Manager, Paid Media

District of Columbia, USA (Hybrid)

$74K/yr – $85K/yrManager4+ years expFull time

Posted 1 day ago

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Job Summary

Own end-to-end paid media planning and buying for assigned accounts, from brief to optimization, while managing client relationships and cross‑functional collaboration.

  • Lead media planning and buying across channels
  • Coordinate with Creative, analytics, and clients
  • Develop and optimize campaign performance

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • The Manager, Paid Media, is responsible for overseeing and executing day-to-day paid media planning & buying and client service activities associated with assigned accounts. You would collaborate with clients and internal agency stakeholders in a fast-paced, results-oriented environment, while maintaining and growing successful client relationships.
  • Media Planning And Buying
  • Reviews media brief and sets planning process in motion
  • Creates Request for Proposal (RFP) and develops consideration list of appropriate publishers or vendors
  • Reviews partner proposals and filters/compiles most compelling proposals
  • Negotiates rates and added value with selected partners
  • Selects appropriate social platforms and campaign objectives based on client goals
  • Develops target segments to leverage based on client feedback
  • Develops paid media plans and presentation materials for client review and adapts/finalizes based on feedback
  • Ensures digital media tracking, audience building, creative trafficking, and billing is setup prior to campaign launch

Requirements

  • Bachelor's Degree and 4-6 years of experience planning and buying paid media campaigns
  • Experience planning and buying across online and offline media channels
  • Strong interpersonal and communication skills to develop and maintain collaborative relationships with client and Resolute team leads, Finance, and outside vendors. Can demonstrate small group presentation skills.
  • Excellent analytical skills and understanding of KPI’s and attribution
  • Experience working with Google Campaign Manager or other relevant 3rd Party Ad Servers
  • Experience with executing self-serve programmatic campaigns with DSP platforms.
  • Experience working with media management tools (e.g. Mediaocean)
  • Experience executing campaigns directly within social media Ads Managers, including Meta, LinkedIn, and TikTok
  • Google Analytics Certification is a plus
  • Media planning and buying across day-to-day paid media planning & buying and client service activities associated with assigned accounts.
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Weber Shandwick is the earned-first global communications agency. Led by world-class strategic and creative thinkers and activators, Weber Shandwick has won some of the most prestigious awards in the industry, including being named #1 in the Public Relations and Brand Strategies category on Fast Company’s 2024 Most Innovative Companies list, one of Fast Company’s Best Workplace for Innovators in 2023, PRWeek’s 2024 Global Agency of the Year, ranked #1 on PRovoke’s Global Creative Index in 2024 and honored on Ad Age’s A-List in 2024 & 2020 and Best Places to Work in 2019, in addition to being awarded Campaign Global’s PR Agency of the Year in 2023. Weber Shandwick was the most awarded PR agency at the 2023 and 2024 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, including earning the PR industry’s first-ever idea-led Cannes Grand Prix in the Brand Experience & Activation category and cumulatively earning more than 225 Cannes Lions. Weber Shandwick has also been named PR Agency of the Year by Campaign US in 2021, honored as PRovoke’s Global Agency of the Decade in 2020 and ranked #1 on PRovoke’s Global Creative Index in 2021 and 2022. Additionally, the firm was named PRWeek’s Global Agency of the Year in 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018 and was awarded PRWeek’s Purpose Agency of the Year in 2020 and 2021. Weber Shandwick also received Honorable Mention on the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Global Marketing Agencies in 2021, as the only PR agency featured.  Part of the Interpublic Group (NYSE: IPG), Weber Shandwick is the anchor agency within The Weber Shandwick Collective – the strategic communications and consulting network. For more information, visit https://www.webershandwick.com/. Social Media Community Guidelines: http://bit.ly/wssocialterms

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New York, NY, US
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