Senior Manager, Programmatic

About WPP Media WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands. With exceptional talent, trusted data and intelligence, and world-class partnerships – all united by our pioneering agentic marketing platform, WPP Open – we help clients navigate change, capture opportunity, and deliver transformational growth.  WPP Media is WPP's AI-driven media operating unit, bringing together media, data, and partnerships to deliver creative personalisation at scale. Connected through WPP Open and powered by Open Intelligence, clients see exactly where, how, and why their media investment is working. For more information, visit wppmedia.com [wppmedia.com]. Role Summary and Impact  We are looking for a highly motivated and experienced Senior Media Executive to join the WPP Media Clients Team. As the primary point of contact for a portfolio of clients, you will manage their advertising needs end to end across all channels (may include digital/non-digital or biddable/non-biddable). Your primary responsibilities will include developing and maintaining strong relationships with clients, understanding their business goals, and translating these into effective advertising strategies. You will independently oversee the entire campaign lifecycle, from initial strategy and planning to setup, execution, and ongoing optimization, while also contributing to the mentoring and development of junior team members. Your role is crucial in ensuring that campaigns are delivered on time, within budget, and meet or exceed client expectations. Through meticulous planning, continuous performance analysis, and strategic leadership, you will drive successful outcomes and deliver exceptional value to our clients.   Skills and Experience What you will do: Client Relationship & Servicing: * Client Champion: Proactively communicate with clients, providing regular updates on campaign performance, industry trends, and new opportunities. Independently manage client expectations and ensure high levels of satisfaction with our services, handling escalations with confidence and professionalism. * Trusted Advisor: Build and maintain strong, long-lasting relationships with clients based on trust, transparency, and proactive communication. Act as a trusted strategic advisor, providing well-informed guidance and recommendations to help clients achieve their business goals, drawing on your experience across multiple campaigns and industries. Account Management & Strategy: * Data-Driven Approach: Lead a data-driven approach to optimize campaign performance and drive client success. This involves independently leveraging advanced analytics and data insights to inform strategy, planning, and execution, and guiding junior team members in doing the same. * Analyse key performance metrics, identify trends, and make data-backed decisions to enhance the effectiveness of advertising campaigns, proactively flagging risks and opportunities. * Strategic Insight: Develop and maintain a deep understanding of client businesses, target audiences, competitive landscapes, and industry trends, using this knowledge to proactively shape and evolve client strategies. * Goal-Oriented Planning: Lead client conversations to define clear and measurable campaign objectives, aligning advertising strategies with overall business goals and contributing to longer-term account planning. * Cross-Channel Expertise: Independently develop comprehensive advertising strategies and media plans across all relevant channels, with a strong understanding of how channels work together to deliver holistic results. * Budget Management: Determine appropriate budgets, allocate resources effectively across different channels, and make informed recommendations to optimize campaign performance and client investment. Implementation & Operations: * Seamless Execution: Lead the implementation of advertising campaigns across all channels, ensuring timely launch, accurate setup, and quality control, while supporting junior associates in their day-to-day execution tasks. * Budget Control: Manage campaign budgets and track spending meticulously to ensure optimal ROI and full client transparency, proactively identifying and resolving budget discrepancies. * Team Collaboration & Mentorship: Collaborate effectively with internal teams (e.g., creative, analytics) to ensure seamless campaign execution. Take an active role in supporting and mentoring junior team members, sharing knowledge and best practices to elevate overall team performance. * Performance Monitoring: Independently monitor and optimize campaign performance, using analytics tools to track key metrics, identify areas for improvement, and implement solutions with minimal direction. Optimization & Reporting: * Data-Driven Optimization: Regularly and independently analyse data to uncover insights, adjust strategies, and implement changes that enhance campaign performance, going beyond surface-level metrics to identify deeper trends. * A/B Testing: Design and lead A/B testing initiatives to identify the most effective campaign elements and optimize for conversions, engagement, and other key performance indicators, sharing learnings across the team. * Insightful Reporting: Develop and deliver regular reports that clearly communicate campaign performance, insights, and strategic recommendations to clients in a digestible and actionable format, tailoring the narrative to different stakeholder audiences. * Strategic Analysis: Proactively analyse campaign data to identify trends, opportunities, and areas for improvement, providing forward-looking strategic recommendations to clients to inform future campaigns and account growth.   What you will need: * Approximately 3 years of experience in media, advertising, or a related field, with a proven track record of managing client accounts and campaigns end to end. * Demonstrated ability to work independently with a high degree of ownership and accountability, while also contributing effectively as part of a team in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment. * Strong communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills, with a proven ability to build and nurture strong relationships with clients and internal stakeholders at varying levels of seniority. * Strong understanding and hands-on experience with all major advertising channels (may include biddable/digital channels like search, social, and programmatic as well as non-biddable/non-digital channels like TV, Print, Radio, OOH/DOOH, Cinema, Digital IOs, etc.), with the ability to develop integrated, cross-channel strategies. * Proficiency in using analytics tools (e.g., Google Analytics, Adobe Analytics, Evogenious (TV), Clear Decisions, Excel, PowerBI) to track campaign performance, generate insights, and inform optimization strategies, with the ability to independently interpret and present data findings. * Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, with a consistently data-driven approach to campaign planning, management, and optimization. * Emerging leadership qualities, with experience or a willingness to support and mentor junior team members, contributing to a positive and collaborative team culture.   Life at WPP Media & Benefits  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. WPP Media employees can tap into the global WPP Media & 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, group retirement plans, vision, and dental insurance, significant paid time off, preferential partner discounts, and employee mental health awareness days.    WPP Media is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without discrimination or regard to particular characteristics. We are committed to fostering a culture of respect in which everyone feels they belong and has the same opportunities to progress in their careers.  We believe the best work happens when we're together, fostering creativity, collaboration, and connection. That's why we’ve adopted a hybrid approach, with teams in the office around four days a week. If you require accommodations or flexibility, please discuss this with the hiring team during the interview process.  Please read our Privacy Notice (https://www.wppmedia.com/pages/privacy-policy) [https://www.wppmedia.com/pages/privacy-policy] for more information on how we process the information you provide.  While we appreciate all applications received, only those candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.    Please read our Privacy Notice [https://www.wppmedia.com/pages/privacy-policy#:~:text=WPP%20Media%20Privacy%20Notice%20for%20Recruitment] for more information on how we process the information you provide.  Please read our Privacy Notice [https://www.wppmedia.com/pages/privacy-policy#:~:text=WPP%20Media%20Privacy%20Notice%20for%20Recruitment] for more information on how we process the information you provide.

