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About Starcom:

As the Human Experience Company, we are a global media agency that believes in the alchemy of people and technology to create experiences people love and actions brands need. It’s in our DNA. We’re powered by the strength of our innovative, driven, and intelligent people who are deeply passionate about achieving best-in-class results on behalf of our clients –some of the world’s leading marketers.

We value you and the work you do. We work hard, but also enjoy scores of perks rooted in our legacy of having one of the strongest agency cultures. Our top-notch health insurance plans and paid time off allow you much-needed time to recharge and achieve the work-life balance you need to bring your absolute best self to work.

Overview:

The Platform Investment Associate Media Director is responsible for managing the team that handles our clients’ day-to-day digital business and investment operations. The Associate Director develops and implements processes and best practices to ensure digital investment success for our company and clients. The Associate Director works on a variety of accounts and understands our digital systems, data needs, and media buy structure to improve process efficiency. The ability to problem-solve and work well with various internal and external teams is a critical aspect of this role. This role provides the opportunity to work on cross-agency projects that drive business goals (both for Starcom and our clients) and increase efficiency across the agency.

Role Objectives:

• Work with internal and external teams to hone and improve processes for self-service buying across entire Kellogg’s team.
• Be the primary expert across the team in self-service buying platforms (DSPs, Google Ad Words and Social Ads Managers) and possess strong understanding of platform nuances and system setups.
• Must have deep understanding of digital marketplace (primarily in social and programmatic) – providing thought leadership with ability to tie new opportunities to client needs while supporting centralized learning agendas.
• Help improve Kellogg’s data strategy across 1st, 2nd, & 3rd party audiences, encompassing a holistic, cross-platform approach.
• Manage client 1st party data in the data onboarding platform, LiveRamp
• Work alongside Strategy and Investment teams to build audience recommendations for all digital platforms
• Manage brand safety processes and best practices across all Kellogg brands and partners, ensuring Kellogg media only serves adjacent to content in-line with their brand suitability guidelines.
• Spearhead refinement of all planning and buying best practices across programmatic and social platforms –analyzes data from MMM results and quarterly scorecards to improve future media plans.
• Work in partnership with the Measurement Team to align on yearly learning agenda based on client business needs.
• Maintain a strong understanding of the systems used such as Ad Servers/Verification, DSPs, Social Platforms, DMPs, and internal proprietary tools.
• Serve as an escalation point for teams to help troubleshoot operational issues.
• Determine how to deliver necessary data to teams for various activation and reporting purposes.
• Share best practices and learn from other teams in Publicis to ensure consistency and best work product across The Groupe.
• Build and maintain strong relationships across multiple internal teams, client teams and leadership.
• Maintain relationships with key vendors to ensure trust and confidence with our buying partners.
• Cultivate a team-focused mentality across the team that they lead.
• Responsible for team management and development of experienced Sr. Associate/Supervisors.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in marketing, advertising, communications, consumer insights or equivalent.
• 5+ years of related experience and 3+ years of management experience.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively with diverse groups.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Experience in data strategy (1st, 2nd, and 3rd party)
• Technical proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite with a heavy focus on Excel.
• Knowledge of digital planning and buying process with an understanding of various vendors, different cost methods, various reporting, and delivery validation.
• Understanding of self-service buying platforms – DSPs, Google Ad Words and Social Ads Managers.
• Strong quantitative skills, including analytical abilities and math proficiency.
• Willingness to learn and create solutions that challenge the status quo.
• Exceptional critical thinking and problem-solving abilities with the ability to think unconventionally in proposing solutions.
• A proven ability to multi-task and manage multiple projects effectively and work well under pressure to deliver high-quality work within tight deadlines.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Proven experience in effectively coaching and developing others.

Starcom

Mediahub Worldwide is a global media planning and buying company with over 900 employees worldwide. We are an award-winning agency built for challenger brands – those disrupting the status quo and looking to reinvent how to reach consumers and measure success. Our smart and nimble team consists of key verticals including Insights + Action (Comms), P3 (Search, Paid Social & Programmatic), and our creative media group, the R+D (Radical + Disruptive) Lab, which specializes in working with avant-garde media partners to develop ideas that consumers seek out, share and talk about.

