Senior Associate, Partnerships

GroupM Nexus brings together 9,000 practitioners globally across ad ops, addressable content & TV, AI, commerce, programmatic, search and social, among others, to deliver transformational outcomes across digital channels and platforms and create exciting new career paths for our people. GroupM Nexus is the world's largest performance engine that integrates paid, owned, and earned to deliver true business outcomes for our clients.        Position Overview              The Partnerships Senior Associate is a core member on a dynamic, solutions-oriented team. As a Senior Associate on the Partnerships team, you will work alongside other Digital Media and Artificial Intelligence experts to drive results for our clients while seizing every opportunity to develop expertise and advance your career in programmatic media.                This position will report to the Manager of Partnerships, Headlight.                         Responsibilities             

• Become proficient in all programmatic media platforms utilized within the first year.     
• Grow knowledge of the programmatic ecosystem while developing a detailed understanding of internal best practices. 
• Collaborate with the team to draft, issue, and evaluate partner RFPs.     
• Manage the creation, implementation, and tracking of digital media supply pipes.     
• Responsible for reporting partner spending on a monthly cadence.     
• Maintain relationships with media vendors including emails, requests, and meetings.     
• Support team leadership on industry research trends and creation of Headlight points of view.     
• Deepen industry knowledge through trade journals, workshops, and current events.      

Qualifications             

• 1+ years working within Programmatic, Paid Search, Paid Social, Ad Operations, Digital Analytics or Digital Planning.
• Good verbal and non-verbal communication skills.     
• Demonstrate critical thinking and problem-solving skills.     
• Comfortable with technology and a willingness to learn and try new marketing platforms.     
• Strong analytical skills and an aptitude for storytelling with data.     
• Ability to analyze data points and identify patterns or further questions that need to be answered.     
• Proficiency in Excel (Pivot Tables, VLOOKUP formulas, etc.) and basic math concepts (weighted average, algebra).      
• Experience with Media Planning and Programmatic campaign management in DSPs such as DV360, The Trade Desk, or Xandr is a plus but not required.     

Life at GroupM    Our passion for shaping the next era of media includes investing in our employees to help them do their best work, and we’re just as committed to employee growth as we are to responsible media investment. GroupM employees can tap into the global GroupM & WPP networks to pursue their passions, grow their networks, and learn at the cutting edge of marketing and advertising. We have a variety of employee resource groups and host frequent in-office events showcasing team wins, sharing thought leadership, and celebrating holidays and milestone events. Our benefits include competitive medical, vision, and dental insurance, significant paid time off, preferential partner discounts, and employee mental health awareness days.           GroupM is WPP’s media investment group and the world’s leading media investment company with a mission to shape the next era of media where advertising works better for people. The company is responsible for more than $60 billion in annual media investment, as measured by the independent research bureau COMvergence. Through its global agencies Mindshare, Wavemaker, EssenceMediacom, and mSix&Partners, and cross-channel performance (GroupM Nexus), data (Choreograph), entertainment (GroupM Motion Entertainment) and investment solutions, GroupM leverages a unique combination of global scale, expertise, and innovation to generate sustained value for clients wherever they do business. Discover more at www.groupm.com.       GroupM provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees without regard for factors such as race, religion, national origin, colour, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, protected veteran status, disability, or other protected status.       GroupM is committed to providing reasonable accommodation to, among others, individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans. If you need an accommodation because of a disability to search and apply for a career opportunity with GroupM, please send an e-mail to carmen.serrano@groupm.com or call (212) 297-8507 and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.            The base salary for this position at the time of this posting may range from $45,000 to $90,000. Individual compensation varies based on j