Manager, Media Investment

Tinuiti

4d•$85,000 - $95,000•Remote

About The Position

The Manager, Media Investment plays a key role in ensuring our clients’ ads effectively reach their core audiences through high-quality brand safe campaigns, and are carried out with best in class media acumen, cost negotiation, and strategic thinking. You'll lead a team focused on questioning the status quo in media buying and delivering exceptional value to our clients. Your expertise will be essential to client performance across channels–primarily TV, audio, and display–serving as a key liaison with our media partners and the agency’s client teams, and developing innovative strategies to meet our brand’s diverse needs. This role requires a strategic thinker with excellent knowledge of media buying, particularly in video and audio advertising, long-standing proven relationships with key media publishers and networks to help support our buying footprint, and the ongoing drive to stay abreast of technological and industry developments to provide guidance and education to peers and clients.

Requirements

5-7 years of experience in a media agency or publisher environment, with a focus on media buying in linear TV, OTT, digital audio, and/or display advertising
Proven track record of leveraging partner relationships and industry knowledge to negotiate and execute high-value media opportunities, and demonstrable ongoing relationships with key media salespeople in the industry
Experience leading a small team of individual contributors
Direct hands-on-keys experience in industry platforms (DSPs, research tools)
Baseline knowledge of incrementally testing, in-channel and cross-channel measurement solutions and best practices (ex: MMM, ghost bidding, conversion lift)
Demonstrated organizational skills with exceptional attention to detail and follow-through, and a proven ability to oversee process and QA of team’s work product
Self-motivated with a passion for learning, asking questions, and thriving in a collaborative setting
Working knowledge of strategic marketing and communication skills to promote new media opportunities internally and directly with clients
Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and strong business writing and presentation skills
Excellent time management capabilities, managing multiple tasks against tight deadlines

Nice To Haves

Knowledge of data/audience collaboration tools such as LiveRamp and third party ad servers like Flashtalking a plus

Responsibilities

Media Buying and Investment Strategy: Research, vet, and execute media plans for large agency clients, ensuring that they run efficiently and accurately through both hands-on management and team delegation. Initiate opportunities for strategic expansion, optimization, and campaign growth–particularly for our largest, most complex accounts. Contribute as a subject matter expert in at least one focused area of the overarching TV/audio/programmatic landscape, facilitating team education and operational processes.
Team Leadership: Lead, manage, and mentor Associates and/or Senior Associates in our department, fostering an environment of creativity, learning, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
Campaign Performance: Oversee daily and bigger picture campaign delivery across channels, ensuring strategies are appropriately implemented, errors are kept to a minimum, and goals are being achieved
Collaboration: Interface with network partners, vendors, and internal teams to ensure smooth campaign execution, moderately complex problem solving, and innovative thinking with a solution-oriented mindset
Partner Engagement: Reliable and consistent knowledge of TV, audio, and display trends through educational meetings with publishers as well as your own independent research, utilizing insights to make informed media recommendations and fostering knowledge sharing among your peers. Demonstrate clear investment in external relationships at the sales level with moderate to large networks and regularly cascade new information and specifics to our agency, advocating for our needs, and maintaining strong ties with these valued partners.
Media Negotiation: Evaluate partner materials and negotiate media plans and costs ranging from performance campaigns to upper funnel/brand efforts, with a clear ability to vet new offerings and assess the value of media opportunities for the clients you work on. Use your general knowledge of the wider media marketplace to contextualize media opportunities and their potential, and use that insight and your partner relationships to negotiate highly competitive costs and terms.
Team Projects: Accountable for moderately complex projects that have a visible impact on the Media Investment department, showcasing your flexibility and creativity in improving how we function with clients and media partners alike

Benefits

Unlimited PTO: At Tinuiti, we believe you deserve time to rest, recharge, and enjoy life unplugged. When you prioritize time for yourself, you're able to bring your best self to work. That’s why we offer unlimited paid time off, a fully remote environment, and flexibility to take the time you need, when you need it. On top of that, we provide 20 paid holidays, including multiple long weekends, to ensure you have dedicated time to step away and disconnect. We're proud to offer above-industry standard work-life balance, consistently rated as one of the most loved benefits by Tinuitians year after year.
Healthcare: Medical, Dental, Vision, Life & Disability, Flex Spending Accounts
Retirement: Match up to 4% of your contributions at 100% with immediate vesting
Perks and Wellness: Fringe, Forma, Unlimited Telemedicine and Teletherapy available at no cost, Thankful giving, Equity
Parental Leave: Birthing parents receive 16 weeks of leave with 100% pay (partners 12 weeks) after the birth or adoption of a child.
Learning and Development: On-demand learning (powered by LinkedIn Learning), mentorship program, leadership and management development programs and resources

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