As one of the three major Interpublic media agencies (NYSE: IPG), we are powered by the buying and intelligence power of Magna Global and the data and tech backbone of Kinesso. We’re proud to have been named Adweek’s 2018 U.S. Media Agency of the Year and Ad Age’s 2019 and 2020 Media Agency of the Year.

Our mission? To be an agency that attracts, retains, and promotes outstanding employees of all backgrounds, perspectives, and abilities while fostering an accepting, antiracist culture and atmosphere where all employees can do their best work and feel safe, fulfilled and appreciated. We hope you will join us!

Position Overview

The Planning team builds and maintains strong client relationships. Their focus is to think strategically about the business, develop business by building opportunities and actively contribute to the planning process. This team effectively problem solves, generates innovative solutions and displays energy and passion for the work presented. Mediahub strives to challenge the status quo by consistently looking beyond the quantitative. To be most successful at Mediahub, you must be organized, creative, and confident to support media issues relative to your account(s).

The successful candidate must also maintain a positive attitude in the face of a constantly changing environment. Must be a problem solver and professional in all communications both inside the agency and with clients.

Assistant Media Planners must have the ability to juggle multiple projects and should be driven, detail-oriented, amicable, a strong collaborator and hungry to do great work.

Responsibilities

The role of Assistant Media Planner will be responsible for planning traditional and digital media channels. The Assistant Media Planner’s main role is to work closely with Planner(s) in developing and maintaining media plans while absorbing as much media knowledge as possible.

• Inputting of buys, trafficking for digital buys, Media Authorizations, issuing of Insertion Orders, initial understanding and assistance (as needed) with Billing Process, updating team status documents and working across the internal cross functional teams (Video Investments, R&D Labs, creative, etc.).
• Beginning to help with evaluation of media (OTT, TV, Cinema, OLV, Print, OOH, etc..).
• Additional tasks include Reach/Frequency runs (IMS Tools) and Pulling target information from MRI, SCOUT (our Mediahub proprietary tool).
• Taking notes during all meetings and disseminating them for final review before being sent to the larger team.
• You are the conduit for your team in setting up media rep meetings for the team and ensuring that calendars are up-to-date for these meetings (description of the meetings, who we are meeting with, goals of meeting).
• You will be pulling other syndicated research such as competitive runs, social conversation as well as assisting with pacing and reporting.
• As you grow in this role you will be taking on some partner negotiations with oversight and assistance from your Planners and Supervisors as well as starting to assist with preparing/writing of slides for our presentation decks.
• Assists in budget reporting, flowchart development, status report writing, invoice clearing and payment approval.
• Assists in quarterly competitive spending reports for appropriate clients.

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in business administration/marketing preferred.
• No agency experience required. Internship or relevant coursework. Creative environment is a plus.
• Desire to learn new things, both formally and informally.
• Passion to collaborate in a creative environment.
• Ability to work on several projects at once.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Proficient in Power Point
• Advanced Word, Excel and Writing Skills

About You

• You are a great interpersonal communicator and are able to effectively communicate with others within not only Mediahub but within the broader agency as well.
• You are able to adapt to working with people/team members with different work styles and able to work within a multi-supervisory environment as needed.
• You are positive, promote kindness and contribute to the overall culture of Mediahub. Your goal is to not only see yourself grow but to see others do well as well.
• You are able to demonstrate the ability to successfully multi-task, manage your time and show superb organizational skills and the ability to meet deadlines.
• As you work building your skill set as an Assistant Media Planner you are more and more able to take initial direction, then transition into a more independent work style.
• As you continue to grow, we will be looking for emerging proficiencies such as intuition, creativity, leadership (showing independent initiative, professionalism and improved performance pace.

The salary range for this position is $45,000-$50,000.

Where you are paid within this range depends on, among other factors, actual ranges for current/former employees in the subject position; market considerations; budgetary considerations; tenure and standing with the company (applicable to current employees); as well as your background, pertinent experience, and qualifications.

