Senior Advertising Operations Manager
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The Senior Advertising Operations Manager plays the role of leading and overseeing the activities of the entire junior advertising operations department. The Senior Advertising Operations Manager has the responsibility to ensure the implementation of the most effective tools, platforms, and strategies in order to guarantee the success of all advertising initiatives by the department.
The Senior Advertising Operations Manager is responsible for the implementation, management, and coordination of the advertising processes and for providing constant support to the advertising operations activities of the business. He must, therefore, be extremely detail oriented, be technologically savvy, and have an ability to thrive in fast-paced environment.
Objectives and Responsibilities of the Senior Advertising Operations Manager
Management: The Senior Advertising Operations Manager plays a managerial role in the advertising operations department where he oversees all activities of the junior advertising operations department. In this position, the Senior Advertising Operations Manager plays a leading role in determining the tools and platforms to be applied by the department in all advertising efforts.
In this position, the Senior Advertising Operations Manager also plays the role of managing the recruitment of junior department personnel and aligning training plans in order to ensure the utmost effectiveness of the department. He also builds and delivers executive presentations and project briefs to the junior department as well as managing projects according to timelines and milestones.
Strategy: The Senior Advertising Operations Manager plays a strategic role, identifying departmental goals and KPIs along with the senior advertising operations personnel. Additionally, the Senior Advertising Operations Manager implements measurement and analytical tools that will aid in determining the strategic direction of the department.
He determines new and effective ways of delivering better advertising results and continues to evolve the business’s consumer experience in order to boost sales by playing a significant role in customer services, product pricing, and leveraging a blended approach in the sales advertising department that allows for deeper engagement, scalability, and high consumer retention rates.
Collaboration: The role of the Senior Advertising Operations Manager is a highly collaborative role. In this position, the Senior Advertising Operations Manager works with several cross-functional teams inclusive of the content production team with whom he ensures the production of high-quality advertising content and materials that are in line with the business’s overall goals and objectives. He also works closely with the business’s sales personnel in planning integrated deals that strike at unique business KPIs.
The Senior Advertising Operations Manager also works closely with the human resources department in assessing new recruitment necessities and criteria as well as identifying additional training needs for existing personnel for the purpose of ensuring consistent performance.
In this capacity, the Senior Advertising Operations Manager will also work with senior advertising operations management in troubleshooting any performance issues in the department and implementing solutions and strategies that will ensure excellent and continued performance in the department.
In this position, the Senior Advertising Operations Manager will also work closely with the marketing department in aligning marketing visions, efforts, and approaches in order to guarantee a unified front in the quest to achieve the business’s overall objectives and to deter any potential conflict of interests.
Analytics: The Senior Advertising Operations Manager plays an analytical role where he provides leveraged solutions, for example, DFP, Lyris, AdBook, Strongview, and Site Catalyst in executing, tracking, and analyzing advertising campaigns tools, identifying gaps or trends, and subsequently generating reports and proposals for new solutions and strategies. In this capacity, the Senior Advertising Operations Manager also reviews daily reports from junior advertising departments in order to guarantee on-time and accurate delivery of advertising campaigns.
Knowledge and Opportunity: It is also the Senior Advertising Operations Manager’s role to keep the business abreast of emerging industry trends, which ensure adherence to industry best practices and in turn enable the business to stay at par or even ahead of competition in the market. In this capacity, the Senior Advertising Operations Manager conducts research and attends industry events and seminars in an effort to find new ideas that lead to departmental operational efficiency and goal achievement.
Other Duties: The Senior Advertising Operations Manager also performs other duties as he deems fit in the smooth performance of his duties as well as duties delegated by the Head of Advertising Operations, Director of Advertising, Chief Sales Officer, or the Employer.
Required Qualifications of the Senior Advertising Operations Manager
Education: The Senior Advertising Operations Manager has to have a bachelor’s degree (master’s preferred) in sales, marketing, or any other business related field. An equivalent of this requirement in working experience is also acceptable for the position.
Experience: A candidate for this position must have had experience of over 5 years working in an advertising operations position, preferably working as an advertising operations manager. The candidate will also have had experience growing and scaling a team leading it from the conceptualization of a campaign idea all the way to the successful completion of that campaign.
A suitable candidate will have vast experience in the advertising industry, encompassing traditional advertising tools and platforms, for example, broadcast TV and radio. The candidate must also have vast experience in executing modern/digital/online ad campaigns.
Communication Skills: A Senior Advertising Operations Manager must have excellent communication skills in both written and verbal form. He must be an individual who is able to deliver executive-level presentations both externally and internally. Communication skills are a necessity for this position because the efficiency and effectiveness of the junior sales advertising personnel will be heavily influenced by the clarity of communications and instructions passed down to them by the Senior Advertising Operations Manager.
These skills are also important when it comes to drawing up reports, presentations, proposals, and advertising materials. These materials have to be clear, concise, unambiguous, and convincing. He must additionally be capable of tailoring the messages of these materials to suit the audience at hand in a manner that they can relate to and resonate with the best.
Ms Office/Software: The Senior Advertising Operations Manager must be highly proficient in the use of Ms Word, Ms Excel, Keynote, Outlook, WebEx, and PowerPoint necessary for the creation of visually and verbally engaging reports and presentations for senior advertising operations management and collaborating personnel as well as the creation of any necessary advertising materials.
The Senior Advertising Operations Manager must additionally demonstrate proficiency in the workings of HTML, XML, and Javascript as well as standard ad systems, such as AppNexus, Google DFP, and OpenX.
Technological Savvy/Analytical Skills: A candidate for this position must also be technologically adept. The world we live in has seen people incorporate technological appliances and communication systems into their day-to-day lives. In order for your business’s advertising efforts to have the kind of impact that promotes sales volumes and the achievement of targets, the Senior Advertising Operations Manager must also be highly technologically competent, showing high familiarity with digital advertising tools and platforms.
Additionally, the Senior Advertising Operations Manager must possess exceptional analytical skills, showing an ability to conduct performance analyses that lead to the formulation of more effective advertising strategies and solutions. He will also be highly proficient in the working of ad servers, for example, Atlas, Doubleclick, MediaMind, and so forth.
Interpersonal Skills: A suitable candidate for the position will have an ability to handle multiple projects with tight deadlines, be a self-driven creative thinker, have strong organizational and time management skills, and possess strong project management skills. He must also have high attention to detail, be self-motivated, have an ability to handle large volumes of work, have an ability to work comfortably in a cross-functional setting, be proactive going beyond his call of duty, and demonstrate composure in times of uncertainty and stress, inspiring the same in his team
People Skills: A candidate for this position must also have a strong ability to build meaningful and long lasting relationships with others making it easy for him to work in a highly collaborative setting with ease and efficiency. This will also earn the trust of the junior sales advertising operations management who will readily follow in his directives as well as that of the senior advertising operations management who will strongly consider his judgments and recommendations, making the execution of his duties that much easier.