Are you an experienced Operations Manager looking for your next challenge?

Ideal location: Dublin, Midlands. 

Home based with frequent travel when required.   

€48-53k + car allowance, private health care, annual leave purchase, bonus  & other great benefits!

Zing is the UK & Ireland's newest tactical agency - But, you may have known us as Wave previously and we are part of the wider Avidity Group.  So we have been operating for many years!   Avidity Group is a group of sales and marketing agencies with decades of expertise operating across multiple categories such as FMCG and technology and channels including supermarkets, independent retailers and high street.  Everything we do helps brands sell more and the brands we work with are well known across the UK and Ireland.  

As Operations/Tactical Activation Manager you will play a key role within our Ireland team.  You will be the main point of contact for our clients, managing multiple challenging and fast paced campaigns/projects.  You will have 2 direct reports and your team will have the responsibility of building and maintaining an Activation community who in turn represent your client brands to increase visibility, availability and sales.  Your client contacts will be a mix of external brand contacts and internal stakeholders across the wider Avidity Group.  From taking on new briefs and setting up campaigns to data analysis and reporting - you will be comfortable in a fast paced and varied role with high levels of autonomy.

This is the ideal role for you if you come from a tactical or activation agency background and have experience working with and bringing on new client accounts as well as managing campaigns from start to finish.  However, other operational client facing expertise will also be considered.  You will be looking for an opportunity that allows you to innovate and improve processes and you will also have lots of opportunities to be involved in projects.

Why join us?

• Annual company bonus - up to 10% (payable in September)
• Car allowance €575 per month
• 25 days holiday plus flexible bank holidays and annual leave purchase scheme* (up to 5 days annually)
• private healthcare* & life assurance 
• fantastic development and progression opportunities 
• access to our ‘Perks’ site to give you discounts on gym memberships, grocery shopping, lifestyle -shopping, and leisure activities
• flexible smart working to encourage flexibility 
• enhanced maternity/paternity leave, enhanced sick pay and other leave entitlement
• Opportunity to work with many big brand names

To be successful we believe the following experience is really important:

• working within a high volume and multi project environment with competing deadlines
• great project management experience from getting a project off the ground to winding down (and everything in between!)
• fantastic stakeholder management experience at a high level and have built and developed strong relationships 
• strong communicator
• Great influencing and negotiation skills
• strong excel, word, outlook and PowerPoint experience
• people management experience
• client management experience
• have proven experience taking ownership of high profile projects and being the driving force to get things done
• worked with budgets
• have created and developed SLAs
• highly organised
• comfortable presenting within a client facing environment
• great with reporting, seeing the bigger picture and telling the story

If this sounds like an opportunity you would like to be considered for apply now!  

Please note this role requires a full driving licence, all offers will be subject to successful RTW, Driving and reference checks. This is a home based role which will involve regular travel on a weekly or monthly basis, so you must be comfortable driving distance across Ireland and travelling to the UK on occasion.  Overnights will also be required on occasion.