Associate Director (Mensch) Programmatic Advertising
Düsseldorf, Germany
WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world's leading brands. With exceptional talent, trusted data and intelligence, and world-class partnerships – all united by our pioneering agentic marketing platform, WPP Open – we help clients navigate change, capture opportunity, and deliver transformational growth.
WPP Media is WPP's AI-driven media operating unit, bringing together media, data, and partnerships to deliver creative personalization at scale. Connected through WPP Open and powered by Open Intelligence, clients see exactly where, how, and why their media investment is working.
WPP stands for creative transformation. With the power of creativity, we shape a better future for our employees, our customers, our communities, and our planet. This is where WPP Media comes in: As a global media network of WPP, we unite the best platforms, talents, and partners to create new opportunities for limitless growth in a connected media world.
Das bieten wir dir:
- Work-Life-Balance: With our flexible working hours & remote work, you can shape your daily routine as you see fit. You can also balance out overtime.
- Vacation mode on: You receive 30 vacation days plus a flexible day – additionally, December 24th and 31st are off.
- Wellbeing first: Health benefits, attractive pension plans, and mental health awareness days put your health at the center.
- Practice makes perfect: Unfold yourself with our diverse training opportunities and use our internal career programs for your development in the WPP network.
- More than just a job: You can look forward to unforgettable events, employee discounts, and other highlights like the job ticket, wellhub, or the job bike.
- Be yourself: Everyone is welcome here – diversity and equal opportunities are close to our hearts.
Das bewegst du:
As
Associate Director (Mensch)
You will take care of leading a programmatic team and its organization as well as the development of the individual colleagues.
- Best-Practises: You regularly analyze campaign results and derive appropriate optimization measures from them. You ensure the implementation of existing best practices and develop them further together with the team.
- Monitoring: You keep an eye on ongoing campaigns in the DSPs and ensure clean setups and continuously optimized setups.
- Strategy: You support the selection of suitable target groups, technologies, and inventories for programmatic purchasing.
- Numbers understanding: You optimize the programmatic media purchase and always keep the relevant KPIs in sight. The goal is to reliably achieve agreed performance targets.
- Networking: You are the main contact person and work closely with specialist teams and external partners in an international environment.
Das zeichnet dich aus:
- Qualification: You have a completed university degree with a focus on marketing, media studies, or a comparable education and have approx. 3-5 years of professional experience in online marketing, preferably in the field of programmatic advertising, as well as several years of leadership experience as a team lead in ad management/operations or programmatic.
- Data & Tech: The digital media landscape (DSPs, data, inventories, ad & audience verification technologies, etc.) are not just terms for you, but multiple acquired experience values.
- Curiosity & Willingness to Learn: To always stay ahead, it is essential for you to be up-to-date in programmatic.
- Data Preparation: With your good structure (in Excel as well as PowerPoint), it is easy for you to convey complex matters in an easily understandable way.
- Language skills: You can communicate confidently in both German and English.
Furthermore, you are: motivating, communicative, solution-oriented
If you find this job exciting, we explicitly encourage you to apply, even if you cannot meet every qualification listed above.
Working at WPP Media:
At WPP Media, we shape the future of media and consistently invest in our employees.Every colleague enjoys the advantages of the global WPP Media and WPP network to develop further and learn at the forefront of marketing and advertising.We live diversity and cohesion through numerous employee resource groups and regular internal events – for exchange, inspiration, and celebrating our successes together.WPP Media is an employer that promotes equal opportunities.We consider all applicants for all positions without discrimination.
Our goal is a culture of respect and belonging, in which everyone has the same opportunities to contribute and grow professionally.
Please read our privacy notice for more information on how we process the information you provide.
Associate Director (Mensch) Programmatic Advertising
Düsseldorf, Germany
WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world's leading brands. With exceptional talent, trusted data and intelligence, and world-class partnerships – all united by our pioneering agentic marketing platform, WPP Open – we help clients navigate change, capture opportunity, and deliver transformational growth.
WPP Media is WPP's AI-driven media operating unit, bringing together media, data, and partnerships to deliver creative personalization at scale. Connected through WPP Open and powered by Open Intelligence, clients see exactly where, how, and why their media investment is working.
WPP stands for creative transformation. With the power of creativity, we shape a better future for our employees, our customers, our communities, and our planet. This is where WPP Media comes in: As a global media network of WPP, we unite the best platforms, talents, and partners to create new opportunities for limitless growth in a connected media world.
Das bieten wir dir:
- Work-Life-Balance: With our flexible working hours & remote work, you can shape your daily routine as you see fit. You can also balance out overtime.
- Vacation mode on: You receive 30 vacation days plus a flexible day – additionally, December 24th and 31st are off.
- Wellbeing first: Health benefits, attractive pension plans, and mental health awareness days put your health at the center.
- Practice makes perfect: Unfold yourself with our diverse training opportunities and use our internal career programs for your development in the WPP network.
- More than just a job: You can look forward to unforgettable events, employee discounts, and other highlights like the job ticket, wellhub, or the job bike.
- Be yourself: Everyone is welcome here – diversity and equal opportunities are close to our hearts.
Das bewegst du:
As
Associate Director (Mensch)
You will take care of leading a programmatic team and its organization as well as the development of the individual colleagues.
- Best-Practises: You regularly analyze campaign results and derive appropriate optimization measures from them. You ensure the implementation of existing best practices and develop them further together with the team.
- Monitoring: You keep an eye on ongoing campaigns in the DSPs and ensure clean setups and continuously optimized setups.
- Strategy: You support the selection of suitable target groups, technologies, and inventories for programmatic purchasing.
- Numbers understanding: You optimize the programmatic media purchase and always keep the relevant KPIs in sight. The goal is to reliably achieve agreed performance targets.
- Networking: You are the main contact person and work closely with specialist teams and external partners in an international environment.
Das zeichnet dich aus:
- Qualification: You have a completed university degree with a focus on marketing, media studies, or a comparable education and have approx. 3-5 years of professional experience in online marketing, preferably in the field of programmatic advertising, as well as several years of leadership experience as a team lead in ad management/operations or programmatic.
- Data & Tech: The digital media landscape (DSPs, data, inventories, ad & audience verification technologies, etc.) are not just terms for you, but multiple acquired experience values.
- Curiosity & Willingness to Learn: To always stay ahead, it is essential for you to be up-to-date in programmatic.
- Data Preparation: With your good structure (in Excel as well as PowerPoint), it is easy for you to convey complex matters in an easily understandable way.
- Language skills: You can communicate confidently in both German and English.
Furthermore, you are: motivating, communicative, solution-oriented
If you find this job exciting, we explicitly encourage you to apply, even if you cannot meet every qualification listed above.
Working at WPP Media:
At WPP Media, we shape the future of media and consistently invest in our employees.Every colleague enjoys the advantages of the global WPP Media and WPP network to develop further and learn at the forefront of marketing and advertising.We live diversity and cohesion through numerous employee resource groups and regular internal events – for exchange, inspiration, and celebrating our successes together.WPP Media is an employer that promotes equal opportunities.We consider all applicants for all positions without discrimination.
Our goal is a culture of respect and belonging, in which everyone has the same opportunities to contribute and grow professionally.
Please read our privacy notice for more information on how we process the information you provide.
