Telecommut
Responsibilities
- Confers with senior Media team members, Strategy, Account Management, and/or Clients to establish media objectives and strategies for advertising campaigns.
- Utilizes media research tools and resources to influence strategic client recommendations, including but not limited to demographic data, reach & frequency, audience composition & coverage, and marketplace trends.
- Develops digital Requests for Proposals, fields any vendor questions surrounding the RFP, evaluates returned proposals, and forms a final recommendation
- Confers and negotiates with media representatives to determine optimum use of budgeted funds to achieve marketing and sales objectives.
- Develops and maintains media plans and related documentation, including approvals, and supports the management of media budgets.
- Presents media plans to senior Media team members, Strategy, Account Management, and/or Client for approval and makes adjustments as necessary.
- Daily management of the media product, including meetings and communicating approved plans to Media Buyers.
- Provides measurement reporting with the necessary information, based on a documented framework, to analyze results against defined campaign metrics (e.g., performance & analytics reports, buy summaries, etc.).
- Facilitates client billing, coordinating across departments to ensure accurate, timely, and comprehensive invoicing.
- Responsible for the ongoing support and mentorship of those more junior on daily tasks in order to grow the Assistant’s knowledge base and expand individual management skills.
- Ability to analyze complex data, including but not limited to audiences, market & sales, media mix, and competitive reporting, all to assist in formulating actionable offline and digital plans.
- Up-to-date knowledge of the media landscape (digital and traditional) and marketing concepts, best practices, and the media planning and buying process across digital and traditional media.
- Experience with 3rd party ad server (CM360 preferred)
- Solid understanding of media performance metrics across marketing funnel
- Is passionate and articulate, and can craft a compelling case/recommendation and present it to the client.
- Capacity to see the bigger picture across all marketing touch points, e.g., TV, Display, Mobile, Search, Social.
- Minimum of 2-3 years online & offline media planning experience
- Bachelor's degree, preferably in advertising, marketing or related program
- Excellent negotiation and communication skills
- Strong mathematic & analytical skills
- Effective time management and organizational skills, as well as strong attention to detail
- Ability to work well in a team structure and function as a leader when necessary
- Working knowledge of media research tools and software such as comScore, cross-tabulation software (MRI, Simmons, etc.), MediaTools/Guideline, MediaOcean/MBOX/Spectra, competitive software (Kantar/Media or Nielsen AdIntel), Reach/Frequency estimators
- Proficiency in Microsoft Suite (Excel, PowerPoint) and Google tools (Sheets, Slides); Mac & Keynote skills helpful
- Ability to thrive in a hybrid work environment, demonstrating strong self-motivation, autonomy, and resourcefulness.
