Director, Integrated Media Planning

USA (Hybrid)

$125K/yr – $155K/yrDirector/Executive6+ years expFull time

Posted 7 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own end-to-end media strategy and cross-channel leadership for healthcare-focused client work, driving omnichannel plans, RFP negotiation, and team enablement in a consultative, agency-wide setting.

  • Own media planning and deployment end to end for both client bases and pitches
  • Build and codify team processes, mentor planners, and drive collaboration with analytics and SME teams
  • Stay ahead on media trends and vendor opportunities, translating client objectives into integrated media strategies

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Drive organic growth of media solutions within the client base
  • Lead media solutions for new business pitches
  • Manage, mentor, and grow a cross-functional team of media planners and optimizers
  • Develop and document team processes and best practices
  • Lead the media planning, negotiation, and deployment, and optimization process for assigned clients from beginning to end
  • Identify and procure or conduct research on media consumption and trends for target audiences in partnership with our research and analytics teams
  • Develop media strategies that directly address client objectives
  • Directly and through junior staff manage media schedules, budget reconciliation, develop and send RFPs to identified media partners
  • Critically evaluate and compare RFP responses and negotiate added value while building and maintaining high trust and respect relationships with external media partners
  • Work with internal account and subject matter expert teams to collaboratively develop strategic brand plans with integrated media, with an eye toward AI and connected omnichannel media solutions

Requirements

  • Minimum 6 years planning experience within the agency environment. Experience within digital advertising agencies is a strong plus
  • Capability in traditional and offline channel planning
  • Experience in sponsored content and endemic direct buys within the healthcare space
  • Minimum 4 years’ experience with pharmaceutical advertising
  • Management experience
  • Understanding of digital advertising platforms including Google Ads, Facebook Ad Manager, Programmatic DSPs, and other relevant media platforms
  • Understanding of how to consult clients in transitioning their paid media efforts from a multi-channel approach to a fully connected and automated omnichannel toolset
  • Experience with campaign management, ad serving, and viewability/fraud prevention technology
  • Experience with or understanding of data lake and data Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) projects related to identify resolution and triggered advertising
  • Familiarity with marketing automation and identiy resolutions tools such as Snowflake, Liveramp, Microsoft Fabric, SFMC, Hubspot, or other equivalents.

Nice to have

  • Experience within digital advertising agencies is a strong plus
  • Digital strategy or client services experience is a plus

Benefits

  • All positions are remote friendly. At Spectrum, you choose where you work. We are a hybrid work environment with options to work in one of our three offices (D.C., New York, and Chicago), remotely from anywhere in the United States, or a combination.
  • No matter where you work, you’ll benefit from the monthly cell phone reimbursement.
  • Flexible time off. Take the time you need in addition to company holidays, voting time, jury duty and bereavement. We also offer a Sabbatical Program after 7 years of service.
  • 13 weeks paid Parental Leave, inclusive of adoption and foster care placement.
  • Continuous learning and development through Greatest Potential Self (proprietary talent program), tuition reimbursement programs, and in-house 1:1 coaching with access to talent and productivity-based assessments.
  • Bring your friends to work at Spectrum and earn a generous referral bonus.
  • Medical concierge service to assist with scheduling appointments, finding care, estimating and resolving claim issues, etc.
  • Thorough onboarding including accessible conversations with leadership.401k with company match and 1:1 Financial Coaching and Education.
  • Wellness benefits including medical, dental, vision, as well as science-backed meditation and mindfulness tools through Headspace.

Spectrum Science

Brace your brand. And your career. Spectrum Science is on another frequency all together. We’re a fully integrated strategic platform hyper-focused on science. We’re redefining partnership with a “one P&L” approach that lets us assemble the right team precisely when our clients need it. Our ecosystem of services include: Communications, Clinical Trial Experience, Advertising, Consulting, Media, and Medical Communications – each designed to provide the best solutions for our clients’ unique challenges.And not only do we have global presence—we have global resonance as the US partner and chair of Global Health Marketing & Communications (GHMC), the largest independent network of health and science communications agencies worldwide.Follow our journey for industry insights and opportunities to join our award-winning team!

Founded in 1996
Washington, District of Columbia, USA
434 employees (83 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
6.3K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
30.1%
Direct
45.6%
Referral
6.8%
Social
15.7%
Paid
1.5%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~434

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
62 (14% of company)
Median Career Experience
18 years
Median Tenure
7.5 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

Funding

Last Raise
Private Equity, 3 years ago