Senior Manager, Paid Media

Columbia, MD (Hybrid)

$115K/yr – $130K/yrSenior Level7+ years expFull time

Posted 6 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own the $78M marketing portfolio with end-to-end budget, forecasting, and risk management; translate enterprise media strategy into channel plans and agency briefs while maintaining tight performance discipline.

  • Lead cross-channel optimization with MMM, incrementality, and Salesforce attribution to inform reallocation
  • Own reporting infrastructure and executive performance updates for timely decisions
  • Manage test-and-learn roadmap and translate findings into action

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own budget pacing, forecasting, accruals, and financial health across the full $78M portfolio — the non-negotiable foundation of this role.
  • Translate enterprise media strategy into channel-level plans, agency briefs, and execution timelines; manage day-to-day agency relationships with accountability for output quality and strategic alignment.
  • Synthesize cross-channel performance into clear reallocation recommendations — including MMM, incrementality, and Salesforce attribution inputs.
  • Build and maintain reporting infrastructure — dashboards, pacing summaries, and executive-ready performance updates — that enable timely, confident decision-making.
  • Prioritize and manage the test-and-learn roadmap, ensuring experiments are properly designed, measured, and translated into applied strategy — not just documented and shelved.
  • Lead execution of special initiatives (Elevate, SSM, new campus launches), coordinating across creative, web, enrollment, and analytics to keep programs resourced and on-track.
  • Prepare and present performance summaries and budget reviews for senior leadership and cross-functional audiences.
  • Identify performance risks and escalate with well-framed recommendations, not just alerts
  • Complies with all policies and standards.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's Degree preferably in marketing required or a related field required and Master’s Degree MBA preferred
  • 7+ years of marketing experience in a corporate marketing or advertising agency environment required
  • Sharp, strategic marketer with a blend of direct marketing and brand marketing experience required
  • Proven local marketing experience required and experience working in an inquiry generation setting for a direct sales force preferred
  • Experience managing budgets required
  • Excellent project management skills with the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously
  • Strong leadership and communication skills
  • Solid analytical skills
  • PC skills in Microsoft Office applications
  • Must be willing to travel up to 25%

Preferred

  • MBA preferred
  • Educational experience preferred
  • Experience working in an inquiry generation setting for a direct sales force preferred

Benefits

  • Health, dental, vision, life and disability insurance
  • 401k Retirement Program + 6% employer match
  • Participation in Covista’s Flexible Time Off (FTO) Policy
  • 12 Paid Holidays
  • For more information related to our benefits please visit
  • You are also eligible to participate in an annual incentive program, subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors, including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance.
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