Responsibilities

• Negotiates and places local audio and video for accounts within an assigned group of market, inclusive of a Top 20 market
• Works with the Associate Director, interprets, coordinates, and provides authorization for implementation of local audio/video media investments
• Ensures the team is creating optimum buys, negotiate appropriate added value, make-goods/credits and delivering post buy analysis for their assigned accounts
• Meets with vendors to analyses proposals, packages and opportunities for local audio and video clients
• Negotiates and places all local audio and video investments for accounts within an assigned group of markets
• Estimates, updates and optimizes audio and video ratings for all active campaigns
• Negotiates special placements, promotions and added value
• Adheres to budgets and timelines
• Monitors buys in progress, arranges for credits and is responsible for on-going post-buy results in their markets
• Collaborates with media team members and planners to resolve media billing issues

Requirements

• 4+ years of media buying experience with progressive levels of responsibility
• Demonstrate strong negotiating capability, excellent interpersonal, organizational, communication, problem solving, and, decision-making skills
• Must possess a general understanding of agency planning procedures and familiarity with internal capabilities
• Demonstrated ability to multi-task, prioritize, and manage to deadlines
• Proven leadership, initiative, and willingness to assume greater responsibility
• Understand the elements of a strategic marketing communications plan and be able to actively participate in its generation
• Able to effectively oversee and guide a small team
• Ability to manage simultaneous tasks in a fast-paced technology-oriented environment

Preferred

• Self-motivated, with the ability to multi-task and work well under tight deadlines
• Naturally inquisitive, with a strong research capability
• Strong Communicator
• Confident
• Diplomatic
• Entrepreneurial