Associate Director, Local Investment

Chicago, IL (On-site)

$97K/yr – $156K/yrSenior Level7+ years expFull time

Posted 3 days ago

Job Summary

Own and lead local investment initiatives across client engagements, market analyses, and team development. You will shape marketplace POVs, optimize reporting and workflows with AI, mentor senior staff, and drive innovation through collaboration with Planning/Strategy and Client Leads.

  • Lead thought leadership in Local Media engagements and market opportunities.
  • Oversee training, goal setting, and performance reporting for the team.
  • Apply AI-enabled insights to reporting, audits, and investment processes.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Bring strong thought leadership to client and team engagements.
  • Prepare and present Local Landscape and marketplace to internal teams and external clients.
  • Prepare and Present Buy Summary, Added Value, Posts, Audit reports and POVs on market opportunities to strategy counterparts and clients.
  • Oversee Supervisor Client Lead (s) and Negotiators for skill development, time and expense reporting, goal and performance reporting.
  • Assist Director with projects, VBS integrations and reporting, deliverable progress/timeline management.
  • Build relationships with senior Management in the vendor community.
  • Manage team training program participation across multiple topics; lead sub committees for team challenges / innovation; mentor Managers/Supervisors to further growth.
  • Collaborate with Planning/Strategy & Client Leads brainstorm for increased innovation in client communication and / or productivity.
  • Drive process automation improvement to decrease team level of effort.
  • Analyze market level costs and collaborate with PMX on pricing benchmarks.

Requirements

  • 7+ years experience in Local Media.
  • Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Suite (specific attention to Excel and PPT).
  • Experience with OX, Prisma, SQAD, and TapScan.
  • Strong understanding of Local Investment measurement including Nielsen & Comscore.
  • Strong ability to write clearly, concisely, and logically.
  • Strong interpersonal skills - great relationship-builder with clients, vendors, and internal teams.
  • Have a history strategizing/negotiating to get the job done right and track record of success in media.
  • Experience across the macro-video landscape, including OLV, Addressable and VOD.

Preferred

  • Bachelor's degree, ideally with a concentration in advertising, marketing, business administration, or communications

Benefits

  • Our benefits package includes medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401K, as well as parental and family care leave, family forming assistance, tuition reimbursement, and flexible time off.
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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)

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$97K/yr – $156K/yr

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Associate Director, Local Investment

Publicis Media · Chicago, IL · On-site