Responsibilities

• Manage the planning, implementation and execution of digital and traditional media plans with heavy collaboration across digital, TV, social, and programmatic ensuring campaigns deliver on KPIs
• Collaborate and foster relationships with key partners including clients, internal teams, and leadership
• Assist with planning initiatives including ideation, deck writing, budget and channel allocation, audience development, scheduling and establishing benchmarks for control
• Client Budgets: - Manage client budgets, flowcharts, and the media authorization process, ensuring compliance and clear internal team and client communication. - Assist in troubleshooting and revising budgets, while communicating relevant impacts and solutions to the team.
• Play a critical role in the development of media strategies & plans: - Support strategic solutions, audience outcomes, and senior brand experience team members in developing holistic paid, owned, and earned media strategies (e.g., audience approach, communications strategy, channel allocation, media flighting). - Create and evaluate full-funnel media plan budget scenarios using proprietary and syndicated tools, applications, historical performance, and audience insight. - Lead development and presentation of paid media tactical recommendations in partnership with internal team members, including developing and socializing internal cross-functional briefs. - Identify trends and derive insights from data for internal and client recommendations, reporting, and points of view (POVs). - Craft POVs on key category, competitive, client, and media opportunities.
• Effectively manage projects & clients, and develop direct reports: - Develop and maintain team timelines for deliverables, ensuring effective communication of project updates and challenges. - Manage multiple workstreams, effectively allocating direct report resources day-to-day. - Oversee client status documents and lead client status meetings. - Assign cross-functional tasks within the OS. - Identify potential optimizations for agency and client processes, tools, and systems. - Perform quality assurance (QA) on work from associates, senior associates, and other internal team members. - Train and onboard associates and senior associates, supporting their growth and skill development, ensuring the completion of mandatory agency and position-based training - Manage and develop direct reports by conducting catch-ups, soliciting 360-degree feedback, and evaluating performance through wrap-up sessions as directed by Publicis.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in media planning experience across media channels
• Previous team management experience is a plus
• Resourceful, curious, and motivated individual with an ability to work independently as well as in a team setting
• Detail-oriented with the ability to multi-task and manage competing priorities and deadlines; be able to identify and promote solutions
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite with strong understanding of Excel and PowerPoint
• Experience working within media systems/platforms (Kantar, IMS, Media Tools Flowchart Software, R/F and Optimization Software, comScore, Prisma, Mbox, MRI/GfK, GWI)
• Strong knowledge of all cross-channel media, with a drive for curiosity and passion for the client’s business
• Demonstrated ability to learn new propriety software and processes quickly and proficiently
• Strong communication skills, with ability to present to clients, maintain client correspondence and internal documentation
• Understanding of activation/negotiation team functions and the capabilities of each media channel to maximize the impact and components within each campaign

Benefits

• medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401K, as well as parental and family care leave, family forming assistance, tuition reimbursement, and flexible time off.