, platform and strategies and be able to lead targeted digital marketing campaigns from concept to execution. Digital marketing managers will work with the brand, agency business team, supporting, and vendors to launch campaigns on time and on budget. You’ll also be managing the KPI and performance trackers.

Reporting of the role

This role reports to the Business Group Head/Team Lead 

3 best things about the job:

1. Be part of one of the largest digital spending accounts
2. Chance to lead client conversations and thinking on non-biddable media limited not just to Facebook and Youtube but display too
3. A strong culture of test & learn – if you want to learn the effectiveness of a new tool, a new platform and want to apply the learning, you have to make a strong case for it, and the media team will help enable the test. Once the test is successful, your learnings and recommendations

In three months:

You should be able to plan, execute and present month on month display strategy for each brand, communicate and be on top of all non-biddable campaign metrics as well. Recommendation on overall brand content that helps brands achieve goals beyond campaign metrics. Build the quarterly media strategy for the brands you manage as well as manage at least 1 corporate project. You will also manage monthly connects with the client and customized planning requirements.

In six months:

You should be able to contribute to the annual planning and strategy process for all brands that you manage and help present the Non Biddable section to the internal strategy team and potentially to the client.

Have regular conversations with the publisher teams to improve account perform