Programmatic Specialist

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We are seeking a programmatic specialist  who is passionate about hands-on digital activation. You will be the technical backbone for the implementation, optimization, and reporting of digital media campaigns across a global client portfolio. This role is crucial for ensuring flawless execution, governance, and the strategic use of platforms within the digital ecosystem (Programmatic, If you are motivated by working with a diverse technology stack and collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to achieve business goals, this is the place for you.) 

• Campaign Activation & Execution: Build, implement, and execute campaigns across key platforms (DSPs, Ad Servers, Search & Social Platforms), ensuring proper tagging, trafficking, creative assignment, and targeting.
• Optimization & Performance: Monitor in-flight campaign health (budgets, pacing, and performance) and conduct optimization analysis to make proactive strategic adjustments.
• Data Analysis & Reporting: Create necessary reporting infrastructure, manipulate data in Excel/Google Sheets, analyze trends, and deliver actionable insights that answer client questions.
• Project and Client Management: Manage day-to-day PoC relationships, attend client meetings, troubleshoot campaign issues, and ensure Quality Assurance (QA) across all activation efforts.
• Governance & Process Adherence: Maintain an understanding of Monks' Media Resale & Activation services and ensure adherence to all internal processes (admin, billing, time tracking, and execution protocols).

• Experience: 3-5 years of professional experience in digital media buying, operations, or activation within an agency or in-house team.

• Platform Proficiency: Conceptual understanding of relevant MarTech and media platforms, alongside intermediate/executive-level ability to execute(Programmatic- Display)
• Ad Tech Tools: Experience with Ad Servers (Campaign Manager), DSPs (DV360, The Trade Desk)
• Reporting & Analytics: Familiarity with Looker Data Studio, Supermetrics, Google Analytics, and GTM.

• Problem Solving: Ability to identify, structure, and prioritize problems, leveraging data to inform solutions.
• Project Management & Ownership: Strong organizational skills to stay effective in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment. Ability to proactively ask questions when needed, taking initiative rather than waiting for explicit direction to begin tasks.
• Data Analysis & Insights: Proficient in manipulating data (formulas, pivot tables) and deriving clear, actionable insights.
• Communication & Facilitation: Ability to lead professional meetings with agendas/recaps and adjust message and tone based on the audience (internal/external).
• Self-Management & Adaptability: High resilience and ability to receive and implement feedback (explicit and implicit) for continuous performance improvement.

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About Monks

Monks is the global, purely digital, unitary operating brand of S4Capital plc. With a legacy of innovation and specialized expertise, Monks combines an extraordinary range of global marketing and technology services to accelerate business possibilities and redefine how brands and businesses interact with the world. Its integration of systems and workflows delivers unfettered content production, scaled experiences, enterprise-grade technology and data science fueled by AI—managed by the industry's best and most diverse digital talent—to help the world's trailblazing companies outmaneuver and outpace their competition.

Monks was named a Contender in The Forrester Wave: Global Marketing Services. It has remained a constant presence on Adweek's Fastest Growing lists , ranks among Cannes Lions' Top 10 Creative Companies and is the only partner to have been placed in AdExchanger's Programmatic Power Players list every year In addition to being named Adweek's first AI Agency of the Year (2023), Monks has been recognized by Business Intelligence in its 2024 Excellence in Artificial Intelligence Awards program in three categories: the Individual category, Organizational Winner in AI Strategic Planning and AI Product for its service Monks.Flow. Monks has also garnered the title of Webby Production Company of the Year , won a record number of FWAs and has earned a spot on Newsweek's Top 100 Global Most Loved Workplaces 2023.

We are an equal-opportunity employer committed to building a respectful and empowering work environment for all people to freely express themselves amongst colleagues who embrace diversity in all respects. Including fresh voices and unique points of view in all aspects of our business not only creates an environment where we can all grow and thrive but also increases our potential to produce work that better represents—and resonates with—the world around us.