Paid Media Specialist

Fort Lauderdale, FL (Hybrid)

Salary Not AvailableMid Level3+ years expFull time

Posted 4 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive media planning and operations for a consumer-facing cruise brand, coordinating cross‑channel campaigns and agency partners.

  • Must-have: 3+ years of media planning, buying, and optimization with consumer industries.
  • Standout: Experience coordinating cross-functional teams and agencies to optimize creative strategy.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Plan, execute, and oversee media projects from conception to completion, ensuring all deliverables are met on time.
  • Manage centralized media team project tracking and save all documents to shared drive.
  • Own creative trafficking process across offline and online channels, ensuring timely delivery and proper implementation.
  • Manage creative specs and collaborate with internal and external teams to secure creative for paid campaigns.
  • Prepare monthly, quarterly & ad hoc asset decks to share creative overview with leadership.
  • Collaborate with agency and internal stakeholders to synthesize creative reporting to optimize creative strategy.
  • Support sales & trade team on all paid activity including Trade Media & Co-Op.
  • Collaborate with marketing and eCommerce analytics to manage media-driven analyses and data-requests.
  • Review offline plans across Out of Home, Radio & Television to ensure strategic alignment.
  • Track and analyze campaign performance metrics to identify optimizations to improve performance.

Requirements

  • 3+ years of experience in media planning, buying, and optimization, preferably within consumer-facing industries such as travel, leisure, hospitality, retail, or similar.
  • Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Business, or related field; additional marketing certifications or training is a plus.
  • Detail-oriented and proven ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment.
  • Experience working with media agencies and vendors, with excellent negotiation and communication skills.
  • Familiarity with digital advertising formats, audience targeting, and campaign measurement.
  • Ability to analyze campaign data, generate reports, and provide actionable insights
  • Knowledge of offline and online paid media strategy, planning and execution.
  • Strong understanding of Paid Media & Web Analytics Platforms including Meta, Google Ads, SA360, DV360, DCM, Yahoo DSP, TikTok, Pinterest, Reddit, Snapchat, Bing, Google Analytics, and Adobe Analytics.
  • Media planning experience at Ad Agency and/or in-platform hands on keyboard digital campaign management preferred.
  • US Passport or US Permanent Resident required.

Preferred

  • Additional marketing certifications or training.
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MSC Cruises

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Headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, MSC Cruises is the world’s third largest cruise lines and the market leader in Europe, South America, the Middle East and Southern Africa, with a strong and growing presence in North America and the Far East.The MSC Cruises fleet consists of 23 modern ships with three new vessels due to be launched in 2026, 2027, 2029 and 2030.The Company operates in more than 100 countries around the world, offering cruises across five continents, calling at more than 240 destinations and welcoming more than 180 different nationalities on board.MSC Cruises is firmly committed to achieving net zero greenhouse gas emissions for its marine operations by 2050.

Founded in 1987
Geneva, Geneva, CHE
18K employees (1,484 in marketing)
71% recommend to a friend
86% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
1.7M
Traffic Source Mix
Search
40.6%
Direct
47.2%
Referral
9.9%
Social
1.2%
Paid
0.8%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~18.1K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
570 (3% of company)
Median Career Experience
11 years
Median Tenure
3.4 years

Funding

Total Funding
$6.9M
Last Raise
$6.9M
Series Unknown, 9 years ago

Funding History

  • Apr 2017
    Series Unknown • $6.9M

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