Digital Manager

Clemenger BBDO is looking for an experienced Digital Manager to join the Media team in Melbourne At Clemenger BBDO, creativity is our craft, and impact is our measure of success. We're a full-service creative agency built on collaboration, curiosity, and courage - helping brands find their voice, tell their stories, and connect with audiences in meaningful ways. From integrated campaigns to digital innovation, our work spans strategy, creativity, and technology to deliver ideas that move people and transform brands. We partner with some of the world's most ambitious clients, blending strategic insight with creative excellence to build enduring brand relationships. The Opportunity As a Digital Manager, you will gain exposure to planning by recommending channel tactics and ensuring overall campaign delivery. You will lead by example, maintaining high standards across all campaigns, and collaborate with teams to optimise performance. This role emphasises strategic thinking and accountability for results. Key Responsibilities Connections and Implementation Planning: Channel and Tactical brainstorm: Along with the Strategy, Planning, Investment and Digital team leads contribute to channel and tactical ideation on how best to deliver against the briefed objectives. Media Partner Briefing: Support the Investment Director to write and deliver media briefs inclusive of bespoke media partner selection criteria. Media Partner Selection: Support Investment Director to analyse and evaluate media partner responses. Detailed Media Plan: Support the team's Planning lead to build a detailed media plan, clearly capturing the final channels, tactics, investment and campaign KPIs. Media Buying: Media Partner Schedules: Lead the cross checking of media partner schedules to the brief and media plan. Media Partner Feedback: Along with the Investment Director provide detailed feedback to partners that missed out on bookings. Partner Booking: Sign media partner contracts for approved final booking. Creative Specs and Deadlines: Support Investment Executive to compile and provide creative specs and deadlines to creative team/agency. Reporting and Optimisation: Budget Pacing: Monitoring of budget pacing tracker to ensure activity is not spending the budget too slowly or quickly. Bid Optimisation: Manage bids for ad placements in real-time to achieve campaign goals. Performance Analysis: Analyse the campaign's ability to optimise towards desired results. Audience Optimisation: Assess the performance of different audience segments and make recommendations on audiences optimisation. Creative Optimisation: Assess the performance of different creative assets and make recommendations on creative optimisation. Weekly Reports: Provide client with weekly report capturing all observation and required optimisations. Post Campaign Analysis: Channel Delivery: Detail the extent each channel has delivered on the target goals. Channel Insights: Clearly articulate key learnings and recommendations for future improvement by channel and objective. Marketing Studies / Regression: Support Strategy team in summarising of regression, digital attribution, brand tracking…etc results. Finance Support Digital Executive and Digital Co‑Ordinator with all elements of the finance process, including: Collation of written booking confirmations. Finance schedule creation and tracker. Finance loadings. Resolving any account queries arising from invoicing. Updating PO trackers. Skills Communication is essential, both written and oral. Attention to detail. A pair of hands clients can trust. Active Listening. Being able to hear what the client is really saying and interpret the subtext not just the text. Solid judgement. Arriving at the right decision when the circumstances are less than clear. Grace in the face of change or under pressure. Displays a “can do” attitude. Interest and enthusiasm. Provide energy for the team and consistently seek to optimise. Expertise in contributing to and managing comprehensive media plans. Quality assurance to maintain high standards across all deliverables. Analytical mindset to evaluate campaign performance and guide decisions. Leadership skills to manage team operations and inspire collaboration. Stakeholder management to align goals and expectations. Time management to prioritise and meet deadlines across projects. Dedication to team development and implementation knowledge transfer. About Clemenger BBDO's Media Team We unite the scale of a global media network with the soul of a creative agency. Bold ideas. Seamless execution. Deep partnership— all under one roof. If we had to distill this into three transformative pillars they would be: Courageous thinking Scale with Soul Accelerated Growth By integrating media, creative, and strategy, we eliminate duplication, reduce overheads, and streamline workflows — unlocking more budget and time for bold ideas and better outcomes. Join Australia's most celebrated Media Team. In 2025 alone, we took home more MFA's and Effies than any other agency — including 6 MFA's and 4 Effies. Clemenger Group is an equal opportunity employer and committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace. We welcome people of all backgrounds and can assist with your application if you have a language or cultural special consideration, disability or impairment, or use assistive technology – simply contact us via . #J-18808-Ljbffr