Creative Operations Executive, Advertising (Fixed Term Contract)

Creative Operations Executive, Advertising (Fixed Term Contract)

The Digital Solutions team's main purpose is to ensure that all digital campaigns are planned and activated in the most effective way, respecting the readers’ experience and delivering results that matter to clients.

This is a brand new role within the Digital Solutions team that will be entry-level, and we’re looking for a self-motivated, proactive and creative individual to help support the team in delivering the above goals.

Some of the best things about the job:

• Talent & Innovation: You will be working with extremely talented and innovative and award-winning people who are leading important industry changes. Recent award wins include: AOP Awards for Consumer Brand of the Year (2024), Advertising Operations Team of the Year (2022 & 23), and Product Development team (2021).
• Development opportunities: This is a brand new role which has been introduced to ensure that we can improve both our levels of client service and our ad creative offering. As such, the right candidate will be of vital importance to the commercial team with a high level of visibility, and can really make a meaningful impact on our delivery and retention of effective campaigns.
• The people: We truly are a supportive, inclusive, diverse team. We are constantly learning together and love recognising the good work of each other. Our commercial engagement team runs team events/nights out, charity fundraisers, sweepstakes and useful developmental workshops.

You’ll be joining a wider commercial team who are supportive and champion everyone’s achievements. You are free to bring your own ideas to the table, and innovation is highly encouraged!

Key responsibilities:

• You will be working closely with our Ad Operations and Project Management to help develop our creative display advertising offering.
• You will be building variations of adverts within existing platforms to help drive an increase in both the quality of ad creative and level of service to clients.
• You will be making full use of our creative reporting capabilities to draw conclusions and actionable recommendations to exceed client needs.
• You will be responsible for building/testing creative mocks/new formats in a creative studio, the ad server and an on-site testing environment.
• You will be working closely with Sales to ensure that, through TMG’s ad creative services, we can capitalise on any potential growth with our clients.
• You will be helping to manage campaigns from a creative point of view, always looking to test, optimise and consult based on outcomes - driving positive results for our clients.
• You will be sharing best creative practice across internal teams, becoming a ‘champion’ in this area and shaping this role over the short/medium term.
• You will also be working with internal marketing teams to help inform their creative strategies through rigorous creative testing, tweaking and optimising.
• You will be supporting the ad operations team as and when required to assist with campaign delivery.

Specific requirements / skills:

• Team player with a solution-focused and customer-centric attitude.
• Ability to think and work holistically.
• Ability to pick out trends and patterns from multiple data sources.
• Act as a consultant to both internal and external stakeholders.
• Ability to manage and maintain performance in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong prioritisation, organisational and time management skills.
• Process driven with the ability to set, monitor and support existing workflows.
• Ability to innovate and to translate concepts/creative ideas into workable actions.
• Energetic, flexible approach with the ability to manage both internal and external relationships professionally.
• Pro-activity in identifying new opportunities.
• Excellent written communication skills; an ability to write in a consultative manner is strongly desired.
• Ability to quickly learn and master various dashboards/user interfaces.
• Experience in account management, marketing or media planning/buying is of interest.
• Experience with ad creative/a creative interface is of interest.

The nature of our industry means life at the Telegraph Media Group is fast-paced, demanding, and interesting. We also want it to be rewarding for everyone who works here by creating a suite of benefits that contribute to lifestyle choices and leisure activities.

Training and development:

With support from your manager and colleagues, you’ll also have access to a variety of training and development opportunities through The Academy.

Our commitment to inclusion:

At Telegraph Media Group, we foster a diverse and inclusive workplace and we are committed to building a team that reflects a wide variety of skills, perspectives and backgrounds.