The Agency

Tribal DDB London is a full service digital marketing agency. With over 100 full time staff we offer expertise in communications, applications, mobile and platform development. We also have dedicated units for social media and innovation.

Tribal is the one of largest and most awarded global digital agency networks with 60 offices in 28 countries. Our Multi-National clients include McDonald’s, Volkswagen, P&G, Pepsi, J&J, Unilever and Mars.

Our UK clients include Volkswagen, Exxon Mobil, Unilever, Guinness, Captain Morgan, Financial Times and more.

We place great importance on the ongoing development of our staff and offer internal and external training at all levels.  As part of this commitment, we are members of the IPA and active participants in their CPD programme (Continuous Personal Development).

Our Guiding Principles

There’s a simple way to sum up what we do:

We love to make work people love

And we love making it. We keep pushing the boundaries between creative, strategy, design and technology. We strive to create meaningful and emotional connections between blurred, because a good idea can come from anywhere. We’ve found innovation to be the most powerful way to rise above the hubbub, get noticed and change behaviour.

The Role

We are looking for a strong Senior Technical Project Manager. They will report to the Project Director and will be responsible for managing large projects and providing senior input across multiple projects.

They will make timely decisions in order to ensure project success within time, cost and quality parameters. They will have significant client liaison responsibilities to ensure that client expectations are managed and met. 

Main responsibilities

• Technical requirements gathering
• Facilitating identification of technical solutions
• Facilitating functional specification production
• Cost and time estimate management
• Technical risk assessment, mitigation strategies and expectation setting
• Focusing on technical delivery, efficiency and productivity
• Large or technically complex project/programme management
• Support less tech PM to run their projects (Sow, project plans, phases, testing, risks and scope)
• Technical project management consultancy for the client
• Key point of contact for delivery feasibility of scope, budget, timing on tech heavy projects

Experience and skills required

• Must have proven experience delivering technology/web projects with large budgets (over £200,000), up to 25 FTEs and of possibly high complexity
• Must have proven experience working with technologies – Java, HTML, Flex
• Must be PMI or Prince 2 certified and SCRUM certified in Agile Project Management  delivery
• Experience drafting and developing technical and functional specifications
• Previous experience managing cross-office teams (ie: designers and developers) of significant size (up to 20 people)
• Excellent team and people management skills
• Strong client facing, presentation and negotiation skills

N.B. This job description will not form part of your contract of employment unless specified otherwise

recruitment@tribalddb.co.uk

20 February 2012

The Agency

Tribal DDB London is a full service digital marketing agency. With over 100 full time staff we offer expertise in communications, applications, mobile and platform development. We also have dedicated units for social media and innovation.

Tribal is the one of largest and most awarded global digital agency networks with 60 offices in 28 countries. Our Multi-National clients include McDonald’s, Volkswagen, P&G, Pepsi, J&J, Unilever and Mars.

Our UK clients include Volkswagen, Exxon Mobil, Unilever, Guinness, Captain Morgan, Financial Times and more.

We place great importance on the ongoing development of our staff and offer internal and external training at all levels.  As part of this commitment, we are members of the IPA and active participants in their CPD programme (Continuous Personal Development).

Our Guiding Principles

There’s a simple way to sum up what we do:

We love to make work people love

And we love making it. We keep pushing the boundaries between creative, strategy, design and technology. We strive to create meaningful and emotional connections between blurred, because a good idea can come from anywhere. We’ve found innovation to be the most powerful way to rise above the hubbub, get noticed and change behaviour.

The Role

This is combined client/new business role with 50% of your time allocated to the client [dark rum] and 50% dedicated to working alongside the Tribal DDB new business team.

Key tasks and responsibilities

The successful candidate will be:

• Responsible for the day to day direction of the client account, ensuring that it is on track both in terms of delivery but also in terms of future planning
• Identifying new business opportunities and driving them forward
• Heavily involved in Agency’s pitches from tenders to RFI’s etc and managing the on-the-day pitch experience itself
• Ambassador for the Agency both internally and externally
• Keeping track of all pitch costs vs agreed budgets for 2012
• Close working with Creative and Production teams on creative output 
• Working with key Agency personnel to achieve the agency’s prospecting objectives
• Liaising with Tribal DDB Worldwide to ensure prospecting and marketing strategies are in tune
• Annual reviewing of Tribal DDB’s new business and marketing objectives, strategies, measures and budgets (as part of a senior team)
• Understanding the commercial realities of the business the Client is in and spotting opportunities to developer the Agency’s role
• Through strong client relationships, creating an environment where the best work can flourish, ensuring clear and timely briefings from the Client and the right resources from inside the Agency
• Working closely with the Head of Client Services to come up with interesting and entertaining ideas to build and strengthen relationships with clients
• Creating a supportive environment for their direct reports, trouble shooting when they are unable to resolve issues, coaching and mentoring them, giving them enough room to grow, but enough guidance and support so they don’t flounder.
• Leading by example and oversee perfect execution, on time, every time
• Thinking ahead and making contingency plans

Skills and Experience required:

• Solid experience working on fast paced digital communications accounts
• Proven experience of leading new business pitches, RFI’s and tenders
• Strong entrepreneurial skills
• Impeccable attention to detail
• Confident presentation and negotiation skills
• Proactive and hands on approach
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Drive to keep pushing the boundaries and achieve excellence
• Ability to think strategically and globally
• Passion for and strong knowledge of all things creative and brands
• Proven track record of developing strong client relationships
• Ability to work on several projects/accounts simultaneously
• Demonstrable knowledge of marketing principles and best practice on document writing

N.B this job description will not form part of your contract of employment unless specified otherwise

 recruitment@tribalddb.co.uk  

20 February 2012

The Agency

Tribal DDB London is a full service digital marketing agency. With over 100 full time staff we offer expertise in communications, applications, mobile and platform development. We also have dedicated units for social media and innovation.

