Senior Media Planner

Chicago, IL (Hybrid)

$75K/yr – $100K/yrSenior Level4+ years expFull time

Posted 5 hrs ago

Job Summary

Own and optimize media planning from tactical plans to vendor negotiations, ensuring accurate budgets, smooth handoffs, and ongoing performance.

  • Own media flowcharts, budgets, and flighting across channels
  • Align cross-functional teams: creative, strategy, account, PM
  • Ensure accuracy of invoices, plans, and approvals

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Build, own, and maintain tactical media plans (channels, budgets, and flighting) that translate strategy into executable campaigns
  • Manage working media budgets and create MAFs with full accuracy, from initial allocation through every revision
  • Prepare plans, specs, and documentation for clean handoff to creative, account/PM, and vendor teams
  • Proactively update plans for performance, optimizations, scope changes, and stakeholder feedback
  • Partner with creative, strategy, DNA, account, and project management to keep plans aligned and quality-controlled
  • Approve media invoices, verify accuracy, and reconcile the flowchart and budget tracker to the approved plan each month
  • Manage specs, the Creative Calendar, and materials tracking - chasing down anything late, wrong, or unapproved
  • Negotiate annual vendor contracts (OOH, broadcast, airport) and secure performance metrics for custom placements

Requirements

  • 4-8 years in media planning or account-side media execution, ideally on a tourism, travel, or other fast-moving, multi-market account
  • Hands-on experience building and maintaining media flowcharts, budgets, and flighting across multiple channels
  • A sharp eye for detail, confidence in being the last check before a plan or invoice goes out the door
  • Experience with MAFs, invoice reconciliation, and monthly budget tracking
  • A track record of negotiating vendor contracts (OOH, broadcast, airport, or similar) and holding vendors to performance metrics
  • A strong cross-functional collaborator, used to working closely with creative, strategy, account, and project management
  • Comfort owning a workstream independently, with good judgment on when an issue needs to be escalated vs. resolved directly

Benefits

  • A hybrid office model, with the option to WFH 2+ days/week
  • A minimum of 20 days off yearly + 12 company holidays + summer hours
  • Medical, Dental, Vision, Life & Disability Insurance
  • Employer-matched 401k
  • Transit benefits, corporate discount programs, free fitness center membership
  • Career pathing, dedicated budget towards opportunities for professional growth
  • A culture focused on collaboration, curiosity & support, with regular events, volunteerism, and an employee-led recognition program
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Envisionit

Envisionit is an award-winning, full-service digital marketing agency headquartered in Chicago with in-house Media, Creative, Tech, Strategy and Analytics teams. We have fueled growth for clients in a range of industries, with a core focus is in technology, CPG and destination.We are bold and resourceful. Energized and curious. Ready to solve problems and eager to apply new ideas. Our mission is to know our clients and their market, customer, and needs better than anyone else in order to help them achieve goals faster & without friction. In our work, we value being engaged, proactive, impactful, curious, and supportive. In our culture, we champion transparency, belonging, giving back, and having fun. Our purpose at Envisionit is to "Seize the Opportunity." For our employees, partners, and clients: now is the moment to grow, learn, be curious, build new capabilities, and achieve amazing things.Current career opportunities at Envisionit are available here: https://envisionitagency.com/careers/

Founded in 2002
Chicago, Illinois, USA
78 employees (27 in marketing)

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$75K/yr – $100K/yr

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Senior Media Planner

Envisionit · Chicago, IL · Hybrid