Vice President Director, Media Investment

Chicago, IL (On-site)

$121K/yr – $174K/yrSenior Level10+ years expFull time

Posted 5 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own multi channel media investments and partner leadership, driving cross channel planning, negotiations, and budget optimization to hit client outcomes.

  • Cross channel ownership: lead tactical plans and ensure they ladder to strategy with insights across channels.
  • Partner leadership: maintain key media relationships and steer RFPs, proposals, and pricing with internal teams.
  • Investment governance: manage pacing and spend across channels to maximize profitability and exceed goals.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Partner with the marketplace, build relationships, and support channel negotiations as needed
  • Establish and maintain strong partnerships with relevant media partners in the media ecosystem (i.e. Google, Facebook, Amazon, etc.)
  • Oversee the work of multiple channel specialists, managing workflow, QA process, providing strategic guidance and oversight and ensuring operational excellence across all stages of tactical planning and buying
  • Serve as a central point of contact for clients and internal teams for the client investment portfolio.
  • Speak fluently to multiple media channels, calling on deep expertise from activating one or more channels.
  • Work alongside client finance partners to determine how best to spend their media dollars to drive outcomes.
  • Bring innovative solutions and out of the box thinking to partners and clients.
  • Provide thought leadership on media marketplace evolution, ensuring delivery of strong point of view and industry knowledge
  • Manage and maintain relationships with internal practice leads and full investment team
  • Serve as champion of bespoke agency solutions and offerings to evolve client relationship

Requirements

  • 10+ years of media planning and buying experience, with a strong foundation in media channel investment and activation (option to add pending client: “;emphasis on performance media or video or retail media, etc”)
  • Bachelor's degree or higher, with a concentration in advertising, marketing, business administration, communications, or equivalent
  • Analytical background – comfort with data and numbers
  • 5+ years of people managing experience, overseeing five or more reports in an account management/client services team
  • Deep industry relationships with ad tech firms, brand teams, and publisher/platform partners
  • Excellent negotiation skills and understanding of how to add incremental value and communicate that to our clients
  • Strong communication and writing skills—you’re poised, precise, and above all, kind when engaging with others
  • Able to package, merchandise, and sell in concepts and new opportunities
  • Strategic thinking and able to see the bigger picture
  • Self-starter with ability to work independently and in a collaborative team setting
  • Familiarity with prompt-based interaction and commonly used generative AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Google Gemini, DALL·E, Midjourney) is a plus, especially for tasks like ideation, research, or content generation.

Preferred

  • Familiarity with prompt-based interaction and commonly used generative AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Google Gemini, DALL·E, Midjourney) is a plus, especially for tasks like ideation, research, or content generation.

Benefits

  • medical coverage
  • dental
  • vision
  • disability
  • 401K
  • parential and family care leave
  • family forming assistance
  • tuition reimbursement
  • flexible time off
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Digitas is the Networked Experience Agency, built on the vision that we create magnetic experiences that earn the right for brands to exist in human networks. Today, and tomorrow. We deliver Networked Experiences by leveraging comprehensive data, technology, creative, media and strategy capabilities. Digitas delivers ambitious outcomes via unique solutions that include Creative Experiences, Integrated Media, Addressable Relationships, Social Marketing and Total Commerce. Celebrated by AdAge as Data and Insights Agency of the Year, U.S Campaign’s Brand Experience Agency of the Year, Media Network of the Year and celebrated by Forrester and Gartner, Digitas serves the world’s leading brands through a global network comprised of more than 5,500 employees across over 65 offices in 43 countries.

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