Manager, Media Investment Strategy

Responsibilities

• Investment Management & Reporting
• - Own day-to-day tracking, reconciliation, and reporting of the global marketing and media budget across enterprise priorities, seasonal initiatives, and core business drivers.
• - Operate the global investment governance model, maintaining the processes that enforce transparency, accountability, and performance tracking.
• - Monitor performance signals and bring recommended in-flight budget reallocations to media leadership with a clear point of view.
• - Partner with Finance and Commercial teams as the media-side owner of forecasting inputs, monthly reconciliation, and investment reporting.
• Partnerships & Agency Management
• - Manage enterprise-level partnerships, including DAAs, JBPs, and strategic platform agreements, through tracking, analysis, and performance reporting.
• - Manage global agency relationships day to day, holding partners to deliverables, fees, and value-added commitments.
• - Own and improve the tools, processes, and reporting frameworks that drive investment efficiency and scalability.
• - Identify and pursue opportunities to unlock incremental business value through media partnerships.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in media investment, media planning/buying, financial planning, or marketing operations—ideally in product technology, CPG, or high-growth consumer categories
• Experience managing sizable media budgets with strong attention to detail and accuracy
• Strong analytical and financial skills, including budget tracking, ROI analysis, and performance measurement
• Working command of agency operations, media buying across digital and traditional channels, and platform partnerships
• Advanced Excel/Google Sheets skills; experience with reporting or BI tools (e.g., Tableau, Power BI) a plus
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, including the ability to influence without authority in a global, matrixed organization
• A passion for innovation, a bias for action, and a drive to deliver measurable business impact through media investment
• Owned budget management and investment reporting at a large or high-growth brand, or within a media agency serving enterprise clients
• Built or improved investment governance, budgeting processes, or reporting at scale
• Demonstrated success in driving measurable business impact through media analysis and optimization

Preferred

• Experience with reporting or BI tools (e.g., Tableau, Power BI) a plus

Benefits

• medical insurance
• dental insurance
• vision insurance
• flexible spending accounts
• health savings accounts (HSA) with company contribution
• 401(k) retirement plan with matching
• employee stock purchase program
• life insurance
• AD&D
• short-term disability insurance