Senior Manager, Programmatic

OMD; City of London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading advertising agency seeks a Senior Manager to lead programmatic teams delivering campaigns for Tinder. This role involves managing team performance, client relationships, and developing effective media strategies. Candidates should have extensive programmatic marketing experience and a strong understanding of media agencies. The position offers a hybrid working model with flexible hours.

Benefits

Flexible working model

Collaboration in a supportive environment

Qualifications

• Extensive experience managing programmatic marketing/advertising accounts.
• Comfortable managing relationships with clients and colleagues.
• Proven experience applying programmatic buying to solve business challenges.

Responsibilities

• Lead high performing programmatic teams responsible for delivering activities for Tinder.
• Develop best in class programmatic recommendations with local teams.
• Oversee and support the output and workload of direct reports.

Skills

Programmatic buying evangelism

Campaign activation and optimization

Agency experience

Relationship management

Programmatic strategy development

Tools

TTD

DV360

OLV

Job description

OMD Greater London, England, United Kingdom

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About The Role

You’ll join the Programmatic team as a Senior Manager to lead high performing programmatic teams that are responsible for delivering Programmatic, Display and video activities for Tinder. Reporting into the Tinder Performance Director, this role will be the most senior Programmatic role within the team, with a Manager and Executive of Programmatic reporting into you. You will be responsible for overseeing and supporting this individual’s output and workload, and you will play a leading role in their personal development.

Tinder activates across DE, UK, FR, ES working closely with local In‑House Tinder teams to develop best in class programmatic recommendations that drive awareness, consideration and user acquisition further down the funnel. We are looking for an energetic, optimistic and creative problem‑solver Senior Manager to join our performance Tinder team at OMD EMEA. This covers liaison with clients on paid social campaigns across YouTube, TTD and CTV partners as well as supporting the specialist teams in campaign management including implementation, optimisation, analysis and insights building.

Our performance team is composed of very talented people who aim to deliver great work. We promote keeping a comfortable environment where hearing and testing out new ideas from everyone involved is encouraged and appreciated. We make sure to support each other where we can and aim to make our day to day enjoyable. You will be working closely together with the Social experts to create one digital strategy and ecosystem with room to learn and grow together.

About You

• To be a personal evangelist for Programmatic buying with a strong POV.
• Oversee activation and optimisation of Programmatic buying campaigns on a variety of platforms (TTD/DV360/OLV).
• Work with the wider performance team to deliver integrated media plans that drive the best results for the client.
• Have proven extensive experience managing programmatic marketing/advertising accounts.
• Have a good understanding of media agency business, either by working in or closely with an agency.
• Be very comfortable managing relationships with clients and colleagues and have experience managing people.
• Own areas of content on new business pitches and be ready to present your work.
• Have proven experience applying programmatic buying to solve business challenges.
• Take a leading role on developing the Programmatic strategy, including identifying relevant new betas and testing opportunities.

About The Agency

At OMD EMEA, we strive to deliver on our promise of better decisions, faster for our clients, partners and all 6,000+ OMDers across our region every day. As part of the world’s largest media network, our business is staging experiences for consumers who have more choice and less attention than ever before. The key to the process is empathy – empathy to see the world through the eyes of the consumer, to recognise the needs of our clients and to identify aspirations of our talent.

Learn Fast, Act Fast. To help navigate the road to a ‘new normal’, learning from, and acting upon data signals at scale and speed is crucial. Visit Why OMD? to learn more about our unique Act Fast Framework.

Our working pattern for colleagues is to be present in the office three days a week at our offices in London with the other days available to work remotely. Let us know if you have any questions about our working pattern as part of your application and interview process.

Flexible Working

At Omnicom Media Group, we are committed to supporting flexibility for our people while fostering collaboration, innovation and teamwork. We have a hybrid working model (three days in the office, two working remotely), to ensure that we meet the needs of both our people and our business, balancing the benefits of in‑person connections with the flexibility of remote working. Our standard working hours are 9:30 – 17:30, but we offer the ability to flex around core hours of 10:30 – 16:30 to give our people flexibility on how they manage their working day, whether that’s in the office or working remotely. For example, you could start work at 8:30 and finish at 16:30 or start at 10:30 and finish at 18:30.

We encourage open conversations between our people and managers to help navigate high‑need periods and individual circumstances. Our goal is to create an environment where people feel genuinely supported to do their best – both in their careers and in their lives outside of work.

Be Your Best

We want everyone to make the most of the opportunity to shine and showcase your talents and we are happy to make adjustments in the recruitment process so you can be your best. Please discuss any specific requirements with your dedicated Talent Team member or if you would feel more comfortable, you can email us confidentially at [e-mail] to let us know how we can support you.

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at OMG

At OMG, our vision is to be an agency where difference is valued and everyone is able to thrive in a culture of equality, inclusion and belonging. We are committed to providing a truly inclusive environment that reflects today’s society, where everyone is able to bring their true selves to work, and where diverse voices and backgrounds are valued, heard AND well‑represented.

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Job Details

• Seniority level: Mid‑Senior level
• Employment type: Full‑time
• Job function: Other
• Industries: Advertising Services