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Myra Morris

Digital Advertising Specialist
Mississauga,Ontario

Summary

Proactively creating branding and performance campaigns on high ranked DSPs and Social Media platforms. Leading teams in adopting new tech in the programmatic field to advance company and client goals. Overseeing budgets of top ranked industries by revenue in Canada such as Banking and the fastest growing like Travel agencies. Managing company margins and revenue through efficient media planning and implementation. Collaborating across agency partners and coworkers to promote an engaged, empowering work culture. Training and developing team of programmatic coordinators.

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience

Work History

Associate Director (Promotion)

Xaxis, GroupM (WPP)
Toronto, ON
04.2022 - 04.2023
  • Managed client programmatic campaigns running video, native, display, YouTube, connected TV and DOOH.
  • Led team of 2 personnel, supervising daily performance as well as training and actioning client requests.
  • Provided training for new media buyers to fulfill trading roles
  • Assisted senior leadership in managing team revenue goals
  • Collaborating with all levels of agency partners and vendors to identify and qualify business opportunities with clients


Senior Trading Strategist (Promotion)

Xaxis, GroupM (WPP)
Toronto, ON
12.2021 - 03.2022

Accountable to Director for campaign management of budgets up to 1M

  • Defined media plans to achieve client approved KPIs
  • Drove adoption of custom AI, by accelerating revenue growth with efficient bidding, amongst team
  • Identified growth opportunities with client business and successfully pitched high impact branding formats to meet


Programmatic Trader

Xaxis, GroupM (WPP)
Toronto, ON
04.2019 - 11.2021

Engaged in day to day campaign setups in DSP, with continuous optimizations to exceed or meet KPIs

  • Created and maintained Excel spreadsheets to provide performance and campaign highlights to clients
  • Conducted A/B testing to verify the performance of creative and/or relevant audience strategy. Gaining valuable insights fot the clients for future media strategies
  • Ultilized Google analytics and IAS, MOAT and DoubleVerify to monitor relevant campaign metrics, to measure success of the campaigns

Freelance Digital Media Buying Support

Mindshare, GroupM (WPP)
Toronto, ON
10.2018 - 03.2019
  • Managing digital campaigns for Dyson client on the Google display network
  • Led digital campaign review for individual products under Dyson, directly with the client marketing team
  • Providing value to the team by improving CPA across all Dyson products, by end of the contracted term

Programmatic Campaign Manager

Direct Access Digital
Burlington, ON
02.2018 - 09.2018

Supported BMO’s (Bank of Montreal) credit card advertising initiatives, through Meta (Facebook) and Google AdWords platforms


  • Trafficked creative and managed client pixels through DCM
  • Client facing monthly meetings in person and weekly calls to address campaign progress and planning new strategies
  • Underwent training and earned certification in art of Sales

Programmatic Trader (Promotion)

Amnet, Dentsu
Toronto, ON
02.2018 - 09.2018

Managed brand campaigns for national/international brands. Some of the industries were food chains, pharmacy chains, entertainment (production companies), alcohol and fashion.

  • Planned digital campaigns to promote seasonal awareness or always-on banding campaigns with large budgets.
  • Built on understanding of SSPs, Ad exchanges and publishers to bring forth the most efficient and valuable deals for campaigns
  • Collaborated with internal data team to design Datorama templates to be compatible for all brand reporting, also tested Power BI

Programmatic Coordinator

Amnet, Dentsu
Toronto, ON
02.2016 - 08.2017

Manage campaigns and worked closely with client teams and managers to deliver on client branding goals through programmatic campaigns run on DSPs

Created concise weekly excel reports for managers and client teams on the progress of digital campaigns

Presented optimization notes and ideas on how to improve brand awareness for portfolio of current clients

Setup campaigns on DSPs, with handson training and developed optimization skills through tests and comparing past performances

Education

Ontario College Advance Diploma - Advertising And Marketing Communications Mgmt

Sheridan College Institute of Technology And Advanced Learning
Oakville, ON
04.2015

Skills

  • Data analysis
  • Programmatic platforms and ad verification tools
  • People management & mentoring
  • Data-Driven Decision-Making
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration
  • Budget/Margin Administration
  • MS Word, MS PowerPoint, MS Excel,
  • Adobe InDesign, PhotoShop, Audition

Accomplishments

  • Succeeded in achieving company revenue goals by partnering with preferred agency vendors to spend on negotiated deals.
  • Recognized in company for highest adoption rate of custom AI algorithms to enhance performance of campaigns and establishing stronger results for clients.

Timeline

Associate Director (Promotion)

Xaxis, GroupM (WPP)
04.2022 - 04.2023

Senior Trading Strategist (Promotion)

Xaxis, GroupM (WPP)
12.2021 - 03.2022

Programmatic Trader

Xaxis, GroupM (WPP)
04.2019 - 11.2021

Freelance Digital Media Buying Support

Mindshare, GroupM (WPP)
10.2018 - 03.2019

Programmatic Campaign Manager

Direct Access Digital
02.2018 - 09.2018

Programmatic Trader (Promotion)

Amnet, Dentsu
02.2018 - 09.2018

Programmatic Coordinator

Amnet, Dentsu
02.2016 - 08.2017

Ontario College Advance Diploma - Advertising And Marketing Communications Mgmt

Sheridan College Institute of Technology And Advanced Learning
Myra MorrisDigital Advertising Specialist