Tribal is the one of largest and most awarded global digital agency networks with 60 offices in 28 countries. Our Multi-National clients include McDonald’s, Volkswagen, P&G, Pepsi, J&J, Unilever and Mars.

Our UK clients include Volkswagen, Exxon Mobil, Unilever, Guinness, Captain Morgan, Financial Times and more.

We place great importance on the ongoing development of our staff and offer internal and external training at all levels.  As part of this commitment, we are members of the IPA and active participants in their CPD programme (Continuous Personal Development).

Our Guiding Principles

There’s a simple way to sum up what we do:

We love to make work people love

And we love making it. We keep pushing the boundaries between creative, strategy, design and technology. We strive to create meaningful and emotional connections between blurred, because a good idea can come from anywhere. We’ve found innovation to be the most powerful way to rise above the hubbub, get noticed and change behaviour.

The Role

Tribal DDB is looking for a Digital Senior Account Manager to join our dynamic and ambitious team working on an [alcohol brand] account. And since things are moving fast in the digital world, you really don’t want to miss this opportunity. You will be a key point of contact working closely with all internal departments to deliver the innovative, high quality work we’re famous for. 

Skills and Experience required

• Previous experience working on website builds, integrated campaigns including social.
• Previous experience working on real world Interactive digital displays/customer experiences is preferable
• Strong experience working on large and fast paced accounts
• Strong knowledge of and passion for all things digital and emerging technology
• Demonstrable knowledge of marketing principles and best practice on document writing
• Proven track record of developing strong client relationships
• Experience in selling and presenting creative work
• Excellent communication skills and confident manners
• Impeccable attention to detail

The ideal candidate will

• Be interested in digital and high end real world interactive digital experiences
• Be as excited by the possibilities of technology as they are by creative work
• Enjoy collaborating with clients, project managers, planners and technical teams to deliver industry-leading projects
• Be well organised and able to keep on top of contact reports, status reports, client and meeting management
• Derive satisfaction from delivering projects on time and on budget
• Have technical understanding of the principles of web builds, deployment process, tracking (Google Analytics experience is an advantage), social platforms, NEO processes if possible
• Be numerate and confident with billing and reconciliation

N.B this job description will not form part of your contract of employment unless specified otherwise

recruitment@tribalddb.co.uk

20 February 2012

The Agency

DDB UK is a world class integrated communications agency. One building, full of talented individuals with expertise in advertising, digital, direct and experiential: creating everything from large scale global, to niche social media campaigns. DDB UK is not a group, nor a set of skills in silos, but one team with one aim - to be the most creative integrated agency. Our clients include Volkswagen, Financial Times, Exxon Mobil, Star Alliance, Unilever, Harvey Nichols and many more.

We place great importance on the ongoing development of our staff and offer internal and external training at all levels.  As part of this commitment, we are members of the IPA and active participants in their CPD programme (Continuous Personal Development).

DDB famously expects two particular qualities of its employees: you have to be talented and you have to be nice. Being part of the creative industry, fun is not just part of our culture, it's also what we're paid to deliver; so if you have a can-do attitude and are willing to demonstrate your initiative you can expect plenty of stimulation in a company that will really develop your career.

The Role

The candidate will mainly be working with the CRM team on communications through a mix of channels including email, till receipts, SMS, DM and online; however there will also be opportunities to work on fully integrated campaigns spanning POS, Digital and traditional off-site media.

CRM experience is essential as well as digital experience. Some experience in integration of BTL channels in the wider context of communications would be useful. The candidate must be analytically minded with an understanding of how data is used to drive communications; they should not be fazed by numbers and data.

Key tasks / responsibilities

Key Responsibilities will include mainly delivering and managing CRM communications across multi markets on a very fast paced account. Day to day responsibilities of the role include, but are not limited to:-

• Management of cost estimate construction and approval
• Briefing creative teams (with support from senior team members)
• Liaison with all Client Services departments
• Construction of client presentations with Agency recommendations (with support from senior team members)
• Artwork crafting and review with senior team members
• Final copy checking before Client submission
• Management of translations
• Management of Client approvals
• Status reports for internal use and use with Client
• Liaison with DDB partners, local DDB offices and 3^rd party suppliers
• Management of Legal & Public Affairs approvals (Client side) prior to production
• Input to project financial reconciliations
• Construction of Client presentations summarising materials produced for circulation within their organisation

Another interesting element of the role will be to act as Client liaison on an annual UK national promotion. Previous experience in this area is not essential but may prove useful.

Key experience required

• Solid industry experience in an account handling role
• CRM and Digital experience is a must
• Experience of playing a strong, supportive role within a dynamic account team as they will be responsible for the day to day work within the team.
• Ability to multi task, strong time management and attention to detail is absolutely essential.
• Financial expertise: responsible for cost estimation and full financial admin of projects (PO through to invoice and any final project reconciliation). It is essential to be buttoned down and view financial admin as an integral part of account management.
• Technical expertise: A good understanding of the process to produce direct response BTL email communications including the ability to understand the need for data.
• Strong proficiency in: Excel, Word and PowerPoint.

