Senior Biddable Manager
We’re seeking an experienced Senior Biddable Manager to play a key leadership role in our Delivery Team. This is a senior role in the team, reporting into the Head of Delivery & Product, and it combines hands-on programmatic expertise, team development, and strategic thinking.
You’ll oversee critical client accounts, lead initiatives to enhance delivery performance, and mentor team members to achieve operational excellence across omnichannel programmatic platforms.
Key Responsibilities
The role of the Senior Biddable Manager Manager is to be a leader within the Delivery Team, making impact across our largest clients and supporting the development of direct reports and the wider team.
Strategic Client Oversight
Lead end-to-end delivery for our most strategic clients.
Collaborate closely with Account Teams and Encore Commercial Teams to optimise account delivery and process efficiencies.
Leadership & Team Development
Mentor and develop junior team members through coaching, upskilling, and performance feedback.
Work with the Head of Delivery and Senior Delivery Managers to improve team workflows and implement best practices.
Build internal learning materials to support ongoing development across the department.
Vendor & Platform Engagement
Own vendor relationships, including onboarding new platforms, managing partner growth, and coordinating training sessions.
Proactively identify new platform opportunities and champion innovative solutions.
Campaign Strategy & Oversight
Guide Test & Learn programs — proposing new product/platform tests with clear business cases.
Lead campaign QA and provide consultative support on setup and optimisation across team projects.
Represent Encore on client calls, presentations, and quarterly reviews, delivering insights with confidence.
Business Enablement
Support wider Encore initiatives and contribute to new business and pitch responses as needed.
Skills Required
Minimum 4+ years’ experience in end-to-end programmatic campaign activation, including planning, activation, and reporting.
Strong track record in omnichannel DSPs: The Trade Desk, DV360, and/or StackAdapt (experience in Teads Ad Manager a plus). The Trade Desk is a must for this role.
Expert-level knowledge of Encore’s core platforms, with added fluency in GA4 and DCM (certifications preferred).
Strong knowledge of all Programmatic channels, including Display, OLV, DOOH, Connected TV, Audio, and Native.
Experience managing people and/or complex multi-stakeholder projects.
Confident communicator — able to lead conversations, present ideas, and handle challenges diplomatically.
Critical thinker with a strategic mindset — contributing to the long-term success of the Encore business.
Knowledge of additional biddable channels such as Paid Search and Paid Social (LinkedIn, Reddit, Meta) very beneficial.
Maintains the full spectrum of capabilities expected at Senior Executive level.
And in return, Company Name offers:
Competitive compensation package
25 days leave, increasing to 30 days based on service
Additional 'moments that matter days' for birthdays, sports days, and other important life moments
Time off for volunteering
Life assurance, healthcare cashplan, employee assistance programme, and Digital GP
Cycle to work scheme
Flexible spending allowance for health/dental insurance, wellbeing, family life, work life, hobbies and experiences
Quarterly in-person and virtual social activities
Office transfer and secondment opportunities
About Encore:
Encore Digital Media, based in London (UK) part of N15 Group, is a specialist programmatic partner with a primary focus on B2B, Auto and FinPro.
- Department
- Pretzl
- Locations
- London
- Remote status
- Hybrid
London
Workplace & culture
We work in a supportive hybrid environment with a culture that enables us to celebrate our differences as people from diverse backgrounds. We are challenged daily by our mission to inch towards making better versions of ourselves which translates into the growth of our brands and making them better.
About Next 15 Group plc
We are growth consultants. We are obsessed with finding ways to help our customers grow sustainably whether that’s focused on their revenue, brands or impact on the world. Everything we do is driven by data and embraces technology. We employ close to 4,000 people globally across our agencies, spanning digital content, marketing, PR, consumer, technology, marketing software, market research, public affairs, and policy communications
Our Mission
Our mission is to become the world’s leading growth consultancy. For Next 15, growth consulting isn’t just about growth in sales and profitability. It is growth in reputation, talent and product market share. It’s growth in valuation, innovation and talent retention. Growth is a complex problem, and it needs a sophisticated solution.
Businesses are increasingly one large, interconnected digital entity. A problem or opportunity in one area is now connected to everything else. We view our clients through this digital lens to knit together insight, creative, business design, digital build and customer engagement under one roof to solve today’s most pressing business challenges.
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We demonstrate our commitment to running a more sustainable, equitable and diverse organisation that displays leadership in governance and values, through our ESG Strategic Priorities. To learn more about our priorities and how we are committed to continually growing and improving them across the Group, you can visit the Sustainability section of our website, where you can also read our latest ESG Report.