Digital Campaign Manager

Octave: A premium, data-fuelled video and audio monetisation business, leveraging world class talent, brands, rights and content from News Broadcasting across multiple platforms. Octave is powered by Nucleus, News UK’s award winning next generation data platform connecting brands with their audiences in premium environments delivering market leading results.

Your Role: Reporting into the Head of Ad Operations, this role will manage our digital audio campaign delivery. The role will work across all News Broadcasting brands including talkSPORT, Virgin Radio, Times Radio and Talk.

Day to day you will:

• Be responsible for all aspects of digital audio campaign fulfilment including trafficking, troubleshooting, reporting, optimization, billing and reconciliation.
• You will proactively identify opportunities to improve campaigns, whether through changes to configuration, or through optimisation of placements & audiences.
• Liaise with the wider sales team pre-sale, to ensure campaigns are booked on correctly and adhere to Ad Ops’ SLA’s.
• Co-ordinate copy allocation via JET and manual upload to the adserver, adhering to copy rotation instructions.
• Track campaign delivery on a daily basis to ensure campaigns deliver in full and on time.
• Communicate any potential under-deliveries to relevant sales teams and clients, and proactively plan steps to mitigate under-delivery risks.
• Create and send delivery reports and EOC reports to clients and agencies in a timely manner.
• Assist the Client Services team with gathering stats/recommendations for PCA’s.
• Meticulously check campaign bookings in the OMS to ensure all relevant information is captured before trafficking.
• Analyse delivery trends, especially for podcast campaigns to ensure smooth pacing is achieved.
• Keep abreast of campaign/brand clashes/sponsorships to ensure no breaches occur.
• Liaise with the Client Services team on all podcast host read activations, to ensure workflow nuances per show/supply partner is adhered to.

What we’re looking for from you:

• Passion for media, technology and advertising, with experience in Ad Operations, either at a publisher, agency or ad tech company.
• Experience as a campaign manager or ad trafficker in the digital space - preferably in audio.
• Knowledge and understanding of the programmatic landscape, DSP’s/SSP’s/PMP’s etc.
• Advanced technical knowledge of digital formats across display, video and audio.
• Meticulous attention to detail.
• Process driven individual with the ability to instill Ad Ops processes to the wider business.
• Demonstrable experience of adhering to creative and copy guidelines e.g. Ofcom/ASA/Radiocentre etc.
• Team player with the ability to work independently across your patch of campaigns/sales members.
• Experience of using ad servers - preferably Audioserve (Adswizz)
• Advanced knowledge of Excel and reporting experience for digital campaigns; including commentary and optimisation recommendations.
• Wider knowledge of other media channels and their value within the digital sphere.
• Excellent time management skills, being able to manage multiple campaigns and timelines at once.

Life at News

Driven by passion, guided by principles and acting with purpose. We represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter. We inform our audiences so that they can make decisions based on trusted information.

To do this, we believe our employees must represent different backgrounds, perspectives and experiences. We strive to maximise and encourage every individual’s potential and ensure everyone feels valued. We support this through our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Strategy, which focuses on three main priorities - attracting talent from a wider, more representative pool, developing equity programmes to drive better representation in our leadership, and ensuring diversity and inclusivity in our workforce as well as the journalism and content we produce. We also currently have 12 employee led networks and groups that support our strategy and connect like minded employees socially.

Benefits

Some of our benefits include:

• Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & paternity leave up to 2 weeks
• Wide range of training available, plus full LinkedIn Learning access
• Private medical insurance including coverage for pre-existing conditions
• Discounted gym memberships, free ClassPass at Home, weekly virtual yoga classes
• ‘Bikes for Work’ and ‘Electric Car’ scheme
• Up to 60% discount on Harper Collins books
• Access to exclusive events and competitions with exciting brands such as talkSPORT, Virgin Radio UK & The Times. Weekly virtual panel chats with top journalists and celebrities
• Access to wellbeing benefits such as EAP, physio/massage and counselling
• A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%
• 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays and up to 4 volunteering days per year

We want to ensure that everyone has the opportunity to perform to their best when applying for a role. If you would like to receive any information in a different way or for us to do anything differently to support you apply for any of our roles please contact us on [email protected].