Key skills required

The successful candidate is someone who:-

• Has good on and offline communications production / project management knowledge. From a data perspective, understanding the potential use of data in relation to campaign and communication development and reappraisal as well as best practice for data management is required.
• Makes things happen: perfect execution, on time, every time. Working with project management they will make sure everything happens on time and to budget.
• Makes things better: they think ahead, contingency plan and avoid problems. Builds strong relationships: they are likeable and trustworthy. They develop solid Client relationships based on their ability to deliver. They manage expectations. The trust they build with the Client allows them to sell better work.
• Forges strong relationships by being clear, honest and straightforward, democratic and un-political in how they deal with others and demonstrate a passion for and commitment to the work.
• Behaves glass half full and plan glass half empty: they are enthusiastic and upbeat with a can do attitude.
• Is creatively passionate: they should be genuinely enthusiastic, curious and interested in all things creative, keeping up to date on what’s best in class across all disciplines.

What type of person we are looking for..

• A self starter
• Diplomatic and gregarious
• Able to build good relationships
• Has great attention to detail & is able to prioritise efficiently
• Demonstrates a considered approach to problems and issues
• Remains calm under pressure
• Values collaboration highly
• Is prepared to roll up their sleeves
• Flexible/adaptable to ever changing circumstances
• Passionate about getting the job done right
• Embraces financial admin and process
• Finally, they’ve got to be fun to work with!

ddbcareers@ddblondon.com 

17 February 2012

The Agency

DDB UK is a world class integrated communications agency. One building, full of talented individuals with expertise in advertising, digital, direct and experiential: creating everything from large scale global, to niche social media campaigns. DDB UK is not a group, nor a set of skills in silos, but one team with one aim - to be the most creative integrated agency. Our clients include Volkswagen, Financial Times, Exxon Mobil, Star Alliance, Unilever, Harvey Nichols and many more.

We place great importance on the ongoing development of our staff and offer internal and external training at all levels.  As part of this commitment, we are members of the IPA and active participants in their CPD programme (Continuous Personal Development).

DDB famously expects two particular qualities of its employees: you have to be talented and you have to be nice. Being part of the creative industry, fun is not just part of our culture, it's also what we're paid to deliver; so if you have a can-do attitude and are willing to demonstrate your initiative you can expect plenty of stimulation in a company that will really develop your career.

The Role

The candidates will mainly be working on communications through a mix of channels including fully integrated campaigns spanning POS, Digital and traditional off-site media. However, as the business is fully integrated there will also be opportunities to work on other more direct channels including email, till receipts, SMS, DM and online.

Multi channel experience including POS is essential and digital skills would also be preferable.

Key tasks / responsibilities

Key Responsibilities will include mainly delivering and managing integrated communications across multi markets on a very fast paced account.

Day to day responsibilities of the role include, but are not limited to:-

• Management of cost estimate construction and approval
• Briefing creative teams (with support from senior team members)
• Liaison with all Client Services departments
• Construction of client presentations with Agency recommendations (with support from senior team members)
• Artwork crafting and review with senior team members
• Final copy checking before Client submission
• Management of translations
• Management of Client approvals
• Status reports for internal use and use with Client
• Liaison with DDB partners (UM, RAPP, etc.), local DDB offices and 3^rd party suppliers
• Management of Legal & Public Affairs approvals (Client side) prior to production
• Input to project financial reconciliations

Construction of Client presentations summarising materials produced for circulation within their organisation

Key experience required

• Solid industry experience in an account handling role
• Multi channel experience including POS is essential and digital skills would also be preferable

   

• Experience of playing a strong, supportive role within a dynamic account team, they will be responsible for the day to day work within the team. Ability to multi task, strong time management and attention to detail is absolutely essential
• Financial expertise: responsible for cost estimation and full financial admin of projects (PO through to invoice and any final project reconciliation). It is essential to be buttoned down and view financial admin as an integral part of project management
• Technical expertise: A good understanding of the process to produce direct response BTL email communications including the ability to understand the need for data
• Strong proficiency in: Excel, Word and PowerPoint

 K

ey skills required

The successful candidate is someone who:-

• Has good on and offline communications production / project management knowledge. From a data perspective, understanding the potential use of data in relation to campaign and communication development and reappraisal as well as best practice for data management is required.
• Makes things happen: perfect execution, on time, every time. Working with project management they will make sure everything happens on time and to budget.
• Makes things better: they think ahead, contingency plan and avoid problems. Builds strong relationships: they are likeable and trustworthy. They develop solid Client relationships based on their ability to deliver. They manage expectations. The trust they build with the Client allows them to sell better work.
• Forges strong relationships by being clear, honest and straightforward, democratic and un-political in how they deal with others and demonstrate a passion for and commitment to the work.
• Behaves glass half full and plan glass half empty: they are enthusiastic and upbeat with a can do attitude.
• Is creatively passionate: they should be genuinely enthusiastic, curious and interested in all things creative, keeping up to date on what’s best in class across all disciplines.

What type of person we are looking for..

