Media Planner

Atlanta, GA (Hybrid)

$50K/yr – $63K/yrMid Level2+ years expFull time

Posted 5 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own multi market media planning with a strong eye for financial governance and cross‑team collaboration to keep plans accurate, on budget, and ready for client-facing discussions.

  • Manage market level budgets, flowcharts, and billing reconciliations to ensure timely, accurate spends.
  • Review and approve spot buys, develop Heavy Up/Cut recommendations, and maintain Master Planning Sheets for governance.
  • Serve as a media expert in market meetings, build client presentations, and nurture relations with the media community.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Develop media plans across multiple smaller markets
  • Responsible for assigned market LDA financials including flowcharts, billing discrepancies, and vendor negotiations
  • Collaborate with bullpen to support and/or approve their work on your assigned markets
  • Goal entries and buy authorizations
  • Flow charts and budgets
  • Budget and Billing Reconciliations
  • Financial Discrepancies
  • Maintain digital buys and compile/analyze metrics reports
  • Review and approve spot buys for accuracy based on provided guidelines.
  • Developing Heavy Up/Cut recommendations
  • Ensure accuracy and timely updates of the Master Planning Sheets
  • Develop POV evaluations
  • Maintain daily communication with account management teams and media buyers to foster strong working relationships
  • Build and maintain positive relationships with the media community
  • Create and potentially deliver client presentations for dealer meetings using PowerPoint or other presentation tools
  • Strengthen communication skills through internal and client-facing opportunities
  • Lead special projects as assigned
  • Travel as needed to support client and agency meetings and initiatives
  • Attend market meetings as media experts, answering questions about media strategies and performance in support of the presenter

Requirements

  • A Bachelor’s degree
  • At least two years of media planning or transferable experience
  • Strong experience with Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint
  • Experience with MediaOcean (OX), Mediatools/Guideline, Prisma or equivalent programs
  • Strong communication skills – both written and verbal
  • Ability to be an enthusiastic, collaborative team player
  • Good time management skills – ability to prioritize projects and meet tight deadlines when needed
  • Strong attention to detail and high level of accuracy on both internal and client-facing work

Preferred

Benefits

  • We offer comprehensive benefits and ‘work perks’ like great options for medical / dental / vision insurance, 401(k) with company matching, unlimited PTO, generous paid parental leave, tuition reimbursement, family forming assistance reimbursement, pet adoption assistance + “pawternity” leave, etc.
  • We have a hybrid work schedule (4 days a week in office / 1 day from wherever your heart desires).
  • We’re part of Publicis Groupe which is a huge global network, so there are many resources that come with that like Business Resource Groups for a variety of communities like Publicis Parents, VivaWomen, Egalité, etc.
  • We give back to our communities with our annual Day of Good and volunteer opportunities throughout the year.
  • We love to grow our talent and promote from within whenever possible, and we offer professional development trainings and regular structured performance reviews.
  • We have a lot fun! We have a whole committee called “Team Fun” that plans parties and events for us to celebrate birthdays, holidays, cultural moments, etc. Some recent fun events include a flower bouquet bar, origami lessons, and hearing from creative entrepreneurs at our Moonshot speaker series.
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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