Director, Media Investment
About The Position
Wrench Group is looking for a Director, Media Investment to lead how we execute and optimize local awareness media across our growing portfolio of home-services brands. This is a role for someone who loves the business side of media—negotiating, buying, optimizing, holding partners accountable, and making every media dollar work harder. You'll lead buying and partner negotiations across 20+ markets and $15–$20 million in annual media investment, strengthening how we approach buying standards, partner strategy, investment discipline, and performance. If you're someone who sees a media plan and immediately starts thinking about how to buy it smarter, negotiate it better, and improve its performance, this could be a great fit. Please note: We are interested in every qualified candidate who is eligible to work in the United States. However, we are not able to sponsor visas needed now or in the future.
Requirements
- Combines deep media-buying expertise with commercial judgment, financial discipline, analytical thinking, and strong negotiation skills.
- 7+ years of progressive experience in media buying, media investment, activation, or a related discipline, including experience with complex, multi-market media portfolios.
- Strong experience negotiating with media partners and vendors.
- Experience combining traditional and digital media to create effective market-specific buys.
- Experience managing or influencing significant media investment.
- Strong commercial judgment and an instinct for identifying value, efficiency, and opportunity.
- Strong analytical skills and the ability to use performance data to optimize investment decisions.
- Experience managing multiple markets, partners, campaigns, budgets, and deadlines simultaneously.
- The ability to communicate clearly and confidently with senior stakeholders.
- A bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience is preferred but not required.
Responsibilities
- Lead How We Buy Media: You'll own the buying approach for approved local awareness investments across traditional and digital channels.
- Establish portfolio-wide standards for negotiation, placement, partner selection, documentation, pacing, and optimization and lead commercial conversations around rates, placements, added value, terms, and make-goods.
- Have meaningful autonomy over day-to-day negotiation, placement, vendor management, pacing, delivery, and optimization within approved strategies and budgets.
- Turn Strategy Into Effective Media Buys: Turn approved market strategies into executable, trackable media buys.
- Translate strategy into clear audience, geography, reach, frequency, timing, placement, cost, and measurement requirements while managing campaign calendars, trafficking, insertion orders, deployment schedules, and proof of performance.
- Optimize Performance: Monitor spend, delivery, audience quality, traffic, search activity, lead trends, revenue, and capacity signals throughout campaigns and use that information to optimize across channels, vendors, audiences, placements, and dayparts.
- Get More From Our Media Partners: Push for the right rates, placements, inventory, added value, make-goods, documentation, and performance while using Wrench's portfolio scale to create greater value across our markets.
Benefits
- Market Value Compensation with robust bonus potential
- Unlimited PTO Plan
- Health, Vision and Dental plans for you and your family to choose from
- 401K Retirement Plan: company will match 30% up to the first 6% of your contributed amount
- Life Insurance, Short-Term and Long-Term Disability
- Special Program Options: FSA, EAP, Legal Services, and Identity Theft
- Working in a dynamic, collaborative, and fun environment
- Coached and supported career growth through Wrench University
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
Education Level
Associate degree
