Senior Media Buyer (Strategic Partnerships)

We are on the hunt for an experienced Media Buyer who thrives on bringing creative media ideas to life. We're looking for an experienced Media professional with a passion for working in the traditional media space and has worked on strategic partnerships and branded integrations. If you're a big idea thinker who revels in collaboration, let's talk.

This position is a key role in our Strategic Partnerships team helping to strategically lead media buying across multiple channels. Day to day work includes the development, implementation, and stewardship of media buys, ensuring they are executed accurately and efficiently. These channels include but are not limited to national and/or local media including linear television, OTT and CTV, radio, print, and out-of-home. This position works alongside other media buyers, senior media buyers, as well as Media Buying Supervisors, and reports up into a director. 

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for campaign development, management and optimization within various platforms
• Builds relationships and maintains ongoing communications with media representatives.
• Integral activation lead in key client communication.
• Present at all key client presentations and meetings.
• Designs optimal buys in terms of cost efficiency, forecasting, account segmentation, bid management, goal delivery and vendor agreements.
• Keeps a pulse on all media buys and is ultimately responsible for the post-buy results and ongoing reporting.
• Updates Supervisor on status of current accounts on an ongoing basis and elevates and issues in a timely manner.
• Responsible for overseeing all campaign tracking set-up and implementation before launch of a campaign, with support from Ad Operations.
• Oversees creation of all reporting dashboards and is integral in presentations to clients on an ongoing basis.  
• Lead in collaboration with finance team members to resolve media billing issues.
• Ensures strict adherence to client budgets while meeting client objectives.
• Stays current on all media trends and opportunities in the industry.
• Other duties/responsibilities may be assigned from time to time.

Qualifications:

• 2+ years of media buying experience required 
• Strong organizational and mathematical skills
• Ability to multi-task and deliver work on-time for set deadlines
• Ability to establish good working relationships with media reps
• Ability to work effectively with a variety of internal teams and business groups, including Creative, Account Management, Finance and Project Management
• Ability to communicate effectively within a team environment, with outside media reps as well as with current clients

 

Barkley’s Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion

• We believe being radically diverse and inclusive is the key to becoming one of the world’s great creative idea companies. By embracing everything that makes our partners who they are and what makes them unique to the world around them, we create the conditions and capacity to help creative, original thinking thrive. 
• Barkley is committed to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging as part of our corporate strategic goals, supported by a formal DEI+B program, Employee Resource Groups, Director of Diversity leadership and agency commitment to The Brand Lab.