Here at Mediahub Worldwide, we believe that being together in person creates an energy that allows for innovation and collaboration. With that said, we are committed to remaining flexible and embrace different ways of working. As of January 2023, Mediahub Worldwide has adopted a flex work model in which employees work from their dedicated office at least one day per week.

BENEFITS OF JOINING Mediahub Worldwide:

One of our primary goals is to support the health and well-being of you and your family. Our compensation plan includes the following benefits, in addition to many others:

• We believe that being together in person creates an energy that allows for innovation and collaboration. With that said, we are committed to remaining flexible and embrace different ways of working. Mediahub Worldwide has adapted a flex work model which requires you to be within commutable distance of your dedicated company office (within 2 hours).
• Healthcare Options
• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• Prescription Coverage
• Dependent and Health Care Flexible Spending Accounts
• 401(k) savings plan with company match
• Unlimited PTO and year-round “Summer Fridays”
• Paid family leave
• Health and wellness support including an Employee Assistance Program, Calm/Headspace discounts, parenting resources and more
• On-demand professional coaching
• Legal Assistance Plan
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Exclusive discounts on cell phones, gyms, and everyday purchases

Employees must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and, if hired, present proof of vaccination prior to start date, unless eligible for a medical or religious accommodation or other accommodation required under applicable law.

You must be eligible to work in the United States to be considered for this role.

This job description is subject to change at any time.

Work is regularly performed in a professional office environment and routinely uses standard office equipment. The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

ACCESSIBILITY NOTICE: If you need a reasonable accommodations for any part of the employment process due to a physical or mental disability, please send an email to: [email protected] – please include your location in the subject line of your email (BOS, NY, LA, WNS, MPLS)

Mediahub Worldwide is an EEO/AA M/F/Disability/Vet Employer.

Mediahub Worldwide participates in E-Verify.

Mediahub Worldwide

USIM is a full-service, integrated, media planning and buying agency. We align the most successful and efficient media strategies with the goals of our clients, regardless of channel. This position is key and covers either one major account or a portfolio of clients.

Working with USIM leadership, this position will be critical to managing and growing client business. In this role, the AMD has the opportunity to help shape the client’s complete media strategy and work closely with creative teams.

*This role has the option to be hybrid to the Irvine, CA office (2 days in the office), or fully remote in EST, preferably FL.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Strategy: AMDs are the primary authors of client media strategies
• Measurement Strategy: AMDs are responsible for working with the client to create clear actionable measurement strategies
• Briefs: AMDs need to be able to create and deliver clear concise briefings for USIM vertical services so that they can deliver buys and ideas that effectively map back to the media strategy and KPIs.
• Working with our vertical services: Search, social, programmatic, broadcast, etc.
• Leading in the creation and presentation of media plans.
• Implementation: Directly/indirectly overseeing the execution of media plans by buying teams and ensuring that results are reported in a way that is insightful, timely and accurate.
• Talent Development: Building teams that are smart, strategic, client-facing, ready to be promoted.

QUALIFICATIONS & SKILLS:

• Minimum 7 years in media, including digital media
• Complete knowledge planning, buying and reporting processes for all major media
• Ability to effectively utilize media research and reporting resources
• Strong, up to date understanding of Search, Social, Programmatic, new TV models, tagging, ad tech, audience segmentation: tracking and tagging, database modeling, emerging media
• Baseline working knowledge and understanding of offline media, DR, CRM
• Strong analytical abilities and quantitative skills, including math proficiency
• Ability to analyze data and deliver meaningful insights and actions
• Technical proficiency, particularly with media systems and MS Excel, Word and PowerPoint
• Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills
• Ability to work successfully with teams, handling multiple projects and meeting tight deadlines under pressure
• Ability to lead a team and develop its members to get them to the next level. This includes the ability to interview, evaluate and hire successfully.
• Happy to “work down”, working with teams to get work done, even if this means working below the AMD level.
• Possessing excellent client services skills
• Solid financial management skills

