Media Buyer/Planner

Lincoln, NE (Hybrid)

Salary Not AvailableMid Level3+ years expFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own paid media planning, execution, and optimization across client accounts, collaborating with creative, analytics, and media partners to drive measurable impact.

  • Media Planning & Buying: own cross-channel plans, budgets, and schedule execution.
  • Campaign Execution & Optimization: launch, monitor, and optimize to meet delivery, budgets, and performance goals.
  • Performance Analysis & Insights: translate spend and performance data into actionable recommendations for future plans.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Media Planning & Buying: Contribute to the development, maintenance, and execution of media plans and schedules across assigned client accounts. Support media recommendations through audience research, budget analysis, and channel evaluation while helping ensure plans are executed accurately and efficiently.
  • Media Research & Recommendations: Assist in evaluating audiences, media opportunities, historical performance, and marketplace trends to support media recommendations and long-term planning efforts.
  • Campaign Execution & Optimization: Launch, manage, monitor, and optimize campaigns across major paid media platforms, ensuring delivery aligns with approved plans, budgets, and performance goals.
  • Performance Analysis & Insights: Analyze budgets, campaign performance, audience data, and industry research to support media recommendations, uncover optimization opportunities, and inform future planning decisions.
  • Relationship Collaboration & Partnership Management: Build and maintain relationships with media partners while collaborating closely with account, creative, analytics, and media team members to support planning, execution, and reporting efforts.
  • Campaign Management: Monitor media delivery, pacing, reporting, billing, and campaign performance while resolving discrepancies and helping ensure media investments deliver against client objectives.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Business, Advertising, Journalism, Marketing, Communications, or a related field. Equivalent professional experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
  • 1-3 years of experience in media buying, media planning, paid media, digital advertising, marketing, or a related field.
  • Experience managing campaigns, analyzing performance, or supporting media recommendations is preferred.
  • Advertising agency experience is a plus.
  • Candidates with additional experience may be considered for expanded planning responsibilities.
  • 0-0 years of other required qualifications may be considered for expanded planning responsibilities.

Preferred

  • Microsoft Advertising
  • Amazon DSP
  • Asana or similar project management tools
  • Experience supporting media recommendations, audience research or channel planning
  • Google Ads Certifications
  • Google Analytics Certification
  • Meta Blueprint Certification
  • LinkedIn Ads Certification
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Swanson Russell

Swanson Russell is an integrated, full-service marketing communication agency, with a focus on six key industries: Outdoor Recreation, Green/Turf, Agribusiness, Health Care, Construction and Regional Brands. That’s what we do, and it’s all we do. Which means we know those industries – and the people who live them – like the back of our hand. More importantly, we know how to bring them together.As a full service agency, we specialize in Brand Strategy, Digital and Traditional Creative, Website and Mobile Development, Social Media Content and Management, Media Services, Database Marketing and Public Relations.We’ll use every tool in the box to solve a problem. It’s all about the message on the page. And whether that page is on Facebook, in a magazine or anywhere in between, our aim is always the same: connect brands with the people who live them.Learn More: www.swansonrussell.com

Founded in 1962
Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
171 employees (81 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
4.1K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
28.5%
Direct
46.9%
Referral
5.8%
Social
17.3%
Paid
1.5%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~171

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
46 (27% of company)