Advertising Operations Executive - Virgin Media Television

About Virgin Media:

Virgin Media is the leading connected entertainment cable and broadcast business in Ireland. Every day we deliver connections that really matter for thousands of people, with multi award-winning services including superfast broadband, TV, mobile and home phone. Our Virgin Media Business division provides the fastest broadband speeds and connectivity solutions for entrepreneurs, businesses and the public sector.

Virgin Media Television, our broadcast division, is Ireland’s number one commercial public service broadcaster offering four free-to-air channels: Virgin Media One, Virgin Media Two, Virgin Media Three and Virgin Media Four, as well as Virgin Media Play. We are a significant investor in home produced content including news, current affairs and drama, as well as offering the best in international programming. Virgin Media More, a platform exclusive channel for Virgin TV customers, offers the very best of first look premium content, including ground-breaking Irish and International drama, documentaries & sport. Our commercial team at Virgin Media Television creates unique, innovative campaigns and solutions for our business and for third party clients across the UK and Ireland.    

Virgin Media is part of Liberty Global, one of the world’s leading converged video, broadband and communications companies with operations in seven European countries. Liberty Global is a founding member of the European Green Digital Coalition and is included in the prestigious Dow Jones Sustainability World Index. Following the challenges brought about the global pandemic, the power of connectivity to deliver positive meaningful change to people’s lives has never been clearer. Our inclusion in these prestigious indices for the ninth year running attests to our long-standing commitment to the importance of sustainability and ensuring that we are strong corporate citizens as well as responsible stewards of the environment across the markets in which we operate.

For further information please visit: www.virginmedia.ie

About the Role:

We require an Advertising Operations Executive at Virgin Media Television working on our new Virgin Media Play streaming service trafficking and scheduling Digital Advertising Campaigns.

Specific Duties & Tasks:

• Setting up and tracking digital advertising campaigns for Virgin Media Play & Virgin Media Set Top Box On-Demand.

• Proactively sourcing advertising copy & tags from advertising creative agencies.

• Monitoring Ad placements and campaigns for performance and delivery and develop strategies to increase campaign performance.

• Investigating and resolving delivery and performance issues.

• Liaising with the sales team to pull inventory forecasts and approve their outgoing proposals.

• Identifying and recommending solutions to help streamline pre- and post-sales processes for campaign execution.

• Pro-actively analysing campaign performance and recommending campaign optimisations.

• Preparing and delivering campaign reports.

• Participating in the creative pre-sale process for any of our potential clients, agencies or partners as needed.

• Managing ad-hoc file transfers of advertising inventory to VOD placement suppliers as required.

• Providing support to the VOD Lead and & Executive with Ad-Hoc projects and tasks.

• Delivering a best-in-class service and performance to our partners and for our users.

Skills & Expertise:

• Degree educated and/or with relevant industry experience.

• Strong organisation, detail orientated and time management skills.

• Able to interact comfortably with both clients and other internal departments.

• Ability to work under tight deadlines in a fast-paced environment.

• Ability to identify problems and solutions, streamline systems, set standards and lead by example.

• Knowledge of 3rd party ad tags and the ability to identify & fix issues are a bonus.

• Basic understanding of HTML, Flash, and JavaScript is also a bonus but not essential.

• Strong Microsoft Office Skills. Should be competent with Excel.

The Person:

• A first-class problem-solver who gets to the heart of the matter.

• Excellent attention to detail, someone who cares about quality in everything they do 

• Has the ability to communicate effectively and efficiently with the business while ascertaining the key impact/detail behind the issue/request.

• A team player who can lead by example and inspire others daily.

• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and embrace change.

• Organised and excellent time management, ensuring deadlines are always met.  

• Explores opportunities by being resourceful and self-motivating.

Virgin Media is an equal opportunities employer. Having a diverse workforce is critical to the success of our business