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE:

• Bachelor’s degree, preferably with a concentration in advertising, marketing, business administration, and communications

USIM

The Client

Harmonic are proud to be working with one of UK’s fastest-growing PR agencies in the search for a PR Account Director to join their team in the London offices. The agency has strong expertise on creating positive social and environmental impact, working with companies who are looking to make a meaningful change. They are looking for an Account Director with intelligence and ambition who has at least 3 years’ experience in PR, and ideally some experience in the corporate sector. Their work has been regularly acknowledged with prestigious industry awards, where they help brands build awareness to create engaging content and sell across multiple channels.

The agency describes their culture as compassionate and collaborative, with an emphasis on inclusion and a flat structure. All voices are heard, employees feel valued and encouraged to grow professionally to progress in their career. The office space is located in a vibrant and diverse location tailored to promote outstanding performance from employees.

The Role

This position will be effectively managing and overseeing a PR team to ensure exceptional campaigns are delivered to the client and helping to identify and gain new accounts. This role would only be suitable to someone who is creative, commercially minded and have an excellent ability at building and maintaining relationships.

• Consulting and providing senior strategy for client accounts
• Developing stories and pitches to the board, client’s, and key stakeholders
• Acting as a team leader ensuring support is provided for more junior positions and leading account managers with performance reviews and support
• Analysing projects and ensuring they’re profitable
• Keeping up with current trends, news, and everchanging culture
• Media relations and relevant contact list
• Ability to deal with short deadlines and keep calm under pressure

Required Experience

• Experience in corporate / consumer sector
• Leadership and management skills within a PR agency on in-house position
• Exceptional written, verbal and presentation skills
• Working with social platforms and their features to target audiences
• Evidence of successfully gaining new clients and providing pitches for accounts
• Collaborative, inquisitive, flexible
• Supporting and managing multiple clients at the same time

Start Date: ASAP

Salary: £55,000 – £65,000 (full salary based on 4-day week)

Location: Central London

Please get in touch at [email protected]

Please feel free to circulate this with any friends or contacts that may be interested.

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Harmonic Operations™ | Certified B Corp

• PR Coordinator
• Marketing Department
• Beaverbrooks Head Office, Lytham St Annes
• Permanent- 37.5 hours per week, Monday-Friday 9am-5pm
• £24,000-£27,000 per annum depending on experience + excellent benefits + bonus scheme
• Close date: 26th Feb
• Initial Phone Interviews: w/c 27th Feb
• Interviews: w/c 6th March

We now have an exciting opportunity for a PR Cooordintor, who displays great communication skills, to join our fast-paced PR & Influencer Marketing team, and drive a varied range of projects.

Our PR Coordinator will sit within the PR & Events team and will be focused on driving awareness, reputation and engagement for our Beaverbrooks brands through effective consumer and business PR (traditional and digital channels) and working with a growing network of influencers.

You will report into the PR & Events Manager and work closely with the wider marketing team, product, retail and ecommerce teams to deliver inspiring and seamless multichannel campaigns.

We are proud to have recently achieved sixth position in the prestigious 100 Best Companies to Work For list 2022, in addition to being announced as ‘Retail’s Best Company to Work For’ 2022. It’s also our 17th consecutive year of receiving three-star accreditation for ‘world class’ levels of workplace engagement.

Working at Beaverbrooks also brings with it a whole host of rewards and benefits, some of which are:

• Great office profit share bonus
• Outstanding staff discounts which extend to your family & friends
• Free car parking
• Wellbeing scheme
• Contributory Pension & Life Assurance
• Breakfast club – breakfast provided free of charge, Monday to Friday
• Regular social events- including, but not limited to: pay day drinks, football hospitality events, theatre and theme park trips.
• Free eye test every 2 years
• Flu Vaccinations paid for
• Enhanced maternity and paternity package
• Maternity return to work bonus
• Employee & family support & counselling – Retail Trust

Although the role is based at our Head Office in Lancashire, we are happy to discuss flexible working options at interview

