Senior Associate, Integrated Media Planning

We are OMD, Cannes Lions 2024 Media Network of the Year, RECMA's Best-Performing Media Network Globally, and COMvergence's #1 Global Agency Network. As the world’s largest media network, with more than 12,000 people working in over 100 countries, we excel at making better decisions, faster. By combining innovation, creativity, empathy, and evidence, we help clients move faster, reach further, and take smarter risks in a world full of opportunities

We pride ourselves on being a people-obsessed, outcomes-focused business that applies evidence and data-based solutions, married with the practice of empathy, to drive performance and growth. When working with our clients, we put ourselves in the shoes of the consumer in order to see the world through their eyes. We focus on finding greater empathy with the consumer so as to uncover insights and opportunities that deliver more valued and valuable connections.

What You Can Expect

Our success is underwritten by our core principles:

• Dynamic diversity. Bringing diversity of perspective, skillset, and background, as well as the mix of ages, genders, ethnicities, skillsets & backgrounds.
• Radical collaboration. Connecting a diverse group of people through instinctive structures, skills and mindsets.
• Rapid prototyping. Fostering a mindset of curiosity in which our people are always building, testing, evolving and retesting hypotheses. All of which is underpinned by a commitment to total transparency.
  
  

Overview

The Senior Associate, Integrated Media Planning is responsible for leading the planning, implementation and tracking of media plans, activations and presentations. The Senior Associate is expected to have a strong working knowledge of the media space (both traditional and digital media, with an emphasis in audio) and available media research. As the day-to-day steward on assigned brands, the Senior Associate will develop and maintain a deep knowledge of their clients’ business over time. They are responsible for ensuring all client media requirements are executed in a timely and accurate manner. This role is a steppingstone towards managing a planning team as the leader of an associate planner. This role provides an opportunity to develop people management skills, evaluating their performance, and managing their growth

Qualifications

• Graduate of a four-year college or university
• 1-2 years of media planning experience
• Experience successfully managing individual deliverables, previous involvement in developing and managing media programs and responding to the flow of client media-related needs
• Sufficient communication skills across internal teams and client-facing contacts.
• Comfort planning across channels and platforms
• Readiness to learn the client service aspect of media planning
• Command of media fundamentals and ability to educate an Assistant
• Ready to take on management responsibilities
• Understanding of key research sources
• Some knowledge of current trends and innovations in media
• Comfort with trafficking, data, analytics and measurement
  
  

Responsibilities

• Passion - approaches any situation with energy and interest. Displays passion for pop culture, trends and motivations in consumer behavior.
• Problem Solving - clients, partners and even we are imperfect, but all challenges have solutions. Supports management to navigate challenges and/or asks for help from above when needed.
• Hunger for Data - continually seeks to understand how data is leveraged for reporting and used to define strategies, to defend strategies, and to uncover new opportunities.
• Delegation - as a manager of our Associate level, this role is where delegation skills begin and are key.
• Relationship Building - whether internally or with clients, practices the ability to be personal, understanding and a desire to do what’s best for the team and the client.
  
  

This is the pay range the Company believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting. Consistent with applicable law, compensation will be determined based on relevant experience, other job-related qualifications/skills, and geographic location (to account for comparative cost of living). The Company reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time. For this role, benefits include: health insurance, vision insurance, dental insurance, 401(k), Healthcare Flexible Spending Account, Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account, vacation days, sick days, personal days, paid parental leave, paid medical leave, and STD/LTD insurance benefits.

Compensation Range

$60,000—$65,000 USD

This role is hybrid, requiring three (3) days per week in the office. The remaining two (2) days may be worked remotely. Specific in-office days will be discussed during the interview process, with flexibility to align with team needs. Please note that the number or required in-office days may be adjusted over time, potentially increasing the number of required in-office days based on business needs.

OMD is An Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status, age or any other federally protected class.

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