Activation Manager
Posted 3 Aug 2026
Advertised as “WPP Media| Senior Activation Manager, Japan”
BranchFactor Summary
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- Expected experience
- 4–8 yrs
- Management level
- People management
- Employment
- Hybrid
No salary listed for this role.
CertificationsAdwords Certification, DoubleClick Certification
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Job Specification
Title: Senior Media Activation Manager
Discipline: Media Activation
About the role
The Media Activation team is responsible for providing thoughtful and exciting recommendations for Search, Social, Display, and Video, owning supplier relationships, and then executing those recommendations expertly. The Media Activation team leverages their mastery of each channel to make sure its recommendations are consistently excellent and innovative, and that in-channel performance and data integrity is maximized.
Some of the things we’d like you to do:
- Manage team members to deliver consistently across multiple campaigns.
- Responsible for Performance strategy and weaving into overall campaign strategy
- Full responsibility of the campaign performance from start to finish
- Ultimate accountability for adherence to controls and best practices across multiple channels
- Build annual learning agenda and test plan for assigned portfolios.
- Final approver on performance forecast and reforecast
- Develop multiple case studies throughout the course of the year