Carmichael Lynch · 10 hours ago
Temp Opportunity: Associate Media Director/Programmatic
Minneapolis
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
8+ years expCarmichael Lynch is an integrated creative agency focused on helping clients define their brand purpose. They are seeking an Associate Media Director to manage accounts and media teams, oversee media strategy development, and facilitate cross-functional collaboration within the agency.
AdvertisingDigital MediaPublic Relations
Responsibilities
Helps craft client objectives based on business and marketing knowledge
Demonstrates thorough understanding of client business and how to achieve results
Builds options to address objectives, works with internal teams to bring to life
Manages team effectively toward a single-minded goal
Demonstrates clear understanding of trade-offs that influence media decisions
Champions innovation and change in evolving approach for client business
Proactively seeks to redefine status quo with media partners and clients
Leverages insights regarding target consumer and media's role in communications
Creates expectation of innovation and collaboration on team
Proactively measures activity to continually improve client results
Effectively manages client, vendor, and internal relationships in and across departments
Effectively manages a team to ensure work is high quality and on time
Leverages working relationships with outside vendors toward client benefits
Maintains a professional, can-do attitude at all times
Instills and rewards initiative among reports
Provides professional and discipline mentorship to grow career of reports
Maintains effective communication-- effectively managing up, across, and down
Contributes to a positive departmental and agency culture
Qualification
Required
A bachelor's degree in a related field
8-10 years in media department (current title should be Supervisor level or greater)
Data driven and programmatic media experience, hands-on keyboard experience with DSPs
Strong mathematical abilities required
Strong background working with traditional media planning/buying within an agency environment
Experience managing multiple clients, multiple departmental teams
Exposure and experience with business analytics
Experience in personnel administration, staffing, recruitment, and training
Strong experience delivering programs from hypothetical to flawless real world execution is a requirement
Strong negotiation skills and multi-media integrated packages experience
Strong attention to detail
Strong collaboration skills
Ability to handle multiple tasks
Superior communication skills
Strong verbal and written presentation skills
Passionate and professional
Authentic team player
Strong respect of the creative process and product
Ability to contribute unique and original thinking and solutions
Active listener
Ability to manage and prioritize personal workload effectively
Results-oriented, with a commitment to accountability
Strength in dealing with change
Approachability
Ability to manage up well
Conveys integrity and trust
Preferred
Digital experience preferred
Experience with third party verification (e.g. Ad Fraud) and performance optimization preferred
Local market planning/buying exposure a plus
Benefits
Professional Development (performance reviews 2x annually, training opportunities related to your field of development, one-on-ones with managers, etc.)
Medical
Dental
Vision
401k
PTO (vacation/sick time) allowance
Maternity leave
Parental leave
Paid company holidays
Family Building Benefit (adoption, surrogacy benefit)
Company
Carmichael Lynch
Carmichael Lynch exists for a simple reason: to transform, instigate, rally and delight. It is a sub-organization of Interpublic Group.
201-500 employees
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