Main Responsibilities

PR

• As the day-to-day press officer, you’ll be working with our PR agency to deliver the BAU product stream of our PR calendar, which means identifying and evaluating opportunities (lifestyle trends, using insight from broader social/SEO and buying teams)
• Supporting the planning and implementation of hero PR initiatives and campaigns. You’ll be the link between other teams to ensure all stakeholders are maximising the PR opportunity
• Write and distribute a variety of PR comms including press releases, brand communications, quotes, comments, statements and award entries
• Work with the Events Coordinator to arrange and host press events
• Development of our LinkedIn profile(s) to help showcase our amazing Beaverbrooks business and inspire other leaders across the country –producing and briefing content, building profiles
• Regular reporting and sharing PR success – evaluating press coverage towards objectives on a weekly and quarterly basis

Influencers

• Delivering the overall Influencer strategy and plan
• Working with our influencer agency and directly with influencers themselves to ensure activity is delivered as per the plan – to include briefing of campaigns, reviewing and approving content, along with proactively flagging any delays or issues as they come up
• You’ll play a lead role in curating our preferred bank of influencers over time – working with our influencer partners, as well as the wider marketing and social teams you’ll be responsible for identifying new talent, building and managing this list
• Regular reporting on the success of hero influencer campaigns and the ongoing performance of individual influencers

The Ideal Candidate

Essential skills/experience:

• Previous PR experience, ideally agency side with UK consumer media relations experience
• First class communication skills both written and verbal (with previous experience in copy writing i.e. press releases, statements, LinkedIn posts, award entries, case studies etc)
• A passion for PR and influencer marketing in equal measure – and a desire to always learn more
• Results driven
• Ability to be adaptable, reactive, responsive. Comfortable working at pace
• Proactive, self-starting approach
• Creative problem solving
• Highly organised and adept at prioritisiation

Desirable skills/experience:

• Knowledge of Gorkana, Meltwater, Onclusive, Vuelio, Adobe InDesign / Photoshop and Influencer Marketing Platforms will be advantageous attributes
• Commercial aptitude and experience managing budgets and negotiating costs

A portfolio of work would be advantageous, which can be shared during application

About The Company

We’re a family business. And you can tell that when you get here. It feels like family.

Established in 1919 we now have 73 stores across the UK and an ecommerce website, which was launched in 2001. We provide exceptional quality diamonds, jewellery and watches as well as top name brands such as TAG Heuer, Omega, Breitling, Tudor, Gucci and Vivienne Westwood.

Our purpose is to enrich lives, which simply means making a positive difference to the world we live in. We donate 20 per cent of retained profits to charity and since the year 2000, Beaverbrooks has donated £20 million to over 1000 different charities.

We pride ourselves on the work we do for local communities and in support of this we offer charity matching – you raise it, we match it! You can also take 2 paid charity days per year where you can spend time away from the business doing charity work and take time off to give blood.

If you would like to know more about Beaverbrooks, visit https://www.beaverbrooks.co.uk/about-us

Beaverbrooks

PR Account Manager

B2B and engagement campaigns for clients in professional services, energy, construction, and property.

Location: Cheltenham, with the ability to work flexibly from the office/home.

Who & what are we?

We are an award-winning, employee-owned communications agency. We have a reputation for excellent strategic advice, value-adding creative campaigns, and high impact delivery.

We manage corporate reputations; we support businesses through growth, re-structure, and change; and we help organisations connect with each other and their stakeholders.

We have offices in London, Birmingham, Cheltenham, and York. We offer a hybrid working pattern and environment where you will have the opportunity to learn, develop and grow, with structured career development programmes and a varied client portfolio.

As of November 2022, Camargue is a fully employee-owned business. After 35 years supporting clients through their growth, re-structure and change, our future remains proudly independent and firmly in our hands. We work in some of the most exciting sectors in the UK and our teams are responsible for award-winning campaigns.

We strive for an inclusive and diverse workplace that reflects the wider world around us, the clients and communities we represent and the campaigns we deliver. We are committed to providing equal opportunities for all, regardless of gender, marital status, sexual orientation, age, race, ethnic origin, religion, or disability. We especially welcome applications from groups currently underrepresented in our business.

