Commerce Search Manager

Company Description

With a history that dates back over 80 years, Starcom is a global communications planning and media leader. We are an agency still grounded in our founding principle that people are at center of all we do. Each day, we apply this belief to harness the transformative power of data and technology to inspire and move people and business forward. With more than 7,000 employees in over 100 offices around the world, Starcom partners with the world's leading marketers and brands, including Bank of America, Best Buy, Kellogg Company, McDonald s, Novartis, Samsung, Visa and more.

This role at Starcom will serve as a member of Publicis Groupe's strategic internal agency, Constellation.

Constellation serves as an internal-facing brand formed by a collective of Publicis Groupe agencies to address our client's creative, data, strategy, media, and technology requirements. Team members collaborate across agencies while functioning as sub-divisions within their respective brands to provide dedicated support for the client. By acting as a unified interface, Constellation eliminates operational silos and presents a single service entity and primary point of contact for the client.

We re looking for an outstanding Manager of Commerce Media — someone who can win the hearts of clients, inspire junior staff, and skillfully juggle multiple pieces of business. This is an opportunity for a digital media star, with Amazon-specific experience, to actively drive performance for one of the largest brands on the planet. In this role, you can make a real difference in our clients  business and our own.

Sound like you? Read on.

As the Manager of Commerce Media, you ll manage the strategic components within an integrated Shopper Marketing campaign. You will lead a team of Sr Analysts and Analysts within the Search and Prevision capability team to establish performance metrics, report results and foster client and vendor relationships. You ll identify optimizations, support the build of client decks and attend client meetings as the face of our digital media plans.

Most importantly, you must possess a strong inner drive to bring your knowledge and hands‑on self‑serve expertise on Amazon to a growing team and enjoy working with some of the finest minds in the industry.

• Serving as a primary contact for day‑to‑day clients
• Spearheading the development of search strategies and analyses for clients (e.g., keyword recommendation, day‑parting, timing/scheduling strategy)
• Oversee Sr Analysts and Analysts and ensure daily search campaign monitoring, optimization, reporting and testing
• Establishing and driving paid shopper marketing best practices to assimilate across tactics and activations
• Maintaining a level of quality assurance and accountability for delivering campaigns and executions with precision
• Write and deliver media strategies, and overseeing the translation of these strategies into final media recommendations
• Ensuring that media deliverables meet and align with client goals and objectives
• Lead retailer and vendor RFPs, with attention to audience targeting strategy and use of best practices
• Overseeing performance forecasts, budget allocations and providing data‑based rationale for these recommendations
• Prioritize teamwork and delegating responsibilities
• Providing creative solutions to client challenges
• Lead client facing recaps
• Understanding big picture implications and how insights can be applied in other programs and environments
• Understand and explain attribution model across retail search partners
• Fostering relationship with internal teams (Media, S&A and other capabilities) and external teams while managing multiple client stakeholders
• Developing and maintaining quality control procedures for campaign implementations
• Understanding and effectively communicating our value proposition, technology, and processes as related to the growth of current and prospective agency accounts
• Adopting established account management standards and program management best practices
• Participating in regular sessions to share and learn new strategies for optimizing and enhancing…