• A self starter
• Diplomatic and gregarious
• Able to build good relationships
• Has great attention to detail & is able to prioritise efficiently
• Demonstrates a considered approach to problems and issues
• Remains calm under pressure
• Values collaboration highly
• Is prepared to roll up their sleeves
• Flexible/adaptable to ever changing circumstances
• Passionate about getting the job done right
• Embraces financial admin and process
• Finally, they’ve got to be fun to work with!

 ddbcareers@ddblondon.com

17 February 2012

The Agency

Tribal DDB London is a full service digital marketing agency. With over 100 full time staff we offer expertise in communications, applications, mobile and platform development. We also have dedicated units for social media and innovation.

Tribal is the one of largest and most awarded global digital agency networks with 60 offices in 28 countries. Our Multi-National clients include McDonald’s, Volkswagen, P&G, Pepsi, J&J, Unilever and Mars.

Our UK clients include Volkswagen, Exxon Mobil, Unilever, Guinness, Captain Morgan, Financial Times and more.

We place great importance on the ongoing development of our staff and offer internal and external training at all levels.  As part of this commitment, we are members of the IPA and active participants in their CPD programme (Continuous Personal Development).

Our Guiding Principles

There’s a simple way to sum up what we do:

We love to make work people love

And we love making it. We strive to create meaningful and emotional connections between blurred, because a good idea can come from anywhere. We’ve found innovation to be the most powerful way to rise above the hubbub, get noticed and change behaviour. We keep pushing the boundaries between creative, strategy, design and technology.

The Role

We are looking for a strong Project Manager who will be responsible for managing the execution of interactive projects from conception through delivery, including managing scope and resources, scheduling, budget tracking, the development of project plans and providing status. They will have to manage all factors that govern project success to ensure delivery within time, cost and quality parameters.

Key responsibilities

• Project resource and budget management
• Project team development and management (including management of Associate PM as appropriate)
• Quality Assurance and project risk management
• Managing the client relationship in context of specific projects
• Managing scope of the project

• Oversee day-to-day production process
• Coordinating, tracking, and organizing client handoff of assets
• Provide team with daily task lists
• Coordinate production traffic
• Obtaining timely signoff of deliverable, phase and final project acceptance documents
• Take on any other responsibilities or tasks that are within the employee's skills and abilities whenever reasonably instructed
• PMP certification from PMI, or Prince 2 certification strongly desired and training needs will be assessed with Director of Project Management on a case-by-case basis.

Skills and Experience required

• Proven track record of experience at managing technology/web projects, of possibly high complexity, as well as proven experience delivering programmes of communications type projects.
• Must have experience delivering micro-sites (HTML, Flash, etc) and quick turnaround production jobs on schedule and within budget
• Experience working with digital measurement and reporting tools, also agency stakeholders involved in this process (e.g. planning, tech)
• Experience implementing process and ensuring quality of delivery for cross channel projects
• Sound knowledge of web and related technologies
• Strong presentation and negotiation skills.
• Ability to get team members from different disciplines to come together as a team and ability to lead team members to deliver on schedule and within budget constraints in a constructive manner
• Thorough understanding of the principles of Project Management and appropriate methodologies and processes

N.B This job description will not form part of your contract of employment unless specified otherwise.

recruitment@tribalddb.co.uk 

15 February 2012

The Agency

Tribal DDB London is a full service digital marketing agency. With over 100 full time staff we offer expertise in communications, applications, mobile and platform development. We also have dedicated units for social media and innovation.

Tribal is the one of largest and most awarded global digital agency networks with 60 offices in 28 countries. Our Multi-National clients include McDonald’s, Volkswagen, P&G, Pepsi, J&J, Unilever and Mars.

Our UK clients include Volkswagen, Exxon Mobil, Unilever, Guinness, Captain Morgan, Financial Times and more.

We place great importance on the ongoing development of our staff and offer internal and external training at all levels.  As part of this commitment, we are members of the IPA and active participants in their CPD programme (Continuous Personal Development).

Our Guiding Principles

There’s a simple way to sum up what we do:

We love to make work people love

And we love making it. We keep pushing the boundaries between creative, strategy, design and technology. We strive to create meaningful and emotional connections between blurred, because a good idea can come from anywhere. We’ve found innovation to be the most powerful way to rise above the hubbub, get noticed and change behaviour.

Overview

The role of the Interactive Design Director is to lead and inspire the design/interactive team at Tribal DDB London.

The Interactive Design Director must possess the energy and drive to ensure that every single piece of communication produced is of the highest. We want to focus on experience design and combine design, animation, 3D, UX, conceptual thinking into a look, feel, touch direction.

The Interactive Design Director must excel in intelligent conceptual thinking and back this up with innovative interactive design skills from emotional feel to typographic detail.

The Interactive Design Director must possess a passion for art and design and demonstrates a thorough understanding of past, current and emerging -ism's, trends and styles.

