Senior Media Planner

Los Angeles, CA (On-site)

$70K/yr – $80K/yrSenior Level3+ years expFull time

Posted 3 weeks ago

Top 1% of applicants do these two things.

The other 99% submit and hope. You're about to do something different.

Job Summary

Own end-to-end digital media planning and campaign performance, coordinating with vendors, RFPs, and post campaign reporting to drive optimization through paid social and partner networks.

  • Responsibilities: digital media planning ownership with tool-assisted competitive analysis, plan development, and client-ready reporting
  • Campaign execution and management across trafficking, IOs, and vendor communications to ensure accurate delivery and optimization
  • Weekly performance reporting and optimization storytelling to clients based on third party data and site reports

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead Strategy & Planning Development
  • Employ planning, evaluation, and buying tools (i.e. Comscore, MRI) for application/analysis into the competitive landscape, target digital consumption support, plan development, and reporting
  • Show growing critical thinking and analysis to draw conclusions and construct actionable implications
  • Own the digital media plan development stage to collect RFP responses from partners/sites, assist in analyzing proposals and partner negotiations
  • Monitor trends, tools, opportunities, and applications in paid social media environments, and appropriately apply that knowledge
  • Compile updates on partner capabilities and offerings through vendor contact
  • Participate in team brainstorms to kick off plan and consideration set development
  • 25% Campaign Execution
  • Traffic plan assets, including creative and required tracking tags
  • Set up & monitor 3rd party ad server/tracker system, ensuring sites are enabled, functioning properly and all materials are received from creative agency
  • Execute Quality Assurance (QA) of tracking functionality and creative units to identify and solve any issues
  • 30% Campaign Management
  • Manage plans in the billing system (Advantage), track insertion orders, creative specifications, and handle traffic sheets/creative assignments as necessary
  • Generate insertion orders within internal systems tool to reserve advertising space and be responsible for the accuracy of plan details and confirmation of delivery ensuring proper protocol
  • Maintain plan records, insertion orders, contact lists, spec documents, etc
  • Create creative allocation sheet and manage the process with Account, Production, and Analytics
  • Manage day-to-day communication with key partners: vendors, partner agencies, and creative media and social clients
  • 25% Reporting on Campaign Performance
  • Build campaign performance reporting inclusive of aggregating information from third-party servers and site-direct reporting
  • Create and evaluate campaign effectiveness via reporting (predetermined cadences) and post-campaign analysis
  • Monitor reporting weekly and provides an active voice communicating optimization opportunities and challenges
  • Comfortable presenting campaign performance results to clients

Requirements

  • 3+ years experience in an integrated media role
  • Experience presenting directly to clients
  • Familiar with industry planning tools such as ComScore, Kantar or Adviews, AdRelevance or Pathmatics, and MRI/Simmons/Scarborough data
  • Self-starter, ability to work with a high level of independence
  • A natural collaborator with great negotiation and communication skills
  • Proficient in MS Excel/Word/Powerpoint and GSuite
  • Experience with Google Analytics/Omniture, a plus
  • Experience with Facebook/Instagram/TikTok/DSP/Affiliate platforms, a plus
Zambezi logo

Zambezi

Zambezi is a proudly independent, women-owned agency for enduring creative and media ideas. We build brands that are as high-performance as their products and services, spurring growth to $1B and beyond. With offices in Los Angeles and Minneapolis, our clients are leaders in their sectors, including TaylorMade, LPL Financial, Club Pilates, Traeger Grills, UKG, NFL, ESPN, Under Armour, Atlantis Bahamas, and more. The agency is a two-time gold winner as Ad Age Small Agency of the Year recognized as a Los Angeles Business Journal Disruptor Honoree, and named to the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing private companies in the U.S. seven times, most recently in 2024. Zambezi has been recognized for its creative work at Cannes, The One Show, Emmys, Webbys, Clios, and many more.

Founded in 2006
Culver City, California, USA
137 employees (69 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
2.9K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
24.1%
Direct
55.1%
Referral
4.9%
Social
14.6%
Paid
1.2%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~137

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
44 (32% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
2