Media Manager (Media Planning)

Kansas City, MO (Hybrid)

$45K/yr – $100K/yrMid Level2+ years expFull time

Posted 3 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own media planning and buying workflow across digital, OOH, video, paid social, and paid search, with budget control and cross-agency collaboration.

  • Own budgeting, plan accuracy, and campaign performance evaluation.
  • Coordinate client deliverables and POV development across channels.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Manage general activities related to digital media planning, buying, execution, and performance evaluation of media campaigns.
  • Effectively manage the flow of client deliverables related to media plans across channels such as digital, OOH, video, paid social, and paid search.
  • Maintain control of advertising budgets.
  • Ensure the accurate execution of media plans and monitoring of buys.
  • Manage activities related to media planning.
  • Develop POVs/position papers on key client or industry issues as needed.
  • Maintain effective communication within and outside the agency to ensure accuracy, timeliness, and campaign needs are met.

Requirements

  • 1-2 years experience in media planning or media buying role, agency experience highly preferred
  • Working knowledge and experience with media-related research, planning, and buying tools.
  • Experience with media tools such as Nielsen, comScore, MRI, SQAD, SRDS, DoubleClick etc highly preferred
  • Experience working in Prisma highly preferred
  • Experience in digital media reporting/analysis, with strong Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint skills.
  • Agency experience highly preferred

Preferred

  • Agency experience highly preferred

Benefits

  • We offer a competitive benefits package, click WPP Benefits for more details.
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