Creative Commercial Manager

Role: Creative Commercial Manager

Location: London, UK 

We’re MiQ, a global programmatic media partner for marketers and agencies. Our people are at the heart of everything we do, so you will be too. With over 1000 people working together to shape our fantastic culture, no matter the role or the location, we’re all united in the vision to lead the programmatic industry and make it better.

WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING:

This is an exciting opportunity to join MiQ as a Creative Commercial Manager. In this role, you will play a pivotal part in supporting the central creative solutions team with the commercial growth of creative services while overseeing the management of MiQ’s global creative studios. Your key responsibilities will include driving creative commercial expansion, ensuring smooth operations and consistent output across global studios, and fostering collaboration with internal teams and clients to deliver creative solutions that align with our business objectives. The role sits within our global product organization and is technically classified as a Product Manager title, however the role responsibilities fall more within a commercial product realm. In addition, this role will directly manage the UK studio and provide dotted line management to creative studio leads across North America and Australia, ensuring alignment and consistency in creative output across these key regions.

In the role you will be will be responsible for:   

• Creative Commercial Strategy
• Capture and curate commercial creative needs, problems, and opportunities and work with creative studio teams to produce custom creative for pitches, rfps and other communications
• Strategize with commercial leadership across markets to increase creative adoption
• Assist on global pitches to support new advertiser adoption
• Creative Quality and Innovation
• Manage and collaborate with Creative Studio leads to ensure consistent high creative quality and team efficiency
• Lead creative studio innovation in pre-sale concepting, feature exploration and best practice enhancements
• Internal Collaboration
• Working with internal stakeholders, building relationships and working across differences to find solutions
• Host regular trainings for various functions across the business
• Crisp and clear communication to external partners/clients or internal stakeholders; flexing communication style to persuade others and influence positive outcomes 
• Innovation
• Produce new solutions for creative adoption through collaboration with client partner teams, creative studios and central product teams
• Acting with curiosity. Finds new and better ways of working, then applies or implements solutions to unarticulated needs, new or existing market requirements. Open to receiving and trying new ideas, processes or ways of working.

EXPERIENCE

• 3+ years project management or account management experience in an advertising agency, design studio or comparable creative department
• Ability to meet deadlines and handle multiple projects simultaneously at various stages of completion
• Previous people management experience
• Excellent PowerPoint and presentation skills
• Familiarity with adobe creative suite, creative management platforms (Sizmek, Celtra, Innovid) and DSPs (Xandr, DV360, TTD) is a bonus
• Extremely detail-oriented, problem solving, and decision-making skills

We’ve highlighted some key skills, experience and requirements for this role. But please don’t worry if you don’t meet every single one. Our talent team strives to find the best people. They might see something in your background that’s a fit for this role, or another opportunity at MiQ.

If you have a passion for the role, please still apply.

What’s in it for you 
MiQ is incredibly proud to foster a welcoming culture. We do everything possible to make sure everyone feels valued for what they bring. With global teams committed to inclusion, we’re always moving towards becoming an even better place to work.

Our values are so much more than statements. They unite MiQers in every corner of the world. They shape the way we work and the decisions we make, and they inspire us to stay true to ourselves and to aim for better. Our values are there to be embraced by everyone, so that we
naturally live and breathe them.

What are our core values? To discover these, please follow the link below to explore what life is like at MiQ and gain insights into our company culture and the values that shape how we work: https://www.wearemiq.com/life-at-miq

Benefits:

Every region and office has specific perks and benefits, but every person joining MiQ can expect:

• A hybrid work environment
• New hire orientation with job specific onboarding and training
• Internal and global mobility opportunities
• Competitive healthcare benefits
• Bonus and performance incentives
• Generous annual PTO, paid parental leave, with two additional paid days to acknowledge holidays, cultural events, or inclusion initiatives
• Employee resource groups designed to connect people across all MiQ regions, drive action, and support our communities