Senior Director, Integrated Investment
About The Position
This role requires a Senior Director of Integrated Investment with a strong understanding of the media marketplace, including rates, digital buying models, negotiation, programmatic, social, video, content development, content syndication, and contract execution. The position involves initiating, negotiating, and maintaining vendor commitment levels and contracts across agency and/or client portfolios. A deep knowledge of Comscore, DFA, Adviews, and eMarketer is essential. The ideal candidate will be proficient in media terminology, media math, and reach and frequency calculations, demonstrating a commitment to client service, a professional presence, and strong analytical thinking. They must be capable of managing, motivating, defining, executing, and delivering results. Excellent presentation, verbal, and written communication skills are crucial for conveying ideas clearly and effectively to senior leaders and understanding client, agency, and business requests. The role also requires an understanding of client/agency finance processes, including billing and employee hours pacing against business scope, and adherence to agency processes to facilitate workflow and manage expectations.
Requirements
- 7+ years in a management role
- Comfortable managing and leading large team of passionate and dedicated media professionals across media channels
- Confident while meeting with senior leaders to understand and facilitate client, agency and business requests
- Understanding of client/agency finance process; client billing and employee hours/pacing against business scope
- Must follow agency process to support/push continued adherence to facilitate workflow and manage expectations
- 12+ years media buying experience
- Strong understanding of the media marketplace with regard to rates, digital buying models, negotiation, programmatic, social, video, content development, content syndication and contract execution
- Initiating, negotiating, and maintaining vendor commitment levels and contracts across agency and/or client portfolio
- Knowledge in Comscore, DFA, Adviews, eMarketer is non-negotiable
- Proficient in media terminology, media math, and reach and frequency calculations
- Committed to and delivers client service, professional presence, resourceful and analytical thinker
- Willing and able to manage, motivate, define, execute, and deliver
- Excellent Presentation Skills: Conveys thoughts, ideas, feelings and decisions in a clear, concise and appropriate manner
- Demonstrates both good verbal and written skills
Responsibilities
- Brings creative ideas that meet needs, solves problems, and drives the business strategy
- Can manage the creative process and facilitate brainstorming
- Can project how potential ideas may play out in the marketplace
- Identifies opportunities to increase individual and organizational performance or results by consistently looking at ways to make things better
- Remains solution-oriented even in the face of disappointment and adversity
- Considers a broad business context for the development of challenging and realistic goals
- Creates a direction for the organization and devises the plans for short-term and long-term vitality, grow and success
- Understands industry trends and their potential impact on our organization
- Maintains a stable of sources for real-time information that can affect our industry and our company
- Knows our position in the market-place and works to exploit it
- Demonstrates a realistic knowledge of self - strengths and weaknesses
- Is self-confident and true to their convictions, yet open to alternative perspectives and constructive feedback
- Able to control their state of mind and mood by keeping disruptive emotions and impulses in check while maintaining an ability to work in a productive manner
- Creates a plan that organizes and aligns resources to accomplish objectives within an established timeline
- Handles unanticipated events and situations effectively by having an alternative plan of action
- Efficiently manages multiple demands and competing priorities
- Intelligently manages the reward/risk ratio
- Takes responsibility for making timely and well-analyzed decisions
Benefits
- Equal employment opportunities
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
