dentsu · 13 hours ago
Associate Director, Media Planning
Dentsu is a global marketing agency that is seeking an Associate Director of Media Planning. This role involves leading the strategic direction for clients, demonstrating expertise in both digital and traditional media, and ensuring the effective execution of media plans while maintaining client relationships.
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Responsibilities
Accountable for media plan output timeliness, accuracy, and overall excellence
Demonstrate ability to utilize resources (syndicated, proprietary, analyst data) to help guide client’s marketing goals and apply to strategic recommendations
Work closely with activation department leads (programmatic, social, search, retail search, and shopper) to outline appropriate processes and timelines to ensure flawless execution across local and regional media campaigns
Comfortable utilizing data for storytelling and familiar with general media analytics and MMM models
Build & maintain trusting, collaborative relationships with clients at appropriate levels
Accurately represent the client’s point of view when reviewing work, leverage this perspective when providing feedback to team and presenting to client
Understand and analyze the root causes of problems and develop ways to rectify
Qualification
Required
6+ years of communications/integrated media planning experience
Experience in developing & executing tactical campaigns for both traditional & digital channels
Understanding of key research sources
Knowledge of current trends and innovations in media and culture
Experience working on a large retail client (required) or CPG client
Working knowledge of Insights tools such as MRI and Simmons and competitive tools like Nielsen Ad Intel and/or Kantar Stradegy
Experience with MediaTools and buying platforms such as DDS, MediaOcean, HudsonMX
Solid understanding of DCM, and other digital media related tools (comScore, eMarketer, Forrester…)
Benefits
Medical, vision, and dental insurance
Life insurance
Short-term and long-term disability insurance
401k
Flexible paid time off
At least 15 paid holidays per year
Paid sick and safe leave
Paid parental leave
Company
dentsu
We are dentsu.
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$24.88MKey Investors
Epiris
2012-07-12Acquired
1993-11-01Private Equity· $24.88M
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