Advertising Operations Specialist

Bloomberg LP has built a significant Media business spanning television, digital, magazine, radio and live event platforms across the globe. In the midst of a historic time in the Media industry, Bloomberg Media is growing its global footprint and reach through new innovations from Originals to New Economy. We work hard, and we work fast \- while keeping up the quality and accuracy we're known for. It's what keeps us inventing and reinventing, all the time. "Our culture is wide open, just like our spaces." We bring out the best in each other. And through our countless volunteer projects, we help bring out the best in the communities around us, too. You can do amazing work here. Work you couldn't do anywhere else. It's up to you to make it happen. Bloomberg Media is looking for an experienced Ad Operations Cross\-Platform Specialist to play a key role in the performance and optimization of client campaign revenue across our multi\-platform media business. This role is designed for someone confident executing advertising campaigns across digital, video, audio, print, social, TV and bespoke ad solutions. Success in this role requires technical acumen, creative thinking and a growth mindset. A qualified candidate will streamline/automate workflows, provide data driven insights, and optimize client performance, while maximizing revenue client satisfaction and retention. This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced, proactive, and solutions\-focused professional who wants to move beyond day\-to\-day campaign execution and act as a strategic growth partner to clients, through advertising operations. We will trust you to: * Own the operational delivery of complex, cross\-platform advertising campaigns across Bloomberg’s owned and operated platforms and off\-platform environments, ensuring execution aligns with contractual terms, client KPIs, technical requirements, revenue objectives, and internal delivery standards. * Partner with Sales, Media Planning, Global Yield, Client Services, Product Marketing, and Ad Product teams to identify delivery risks, recommend solutions, and support successful campaign outcomes. * Lead workflow and communication for high\-value, custom, or complex campaigns, ensuring stakeholders are aligned on responsibilities, deadlines, dependencies, technical requirements, and success measures. * Use campaign performance data, pacing trends, delivery reporting, inventory insights, and operational analysis to identify risks, surface optimisation opportunities, and inform future planning decisions. * Serve as a point of escalation for complex campaign, technical, creative, delivery, and workflow issues, using root\-cause analysis to resolve blockers and identify longer\-term process improvements. * Lead operational improvement initiatives by identifying workflow inefficiencies, documenting best practices, and driving process standardization across geo regions and platforms. * Identify opportunities to streamline, automate, and standardise operational workflows, partnering with internal teams to improve efficiency, accuracy, scalability, and revenue growth. * Act as a cross\-platform subject matter expert by supporting onboarding, mentoring teammates, and helping drive adoption of new workflows, tools, and products across the organization. * QA campaign creative for spec compliance and proper functionality You’ll need to have: * Bachelor’s degree. * Minimum 3 years of experience in advertising operations, campaign management, digital media operations, ad tech, or a related role within a publisher, agency, media platform, or similar environment; cross\-platform planning experience is preferred. * Familiarity with social media platforms, their ad formats and optimization levers that drive performance. * Attention to detail, accountability, and experience working in a fast\-paced environment with frequent changes in priorities. * A strong understanding of advertising operations workflows, including ad serving, campaign trafficking, creative QA, pacing, reporting, troubleshooting, tracking, brand safety, viewability, third\-party tags, optimization, and post\-launch analysis. * Impeccable technical acumen and analytical skills, with ability to interpret dashboards, reporting tools, campaign data, identify trends, diagnose issues, and translate findings into clear recommendations. * A continuous\-improvement mindset and technical aptitude to quickly learn and embrace new tools, systems and processes * Excellent cross\-functional stakeholder management skills across Sales, Media Planning, Ad Product, Yield/Pricing \& Inventory, Product Marketing and external clients or agencies, with ability to influence and drive alignment without direct management oversight. * Confidence communicating technical and operational concepts clearly to both specialist and non\-specialist audiences. * Ability to work independently, take ownership of complex issues, and know when to escalate, challenge, or bring stakeholders together. * Strong multi\-tasking, time management and organisational skills, with the ability to build and maintain strong professional relationships with internal and external partners while managing competing priorities. * Experience in Google Ad Manager, Operative.One, and SalesForce, as well as with third party ad servers (DV360, Flashtalking, Celtra, etc) and ad\-verification vendors (Integral Ad Science/IAS, DoubleVerify) * Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets, including knowledge of pivot tables, lookup functions (e.g. XLOOKUP) and charts. We’d love to see: * Experience mentoring peers, leading training sessions, or acting as a subject matter expert within an advertising operations or similar organization. * Demonstrated initiative in exploring AI tools and emerging technologies, with a desire to bring fresh ideas and practical applications to the team. * A track record of staying informed on advertising industry trends and developments, and bringing relevant insights into team conversations or campaign discussions. Apply if you think we're a good match. We'll get in touch to let you know what the next steps are, but in the meantime feel free to have a look at this: Life at Bloomberg is many things, but it’s never dull. We're a truly global business with a truly diverse workforce. We pride ourselves on being open, inclusive and collaborative, and provide a work environment that inspires our employees to be their best. 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