Job Description

About the role The Media Activation team is responsible for providing thoughtful and exciting recommendations for Search, Social, Display, and Video, owning supplier relationships, and then executing those recommendations expertly. The Media Activation team leverages their mastery of each channel to make sure its recommendations are consistently excellent and innovative, and that in-channel performance and data integrity is maximized.
Some of the thing's we'd like you to do:

• Support the day to day delivery of client campaigns, including supporting the wider activation team in planning and executing to ensure exceptional quality control and timely campaign delivery
• Act as a key channel expert to support the activation lead in updating clients on campaign performance
• Be able to communicate with clients and provide useful insight on your specialist channels
• Ownership and monitoring of campaign performance to provide proactive, strategic and tactical optimizations in order to hit campaign targets
• Effectively manage client deliverables to deliver on time and on target
• Craft actionable insights for weekly and quarterly reports and support the end of month/quarter campaign wrap ups for the Display channels under your remit
• Regularly contribute to media best practices and campaign processes
• Develop and execute rigorous testing plans
• Manage the successful task delegation of work for 1-2 junior team members

A bit about yourself:

• Excellent English communication skills, both verbal and written
• Approximately 3-5 years experience in a digital media agency
• Specialization in Display channels (Google Adwords TrueView, GDN, Apps Campaigns (Ace and ACi) etc.)
• Experience with planning and running larger-scale paid media display campaigns across multiple markets
• Strong understanding of optimization levers & testing approaches for performance campaigns
• Doubleclick or Adwords certification
• Proficiency in Excel (Pivot Tables, VLookups, etc)
• A passion for everything digital, with an active interest and understanding of online advertising industry trends
• Great analysis skills (including quantitative analysis) and proven critical thinking capability
• Proven experience managing people/teams

What you can expect from Essence Essence’s mission is to make advertising more valuable to the world. We do this by employing the world’s very best talent to solve some of the toughest challenges of today’s digital marketing landscape. It’s important that we hire people whose values reflect those of our own: genuine, results-focused, daring and insightful. As an Essence employee, we promise you a workplace that invests in your career, cares for you and is fun and engaging. We believe these factors create a workplace where you can be yourself and do amazing work.