Supervisor, Programmatic

Job Description

Who We Are  
Horizon Next is one of the industry's most innovative and data-driven marketing organizations and sits at the intersection of three constantly changing landscapes: people, data, and media. Our business provides strategic leadership to accelerate growth for our clients through brand strategy, media planning and investment, and best in class analytics across all channels. As the leader in innovative business solutions, we are always pushing ourselves to understand what’s next: our next innovation, our next advancement in analytics, the market’s next media evolution, and your next breakthrough idea. Horizon Next operates with the single goal that tomorrow must outperform today. 

At Horizon Next, we understand the value that different perspectives can bring to our clients and culture, so we strive for an environment where our employees feel welcomed, safe and empowered. We value YOU and believe that your authentic voice and unique perspective allows us to create a more rewarding culture, and experience, together.

Our simple recipe for success? We hire talented people (thinkers, doers, dreamers, makers), challenge them and give them every opportunity to grow.

What You’ll Do

The role of Supervisor, Programmatic seeks a confident, experienced programmatic subject matter expert who finds enjoyment in leading brainstorms for how to constantly evolve programmatic plans with new and impactful technological and partner solutions.  This person must be a natural teacher who likes to train and grow younger team members to understand the foundational tenets of programmatic planning and buying.    

Main Duties and Responsibilities: 

60% Account Management 

• Boundary pushing:  Responsible for architecting the time for impactful brainstorming and strategic thinking to happen; does not allow for copy and paste planning. 

• Technical strategy:  Leads development of pixel strategies as critical to allowing for measurement and performance to be granularly captured in order to allow for optimizations to be managed as intended. 

• Standard bearer:  Acts as first pass quality reviewer for DSP set up and QA to verify that in platform translation of plan is accurate and structured as needed. 

• Conductor:  Runs internal and external account status meetings for client book of business. Responsible for entry-level training and onboarding 

20% Strategic Planning & Optimizations 

• Testing, testing:  Drives identification of testing opportunities based upon extensive familiarity of landscape of providers across relevant solutions and opportunities being sought by clients. 

• Connective tissue:  Maintains understanding of what the client is doing outside of programmatic in order to facilitate tighter programmatic plans that contribute to holistic media effort and channel strategy.   

20% Learning & Development 

• Go to source:  Serves as subject matter reference expert for team members to consult in evaluating options and opportunities.  

• Train, train, train:  Manages entry level training and onboarding for thoroughness and consistency of growth of all future contributors.    

• Case and point:  Can operate out of the weeds in a way that every campaign is recognized as offering a narrative for case study development and can help with the articulation of campaign success for case study creation 

Supervisory Responsibilities:

Management responsibility for up to 3 Assistants, Associates or Senior Associates. 

Knowledge and Skills Required: 

• At least 3 years of in-platform programmatic experience 

• Advanced user of at least two DSPs  (The Trade Desk, DV360, Walmart Connect, Amazon, Yahoo.)  

• Must be a self-starter and exhibit advanced business maturity. 

• At least 1 year of management experience 

• Proven ability to develop/implement/improve business processes 

• Demonstrated ability to inspire critical and creative thinking 

• Proven ability to thrive in highly collaborative work environments as a solutions-oriented operator. 

• Preference to work on the disruptive side of business, with new technology 

• Strong knowledge of analytics concepts relevant to optimization 

• Advanced ability in Microsoft Excel expected. 

• Comfort level with being able to parallel path and work acro