About Performics:

Are you ready to re-invent digital marketing?  At Performics, we’re accelerating the great missions of our clients—brands like Allstate, Toyota, Verizon, American Express, and Kohl’s—in the ever-evolving world of search engine marketing, display media, social media, and affiliate marketing. 

If you’re ready to move at the speed of Google, Facebook, and Twitter, have an entrepreneurial spirit, and get excited about finding smarter ways to do things, we’d love to meet you.  We’ll give you the tools, support, and freedom to lead, innovate and grow.  Advertising Age, Crain's, and Tribune have named Performics a "Best Place to Work," and Forrester Research dubbed us one of 2012's "Top Digital Agencies."  We hire exceptional people for our global headquarters in Chicago and U.S. locations in Atlanta, Los Angeles, New York, Seattle, and San Francisco.  Our international presence spans 31 markets (and growing) including regional hubs in London and Singapore.

Overview:

The Media Manager (MM) is responsible for leading the success of clients’ online biddable media campaigns by providing thought leadership on campaign strategies and optimization, and building strong relationships, and establishing clear lines of communication with clients, partners, and internal staff members. The MM is analytical and uses problem-solving capabilities to assure flawless program execution to meet and exceed stated objectives.

Role Objectives:

Account Management

•  Assumes accountability and ownership of multi-channel biddable media campaign successes and failures for several client accounts
• Monitors and reports program financials, budgets, and fees to senior management
• Interfaces with other department leads to share ideas, communicate service offerings, and identify and deliver new solutions for clients
• Keeps management apprised of key client opportunities, potential risks, and other key nuances which affect the health of the business

Program Management

• Directs and manages the daily workflow of all client programs, including initiation and management of projects across departments
• Reviews client deliverables for quality and ensures that recommendations and work products are sound and viable
•  Creates and executes digital account strategies and plans for each client
• Effectively manages the delivery of creative assets, ad trafficking, insertion orders, campaign artifacts, and all relevant campaign documentation in preparation for the campaign launch
• Understands multi-channel optimization best practices and articulates knowledge and client deliverables effectively
• Provides excellent communication via phone, emails, and direct contact
• Effectively creates and delivers client presentations
•  Provides thought leadership to clients
•  Commands data analysis of key metrics to identify, recommend and implement changes for increasing the performance of client programs
•  Works with media partners to ensure accurate platform implementation
• Meets specified deadlines

Team Leadership & Development

• Embraces and encourages a culture based on teamwork, collaboration, and intellectual curiosity
• Adopts stated account management standards and program management best practices
• Assists in training, mentoring and developing team members
• Reverse mentoring with another colleague of a different channel expertise

Process Improvement

Assists in the development and documentation of best practices for improving operational efficiencies within the team and the group

Minimum Qualifications:

•  Bachelor’s degree, concentration in business, marketing, or advertising preferred
• 2-3 years experience in a media agency environment, ideally focusing on programmatic
• Experience working with DSP and other biddable platforms preferred
• MediaOcean (Prisma) experience preferred
• Demonstrated problem solving and project management skills
• High competency level in MS Office with specific strengths in Excel
• Able to work independently and balance multiple tasks

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.