Hybrid schedule 3X week in office
ROLE
The Assistant Media Buyer is an important part of the media department. This person will help steward all National and Local Linear Video and Terrestrial and Digital Audio buys including securing inventory, monitoring the day-to-day performance of these campaigns while also learning key aspects of the Media Buying negotiating process.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
General
- Develop skills in communicating with TV, cable and audio sales account executives via phone and email.
- Maintain sales account executive contact list.
- Monitor trade publication emails and proactively track new programming launches, tentpole events, and key marketplace opportunities.
Campaign Set Up
- Input all negotiated buys into MediaOcean and send out IOs to all media vendors.
- Work closely with business affairs and media planning team when trafficking all assets to ensure all ad tracking tags/watermarks are in place.
Campaign Stewardship
- Monitor all weekly pre/post logs to ensure client goals are being achieved.
- Communicate with buyers any clearance issues discovered in pre/post logs
- Assist with Budget & invoice management to ensure all client dollars air within scheduled campaign dates.
- Reconciliation of all vendor invoices.
Reporting & Measurement
- Monitor campaigns to ensure proper pacing, avoid under- or over-spend, traffic abnormalities, and identify additional opportunities.
- Generate scheduled ad reports and deliver weekly campaign post logs to BI team.
QUALIFICATIONS
- Excellent time management skills and ability to follow through. Possess a strong and proven ability to prioritize and handle multiple tasks with flexibility and communicate priorities to Supervisor.
- Extremely detail-oriented, with a proven system of double checks
- Expert in Excel, strong in PowerPoint and other Office products
- Excellent mathematical skills
SALARY
Deutsch offers top of the line benefits, 401K, unlimited PTO and more. The salary for this role is $40,000 plus paid overtime.