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Programmatic Specialist
full-timeCape Town

Summary

Location

Cape Town

Type

full-time

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About this role

The purpose of this role is to collaborate with the Digital Performance teams across disciplines to develop and execute innovative and creative solutions and strategies for our clients across Programmatic platforms. This role requires you to develop best in class strategies and implementation across the Programmatic Performance disciplines on assigned clients.

Job Description:

Key responsibilities:

  • Advanced knowledge of audience segmentation and targeting strategies, including first-party data onboarding, lookalike modeling, and contextual targeting.
  • Advanced skills implementing and optimising via DV360 and other DSPs (e.g., The Trade Desk, Amazon DSP, MediaMath) and ad servers (e.g., Campaign Manager 360).
  • Familiarity with analytics platforms such as Google Analytics, Adobe Analytics, or similar for performance tracking and attribution modelling.
  • Leads innovation initiatives, testing new formats (e.g., CTV, audio, DOOH) and emerging technologies.
  • Develops and maintains playbooks for campaign setup, optimization, and reporting.
  • Creates Programmatic strategic and tactical plans with a focus on driving brand awareness through to conversion based objectives
  • Troubleshoots campaigns set up, tag management, brand safety set up, performance and pace fluctuations
  • Applies daily campaign pacing adjustments to deliver campaign budgets and performance
  • Builds/Delivers end of campaign evaluations in which campaign performance data is translated into key learnings for the agency and/or the client.
  • The trader can select the right KPI's and trends / insights for this campaign-end evaluation and can distil next steps for future campaigns
  • Maintains an in-depth knowledge of the Programmatic ecosystem, keeping up to date with new ad technology functionality and understanding the potential opportunities presented by specific technology
  • Works directly with the internal digital team to ensure all tracking is in place and mapping correctly and continuously monitor campaigns to ensure everything is serving correctly
  • Educates clients and internal stakeholders on programmatic capabilities, trends, and performance insights.
  • Responsible for the operational success of accounts, ensuring deliverables are met on time and on budget
  • Exports data from the ad server interface and combines it in a correct way with DSP data points if needed
  • Ensures both yourself and the team are skilled up across programmatic platforms
  • Working closely with the Senior Management Team to share improvement ideas, feedback on team & present results.

Client Service 20%

  • Managing media brand expectations
  • Deadline and Project management
  • Strategy guidance and input in order to drive the business objectives.
  • Responsible for the quality of work.
  • Attend key client and media brand meetings
  • Support and drive the teams in the development of key client growth strategies in line with broader business objectives, driving output and agency collaboration

Experience:

  • 3-5 Years: Mid

Location:

Cape Town

Brand:

Amplifi

Time Type:

Full time

Contract Type:

Permanent

Other facts

Tech stack
Audience Segmentation,Targeting Strategies,First-Party Data Onboarding,Lookalike Modeling,Contextual Targeting,DV360,DSPs,Ad Servers,Google Analytics,Adobe Analytics,Campaign Optimization,Brand Safety,Performance Tracking,Client Education,Data Exporting,KPI Selection

About dentsu

Merkle, a dentsu company, powers the experience economy. For more than 35 years, the company has put people at the heart of its approach to digital business transformation. As the only integrated experience consultancy in the world with a heritage in data science and business performance, Merkle delivers holistic, end-to-end experiences that drive growth, engagement, and loyalty. Merkle’s expertise has earned recognition as a “Leader” by top industry analyst firms, in categories such as digital transformation and commerce, experience design, engineering and technology integration, digital marketing, data science, CRM and loyalty, and customer data management. With more than 16,000 employees, Merkle operates in 30+ countries throughout the Americas, EMEA, and APAC.

Team size: 10,001+ employees
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Industry: Business Consulting and Services

What you'll do

  • The Programmatic Specialist will collaborate with Digital Performance teams to develop and execute strategies for clients across Programmatic platforms. Key responsibilities include audience segmentation, campaign optimization, and educating clients on programmatic capabilities.

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What does a Programmatic Specialist do at dentsu?

As a Programmatic Specialist at dentsu, you will: the Programmatic Specialist will collaborate with Digital Performance teams to develop and execute strategies for clients across Programmatic platforms. Key responsibilities include audience segmentation, campaign optimization, and educating clients on programmatic capabilities..

Why join dentsu as a Programmatic Specialist?

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Is the Programmatic Specialist position at dentsu remote?

The Programmatic Specialist position at dentsu is based in Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa. Contact the company through Clera for specific work arrangement details.

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