Data & Yield Specialist

About the team:
 

As part of the Advertising BeNeLux team, the Advertiser Success team is a multi-disciplinary team consisting of your role and Demand & AdOps, Ad Tech, Yield, and Trade Marketing specialists who closely collaborate to exceed advertiser’s expectations daily. We team up with the Dutch and Belgium Advertising Sales Teams, and together we’re responsible for all the 3rd party advertising (Programmatic and Direct sold Display, Native & Video Advertising, plus Google Adsense) on our platform, and strive to make our advertisers king!

The role:

You are given the opportunity to define the (advertising) data strategy, as well as the responsibility to support our Display, Video and AdSense yield strategy for the Benelux, by active yield management, analysis and thoughtful optimizations across various ad tech platforms. 

As such your day to day activities include optimizing yield on our advertising proposition, setup and analyse experiments, collaborating with our ad tech partners, providing advice to the sales team and defining price strategies. As well as creation and monetization of our data strategies to enable our advertisers to target their preferred target audience, also beyond the cookie deprecation next year. 

In this role you will be closely working together with Demand & AdOps, Yield and AdTech specialists.

You will report into the Head of Advertiser Success of the Benelux.

What we are looking for:

• At least 3 years of proven experience in Data and/or Yield management, preferably in the digital advertising industry;

• Understanding of data, ability to work independently with data sets and the ability to challenge analysts.

• Ability to combine strategic thinking with being pragmatic, result-driven and strong focus on execution.

• Enjoy collaboration across businesses, and ability to establish positive relationships across levels and functions.

• Knowledge of Ad servers, SSP's and/or DSP's.

• Ability to transform data into insights, presenting these in an engaging way and laying the foundation for business cases.

• Bachelor degree or higher, preferably (but not necessary) in Business, Econometrics or Statistics.

• Intrinsic interest in digital advertising and publisher industry;

• Able to work independently to handle several projects with tight deadlines and to push projects to completion

• Excellent organizational, stakeholder and project management skills

• Flexible way of working - able to cope with a constantly evolving environment

• Full English professional proficiency (written and verbal) is required

• Competitive compensation package
• Opportunity to shape the way we work. Your feedback and opinions are valued at all levels of the organisation
• Benefits including stock purchase plan and annual bonus plans
• Flexibility to work when and how you want - flexible hours, autonomy to set your own agenda, choice of phone and computer
• Smart Working Policy - work remotely some of the time, balanced with time in the office together with your team - between 5 and 45 days per quarter in the office depending on each team.
• 'Work from anywhere' weeks - up to four weeks working from anywhere, as long as you have an internet connection!
• Career development, including language classes and Adevinta Academies: specialised content built by our experts on Machine Learning, Agile, Leadership and more
• 26 days of holidays, Commuter allowance, Subsidised gym membership + monthly massage, Life insurance, retirement plan and generous family leave

Marktplaats in The Netherlands, and 2dehands and 2ememain in Belgium, are part of Adevinta: a global online classifieds specialist. The three brands are hosted on a multi-tenant platform, operated from our Amsterdam location, and are the top players in the classifieds space throughout the Benelux region.

We offer consumers the opportunity to trade their unwanted products and contribute to a greener, circular economy. We offer businesses - of all sizes, from the smallest hobbyist to the biggest brands in Benelux - a platform to showcase their goods and services online to over 11 million monthly unique users.

Adevinta is recognised as a sustainability leader and is one of only six companies listed in the Media & Entertainment industry group on the Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI) Europe.

Adevinta is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability status.

If you feel like you don’t meet all of the requirements for this role but are interested, please consider applying anyway. Research suggests that women and individuals from underrepresented groups may self-select out of opportunities if they don’t meet 100% of the job requirements. We strongly encourage people from historically excluded groups to apply and look forward to speaking with you.