Advertising Operations Director #21-279
Advance Local
New York, NY
Full-time
Administration / Clerical
Posted on September 8, 2021
As an Advertising Operations Director with Advance Local, you'll be responsible for overseeing team execution of virtual campaigns, achieving KPI's on accounts and revenue goals. You'll serve as a product expert with the deepest platform capabilities and you'll use your knowledge of industry trends to follow through on empowerment of market expertise.
What you'll be doing:
- Oversee a team of analysts, providing consistent coaching and development on platforms, optimization techniques, and best practices, for continued career growth
- Provide oversight of digital campaign executions assigned to Regional and Virtual support teams within Display, Video and Content
- Conduct "in-the-trenches" collaboration, developing effective go-to-market strategies with sales SME partners.
- Support sellers, predominantly backend, with the goal to empower knowledge to those locally on client calls requiring more technical and strategic insight to help progress a revenue deal or maintain 85% retention levels
- Further your role as a Product Innovation Leader by joining vendor Quarterly Business Reviews, and take the lead on providing key solution performance and platform learnings back to the entire Operations team to be shared with market leadership
- Attend at least one annual industry event and/or provide updates on industry specific readings, reviewing the key learnings monthly
- Push new boundaries of platform capabilities in lift studies and A/B Campaign tests
- Lead designated innovation segment in monthly collaboration meetings to discuss solutions, best practices, and innovations to knowledge-share and brainstorm with Operations Director peers
Our ideal candidate will have the following:
- Bachelor's degree preferred, or equivalent combination of training and experience
- Minimum 5 years' experience and Subject Matter Expertise in product development and knowledge in Display/Video/Content, including 3 years experience managing product teams
- Organizational skills to manage process flows and employee performance across multiple locations
- Ability to manager and direct the large picture of providing virtual support across multiple markets, yet detailed enough to provide continuous improvement to process flows and customer support
- Proven ability to manage vendor relationships for outsourced production
- Demonstrated ability to manage a team towards successful attainment of defined KPI's
- Ability to prioritize, multi-task, handle pressure and work under deadlines
- Proven attention to detail for own work of others
- Solid PC skills including proficiency with MS Office Suite, PowerPoint & Excel
Advance Local Media offers competitive pay and a comprehensive benefits package including generous paid time off, flexible holidays and parental leave as well as options for your healthcare.
Advance Local Media, one of the largest media groups in the United States, which operates the leading news and information companies in more than 20 cities, reaching 58+ million people monthly with our quality, real-time journalism and community engagement. Our company is built upon the values of Integrity, Customer-first, Inclusiveness, Collaboration and Forward-looking. For more information about Advance Local, please visit www.advancelocal.com.
Advance Local Media includes MLive Media Group, Advance Ohio, Alabama Media Group, NJ Advance Media, Advance Media NY, MassLive Media, Oregonian Media Group, Staten Island Media Group, ZeroSum, The Alpha Group, Headline Studio, PA Media Group, and our Enterprise Digital Innovation team.
Advance Local Media is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, encouraging applications from people of all backgrounds. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, genetic information, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, marital status or any other category protected under federal, state or local law.
REQ ID: 21-279