Associate Director, Business Solutions
Horizon Media
New York City, NY (Hybrid)
$110K/yr - $130K/yrAgencyFull-timeSenior level5+ years exp.
7 weeks ago
Associate Director, Business Solutions
New York City, NY (On-site)
$110K/yr – $130K/yrSenior Level5+ years expFull time
Posted 12 days ago
Job Summary
Lead strategic media solutions by translating client goals into integrated plans, guiding the team through marketing strategy, activation, reporting, and optimization, while collaborating with senior leaders to ensure cross‑channel alignment and data‑driven decisions.
- Own the quarterly strategic framework and client motivations discovery
- Develop and mentor a high-performing media team with clear feedback and growth
- Partner with directors, VPs and partners to translate goals into actionable recommendations
Job Description
Responsibilities
- Guide the team in translating client goals into strategic media solutions that grow our client’s brands and ensure strategic consistency across all elements of plan development and implementation
- Collaborate with the Director and VP on strategic marketing approach, guiding translation of client goals to the Business Solutions team, activation teams, and media partners
- Ensure team is following internal and external processes and cadences for streamlined and timely workflow
- Oversee final reporting analysis of campaigns alongside other internal teams, ensuring data is accurate, presenting findings to client
- Apply and leverage attribution models functionalities and benefits to build media recommendations and optimize future campaigns
- Build strategic framework for quarterly plans and lead presentations
- Help lead the team’s understanding of client’s business and uncovering of motivations/needs
- Ensure strategic alignment across all channels and teams, to ensure a fully integrated approach
Requirements
- A strong writer, presenter and communicator
- A strong team leader with people management skills
- Comfortable providing and receiving constructive feedback and opportunities for growth
- Confident in navigating conversations with senior leadership internally and externally
- A problem solver with the ability to develop creative solutions
- Nimble and flexible with ability to succeed in a fast-paced environment
- Proficient with marketing principles, problem solving, data and analytics
- A supporter of and advocate for diversity, equity and inclusion
Preferred
- Minimum 5-7 years of experience in media planning and strategy
- Thorough understanding of advanced analytics and performance media
- Strong leadership skills and experience developing media professionals, ability to manage a team
- Experience in a client relationship management role
- Effective verbal and written communication skills; able to confidently present and sell through ideas both internally and to clients
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, PowerPoint, Word) and media research/reporting resources
Horizon Next
Horizon Next is one of the industry's most innovative and data-driven marketing organizations and sits at the intersection of three constantly changing landscapes: people, data, and media. Our business provides strategic leadership to accelerate growth for our clients through brand strategy, media planning and investment, and best in class analytics across all channels. As the leader in innovative business solutions, we are always pushing ourselves to understand what’s next: our next innovation, our next advancement in analytics, the market’s next media evolution, and your next breakthrough idea. Our simple recipe for success? We hire talented people (thinkers, doers, dreamers, makers), challenge them and give them every opportunity to grow. We need creative, entrepreneurial, solution-oriented people to build today’s marketplace. Horizon Next operates with the single goal that tomorrow must outperform today.
Salaries
Posted range
$110K/yr – $130K/yr
Taken straight from the job posting.
Marketing Team
Marketing Team Size
69 (18% of company)
Median Career Experience
12 years
Median Tenure
7.3 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
5
Traffic Signals
Monthly Visitors
2.3K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
30.4%
Direct
45.1%
Referral
5.7%
Social
17.2%
Paid
1.5%
Headcount Trend
Current headcount: ~392
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