Senior Associate, Paid Media

District of Columbia, USA (Hybrid)

$59K/yr – $65K/yrSenior Level2+ years expFull time

Posted 7 hrs ago

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Job Summary

Own end-to-end paid media execution for assigned accounts, from planning and buying to optimization, reporting, and client relationship support across digital and offline channels, while coordinating with creative, finance, and internal teams.

  • Lead campaign setup, execution, and optimization across paid channels
  • Develop and present holistic media plans and manage client relationships
  • Collaborate with creative, analytics, and finance to deliver against client objectives

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • The Sr. Associate, Paid Media would be responsible for executing day-to-day digital and traditional media planning/buying and client service activities associated with assigned accounts, with an emphasis on digital media management.
  • Must be a problem solver and professional in all communications both inside the agency and with clients. Sr. Associates must bring good interpersonal communication skills, collaborative spirit and solution-oriented thinking to deliver strategic support to client work.
  • Media Planning And Buying
  • Reviews media brief and sets planning process in motion
  • Creates Request for Proposal (RFP) and develops consideration list of appropriate publishers or vendors
  • Reviews partner proposals and filters/compiles most compelling proposals
  • Support in development of holistic media plan recommendations which deliver on client media objectives
  • Support development of internal or external presentation materials and adapts/finalizes based on internal and external feedback
  • Support financial management by managing campaign pacing and supporting in monthly billing processes
  • Works with Creative team (within agency and/or client) on ad development to ensure creative is delivered to spec and supports media strategy

Requirements

  • Bachelor's Degree and 2-4 years of experience planning and buying paid media campaigns
  • Experience planning and buying across online and offline media channels
  • Strong interpersonal and communication skills to develop and maintain collaborative relationships with client and Resolute team leads, Finance, and outside vendors. Can demonstrate small group presentation skills.
  • Excellent analytical skills and understanding of KPI’s and attribution
  • Experience working with Google Campaign Manager or other relevant 3rd Party Ad Servers
  • Experience executing self-serve programmatic campaigns with DSP platforms.
  • Experience working with media management tools (e.g. Mediaocean)
  • Experience executing campaigns directly within social media Ads Managers, including Meta, LinkedIn, and TikTok

Preferred

  • Google Analytics Certification is a plus
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Weber Shandwick is the earned-first global communications agency. Led by world-class strategic and creative thinkers and activators, Weber Shandwick has won some of the most prestigious awards in the industry, including being named #1 in the Public Relations and Brand Strategies category on Fast Company’s 2024 Most Innovative Companies list, one of Fast Company’s Best Workplace for Innovators in 2023, PRWeek’s 2024 Global Agency of the Year, ranked #1 on PRovoke’s Global Creative Index in 2024 and honored on Ad Age’s A-List in 2024 & 2020 and Best Places to Work in 2019, in addition to being awarded Campaign Global’s PR Agency of the Year in 2023. Weber Shandwick was the most awarded PR agency at the 2023 and 2024 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, including earning the PR industry’s first-ever idea-led Cannes Grand Prix in the Brand Experience & Activation category and cumulatively earning more than 225 Cannes Lions. Weber Shandwick has also been named PR Agency of the Year by Campaign US in 2021, honored as PRovoke’s Global Agency of the Decade in 2020 and ranked #1 on PRovoke’s Global Creative Index in 2021 and 2022. Additionally, the firm was named PRWeek’s Global Agency of the Year in 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018 and was awarded PRWeek’s Purpose Agency of the Year in 2020 and 2021. Weber Shandwick also received Honorable Mention on the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Global Marketing Agencies in 2021, as the only PR agency featured.  Part of the Interpublic Group (NYSE: IPG), Weber Shandwick is the anchor agency within The Weber Shandwick Collective – the strategic communications and consulting network. For more information, visit https://www.webershandwick.com/. Social Media Community Guidelines: http://bit.ly/wssocialterms

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New York, NY, US
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