Reporting to:-  Head of Interactive Art

Responsibilities

• Lead and direct the interactive, visual, experience, typographic and stylistic output of Tribal DDB Interactive Design Department
• Drive innovation within the department in any way you see fit.
• Manage and ensure the growth of individuals on the interactive design team.
• Incessantly promote the agency’s work, both internally and externally.
• Ensure the output of the department is on brand, on message and on strategy
• Work in close collaboration other creative HOD’s to ensure that agency output is of the highest possible quality both creatively and technically

Requirements

• Significant experience in digital, interactive, graphic design with an excellent portfolio
• A passion and strong understanding of experience design
• Extremely strong team leader
• Must be able to verbally communicate ideas to clients and internal key stay holders.
• Creating interactive brand guidelines must be second nature
• Extensive experience in interactive design and/or experience in print/web/motion and typography.
• A background of formal design /interactive training
• Photoshop, Illustrator, after effects, 3d,  flash
• A strong commitment to craft
• Technically astute and aware of latest ground breaking digital technologies.
• Develop ideas alongside other disciplines from creative, tech, UX, social, technical

N.B. This job description will not form part of your contract of employment unless specified otherwise

recruitment@tribalddb.co.uk   

8 February 2012

The Agency

Tribal DDB London is a full service digital marketing agency. With over 100 full time staff we offer expertise in communications, applications, mobile and platform development. We also have dedicated units for social media and innovation.

Tribal is the one of largest and most awarded global digital agency networks with 60 offices in 28 countries. Our Multi-National clients include McDonald’s, Volkswagen, P&G, Pepsi, J&J, Unilever and Mars.

Our UK clients include Volkswagen, Exxon Mobil, Unilever, Guinness, Captain Morgan, Financial Times and more.

We place great importance on the ongoing development of our staff and offer internal and external training at all levels.  As part of this commitment, we are members of the IPA and active participants in their CPD programme (Continuous Personal Development).

Our Guiding Principles

There’s a simple way to sum up what we do:

We love to make work people love

And we love making it. We keep pushing the boundaries between creative, strategy, design and technology. We strive to create meaningful and emotional connections between blurred, because a good idea can come from anywhere. We’ve found innovation to be the most powerful way to rise above the hubbub, get noticed and change behaviour.

The Role

Tribal DDB is looking for an Account Manager, who has primarily digital experience, to join our dynamic and ambitious team.

You’ll be a key point of contact for one of our most important clients, working closely with our internal departments to deliver the innovative, high quality work we’re famous for. You’ll be working on highly creative, digital communications campaigns including rich media online ads, digital content, micro site maintenance & development, splash pages and emails, as well as helping to develop the innovative and social media streams of work.

As an Account Manager you will be:

• Managing projects or account responsibilities by working as a team player
• Demonstrating initiative and ensuring deadlines are communicated and met
• Establishing priorities and ensuring team members are aware of their responsibilities
• Arranging meetings and issuing accurate minutes as promptly as possible
• Working with Project Managers to prepare proposals, production estimates, timing plans and research proposals
• Working with other team members and/or planners in the writing of creative briefs
• Ensuring that all relevant documentation is stored and well organised
• Keeping account team and client up to date with competitive news and/or market trends
• Managing individual project budgets and reporting into senior team members by providing billing information and reconciliation’s when necessary
• Making sure that all account tasks get done in an efficient manner

The ideal candidate will have:

• Solid experience working on digital communications accounts
• As keen an interest in the possibilities of technology as they have in creative work
• Impeccable attention to detail
• A ‘can-do’ attitude
• Excellent communication skills and confident manners
• A proactive and hands on approach
• Passion for and strong knowledge of all things digital and brands – especially social media and innovation
• Proven track record of developing strong client relationships
• The ability to work on several projects/accounts simultaneously
• Demonstrable knowledge of marketing principles and best practice on document writing
• Experience in selling and presenting creative work
• Automotive experience highly desired but not essential

recruitment@tribalddb.co.uk

26 January 2012

The Agency

DDB UK is a world class integrated communications agency. One building, full of talented individuals with expertise in advertising, digital, direct and experiential: creating everything from large scale global, to niche social media campaigns. DDB UK is not a group, nor a set of skills in silos, but one team with one aim - to be the most creative integrated agency. Our clients include Volkswagen, Financial Times, Exxon Mobil, Star Alliance, Unilever, Harvey Nichols and many more.

We place great importance on the ongoing development of our staff and offer internal and external training at all levels.  As part of this commitment, we are members of the IPA and active participants in their CPD programme (Continuous Personal Development).

DDB famously expects two particular qualities of its employees: you have to be talented and you have to be nice. Being part of the creative industry, fun is not just part of our culture, it's also what we're paid to deliver; so if you have a can-do attitude and are willing to demonstrate your initiative you can expect plenty of stimulation in a company that will really develop your career.

Social at DDB UK

Our goal is simply to make DDB’s social offering the best and most robust in the UK market. This means living-up to the high standards of DDB UK’s creative product but also the high standards of its Strategic Planning department.

The network has aligned globally around the organising idea of Social Creativity. This mantra is being used to redefine the way we work and the kinds of work we want to produce. In London, the agency remains focused on making work that people love.

This is a very exciting time for the social media specialists in the agency. On the one hand we are busy growing a social business, on the other we are engaged in a process of changing the agency culture so, that in time, everyone thinks socially.

DDB UK Planning

The DDB UK Planning Department is very much at the centre of the agency.  It is constantly evolving and anyone joining will have the opportunity to help shape that development. The department already consists of strategic thinkers from advertising, digital, media, PR and direct marketing backgrounds – we were the first department to truly grasp an integrated point of view and led the revolution within the agency that is now coming to fruition in all other departments of the business.  Strategic planners are above all focussed on solving clients’ problems in the most appropriate and creative way.

We have a particular ‘house style’ of planning which we call ‘Open Planning’.  This refers to the open minded way that we all approach new marketing and communications challenges.  We never apply an ‘off the peg’ solution.  And it also refers to a more collective way of working – using the combined brain power of the whole department to help solve knotty problems. It is the perfect place to work for someone with lots of ideas that they want to share.

