Freelance Media Planner/Buyer, Digital

Milwaukee, WI (Hybrid)

Salary Not AvailableMid Level1+ years expFull time

Posted 4 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive day-to-day media planning and buying as a freelance Digital Media Planner/Buyer, delivering integrated campaigns and data-driven insights.

  • Own day-to-day media contact and coordinate integrated campaigns with internal teams and vendors.
  • Must-have: 1–3 years media experience with strong data and budgeting skills.
  • Standout: Flexible freelance-to-full-time opportunity with cross-team collaboration.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Serve as the day-to day media point of contact, partnering with internal teams and external vendor to bring engaging, integrated campaigns to life
  • Maintain quality control across media deliverables, ensuring accuracy and providing thoughtful campaign support
  • Manage campaign reporting and optimizations, tracking performance against goals and delivering insights
  • Assist in evaluating media opportunities, negotiating added value and premium placements and creating innovative programs
  • Bring curiosity and enthusiasm to media planning, growing your strategic presence while actively learning and expanding your expertise

Requirements

  • A bachelor's degree and 1-3 years of media experience (or equivalent)
  • Strong attention to detail ─ data, analytics and budgeting are second nature to you
  • Stellar organizational skills and a strategic mindset rooted in curiosity, creativity and data
  • Excellent verbal and written communications skills
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office and familiarity with platforms like MediaOcean/Prisma, SRDS, Google Campaign Manager, MRI/Simmons, etc.

Preferred

    Benefits

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      Bader Rutter

      Ever notice how B2B agencies do demand and B2C shops do brand? At Bader Rutter, we do both, because brand and demand shouldn’t be either/or.Driving sales is critical but at any time, 95% of your audience isn't actively in the market. So we build brand into all of our demand driving work. So you're remembered during that critical 5% when your audience does want to buy.Just like sales and marketing, when brand and demand work together, they create a marketing multiplier. And those kinds of results made us the #1 U.S. B2B agency three of the last five years. Headquartered in Milwaukee with a Chicago office and employees working across 19 states, we’re a full-service agency that dreams big and plans meticulously. Our heritage lies in agriculture; but over time, we’ve navigated that world’s complexities, audiences and channels so well, we’ve grown. Today, we focus on adjacent categories like pet care and food and beverage, but our client partners span everything from insurance to the Milwaukee Bucks.Bader Rutter is part of BBN, the world’s largest B2B agency collective, uniting 1,250 specialists across 68 countries. Learn more here: https://bbn-international.com/.

      Founded in 1973
      Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
      240 employees (104 in marketing)

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