Digital Director

Media Planning, Implementation & Activation Istanbul, Turkey


Description

Position at GroupM

Qualifications:
  • +8 years experience in digital media.
  • Outstanding organisation, time management, prioritization, and multi-tasking skills
  • Able to build effective motivated teams and empowers individuals to be responsible for their work.
  • Experience in managing large projects
  • Significant proven experience of working with multiple stakeholders, e.g. vendors, clients.
  • Is a strong mentor and sets the bar for the digital team
  • Highly evolved presentation and facilitation skills
  • Manages own workloads and the work of others to ensure consistent delivery
  • Delegated both routine and important tasks and trusts people to perform them.
  • A highly energetic, positive, can-do person who is always seeking for ways to improve in what we do.
  • Excellent operational skills, a good relationship-builder, and a track record of a collaborative working style with different teams and colleagues.
  • English: Advanced level (must)
 
Responsibilities :
  • Gives the direction for overall digital strategy integrated to overall strategy with a varied portfolio of all digital channels and tactics to drive results.
  • Assists client teams and strategists while focusing on the overall media strategy and how digital can support to fulfill objectives and business targets e.g. Awareness, Engagement, CPA, or ROI
  • Ad hoc digital innovation projects (e.g. accelerator partnerships, cross-company digital technologies, JBP management, e-commerce , etc.)
  • Working closely in parallel with Project Director among campaign brief-de-brief processes to build appropriate media strategies and create innovative media projects by ensuring that media executions meets the campaign strategy and the KPI’S.
  • Assist annual strategy development and execution –media-led solutions to business problems, yearly media planning & defining the efficient investment levels for all communication channels
  • Assists strategy & planning teams for translating digital strategy into action plans to deliver best in market, data driven and effective integrated digital media campaigns
  • Leads the digital operations teams and oversees the delivery of the strategies and plans
  • Key contact for digital related topics for client’s media lead
  • Ensure that the appropriate technology and data is available to track performance against core KPI’s across all digital media channels
  • Ensure the digital channel approaches follow best practice set out by Specialist Leads (Search, Social, Programmatic, Direct, Partnerships), are in line with overall strategy and are deliverable and commercially viable
  • Support strategy teams to create ‘award winning’ cases, working with media partners and client
  • Work with specialist leads and media owners to identify new products/ad models/ad tech and features our clients should be testing
  • Produce case studies & best practices with global and local media partners.
  • Working integrated with WPP and the strategic partners determined by the agency.
  • Ensure best practice in client handling, media owner, inter-agency and internal relationships with other departments.