Senior Investment Associate

Chicago, IL (On-site)

$45K/yr – $90K/yrSenior Level1+ years expFull time

Posted 7 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own the day-to-day management of digital and video spend for assigned clients, turning market insights and budget oversight into negotiated, badge-for-benchmark buys.

  • Investment ownership: negotiate, manage, and execute digital/video buys to hit plan objectives.
  • Market intelligence: track trends and pricing benchmarks to inform vendor decisions.
  • Strategy alignment: partner with Planning to ensure buys meet the approved plan and strategy.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own day-to-day digital and integrated video spend management for assigned clients, negotiating, managing and executing buys to meet plan objectives.
  • Provide strategic market insights, trends and pricing benchmarks, oversee spending across major vendors, and monitor budgets and KPI adherence.
  • Collaborate with Planning teams to ensure final buys deliver on the approved plan objective and strategy.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in advertising, marketing, business administration, and communications; OR equivalent professional work experience.
  • 1+ years of prior digital or video investment experience desired
  • Thorough understanding of the media landscape and fast-moving digital trends
  • Strong quantitative and analytical/results-oriented skills
  • Solid negotiation skills and tactics
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Advanced proficiency in Excel with intermediate PowerPoint and Word skills
  • Be capable of working successfully within a team as well as independently

Preferred

  • Experience with vendor RFP selection and process
  • Experience collaborating with media, technology, analytics and GroupM teams as well as media and technology publishers

Benefits

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WPP Media

Media is changing. So are we. We are WPP's global media collective, built for the AI era.We bring the best platform, people, and partners together to create innovative solutions that deliver unparalleled growth for brands - in every market, every day.

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