Associate - Chicago

Chicago, IL (Hybrid)

$47K/yr – $52K/yrIntern/New GradFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own the end-to-end media planning and post campaign workflow, balancing negotiations, vendor relationships, and program management across digital, search, social, content, and local buying to drive proofs of placement and client value.

  • Own the full cycle from proposal specs to asset production, brand approvals, insertion orders, trafficking, and post-launch data.
  • Own post campaign reconciliation, billing, and clear, client-ready proofs.
  • Collaborate with vendors and client teams to stay current on marketplace innovations and maintain tight cross functional communication.

Job Description

  • Participate in team brainstorms to kick off plan and consideration set development.
  • Participate in negotiations, including evaluating RFPs, contracting rates, and increasing program value.
  • Assist in the creation and presentation of media specific documents such as media plans, tactical decks, and other related functions.
  • Meet with vendors to stay on top of marketplace innovations and cultivate relationships within the vendor community
  • Work with Senior Associate to project manage programs from proposal stage through end date including compiling specs documents, overseeing asset production, and gaining brand approval.
  • Responsible for generating insertion orders and placement and creative trafficking.
  • Responsible for the creation of campaign post-launch information such as screenshots, links and placement information to demonstrate proof of placement for clients.
  • Own post-campaign reconciliation and billing.
  • Assists in management of day-to-day communication with key partners: Vendors, Partner Agencies, and Creative media and social clients
  • Analytics
  • Local Buying
  • Planning
  • Programmatic
  • Digital
  • Search
  • Content
  • Social
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Publicis Media

Publicis Media harnesses the power of modern media through leading agency brands Dysrupt, Infinite Roar, Publicis Collective, Publicis Health Media, Spark Foundry, Starcom and Zenith, as well as global accelerator PMX; immersive experience group PMCI (inclusive of Picture Motion and RDL Worldwide); and access to integrated platform-based technologies and offerings from CJ, Epsilon and Influential. A key business solution of Publicis Groupe ([Euronext Paris FR0000130577, CAC 40]), Publicis Media’s digital-first, data-driven global solutions deliver client value and drive growth in a platform-powered world. It is present in over 100 countries with over 23,000 employees worldwide.

London, England, United Kingdom
11K employees (3,008 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
526.1K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
33.4%
Direct
38.4%
Referral
11.8%
Social
15.8%
Paid
0.4%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~10.8K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
2,719 (25% of company)
Median Career Experience
13.5 years
Median Tenure
4.5 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
215