Wavemaker | Associate Director, E-commerce

You will work closely with the E-Commerce Planning and Activation teams to ensure operational excellence in E-Commerce Marketplace campaigns (i.e. Lazada and Shopee) with a strong focus on Paid On-Platform Search while ensuring E-Commerce KPIs (Traffic, GMV, ROAS) are met.

REPORTING OF THE ROLE
This role reports to the Deputy Client Business Director (Head of Planning) 

Key Responsibilities

Paid eCommerce On-Platform Search and Marketplace SEO Strategy and Management:

• Develop and execute campaign structure and strategy, targeting tactics, and cadence for reporting, performance reviews and forward planning
• Test new ad copy and landing pages on an evergreen basis to improve ad relevancy, visibility and sales opportunity
• Constantly look for ways to improve our targeting, bidding logic, and budget allocation.
• Conduct search campaign optimization tasks throughout the campaign life-cycle (keyword mining and targeting optimizations, bidding, A/B tests etc.)
• Determine areas for improved optimization and communicate required actions across the business to drive implementation
• Support eCommerce Planning team in SEO improvement projects, and PV sufficiency workstreams

Monitoring and Reporting:

• Meticulously manage budgets and pacing across multiple On-Platform Search PPC Campaigns, forecast spend and sales to proactively communicate risk or recommendations
• Daily monitoring and analysis of all advertising campaigns including, but not limited to revenue, campaign performance, click and conversion rates, ROAS, daily ad spend
• Aggregate data across brands & multiple different reporting systems; partner with data lead for reporting automation via BI tools
• Turn data into a story to provide regular updates to internal teams to share performance, business impact, and learnings for action
• Initiate performance deep dives to identify insights and/or proactively problem solve before issues arise

Collaboration:

• Collaborate closely supporting the eCommerce Planning Team and Client's Performance Marketing Managers with internal and external stakeholders to ensure an integrated strategy that achieves brand objectives, site relevancy and discoverability
• Close collaboration with retailers and Client regional teams supporting the Client's Performance Marketing Manager to drive excellence in execution and to provide the best support resolving country specific issues
• Develop best practices/recommendations

Education

​​Candidate must possess at least a Bachelor's/College Degree, preferably in Information Technology, Business, Advertising, or Marketing related course.​​

Required Competencies:

(Knowledge, Skills and Attitude)

• Good in oral and written English communication 
• Adept in Microsoft Excel
• Able to work well in a team and requires minimal supervision
• Competent in receiving and following instructions
• Able to quickly learn and adapt new processes
• Possesses a great sense of ownership
• Highly detail-oriented
• Meets deadlines consistently
• Able to work well under pressure
• Excellent time management skills
• Previous knowledge/experience in digital ad operations (i.e., Facebook Ads and Google Ads). 
• Takes initiative and displays potential for leadership

Work Experience

• 5 - 7 years’ experience in the digital media, marketing industry, consulting, and project management 

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