The Role

We are looking for a Social Strategist, reporting to Director of Social.

In short; building social strategies for clients within the existing agency portfolio and beyond it. The strategic work ranges from (a) simple social campaign strategy development and planning, right-through to (b) assisting in the running of organisational change programmes, where clients are on a journey of transformation to become a truly social business.

Specifically the role will require the Social Strategist to do the following tasks:

• Work on the development of original social campaign proposals, identifying target audiences, creative content opportunities, providing solid rationale for the recommendations, working with creative teams where appropriate to brief-in the right creative solution.
• Develop strategies to harness the potential of social media for our clients (social platform design, social content/social object creation, outreach programme development).
• Design and implement social monitoring projects that deliver insight for marketing and social marketing strategy, using internal tools (e.g. Sysomos).
• Oversee social monitoring projects delivered by external suppliers (e.g. Brandwatch).
• Turn social media monitoring data into powerful insights that can be used to deliver original and powerful communications programmes.
• Work with the Director of Social to help develop social media guidelines and policy, operating models, content audits and content flows and the appropriate reporting and evaluation templates.
• To stay up to date on available social technology providers and developments in key social platforms.
• Work effectively with Account Management, Planning and Creative teams from across the agency.

In addition to day to day responsibilities, the social strategist will be;

• Working with the Director of Social to help develop new products and services that will meet emerging client needs.
• Working with the Director of Social to design new planning and analytical approaches to derive deeper and more unique insight from social monitoring data.
• To help in the development of a very high-end social ROI methodology.

Fit with DDB UK

As ever, we are not content with simply talented people.  They must also be open, friendly and comfortable taking part in and contributing to the culture of the social media unit and the wider agency – sharing knowledge and helping and inspiring others.   

ddbcareers@ddblondon.com

24 January 2012

The Agency

Tribal DDB London is a full service digital marketing agency. With over 100 full time staff we offer expertise in communications, applications, mobile and platform development. We also have dedicated units for social media and innovation.

Tribal is the one of largest and most awarded global digital agency networks with 60 offices in 28 countries. Our Multi-National clients include McDonald’s, Volkswagen, P&G, Pepsi, J&J, Unilever and Mars.

Our UK clients include Volkswagen, Exxon Mobil, Unilever, Guinness, Captain Morgan, Financial Times and more.

We place great importance on the ongoing development of our staff and offer internal and external training at all levels.  As part of this commitment, we are members of the IPA and active participants in their CPD programme (Continuous Personal Development).

Our Guiding Principles

There’s a simple way to sum up what we do:

We love to make work people love

And we love making it. We keep pushing the boundaries between creative, strategy, design and technology. We strive to create meaningful and emotional connections between blurred, because a good idea can come from anywhere. We’ve found innovation to be the most powerful way to rise above the hubbub, get noticed and change behaviour.

Key Responsibilities

The core responsibility is to work with the Technical Lead, developing code on time and to budget, and to do so in a manner that meets the client’s requirements and continues to improve the quality of the project.

The successful candidate will also be responsible for:-

• Demonstrating that the code meets requirements
• Analysing the client’s functional requirements
• Documenting work packages and deployment guidelines
• Estimating, planning, and delivering work under the guidance and supporting of the Project Managers and Account Managers
• Providing technical advice to the Project Managers and Account Managers

Key Technical Requirements

• Solid development experience working on IT projects of medium complexity. E.g. n-tier, mixed platform, possibly mixed development tools/languages
• Solid experience of working in a Java Enterprise/Web environment
• Excellent working knowledge of MySQL & SQL
• Excellent understanding of HTTP/S and other common protocols
• Proven experience of common development tools (e.g. Ant, Eclipse/IntelliJ, SVN/GIT, Jenkins)
• Good experience with Linux based systems and associated tools (e.g. RedHat, CentOS)
• Familiarity with Design Patterns and good knowledge of perhaps 3-4 patterns such as Singleton, DAO, MVC, Composite
• Familiarity of common development best practices (e.g. TDD, Agile)
• Knowledge of Groovy & Grails development and the Spring framework is desirable
• The candidate would keep their skills and knowledge up-to-date, for example by following industry website, attending conferences/talks and having relevant certifications.

Personal Profile

The successful candidate will:

• Work openly with other team members, and communicate effectively
• Pay attention to detail and have a commitment to quality
• Be eager to learn and apply new skills and technologies that the business needs
• Take ownership of their own development and solve problems in a resourceful and professional manner.

recruitment@tribalddb.co.uk

11 January 2012

The Agency

Tribal DDB London is a full service digital marketing agency. With over 100 full time staff we offer expertise in communications, applications, mobile and platform development. We also have dedicated units for social media and innovation.

Tribal is the one of largest and most awarded global digital agency networks with 60 offices in 28 countries. Our Multi-National clients include McDonald’s, Volkswagen, P&G, Pepsi, J&J, Unilever and Mars.

Our UK clients include Volkswagen, Exxon Mobil, Unilever, Guinness, Captain Morgan, Financial Times and more.

We place great importance on the ongoing development of our staff and offer internal and external training at all levels.  As part of this commitment, we are members of the IPA and active participants in their CPD programme (Continuous Personal Development).

