Media Director (Planning & Strategy), TEMP

New York City, NY (Hybrid)

$58/hr – $93/hrSenior Level7+ years expTemporary

Posted 7 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own cross-channel media leadership and strategy across traditional and digital channels, steering a $20M+ portfolio, guiding a 10+ person team, and shaping client POVs and industry-facing pieces.

  • Growth/Media Strategy: Craft cross-channel plans, optimize spend and activation across platforms, and present compelling proposals.
  • Client Leadership & BD: Lead client engagements, upsell services, and contribute to thought leadership and POVs.
  • Team Leadership & Industry Presence: Manage a 10+ person media team, hire and coach, and represent clients at events to build relationships.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Develops forward-thinking, innovative, cross-channel media strategies, including traditional and digital media, to improve client marketing effectiveness and drive business growth.
  • Advises clients and internal teams on media opportunities, including local media campaign planning.
  • Serves as client team lead on medium to large media accounts, managing $20M+ in total media spend.
  • Conceives, negotiates, and presents cross-platform or large-scale media proposals to clients.
  • Responsible for upselling services and contributing to business development efforts.
  • Guides and supervises a media team of 10+ employees, including hiring, training, coaching, staffing, and performance evaluation.
  • Attends and represents clients at industry events, helping to build industry relationships and thought leadership.
  • Contributes to client-specific POVs and overall media strategy documentation.
  • Demonstrates tactical media planning experience across channels.
  • Applies working knowledge of media planning tools (e.g., Pathmatics, Vivix, Kantar, MRI, Comscore) and activation platforms such as Prisma, Meta, and AdWords.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree (BA/BS) from a four-year, accredited college or university.
  • 7–10 years of media planning and buying experience, with at least 4 years in digital/interactive marketing and advertising.
  • Demonstrated experience in both traditional and digital media, tactical planning, and local media campaign execution.
  • Proven leadership and team management experience.

Preferred

  • Experience with traditional media including linear TV and OOH is preferred.
  • Health care industry experience is a plus.

Benefits

  • Paid Family Care for parents and caregivers for 12 weeks or more
  • Monetary assistance and support for Adoption, Surrogacy and Fertility
  • Monetary assistance and support for pet adoption
  • Employee Assistance Programs and Health/Wellness/Comfort reimbursements to help you invest in your future and work/life balance
  • Tuition Assistance
  • Paid time off that includes Flexible Time off Vacation, Annual Sick Days, Volunteer Days, Holiday and Identity days, and more
  • Matching Gifts programs
  • Flexible working arrangements
  • ‘Work Your World’ Program encouraging employees to work from anywhere
  • Publicis Groupe has an office for up to 6 weeks a year (based upon eligibility)
  • Business Resource Groups that support multiple affinities and alliances
  • The benefits offerings listed are available to eligible U.S. Based employees, are reviewed on an annual basis, and are governed by the terms of the applicable plan documents.
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Publicis Groupe Holdings B.V

Publicis Media harnesses the power of modern media through leading agency brands Dysrupt, Infinite Roar, Publicis Collective, Publicis Health Media, Spark Foundry, Starcom and Zenith, as well as global accelerator PMX; immersive experience group PMCI (inclusive of Picture Motion and RDL Worldwide); and access to integrated platform-based technologies and offerings from CJ, Epsilon and Influential. A key business solution of Publicis Groupe ([Euronext Paris FR0000130577, CAC 40]), Publicis Media’s digital-first, data-driven global solutions deliver client value and drive growth in a platform-powered world. It is present in over 100 countries with over 23,000 employees worldwide.

London, England, United Kingdom
11K employees (3,008 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
526.1K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
33.4%
Direct
38.4%
Referral
11.8%
Social
15.8%
Paid
0.4%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~10.8K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
2,719 (25% of company)
Median Career Experience
13.5 years
Median Tenure
4.5 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
215