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SMG is one of the most exciting growth companies in the UK today. Home to three award winning agencies, Capture, Lobster and Threefold. At SMG, our people are at the heart of everything we do and are our biggest asset. We are proud to provide opportunities for fast career growth, recognising and rewarding great work, and doing this within an inclusive, highly flexible, and innovative environment.

We are dedicated to support our employees to be the best version of themselves both inside and outside of work. We’re have an extraordinary culture built by exceptional people and it’s because of this that we’ve been recognised as 2nd in Best Companies marketing and media's best agencies to work for, and we’ve just received our 3 star accreditation from Best Companies, making us a World Class company to work for.

Across the group, we have a shared mission to lead connected commerce marketing.

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The role

We are looking for a Digital Project Lead to join us on a 9-month fixed-term contract and act as the project lead of a new supplier service innovation, Audience360, for Boots Media Group, leading the delivery and development of the project. This role can be based in London or Nottingham, with travel required between both locations.

Audience 360 is a bespoke, market-leading proposition. The vision is that Audience360 would sit as the engine which powers the success of BMG, placing the Boots customer at the heart of all supplier marketing.

What you'll be doing

We pride ourselves on creating challenging and exciting opportunities, meaning that no two days are the same. However, here's an idea of what your responsibilities will look like:

• You will be the owner of the Audience360 project, responsible for day-to-day management as well as development direction and commercial delivery.
• Lead a growing team of junior project managers to enable smooth running of the project and aid their career development within SMG.
• Act as the champion for the development of the adtech stack, including working alongside LiveRamp, Criteo, InfoSum (and others as needed) to build all functionality into the Boots.com website and beyond.
• Work with senior stakeholders across Boots, Boots Media Group and SMG to action the developments required to keep Audiecne360 at the cutting edge.
• Determine the optimal routes for the integration and management of Boots' 1st party and 3rd party data (paid and advertiser owned) into the ecosystem, working alongside stakeholders in the Boots' insight & loyalty teams.
• Continue to manage the efficient campaign planning, management, and evaluation processes (alongside your counterparts in the media implementation team) building a clear pathway to getting a campaign from A to B.
• Manage budget and financial sign-off on plans, as well as reporting back to the business on forecast, targets and final delivery.
• Work with Boots Media Group through education and collaboration, enabling the supplier facing teams to build a campaign pipe and talk confidently about developments in the project.
• Contributing to wider SMG digital innovations and platform developments.

What you'll need to have / be

• Strong & demonstrable background in digital marketing and data analytics.
• Understanding of digital media and the wider marketplace (esp. across data & programmatic fields).
• Understanding of data integrations across platforms and able to manage partnerships across a tech stack.
• Experience working with DSPs desirable (The Trade Desk, Criteo, Citrus, DV360).
• Possess strong influencing and interpersonal skills, confident communicating with senior client stakeholders.
• Strong analytical skills and attention to detail.
• Proactive and engaged working approach.
• Dedicated team player, able to build relationships internally and externally.
• Experience working in a fast paced and matrixed organisation with a solution focused mind-set.

P.s. we try really hard to make sure that we list only essential criteria here, BUT if you think you can do an amazing job, yet don't have every single thing on this list, we'd still love to hear from you.

The best bits

Here at SMG we are dedicated to continuously reviewing and improving our benefits package to offer the best that we can for our people. We have a whole page dedicated to our benefits here, but here's some of our favourites...

💰 Generous discretionary bonus scheme

🧘‍♂️ £1,200 yearly wellbeing fund (on top of your salary!) towards your personal wellbeing and passions

📚 £500 yearly “Uni Fund” towards learning and development

🎧 Free headspace subscription

🕐 4pm Friday finishes all year round

🥳 Two fully paid conferences a year at Summer & Winter, as well as a dedicated team that put on activities and celebrations throughout the year

The process

1. We will invite you to a first interview which we try to keep relatively informal, so it gives you the opportunity to share your authentic self. The hiring team will be looking to understand more about your experience and why you're interested in working with us.
2. There will be a second interview which will last a little longer, and involve some form of task to showcase your ability to do the role.
3. We then invite you to a meet & greet which is an opportunity for you to meet the team you'll be joining and ask them questions about the role and wider business.

🌟 Helping you shine 🌟

We are committed to helping you shine and show your full potential by making any changes you might need throughout your application. If you need an alternative way of applying for this role, support with understanding the role and its requirements, changes to be made to the way we hold our interviews, or anything else, then please reach out to us. You can either let us know on your application form or contact the people team to discuss how we can help on careers@shoppermediagroup.com.

🤝 SMG are proud to be an equal opportunities employer 🤝 

We are fully committed to providing equality in the workplace and ensure all opportunities for, and during employment, will be afforded to individuals fairly and irrespective of age, disability, gender, gender reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, race including colour, ethnic or national origins and nationality, religion or belief or sexual orientation ("the protected characteristics"). We want our organisation to reflect the diversity of our communities and we welcome applications from people from all backgrounds. More information on what we are doing can be found here.

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