Careers

The Media Planner's key responsibilities are:

• Planning, implementation and management of media campaigns for key accounts
• Developing  strategically appropriate media approaches for clients
• Maintaining solid working relationships with client's and internal partners
• Tracking expenditures to ensure agency and client budget compliance
• Working with internal teams and outside sales reps to resolve media billing issues

Tasks

• Plan, negotiate, execute and maintain media buys
• Perform day to day ad placement, scheduling and updates for clients
• Recommend/execute necessary modifications to plans
• Evaluate media proposals and provide written POV's
• Negotiate, execute and maintain approved added value programs/components
• Create and update monthly budget reports for account teams
• Develop results analysis reports for clients/account teams
• Monitor buys and manage make-goods, optimizations and revisions as necessary
• Manage billing reconciliation, discrepancies and monthly budget reports for key accounts

Qualifications

• 4+ years media experience
• Strong knowledge of end to end media planning/buying process for both traditional and online media (ie: research, application of findings, planning/negotiating media, buying process, etc.)
• Knowledge of media resources including Scarborough, R&F, online planning tools, MRI, etc.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks to completion within established deadlines
• Proficiency with ad serving tools and online ad trafficking experien
• Strong interpersonal  and communication skills to foster optimal relationships
• Strong organizational skills, time management skills and detail oriented