Our Guiding Principles

There’s a simple way to sum up what we do:

We love to make work people love

And we love making it. We keep pushing the boundaries between creative, strategy, design and technology. We strive to create meaningful and emotional connections between blurred, because a good idea can come from anywhere. We’ve found innovation to be the most powerful way to rise above the hubbub, get noticed and change behaviour.

About Tribal Spark

Launched in 2010, Tribal SPARK proactively uncovers and develops opportunities for our clients within emerging technologies. The unit aims to work in iterative and agile ways to develop prototypes, products and services that advance our clients’ businesses.  With access to a dedicated set of resources within the agency, we also run an open participation program to encourage proactive thinking and collaboration from within the agency.

Tribal SPARK will fuse the creative brilliance of DDB with the pioneering ingenuity of Tribal, leveraging new and emerging technologies to create exciting and inventive business opportunities for their clients.

The Role

We are looking for a Project Director who will take a key leadership and management role in our dedicated innovation unit.  

Essential skills & experience

• Extensive experience of managing multi-discipline, complex digital projects
• Agile qualifications with proven experience of implementing and leading agile methodologies
• Strong track record in Technical & Mobile Delivery (ideally in HTML5, iOS, android, Java, Flex)
• Strong analytical, problem-solving and presentation skills
• Entrepreneurial flair and a passion for emerging technologies
• Ability to conceptualize and translate broad business requirements to specific project deliverables.

Other Key Experience and Skills required

• Managing multiple streams/programmes of work of varying size and activity
• Working with a Business Director/Client to manage a pipeline of work in excess of £2.5M
• Proven evidence/experience of setting up and creating processes, documentation and working practices - both within PM team and across department
• Excellent mentorship skills

Key responsibilities

• Lead, implement and actively promote the use of agile methodologies within SPARK
• Own and drive the SPARK project workflow, knowledge sharing and collaboration tools (Basecamp)
• Lead, Implement and actively promote the employee contribution programme
• Effective project scoping across all projects
• Capturing requirements of full project lifecycle deliverables, outputs, costs and timings
• Executive project oversight / support for any PM working for the unit, whilst providing proactive solutions to non-critical issues and hands on resolution for project critical tasks
• Working directly with the Resource Managers to manage any resource gaps or load balancing issues
• Responsible for being the central point of contact for all project issues
• Monitoring active budget management across the projects within the assigned client team through the weekly project reconciliation process and maintenance of the client team dashboard also ensuring timely action by PM staff in support of invoice generation
• Managing and mentoring direct reports – including identification of skills gaps, employment risks, personal goals, objectives, and development for each PM via ongoing Personal Development Plan setting and review
• Feasibility checking on ideas created outside the normal Tribal process including initial estimates and potential risks and delivery schedule.
• Training in digital project management and its implications on delivery and client expectations

N.B. This job description will not form part of your contract of employment unless specified otherwise

recruitment@tribalddb.co.uk

10 January 2012

The Agency

Tribal DDB London is a full service digital marketing agency. With over 100 full time staff we offer expertise in communications, applications, mobile and platform development. We also have dedicated units for social media and innovation.

Tribal is the one of largest and most awarded global digital agency networks with 60 offices in 28 countries. Our Multi-National clients include McDonald’s, Volkswagen, P&G, Pepsi, J&J, Unilever and Mars.

Our UK clients include Volkswagen, Exxon Mobil, Unilever, Guinness, Captain Morgan, Financial Times and more.

We place great importance on the ongoing development of our staff and offer internal and external training at all levels.  As part of this commitment, we are members of the IPA and active participants in their CPD programme (Continuous Personal Development).

Our Guiding Principles

There’s a simple way to sum up what we do:

We love to make work people love

And we love making it. We keep pushing the boundaries between creative, strategy, design and technology. We strive to create meaningful and emotional connections between blurred, because a good idea can come from anywhere. We’ve found innovation to be the most powerful way to rise above the hubbub, get noticed and change behaviour.

About Tribal Spark

Launched in 2010, Tribal SPARK proactively uncovers and develops opportunities for our clients within emerging technologies. The unit aims to work in iterative and agile ways to develop prototypes, products and services that advance our clients’ businesses.  With access to a dedicated set of resources within the agency, we also run an open participation program to encourage proactive thinking and collaboration from within the agency.

Tribal SPARK fuses the creative brilliance of DDB with the pioneering ingenuity of Tribal, leveraging new and emerging technologies to create exciting and inventive business opportunities for their clients.

Tribal SPARK have an opportunity for a placement mobile developer. This is an opportunity to work on various mobile projects across a number of high profile clients and learn from Tribal SPARK’S existing development team. Candidates should have a strong grounding in visual design and an understanding of mobile/tablet user experience as well as having in skills in one or more of the following areas:-

Also of benefit are skills in these areas:-

• Object orientated development patterns
• HTML/CSS/Javascript development
• Flash/Flex development

Additionally candidates will be expected to be familiar with industry standard design tools such as those from Adobe, source control systems such as Subversion, and standard Microsoft Office tools.

Length of placement

48 weeks

recruitment@tribalddb.co.uk

10 January 2012

The Agency

Tribal DDB London is a full service digital marketing agency. With over 100 full time staff we offer expertise in communications, applications, mobile and platform development. We also have dedicated units for social media and innovation.

Tribal is the one of largest and most awarded global digital agency networks with 60 offices in 28 countries. Our Multi-National clients include McDonald’s, Volkswagen, P&G, Pepsi, J&J, Unilever and Mars.

