Senior Display Investment Executive

**Company Description** Starcom is the Human Experience Company; we believe that our clients’ competitive advantage lies in understanding people better, and acting on that understanding faster than the competition. The future lies in bringing together media, creativity and data to create powerful experiences that will drive faster growth. We are the flagship Publicis Media agency to do this through our Power of One client teams that span clients such as Stellantis,P&G, Samsung, P&O and Visa. We work differently to most agencies and base many of our models on consultancy ways of working to build a more agile workforce in this hybrid world. We complement our account teams with Squads - small teams that work for a short period to solve a specificbrief. We hold cross discipline Sprints to crack client briefs at speed. These processes are designed to fuel high performance and fast results through collaboration. Even in this most challenging period, Starcom has had an exceptional 12 months. We have welcomed brilliant clients such as Stellantis, Ferrero, Axa, KP Snacks and E.ON into the fold. Our client satisfaction scores are among the highest in the market, significantlyabove agency norms. We place a huge focus on our team and have driven flagship D&I and L&D programmes within Publicis Media; our goal is to help every individual reach their fullest potential and we encourage everyone to make "Brave Plays" in how they approachtheir work and their own career development. As a result, we have an exceptionally energised and committed talent base, all of us proud of our welcoming and supportive culture, as evidenced by our recognition as one of Campaign’s Best Places to Work in 2021. Role: This is an exciting opportunity for a talented and experienced Display Manager to join our lively, ambitious, and collaborative Investment team. Reporting into the Display Investment Director, this role ultimately focuses on planning, executing and managing multiple campaigns across Print and Digital. A core part of the role also involves negotiation of campaign pricing and values, and tracking campaign delivery against specific client price, quality and audit targets. **Responsibilities**: The Display Manager reports into the Display Investment Director and is responsible for VISA, P&O and AXA’s day-to-day Display media activity (as well as print where relevant), planning and overseeing a campaign from brief to activation and review. You willhave line management responsibilities for 1 Senior Executive and 1 Executive. Core responsibilities of the role are: - Establish yourself as the key go to Display contact for your Clients and Senior Planning leads. - Ensure delivery of best practice planning and buying product. As Manager, you will have ultimate responsibility of all your teams’ output - strong rationales informed by data, rigorously thought out plans, accurate and insightful reporting, etc. - Ensure the delivery of performance objectives as well as pricing and quality KPIs. - Assist clients in building future facing programmatic solutions and ways-of-working. - Design measurement solutions that demonstrate the efficacy of campaigns. - Manage internal relationships with other Planning, Activation and internal specialists, as well as external relationships with clients, supplier partners and 3rd parties. - Act as a problem solver, not only in creating solutions for clients, but through identifying process fixes and better ways of working. - Proactively deliver insights, ideas, and innovation to clients, in the pursuit of both business results and award-winning campaigns. - Line management of juniors, with responsibility for their wellbeing, workflows, and learning and development (inclusive of appraisals). - Cascading best practice down to junior team members, inclusive of financial due diligence and completion of administrative tasks. - Contribution to New Business workflows (pricing grids, written submission, idea development and presentation, managing account transitions, etc.) **Qualifications** Key requirements for this role are: - Relevant experience in planning consumer facing Programmatic and Digital Campaigns (including performance). - Understanding of the programmatic digital marketplace, inclusive of ad-tech and programmatic opportunities (although programmatic trading experience is not a requirement). - Digital media experience within a managerial role will be beneficial. - Great negotiation skills and commercial appreciation. - Excellent relationships with media owners and 3rd party suppliers. - Well-versed in handling clients and multiple stakeholders such as direct client facing PCA presentations. - A proven record of consistently over-delivering on client objectives. - Experience in training / delegating work to more junior team members. - Experience delivering data driven marketing, including use and activation of client DMPs. - Advanced understanding of technology innovation, specifically mobile opportunities such as location, mobile payments and coupons, etc. - Experience of the print marketplace and ability to plan and run print campaigns