Rob
Sales Director, UK
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Sales Director, UK
mediasmart
2023.11-Current(2 years)
(1 year 7 months)
Lead the UK Sales division for mediasmart, an omnichannel demand-side
platform, focused primarily on CTV (with Household Sync), Mobile, and DOOH;
leverages online and offline behavioral signals to better target users across
devices
• Develop strategy for UK expansion to land CTV-first value proposition with
major partners and agencies (CTV platform of the year 2023 in Asia)
UK Agency Country Lead
EMX by Big Village
2021.12-2023.11(2 years)
Focused on the EMEA expansion of the EMX SSP and the launch of CTV
across this region.
Account Director, Buyer - UK & Nordics
Magnite
2019.12-2021.12(2 years)
(2 years 1 month)
Responsible for revenue growth across Magnite DV+ and CTV for Display,
Audio, Video, CTV and DOOH.
Helping clients to build for programmatic success by leveraging Magnite's tech
and expertise across key areas including Marketplaces, Cookieless Solutions,
Supply Path Optimisation, Transparency and CTV.
Digital & Programmatic Lead
Active International
2015.05-2019.12(5 years)
5 years 10 months
(4 years 8 months)
Responsible for the development and growth of the digital division of Active
International.
Digital Trading Manager
Active International
2014.03-2015.05(a year)
(1 year 3 months)
Seek is the newly created digital platform of Active International, a global
Barter agency working alongside a number of top UK agencies and blue chip
clients with a focus on Trading media spend. Seek can deliver a full range
of barter solutions in Display, Mobile, Video and Social in the programmatic
buying market using investments in Technology and Data providers and top
tier publishers.
- Key Responsibilities
• Develop, recommend and implement individual sales strategies for
Advertisers and Agencies that are consistent with company objectives.
• Generate increased revenue from utilising existing, and cultivating new
relationships with agencies and clients.
• Partner with internal teams to identify opportunities within the existing
agencies/client contacts.
• Responsible for negotiating and completing sales contracts with the support
of Finance, Legal and Media.
• Provide internal reports on business commitments when directed.
Account Management
• Manage the relationship with our tech partners (DSPs, SSPs) with agencies
and with clients. Liaise with and know the offering of our DSPs to offer the best
solutions and create timely RFP responses.
• Take accountability for Campaign Performance and Campaign Optimisation
providing feedback and insight to agencies and advertising through detailed
reporting.
• Understand digital media trends and buying patterns in the programmatic
buying space.
• Continuously learn and keep up to date with new developments in the ad
trading landscape
Associate Director
M&C Saatchi Mobile
2012.10-2014.02(a year)
(1 year 5 months)
As a Director of one of the media divisions, I would continually endeavour to
drive integrated solutions that offer creativity, innovation and most importantly,
commercial accountability for all our clients. Using our depth of experience in
this channel we provide strong strategic solutions in response to our client's
objectives whilst maintaining an unyielding drive to achieve a positive ROI.
- Key Responsibilities
• Objectively recognising and understanding needs of clients and developing
strategic routes to market which fulfills, and exceeds, the clients KPI’s.
• Advising the account management team and clients on the most effective
media combination.
• Ability to analyse results, identifying and explaining variance from goals.
• Proactively negotiate the best rates, adjusting media schedules in response
to the latest market figures.
• Responsible for collating and presenting monthly, quarterly and annual
reviews to clients.
• Ensuring financial and reporting obligations are met in a timely and accurate
manner – reconciliation, end of month spend data, weekly/monthly reporting
and results analysis.
• Being best placed to offer creative and innovative solutions by maintaining a
keen interest in market/supplier developments.
• Building strong relationships with clients, publishers and internal teams on a
global level.
• Responsible for the management, growth and development of a team of 9
staff including; Planner/Buyers, Account Executives and Interns.
Digital Buying Manager
ZenithOptimedia Group I The ROI Agency
2011.01-2012.10(2 years)
(1 year 10 months)
As part of a fast-paced Digital team within a leading London agency, I gained
invaluable experience by progressing to Buying Manager and working with
both clients and suppliers on a daily basis to ensure the optimum management
of campaigns spanning, display, video, mobile and social media.
- Key Responsibilities
• All digital implementational planning and buying including display, VOD,
mobile and social.
• Deliver best price and quality within day-to-day negotiations.
• Deliver auditor/client targets and contribute towards agency deal delivery and
media owner incentive optimisation.
• Liaise with planners to deliver optimum scheduling and placements.
• Maintain and grow working relationship with planning teams, suppliers and
auditors.
• Responsibility for bookings on Adazzle, traffic, tracking and reconciliation.
• System expertise – Adazzle, iDesk multiple Adservers, DDS, Comscore, TGI
and UKOM.
• Contribution towards helping deliver post campaign analysis – pulling data
and building insights with planning teams.
• Overall digital market knowledge and specialist knowledge of nominated
channel/field – Audience on Demand, VOD, Mobile etc.
• Effective team management – ensuring my team delivers optimum buying
and administration through clear goals, motivation and development.
Digital Planner Buyer
Zenith Optimedia
2008.09-2011.01(2 years)
3 years 5 months
(2 years 5 months)
As a Planner Buyer at Optimedia, I assisted in the management of a number of
the agency's major accounts such as BT, BMW, Aviva, Toyota, HTC and Open
University and in this time, gained invaluable experience across both Direct
Response and Brand disciplines.
Media Assistant
Zenith Optimedia
2007.09-2008.09(a year)
(1 year 1 month)
- As I Media Assistant, I gained knowledge and experience of the entire online
planning and buying process from campaign briefing, implentational planning,
negotiation, campaign optimisation/reporting and post-campaign analysis for a
number of clients.
- Weekly reporting and analysis of all live campaigns.
- Developed a solid working relationship with key suppliers, regularly
summarising future online strategies and spend forecasts.
- Ensuring media was negotiated where possible to ensure we are buying at
the most competitive rate.
- Developing knowledge of each client's market and key competitors
within their sector and regularly providing the planning teams with in-depth
competitor analysis.
- Regular use of industry-standard ad-serving and research tools such
as DART, Eyeblaster, TGI, AdRelevance, Comscore, UKOM and Nielsen
Answers.
Educational experience
Nottingham Trent University
Criminology
1999.01-2002.01(3 years)
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