Supply Director Permanent

We’re looking for a candidate to fill this position in an exciting company.

• Manage initiatives, projects and pilots for deployment across the region
• Supervising and guiding markets across inventory and supply-related queries, and facilitate training where necessary.
• Assist with identifying problems and troubleshooting for local markets
• Working closely with programmatic partners (DSPs, SSPs and Inventory Partners) to build/identify customised solutions for deployment across campaigns.
• Develop a strategy on how to regionally manage supply partners that deliver value while meeting client KPIs. Constantly meet and evaluate new partners as needed.
• Focus on identifying and growing supply for the client when it comes to video, display, native, etc. Identify and cultivate relationships with supply partners, piloting new initiatives and evaluating the performance of these initiatives.
• Manage internal stakeholders in line with opportunity to exceed advertiser KPI expectations through use of efficient supply strategies
• Build best practices across supply management within the region; establish benchmarks and learnings which are measurable
• Responsible for market roll-out & capability building across local markets. Produce quarterly reports on market, industry and adoption rates for management team measuring the business value of the strategy.
• Built up a thorough understanding of Unilever’s programmatic ecosystem and the Supply Path Optimization framework
• Good understanding of Unilever’s inventory partnerships and how they work
• Formed an understanding of the client’s marketing strategy across the region.
• Established working relationships with SSP & DSP partners
• Become familiar with the processes within Mindshare and within your team including using GroupM admin, media and finance software.

• 7+ year experience in product management, product strategy, Experience in digital advertising landscape (ad servers, SSPs, RTB, PMP, DSPs, DMPs)
• Deep understanding of supply side of advertising ecosystem
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work independently
• Experience in building and managing products from ideation to launch working with a remote engineering team. Deep knowledge of product development dynamics and go-to-market tactics.
• Comfortable with agile product development and collaborating with multiple teams to deliver product features that are dependent on other product teams
• Ability to articulate and influence other product teams to help them see the value of problem we are solving and get necessary buy-in
• Experience partnering cross-functionally with teams spanning across sales/operations, product, engineering, marketing, customer success.
• Self-motivated individual with strong communication (written and verbal), leadership, judgment, planning, and decision-making skills.
• Demonstrated prior success within a startup culture, bringing cross-functional projects to closure