Associate Media Director

Santa Monica, CA (Hybrid)

$115K/yr – $130K/yrSenior Level6+ years expFull time

Posted 5 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own cross channel media planning and execution for a regulated pharma audience while building and maintaining strategic partnerships, with hands on trading desk experience and data driven ROI at the core.

  • Channel mix ownership: Lead channel decisions for Physicians, Nurses, Specialists, Patients and Caregivers with data informed optimization.
  • Partnership growth: Expand DSP, data services, and direct media relationships to broaden reach.
  • Data collaboration: Tie media work to data science insights to improve ROI and measurement across campaigns.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • In this role, you will support the execution of our media strategy alongside the respective agency teams within Syneos Health.
  • The Associate Media Director will also work with search, social and programmatic teams to deliver the most appropriate channel mix strategy for each target audience.
  • Collaboration will also occur with our Data Science practice to ensure data is being used efficiently, and effectively driving ROI for our clients.
  • The target audience for our clients includes Physicians, Nurses, Specialists, Patients, and Caregivers in the healthcare space.
  • The Associate Media Director will own campaign management and execution of personalized media plans for this target audience that result in positive gains for our clients is core to success.
  • In addition, The Associate Media Director will be responsible for growing and maintaining all partnerships across our media group.
  • These partnerships include database services, demand side platform providers, and direct buy media partners.
  • They also will need deep experience in being hands on within a trading desk environment.
  • Media Strategy
  • Provide input and recommendations on appropriate channel mix and consideration set development for your clients
  • Continuously improve our offering and look to scale appropriately
  • Work with partner agencies on new business opportunities and pitches
  • Lead media collaboration with senior internal and external stakeholders spanning agency client teams, digital, strategy & planning, and analytics as well clients and vendor partners
  • Develop close working relationship with client and agency brand teams to drive their understanding of media, and the offering capabilities in order to grow adoption of media as part of a holistic go to market strategy that has media KPIs connected to brand business KPIs for our clients
  • Develop, apply and share best practices for desk operations, communications, campaign management, cross-departmental reach, measurement planning and reporting that will be ongoing
  • Work on continuously providing trends and POVs across our agencies to ensure that we can communicate the value to our clients on a regular basis
  • Consistently evaluate new partnerships to grow and maintain a playbook of channel partners and tactics to drive robust and creative channel plans
  • Media Planning
  • Create intuitive presentations to be delivered to internal & external key stakeholders
  • Lead the development of and presentation of detailed media recommendations along with respective external media partners? (as in description) -> kept as original phrasing in sections below is included per rules
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Syneos Health® is a leading fully integrated biopharmaceutical solutions organization built to accelerate customer success. We translate unique clinical, medical affairs and commercial insights into outcomes to address modern market realities.To learn more about how we are Shortening the distance from lab to life®, visit syneoshealth.com.

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