Ad Solutions Manager, Yahoo Creative, EMEA

Yahoo serves as a trusted guide for hundreds of millions of people globally, helping them achieve their goals online through our portfolio of iconic products. For advertisers, Yahoo Advertising offers omnichannel solutions and powerful data to engage with our brands and deliver results.

Yahoo Creative Mission

Deliver world-class advertising solutions through our creative and technical expertise to maximise value for our advertisers and partners.

Yahoo Creative is a full-stack global creative solution that allows advertisers to take full advantage of a team of creative experts to help scale their campaigns either across the Yahoo DSP or through unique proprietary formats across our range of iconic publishers. From pre-sales ideation to post-sales execution; the team supports everything in between including creative design, development, testing and implementation. The global, cross functional team protects and enables revenue while maintaining the integrity of the user experience across all Yahoo’s brands.

The Yahoo Creative EMEA Team & This Role

Within the Yahoo Creative organisation the Ad Solutions Manager provides full production support for a variety of ad products, with this particular role focused on supporting Yahoo proprietary formats & solutions that run across our Yahoo publishers. These products focus on providing the best in class creative solutions for our advertisers by combining rich immersive experiences with personalised targeting and customized measurement. Day to day responsibilities will include full end to end support for ad campaigns as they progress to launch and supporting the sales team with responses to briefs & connecting directly with clients.

This role is based in London and is hybrid, with a requirement to commute to the office each week, and to visit clients.

About You

• Highly motivated and independent
• Consultative approach to client objective fulfillment and relationship development
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills – you can make a clear case for what you're doing and why. You are comfortable and confident working with all sorts of people across many different roles, from sales to operations to developers
• Customer-service orientation and accountable can-do attitude
• Solid analytical, decision-making and problem solving skills
• Strong leadership and interpersonal skills – great team player
• Ability to work in a fast-paced and dynamic environment – you are well organized, have
• Excellent attention to detail, meet tasks on short deadlines and prioritize

About the Role

• Core function: End-to-End Project management of campaigns from asset collection through to delivery
• Technical Liaison between Sales, Media Agencies, Creative Agencies, and various internal teams to coordinate campaigns deliverables
• Review campaign briefs to identify how best to set up digital ad campaigns for success
• Organise kick-off calls with clients and other Yahoo employees to review creative specs, set campaign deadlines and make all participants aware of their deliverables
• Responsible for high value campaign launches, including technical setup of the campaign, in close communication with the Client, Sales Team, and internal developers.
• QA campaigns prior to launch and ensure it launches on time. Requires being on-call as necessary to troubleshoot campaign launch issues as needed.
• Ongoing monitoring of many aspects of the campaign, including troubleshooting and escalation of any problems that might occur.
• Reporting to clients and other team members to make campaign optimisation recommendations.
• Providing creative consultation services to clients throughout the campaign lifecycle.

The Ideal Candidate:

• Experience in online display advertising.
• Experience with a range of advertising solutions, including analytics.
• Experience with Rich Media, Video and Mobile platforms (DoubleClick, Celtra, Sizmek, Innovid, etc.).
• Entrepreneurial spirit, drive to take ownership and build a business.
• Strong desire to be on the cutting edge of online display advertising.
• Bachelor's degree with proven track record of success and leadership.
• Prior experience in Sales, Account Management, or any field requiring excellent communication,
• Thrives in an ever changing environment and eager to learn new tools and platforms as needed.

Yahoo is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, and will not be discriminated against based on age, race, gender, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability or any other protected category. Yahoo will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable law. Yahoo is dedicated to providing an accessible environment for all candidates during the application process and for employees during their employment. If you need accessibility assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability, please submit a request via the Accommodation Request Form (www.yahooinc.com/careers/contact-us.html) or call +1.866.772.3182. Requests and calls received for non-disability related issues, such as following up on an application, will not receive a response.

Yahoo has a high degree of flexibility around employee location and hybrid working. In fact, our flexible-hybrid approach to work is one of the things our employees rave about. Most roles don’t require specific regular patterns of in-person office attendance. If you join Yahoo, you may be asked to attend (or travel to attend) on-site work sessions, team-building, or other in-person events. When these occur, you’ll be given notice to make arrangements.

If you’re curious about how this factors into this role, please discuss with the recruiter.

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