About us

SMG is one of the most exciting growth companies in the UK today. Home to three award winning agencies, Capture, Lobster and Threefold. At SMG, our people are at the heart of everything we do and are our biggest asset. We are proud to provide opportunities for fast career growth, recognising and rewarding great work, and doing this within an inclusive, highly flexible, and innovative environment.

We are dedicated to support our employees to be the best version of themselves both inside and outside of work. We’re have an extraordinary culture built by exceptional people and it’s because of this that we’ve been recognised as 2nd in Best Companies marketing and media's best agencies to work for, and we’ve just received our 3 star accreditation from Best Companies, making us a World Class company to work for.

Across the group, we have a shared mission to lead connected commerce marketing.

Read a summary of what each of our agencies do here!

The role

We are looking for a Programmatic Manager to join our Media team at SMG. You will help to build out SMGs programmatic strategy, as well as future-proofing our current offering. 

What you'll be doing

We pride ourselves on creating challenging and exciting opportunities, meaning that no two days are the same. However, here's an idea of what your responsibilities will look like:

• Lead and manage the day-to-day trading activities of the programmatic trading team.
• Provide support and guidance to two programmatic executives.
• Contribute towards our overall programmatic strategy, providing recommendations for innovations and future-proofing.
• Oversee pacing and performance of all campaigns managed by the team and implement QA process across all campaigns.
• Support client teams as in-house expert, when required, on client meetings or pitches.
• Own the end-to-end processes for the trading team, ensuring traders time is optimised.
• Be the programmatic expert within the agency and become the go-to person for queries and knowledge.
• Work together with programmatic executives to produce best in class brief responses and post-campaign analysis sessions.
• Help to source potential new partners within the industry and drive forward new innovations.
• Stay on top of industry trends and news and ensure SMG stays ahead of the market.

What you'll need to have / be

• Experience using advertising platforms to set-up, manage and optimise digital marketing campaigns. In-platform experience required.
• Ambitious and proactive in your approach, looking to accelerate the growth of the group by being able to create and/or improve processes whilst also working within a fast-paced nature.
• Strong data analysis ability.
• Teamwork and collaboration.
• Time management skills and capacity to prioritise and work across multiple projects and campaigns.
• Results driven with a problem-solving attitude.
• High attention to detail.

P.s. we try really hard to make sure that we list only essential criteria here, BUT if you think you can do an amazing job, yet don't have every single thing on this list, we'd still love to hear from you.

The best bits

Here at SMG we are dedicated to continuously reviewing and improving our benefits package to offer the best that we can for our people. We have a whole page dedicated to our benefits here, but here's some of our favourites...

💰 Generous discretionary bonus scheme

🧘‍♂️ £1,200 yearly wellbeing fund (on top of your salary!) towards your personal wellbeing and passions

🫶 4 additional Wellbeing Days - one to be taken each quarter, dedicated to focusing on your wellbeing

📚 £500 yearly “Uni Fund” towards learning and development

🎧 Free headspace subscription

🕐 4pm Friday finishes all year round

🥳 Two fully paid conferences a year at Summer & Winter, as well as a dedicated team that put on activities and celebrations throughout the year

The process

1. We will invite you to a first interview which we try to keep relatively informal, so it gives you the opportunity to share your authentic self. The hiring team will be looking to understand more about your experience and why you're interested in working with us.
2. There will be a second interview which will last a little longer, and involve some form of task to showcase your ability to do the role.
3. We then invite you to a meet & greet which is an opportunity for you to meet the team you'll be joining and ask them questions about the role and wider business.

🌟 Helping you shine 🌟

We are committed to helping you shine and show your full potential by making any changes you might need throughout your application. If you need an alternative way of applying for this role, support with understanding the role and its requirements, changes to be made to the way we hold our interviews, or anything else, then please reach out to us. You can either let us know on your application form or contact the people team to discuss how we can help on careers@shoppermediagroup.com.

🤝 SMG are proud to be an equal opportunities employer 🤝 

We are fully committed to providing equality in the workplace and ensure all opportunities for, and during employment, will be afforded to individuals fairly and irrespective of age, disability, gender, gender reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, race including colour, ethnic or national origins and nationality, religion or belief or sexual orientation ("the protected characteristics"). We want our organisation to reflect the diversity of our communities and we welcome applications from people from all backgrounds. More information on what we are doing can be found here.

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