Who and what will you be?

• You’ll work principally with our valued corporate and business-to-business clients, unearthing stories and crafting features, case studies, press releases and online content.
• You will have responsibility for driving forward a portfolio of varied accounts simultaneously, backed by an Account Director and the wider team.
• You will own the campaign or project strategy defined in the original programme, leading, and motivating the team to achieve this.
• This pivotal role is the eyes and ears of the team, scouting out issues, and opportunities both internally and externally.
• You’ll ensure everyone on the account is aware of their priorities, delivers on time, and on target, achieving the overall objectives to a high standard of quality.
• You will also work with our consultation and engagement clients on projects that are vital to society, for example new sources of renewable energy. You’ll deliver online and in-person engagement programmes with stakeholders and local communities, including producing suites of printed and digital materials and delivering events.
• You’ll be contributing to clients’ businesses on a strategic level, showing an understanding of their commercial environment and the issues that might affect them.
• You’ll have a willingness to work flexibly as required, often under pressure, including travel as needed within the UK for client meetings and events.
• The opportunity to acquire the skills and qualities to build a career with us through promotion to Account Director and beyond.

You will

• Be a key day-to-day contact for your clients, working with them and our teams to deliver successful content campaigns.
• Represent your clients internally to ensure effective creative briefing & delivery of all projects, on time and on budget, whilst managing client relationships & expectations.
• Create client presentations as required.
• Compile budgets and timing plans for clients.
• Ensure creative & strategic excellence across all deliverables.
• Share clear and thorough updates and reporting with clients regularly over email, phone calls and face-to-face meetings, while providing recommendations and expertise at every stage of the campaign.
• Manage the work priorities for yourself and your project team.
• Be able to thrive in a very fast-paced environment.

Skills & Experience

• Have between four and eight-years’ experience in Public Relations or a closely related field.
• Have successfully dealt with all aspects of a communications or engagement campaign/project, having driven it forward to the point of delivery.
• Adept at turning complex information into fresh, engaging content for audiences including the media, stakeholders, the general public and online.
• Ability to skilfully and sensitively deal with both clients and journalists to negotiate quality positive coverage that helps achieve agreed objectives.
• An interest in and understanding of local and national politics and current affairs.
• Ability to work flexibly as part of a tight-knit team to meet often demanding deadlines.
• Strong spoken and written communication skills, with good presentation, consultation, and negotiation abilities
• Strong organisational and time management capabilities, bringing good business sense and the ability to work to budgets.

Characteristics

• Strong communication skills both verbally and in writing.
• Strong creativity with high attention to detail.
• Confidence, tact, and a professional and friendly manner.
• Great team player with a client-centric focus and possess the ability to build effective working relationships.
• Good ‘people skills’, for working with a range of colleagues and clients.
• A problem solver who is proactive, driven and ultra-organised.
• Self-motivated and ambitious.
• Sense of humour.

What’s in it for you?

• Clear progression, training, development & career planning.
• Hybrid working.
• Fantastic, friendly, close-knit team.
• Summer and Christmas socials.
• Employer-contributed pension scheme.
• Life insurance.
• 25 days holiday allowance + bank holidays.
• Employee assistance programme including medical, mental health, and financial support.
• Private healthcare.
• Electric vehicle scheme.
• Cycle to work scheme.

Competitive Salary plus benefits.

Camargue

Living Spaces

Working for a well-established, high-growth, award winning digital marketing agency, The Paid Media Director will lead the cross channelled digital marketing strategy, for a portfolio of well-known and emerging brands in the UK.

The Paid Media Director will be responsible for:

• Planning and leading strategy on campaigns
• Cross channelled media performance
• Leading and launching new campaigns
• Managing and growing a talented team of Account Managers/Executives
• Client management and pitching to new clients
• Analysing campaign performance

The Paid Media Director will have:

• Strong experience creating strategic media plans
• Experience with 2 or more digital marketing channels, e.g. Paid Search, PPC, Paid Social, Programmatic, Display, etc.
• Thrived in agile, fast paced environments
• Experience running projects to time and budget
• Ideally managed or mentored others before
• Candidates can come from agency, retail, ecommerce, travel, media, gaming, start-ups, etc.

