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Operational Agency Lead

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Midtown East, New York, NY, USA
Senior level
In-Office
Midtown East, New York, NY, USA
Senior level
Lead day-to-day operations and P&L for a major global client, improve processes and profitability, implement content delivery and distribution strategies, optimize Adobe tech stack performance, partner with finance and regional teams, and drive scaling, recruitment, and continuous efficiency improvements.
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Agency :

Prose On Pixels

Job Description :

Prose on Pixels is a global content at scale agency built to address the marketing challenges of today and deliver meaningful content into the future.  With our unique Audience-First production model, we Create, Scale and Personalize content to captivate audiences and achieve desired brand and business outcomes.  

 

Fusing creativity and performance, we create harder working, more sustainable content, reducing waste, and providing stronger ROI.    

 

Introduction 

 

The Operational Agency Lead will be working closely to partner a Global Business Lead, overseeing day to day business operations of a significant global client. They will assume responsibility for driving all operational initiatives which will improve process organization, creative and production delivery and overall business profitability for the team. Working closely with the POP & Havas local operational leads, they will ensure consistency across our processes.   

 

Mission & Responsibilities 

 

First and foremost, Prose on Pixels is a technology underpinned, global content studio business, driving creative content globally through a number of global studios. The ideal candidate will have relevant experience in global onshore/offshore models, content automation and modular content origination and distribution.   

 

As the key business partner, working with a Global Business Lead to lead a significant global client, the role of the Operational Agency Lead is to align process and improve profitability across all aspects of work originating within the US, with distribution needs across a number of global markets. They will translate business strategy into actionable and comprehensive goals for performance and growth helping to implement organisation-wide processes, content performance management, and annual operating planning. This person will partner, but hold accountable a number of teams across technology, finance, commercial and other regional operational leads. 

 

They will be responsible for, but not exclusively; 

 

  • Managing full operations including P&L responsibility on a major global client.  
  • Extracting the maximum performance from our Adobe tech stack (including Workfront, Adobe Assets, AEM), our onshore and offshore teams and global COEs.
  • Analyzing internal operations and identify areas of process enhancement
  • Design and implement actionable business strategies and plans that ensure alignment with short-term and long-term objectives developed in liaison with the wider business leadership, including CEO, CFO and EVP, Operations 
  • Responsible for the efficiency of all day to day processes across your teams
  • Work with our financial teams to introduce and monitor client studio performance with tracking, analyzing and interpreting data and metrics. Establish corrective measures as needed
  • Maintain and build trusted relationships with clients, partners/vendors and stakeholders
  • Participate actively in strategic and business planning to develop reasonable and thorough revenue and Ebit projections for annual budgets
  • Work with financial and operational partners to develop and negotiate all new partnership/capabilities proposals 
  • Lead the ongoing design, implementation and optimization of our client specific delivery and content distribution strategy
  • Lead our scaling models, including fast turnaround talent recruitment and onboarding
  • You will be consistently looking to find further efficiencies and optimise our content creation model  

 

Key Skills and Experience 

 

  • Martech/Adtech
  • Advertising: content delivery, digital, data, tech
  • Strategic planning and business development
  • Decision-making and problem-solving
  • P&L management
  • Revenues scaling
  • Negotiation 
  • Strong business acumen
  • Excellent relationships with C-level executives of key target clients and partners
  • Team Management
  • Self-Starter 
  • Highly energetic personality – a motivator
  • Critical Thinking
  • Leadership 
  • Goal Oriented 
  • Interpersonal and Communication skills  

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Contract Type :

Permanent

Here at Havas across the group we pride ourselves on being committed to offering equal opportunities to all potential employees and have zero tolerance for discrimination. We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome applicants irrespective of age, sex, race, ethnicity, disability and other factors that have no bearing on an individual’s ability to perform their job.

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