Assistant Media Planner

Santa Monica, CA (Hybrid)

Salary Not AvailableIntern/New GradFull time

Posted 2 hrs ago

Job Summary

Own and maintain planning artifacts while supporting cross-functional campaigns across multiple channels, and help drive data-driven optimization and client-ready insights with strong collaboration across investment and analytics teams.

  • Lead monthly budgets and flowcharts, ensuring alignment with campaign plans
  • Coordinate deadlines, status updates, and regular reporting for agency and client teams
  • Support strategic recommendations, performance troubleshooting, and data pulls to inform decisions

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Assist with campaign plan creation and QA processes to set up campaigns across billing and tracking platforms (i.e. IAS, CM360, Omni) for Digital Direct, Print, OOH, National & Local TV
  • Own & maintain recurring documents (monthly budgets & flowcharts)
  • Track team deadlines & maintain status documents as needed (agency + client-facing)
  • Pull research/data runs to assist with the planning process (e.g. MRI-Simmons, NMI, ComScore)
  • Support reporting pulls, data validation, and delivery of accurate performance metrics for optimal campaign effectiveness
  • Manage and review competitive data pulls & insight analysis (monthly, quarterly, and ad hoc as needed) to help develop consideration sets and rational
  • Assist with strategic recommendations and client-facing presentations, under Supervisor guidance
  • Assist with campaign optimization recommendations and performance troubleshooting, under Supervisor guidance
  • Track day-to-day cross-team communications to ensure projects are completed in a timely manner
  • Reconcile fee invoices and work with investment teams to ensure billing is completed accurately

Requirements

  • Experience with Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Teams)
  • Organized, detail-orientated and efficient; able to prioritize work in order to meet deadlines & balance two brand needs simultaneously
  • Quick learner, able to connect the dots and see the big picture
  • Personable and brings positive, respectful attitude to the workplace; a team player & highly collaborative
  • Proactive, inquisitive, takes initiative to problem solve, raises hand for additional tasks to proactively support the team and help keep workstreams moving
  • Foundational mathematical skills (calculating percentages, indices, etc.)
  • Solid communication skills, both verbal & written

Preferred

  • Familiarity with media planning/advertising
  • MediaOcean / Prisma / Omni
  • Vivvix / Pathmatics
  • eTelmar (MRI-Simmons), NMI, ComScore, eMarketer, etc.
  • Innovid / IAS / CM360
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Assistant Media Planner

RPA · Santa Monica, CA · Hybrid