This is a great opportunity for a talented Paid Media Director to join a rapidly growing, award winning, digital performance agency, which still has a start-up vibe, amazing perks and extremely flexible hours!

Paid Media Director

£65K + bonus + benefits

London, Brighton or Remote

RedCat Digital

DIRECTOR, INTEGRATED PLANNING

SALARY: $130K

We are a fully-integrated agency with combined capabilities across advertising, strategic planning, media, digital, social, creative technology, performance marketing and design.

You bring expertise across all media channels, the ability to identify opportunities and the confidence to work with clients toward innovative solutions. You are excited about the changing media landscape and are well-versed in the technical and operational requirements to drive performance. You might be a media nerd at heart, but you also recognize the power of media and creative coming together to deliver incremental impact in key moments.

In this role, you will be responsible for the following activities:

· Kick the tires on the brief and lead the strategic media approach

o Lead the development of cross-channel media strategies for both traditional and digital channels (TV, radio, digital, social, print, etc.) – heavy digital preferred

o Analyze competitive landscape, consumer insights, historical performance and develop rationale for media plan recommendations and strategic use of channels

o Understand how media channels are most effective and communicate tradeoffs between strategies and tactics

o Leverage research tools and various inputs to drive thoughtful plans that will deliver against client objectives

o Evaluate media proposals and provide POVs

· Orchestrate the plan coming to life

o Act as a business lead on media-only businesses that sets the strategy and approach for Platforms and Investments leads. Provide ongoing stewardship and oversight of plans.

o Be an advocate in evolving our approach with everything from simple process and communication improvements to thinking about how we elevate and streamline the team’s work through technology, partners, etc.

o Teach and ensure accountability of your team’s media expertise and executional excellence – including media budget management, billing, team structure and campaign traffic and execution

· Tell our story

o Be the main media point of contact for clients, representing multiple POVs from planning, activation, and analytics teams

o Present recommendations to clients and internal teams with the ability to change the narrative to connect to each audience and enable decision making (an internal account person vs. day to day client vs. client CMO)

o Identify emerging trends in the industry and how to harness them to drive our clients’ business forward

o Responsible for integration with internal partners (Activation, Account, Creative, Project Management) to ensure full alignment

o Develop and share best practices with internal partners and clients as relevant

o Drive ongoing collaboration with Analytics – including measurement frameworks but also stretching beyond to discover unique and data-backed insights

o Work across clients to ensure consistency in the way approach planning and execution

o Actively merchandise wins/learnings across the agency and clients

o Participate in agency growth – including new business, media community participation, cultural initiatives and team training

· Help others do this too

o Manage and develop a team through goal setting, 1 on 1s, training, etc.

o Contribute to the vision for the department and instill throughout the team

o Create an infrastructure that inspires (and requires) executional excellence

What You Need To Succeed

· Bachelor’s Degree

6+ years minimum of communications, media, technology and/or marketing analytics experience

· Must have significant experience working in an agency setting or in an in-house client media team

· Listen to client needs and translate them into high quality solutions

· Skilled management and client leadership experience (you are authoritative, persuasive and reasonable)

· Excellent communication skills and ability to present your ideas and how/why they will be effective

· Experience in consumer research and segmentation, channel mix, channel planning and measurement tools

· Strong knowledge of asset trafficking to ensure accuracy and create reasonable timelines and expectations for deliverable

· Understanding of site tagging and analytics platforms like Adobe and Google Analytics

· Experience working across various internal teams (Platforms, Account, Creative, Production) to both understand the overall plan/moving pieces and push the work where needed

· Proactively suggest alternative approaches to solving problems

· Guide and inspire creative

· Ability to write clear and concise presentations in straight-forward and enlightening way

· Present effectively and as a credible storyteller in client meetings for new business

· Experience managing and coaching a team

Search Max, Inc

MEDIA DIRECTOR, hybrid, Pewaukee WI

C2’s client, an award-winning marketing and advertising agency providing services to clients across a broad spectrum of industries, is searching for a Media Director to join their team. This position is responsible for the philosophy and planning of the use of traditional and digital media, for the selection of specific media, and for ordering space and time for specific clients.

