Responsibilities

• Oversee the planning, buying, execution, and optimization of paid media campaigns across a portfolio of client accounts.
• Serve as a strategic advisor to both clients and internal teams, developing media recommendations that align with business objectives and audience needs.
• Lead the media buying process, manage vendor relationships, oversee campaign financials, and ensure all tactics are executed accurately and on schedule.
• Collaborate closely with account, strategy, planning, operations, creative, and analytics teams to deliver integrated media solutions.
• Help expand media expertise across the organization by identifying emerging opportunities, sharing best practices, and supporting the development of agency-wide media education initiatives.
• Lead media planning and buying initiatives.
• Mentor junior talent and elevate overall team capabilities.
• Influence campaign performance from strategy through execution.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree required.
• Minimum of 5 years of media planning and buying experience.
• Experience developing and executing media campaigns across programmatic, endemic, CTV/video, traditional television, radio, digital out-of-home, and out-of-home channels.
• Strong understanding of media strategy, planning, buying, vendor negotiations, and campaign execution.
• Experience managing budgets, insertion orders, timelines, and media financial reporting.
• Ability to present media recommendations and performance insights to clients and internal stakeholders.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Experience using media research and planning tools such as SRDS, Kantar, Nielsen, or similar platforms.

Preferred

• Healthcare, pharmaceutical, or life sciences agency experience.
• Experience working with digital media platforms and analytics tools such as Looker Studio or comparable reporting solutions.
• Experience mentoring junior team members and reviewing media plans, billing, timelines, and campaign documentation.
• Experience supporting new business initiatives and media strategy development for prospective clients.

Benefits

• discretionary annual bonus
• health insurance
• retirement savings benefits
• life insurance and disability benefits
• parential leave
• paid time off for sick leave and vacation
• and other benefits