Our UK clients include Volkswagen, Exxon Mobil, Unilever, Guinness, Captain Morgan, Financial Times and more.

We place great importance on the ongoing development of our staff and offer internal and external training at all levels.  As part of this commitment, we are members of the IPA and active participants in their CPD programme (Continuous Personal Development).

Our Guiding Principles

There’s a simple way to sum up what we do:

We love to make work people love

And we love making it. We keep pushing the boundaries between creative, strategy, design and technology. We strive to create meaningful and emotional connections between blurred, because a good idea can come from anywhere. We’ve found innovation to be the most powerful way to rise above the hubbub, get noticed and change behaviour.

The Role

We are looking for a Social Media Community Manager to work across various accounts, managing the day-to-day running of Client’s social media properties and supporting the Social Media Director in creating strategic social campaigns and programmes. 

Key responsibilities

• All day-to-day management and participation for Client’s social media properties (such as Facebook, Twitter and blogs), including producing regular posts and content, content uploading, moderation, outreach and any other appropriate duties.  
• Creating and managing relationships with key influencers, bloggers and forum owners.
• Supporting the Social Media Director and client account teams across TribalDDB and DDB London (‘the Agency’) in the development of social media proposals, consulting, strategies, engagements and evaluation.
• Working with Clients and partner agencies to implement a rigorous approach to evaluation which demonstrates the business impact of social media projects.
• Management of the Agency’s social media related blog and Twitter presence.

Key competencies/experience required

• Solid understanding of social media and the role it plays in the digital ecosystem.
• Extensive experience of community management and moderation for a large, global blue-chip company.
• Ability to design and produce social media programmes.
• Ability to demonstrate ongoing engagement and activation strategies.
• Experience using content distribution techniques to extend the spread of content across multiple platforms and sites.
• Excellent copywriting and editing skills and experience in creating content and publishing calendars for social media platforms.
• Ability to produce detailed and robust weekly reports on performance with actionable recommendations.
• Highly organised with a good attention to detail.
• Client handling experience.
• A personal interest in social media (must have an active presence in social networks, plus their own blog) and be knowledgeable about the latest industry developments.
• Numerate with a good academic record.

KPI's

• Successful implementation of Client’s social media participation business as defined by a set of pre-agreed metrics and business objectives.
• Implementation of the learning delivered from rigorous social media programme evaluation.
• Development of thought leadership (presentations, case studies, papers, articles) for Agency, PR, Clients and the network.

N.B this job description will not form part of your contract of employment unless specified otherwise

Successful applicants will be asked to confirm their eligibility to work in the UK and provide documentary evidence to support such status.

recruitment@tribalddb.co.uk

26 October 2011

The Agency

Tribal DDB London is a full service digital marketing agency. With over 100 full time staff we offer expertise in communications, applications, mobile and platform development. We also have dedicated units for social media and innovation.

Tribal is the one of largest and most awarded global digital agency networks with 60 offices in 28 countries. Our Multi-National clients include McDonald’s, Volkswagen, P&G, Pepsi, J&J, Unilever and Mars.

Our UK clients include Volkswagen, Exxon Mobil, Unilever, Guinness, Captain Morgan, Financial Times and more.

We place great importance on the ongoing development of our staff and offer internal and external training at all levels.  As part of this commitment, we are members of the IPA and active participants in their CPD programme (Continuous Personal Development).

Our Guiding Principles

There’s a simple way to sum up what we do:

We love to make work people love

And we love making it. We strive to create meaningful and emotional connections between blurred, because a good idea can come from anywhere. We’ve found innovation to be the most powerful way to rise above the hubbub, get noticed and change behaviour. We keep pushing the boundaries between creative, strategy, design and technology.

The Role

We are looking for a strong Senior Project Manager. They will report to the Project Director and will be responsible for managing and providing senior input across multiple projects for a range of clients.

The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work on delivery of both comms and functionally-driven pieces of work. The spread of projects include Web Platform builds, Digital Advertising as well as Experiential campaigns.

They will make timely decisions in order to ensure project success within time, cost and quality parameters. They will have significant client liaison responsibilities to ensure that client expectations are managed and met. 

Experience and skills required:

• Must have solid rich media and web build project management experience
• Must have proven track record of delivery of both campaign and microsite projects
• Must have experience delivering quick turnaround production jobs
• Effectively managing cross-office teams of significant size
• Excellent team and people management skills
• Excellent mentorship skills
• Strong client facing skills and skill and experience in managing conflicts with clients
• Strong presentation and negotiation skills
• PMP certification from PMI, or Prince 2 certification strongly desired

Key responsibilities

• Liaise with the Resource Manager to ensure appropriate resources are assigned to projects
• Project leadership
• Project team development and management
• Quality Assurance management (including management of vendors) , on individual projects and across clients
• Creating Statements of Work and Change Requests as required
• Risk management on individual projects
• Managing project and retainer budget
• Works with Account Management team to ensure that invoicing is completed correctly and on time and to ensure that there is no unnecessary Work In Progress (WIP)
• Coordinating financial reporting and projections, utilization reporting and financial projections across projects/clients
• Oversee day-to-day production process as appropriate
• Coordinate production traffic
• Take on any other responsibilities or tasks that are within the employee's skills and abilities whenever reasonably instructed

recruitment@tribalddb.co.uk

4 March 2011