Currently, the Media Director has a staff of one Senior Media Planner/Buyer and Media Coordinator. As the agency continues to grow, the Media Director may have to add more media buying staff, divided by media, accounts, or territory. The Media Director shares responsibility with the Senior Planner in planning and executing clients’ media programs, reports to the President and serves on the agency leadership team.

About the agency:

Listed as one of the Milwaukee area’s top 25 agencies by the Milwaukee Business Journal for the past 10 years, they serve a wide range of consumer and B2B clients and specialize in social marketing campaigns for the public sector. From advertising and promotions to mobile marketing and branding, this 15-person team works on integrated campaigns as well as projects across diverse industries in Wisconsin and throughout the U.S.

Start date: As soon as they find the right candidate

Duration: Full-time, permanent position

Location: Client would prefer a candidate from the greater Milwaukee area, but may consider fully remote for the perfect candidate

Compensation: Competitive annual salary based upon skills and experience

Benefits:

Generous compensation package, Health Insurance Plan, including dental and vision options, 401K with matching, Unlimited PTO, Paid holidays, Flexible hours with hybrid option to work in office or remote, Small company with a family feel, Entrepreneurial approach and spirit, Foster collaboration and team learning, Fun office events and laid-back culture, Summer hours

Job Description:

The Media Director needs to be well-versed in all types of media and must stay current with rapidly proliferating new media options.

The Media Director ensures:

• media staff maintain appropriate skill levels in media-related computer software
• authorizes related training and equipment purchases as deemed necessary
• internal maintenance of MediaForce software for media planning and buying

The Media Director is also responsible for research and marketing. In this capacity, the Media Director conducts media, industry, or company research so that the agency can construct an accurate strategic advertising and marketing plan for its clients. The right candidate will be able to handle a 9+ account workload while working collaboratively with all team members.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Supervises all media personnel in conduct of their assigned duties.
• Interfaces with other agency department heads/client service teams to keep projects moving forward on a timely basis.
• Working with the creative team, insures use of the most appropriate, effective media venues for each client/project.
• Prepares media plans based on briefings from account executives and client input.
• Prepares media schedules and keeps schedules up to date.
• Prepares media cost estimates and revises as required when media rates fluctuate.
• Books media space and issues traffic and insertion orders, insertion cancellations and media change requests.
• Coordinates a media direction order with account and creative managers to ensure creative deliverable deadlines are met.
• Reviews invoices, proof-of-performance, tear sheets and other materials to determine if media has run correct schedules, size, position, color, etc.
• Approves media invoices and settles billing discrepancies with publications.
• Maintains digital and/or hard copy media reference files.
• Maintains contact with media advertising representatives.
• Maintains current working knowledge of programs and software, ensuring entire media department as well as individual staff members remain on the leading edge of essential technology and skills.
• Authorizes hardware and software purchases and notifies the President and Accounting Manager.
• Authorizes skills training for media team.

Required Skills/Qualifications/Attributes:

• MINIMUM OF FIVE (5) YEARS experience as Media Planner/Buyer; experience in digital media is preferred
• Proficient in MediaForce or similar media buying software
• An analytical mind with aptitude for statistics & math
• Advanced Microsoft Office skills, with an ability to become familiar with firm-specific programs and software
• Demonstrate a high level of attention to detail and organization
• Professional, dedicated and collaborative individual
• Able to work well under pressure and strict deadlines in a fast-paced environment
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Strong project management and problem-solving skills with the ability to multi-task
• Ability to collaborate well with staff, clients, and vendors on all levels
• Share in the Team’s Core Values

All candidates must be located and authorized to work in the United States. C2 does not sponsor work visas.

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