Senior Vice President, Media Planning/Strategy (Regulated Industry)

Chicago, IL (On-site)

$180K/yr – $269K/yrSenior Level12+ years expFull time

Posted 5 months ago

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Job Summary

Role focuses on leading client strategy, cross-functional collaboration, and team development to drive traffic, ROI, and audience growth. Requires 12+ years of experience and strong leadership, presentation, and strategic planning skills. Benefits and career growth are highlighted as part of the package.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Act as a day-to-day point of contact and partner for assigned clients
  • Responsible for developing, implementing, and executing strategy to deliver on short- and longer-term goals (e.g., traffic, ROI, customer count, 1P audience growth, and brand metrics)
  • Support the spectrum of the client’s media initiatives, including vendor-centric, endemic and non-endemic and audience-led RMN omnichannel planning
  • Actively listen to Clients and continually identify opportunities to lead thinking
  • Team leader for Client interaction fostering positive relationships
  • Evaluates composition of a wide range of media vehicles to determine which would most effectively reach the target audience and deliver on traffic and performance goals
  • Effectively communicates and solicits agreement of best opportunities for Client
  • Ensure the quality of work for all Client deliverables
  • Supervising, training, and developing staff (managing workload, delegating, and managing projects and resources, performance management)
  • Develop process improvements and best practices to ensure consistency, flexibility, and efficiency resulting in solutions that meet or exceed Client expectations
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Starcom

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With a history that dates back over 80 years, Starcom is a global communications planning and media leader. We are an agency still grounded in our founding principle that people are at the center of all we do. Each day, we apply this belief to harness the transformative power of data and technology to inspire and move people and business forward. With almost 7,000 employees in over 100 offices around the world, Starcom partners with the world's leading marketers and brands, including Bank of America, Best Buy, Kellanova, McDonald's, Novartis, Samsung, Visa, WK Kellogg Company and more.

Founded in 1936
Chicago, Illinois, USA
6.1K employees (2,084 in marketing)
66% recommend to a friend
59% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
20.1K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
43.1%
Direct
41.6%
Referral
9.1%
Social
4.6%
Paid
1.1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~6.1K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
1,983 (33% of company)
Median Career Experience
10 years
Median Tenure
4.5 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
33

Funding

Total Funding
$57.1M
Last Raise
$43.2M
Series A, 1 months ago

Funding History

  • Feb 2026
    Series A • $43.2M
  • Aug 2025
    Series A
  • May 2025
    Series A • $13.9M

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