Ad Operations Manager

We're bringing dynamic advertising in-house, and we're looking for an Ad Operations Manager to own the management of our inventory.

You'll shape how inventory is forecast, booked, trafficked and reported across a portfolio that includes some of the UK's biggest podcast talent. This role sits at the heart of the commercial team to make sure what we sell can actually be delivered, accurately, efficiently and on time.

This is a unique and exciting opportunity for someone with Ad Ops experience to own execution, shape strategy, and drive Platform Media's continued commercial growth.

• Own end-to-end delivery of dynamic campaigns across the Platform Media portfolio
• Set up campaigns, targeting, creative and delivery parameters in our ad tech stack
• QA creative and insertion orders before campaigns go live and ahead of billing
• Monitor pacing and delivery, troubleshoot issues with partners, and manage changes, extensions and makegoods
• Work with our technology and distribution partners to ensure inventory is set up, segmented and forecastable

• Sit alongside sales to make sure what's being sold, can be delivered
• Provide availability, sell-through and delivery information that sales can act on

• Own campaign reporting and delivery reconciliation
• Monitor impressions, pacing and performance; flag risk early and recommend fixes
• Build reporting that works for internal and external use
• Use delivery data to sharpen forecasting and inventory management over time

• Create and document best-practice workflows, and keep them current as the business changes
• Identify gaps in how we work now and fix them rather than flag them
• Manage the operational relationship with our ad tech and distribution partners
• Contribute to Platform Media’s continued growth with a scalable, automated dynamic model

• Proven experience in ad operations, campaign management or a digital media role working with ad servers.
• Experience with audio or podcast advertising and dynamic ad insertion (e.g Megaphone, Triton, AdsWizz or similar).
• Comfortable with podcast tagging solutions (e.g. Podscribe, Magellan AI etc)
• Solid understanding of how digital campaigns are booked, trafficked, delivered, reported and billed.
• Confident learning new platforms quickly and working across commercial, content, finance and external partners.

• Familiarity with Google Ad Manager, and with programmatic buying routes and DSP/SSP mechanics.
• Experience standing up a new process or platform rather than only running an existing one.
• Working knowledge of CPM-based trading and impression delivery.

At Platform Media, we're committed to giving everyone a fair chance, no matter their background. We create content for a wide range of people, and we know that having a team with different experiences and perspectives makes our work better.  Therefore, we encourage people from all backgrounds to apply, especially those from communities that have been historically underrepresented.

If you don’t meet every requirement of the role but believe you’d be a great fit, we’d love to still hear from you!

🌴 26 days annual leave (with yearly option to buy 5 days more) 

💻 Hybrid working with flexible hours 

🏥 Top-tier private medical insurance & healthcare cash plan

✅ Life insurance 

💰Pension plan

🧠 Mental health support via our Employee Assistance Programme 

🚲 Cycle to Work scheme