Responsibilities

• Oversee junior team members, and manage expectations with team leadership in the creation of media specific documents such as media plans, buy documents, objectives and strategies decks and other related functions
• Oversee junior team members tasks in negotiating and maintaining schedules
• Guide team in setting goals and project tasks & timelines, ensuring team members have challenging, level-appropriate projects and opportunities to learn new skills, contributing to overall team success
• Have foresight and understanding of projects to maintain and adjust timing of deliverables for team at large, communicating changes to managers and leadership
• Guide team in ensuring team members have challenging, level-appropriate projects and opportunities to learn new skills, contributing to overall team success
• Manage and develop junior team member(s), contributing to growth plans and career goals
• Manage performance reviews: including providing clear next steps for growth, suggest training opportunities, and ensure actions are taken
• Provide ongoing education and training on best practices, media principles, and industry at large to junior team
• Assist in the training of Assistants and Associates regarding media fundamentals, policies/procedures, and computer systems
• Participate in interview process for junior team members’ roles

Requirements

• A strong writer, communicator and presenter
• A left and right brain thinker – data powered mindset
• Comfortable working within large sets of data and numbers
• Results oriented; consistently motivated, proactive, and resourceful
• An independent worker with strong time management and organization skills
• Takes pride in ownership of work and demonstrates accountability
• A collaborative, team-oriented manager with strong delegation and organization skills; able to manage up & down
• A problem solver with foresight and the ability to develop creative solutions
• Detail oriented with commitment to follow through
• Nimble and flexible to succeed in a fast-paced environment

Preferred

• Experience working in advertising/marketing environment
• 5 years previous digital media experience and active buying, preferably with direct client experience
• Experience with buying across the National video landscape is required
• Buy-management experience, analyzing all aspects of metrics including CPL & CPP
• Strong negotiation skills and media industry relationships
• Strong grasp of various channels and buying methods (video, display, programmatic, social)
• Familiarity with marketing principles, analytics and concepts
• Advanced skills within Microsoft Office Suite and media buying tools
• Honed skillset in negotiating and constructing digital media plans, understanding of planning, buying & activation
• Mastery of third-party ad server and ad verifications (DCM, Double Verify, Innovid preferred)