WHO WE ARE At OKX, we believe that the future will be reshaped by crypto, and ultimately contribute to every individual's freedom. OKX is a leading crypto exchange, and the developer of OKX Wallet, giving millions access to crypto trading and decentralized crypto applications (dApps). OKX is also a trusted brand by hundreds of large institutions seeking access to crypto markets. We are safe and reliable, backed by our Proof of Reserves. Across our multiple offices globally, we are united by our core principles: We Before Me, Do the Right Thing, and Get Things Done. These shared values drive our culture, shape our processes, and foster a friendly, rewarding, and diverse environment for every OK-er. OKX is part of OKG, a group that brings the value of Blockchain to users around the world, through our leading products OKX, OKX Wallet, OKLink and more. ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITY As a key digital asset hub, Singapore is an integral part of our global strategy. Licensed by the MAS, OKX SG is focused on providing Singapore users with a secure and user-friendly platform for trading digital assets. Our mission is to become the leading exchange in Singapore, offering seamless and efficient trading experiences to our clients and partners.   * We are seeking a Senior Business Strategy Manager to join our Singapore team. * This is a high-impact strategy role responsible for identifying growth opportunities, solving complex business problems, and driving strategic initiatives across the Singapore business. * You will work closely with senior leadership to shape business priorities, evaluate new opportunities, and develop data-driven recommendations that influence commercial and operational decisions. Unlike a traditional strategy role, you will also own execution, taking initiatives from initial problem definition through implementation and measurable business outcomes. * Success in this role requires structured thinking, commercial acumen, intellectual curiosity, and a willingness to move seamlessly between high-level strategy and hands-on execution. You should be equally comfortable building a business case, analyzing data, developing executive-ready recommendations, and personally driving implementation without relying on large support teams.     WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING * Commercial Strategy & Growth * Leverage data, market intelligence, and commercial insights to identify commercial growth opportunities, diagnose business challenges, and uncover operational inefficiencies.  * Conduct structured analyses to quantify opportunities, validate hypotheses, and develop data-driven business cases and strategic recommendations that influence commercial priorities and long-term business growth.  * Partner with leadership and cross-functional teams to frame complex business problems, define success metrics, and evaluate strategic opportunities. * Strategic Communication & Stakeholder Influence * Translate complex analyses into clear, compelling presentations, business cases, and commercial proposals for executive decision-making, client engagements, and strategic partnerships.  * Synthesise data from multiple sources into concise narratives that influence stakeholders, secure alignment, and drive action.  * Represent the Singapore business in cross-functional discussions, ensuring local market insights are effectively communicated and incorporated into business decisions. * Execution & Business Transformation * Own strategic initiatives end-to-end, from conceptualisation and planning through implementation and measurable business outcomes.  * Lead cross-functional execution by aligning stakeholders, removing blockers, and driving initiatives to completion.  * Continuously improve business processes through automation, AI-enabled tools, and scalable operating models to enhance organisational effectiveness.    WHAT WE LOOK FOR IN YOU * Exceptional problem-solving skills, with the ability to break down ambiguous business problems, identify the right data to validate hypotheses, and translate insights into practical, commercially sound recommendations.  * Proficient at working with data to identify opportunities, quantify business impact, evaluate performance, and support strategic decision-making.  * Strong strategic thinking, with experience developing business plans, evaluating growth opportunities, and influencing business decisions through structured analysis and clear communication.  * Excellent communication and storytelling skills, with the ability to distil complex analyses into compelling presentations, business papers, and proposals for senior leadership, clients, and external stakeholders.  * Proven track record of operational execution, demonstrating strong ownership and the ability to deliver measurable business outcomes in fast-paced environments.  * Highly curious, adaptable, and intellectually rigorous, with a bias towards action, a willingness to challenge assumptions, think from first principles, and continuously improve how work gets done.  * Experience in management consulting, strategy, corporate development, or high-growth technology environments is highly regarded. Experience in digital assets, fintech, or financial services is a plus.   PERKS & BENEFITS * Competitive total compensation package * L&D programs and Education subsidy for employees' growth and development * Various team building programs and company events * Wellness and meal allowances [delete for remote roles] * Comprehensive healthcare schemes for employees and dependants [delete for remote roles] * More that we love to tell you along the process!   Notice: All official OKX vacancies are published on this website. While roles may appear on selected third-party platforms from time to time, information on other sites may be inaccurate or outdated. If in doubt, please apply directly through our official careers website. Information collected and processed as part of the recruitment process of any job application you choose to submit is subject to OKX's Candidate Privacy Notice [https://www.okx.com/en-eu/help/okx-candidate-privacy-notice].