Senior Buyer, Media Investment

Who we are:

Tinuiti is the largest independent performance marketing firm across Streaming TV, Google, Meta, and Amazon, with almost $4 billion in digital media under management and over 1,200 employees. With industry-leading expertise in search, social, Amazon and marketplaces, addressable TV, mobile apps, Influencer, Lifecycle, and more, Tinuiti understands that success requires both strategy and channel expertise. Our goal when we come to work every day is simple - to grow happiness. For our clients, their customers, our people and our partners. Growing happiness guides everything we do and our core values - Unleash Greatness, Never Stop Learning, Ignite Your Passion, Thankful Living, and Inspire Innovation & Change - inspire us to maintain a culture where our people take pride in their work and have fun doing it.

We support 100% remote work for this role!

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Senior Media Investment Buyer

Level: P5

People Manager: No

Years of Experience: 7+

Singular/multiple: 

The Senior Media Investment Buyer plays a senior stakeholder role in ensuring our clients’ ads effectively reach their core audiences through high-quality brand safe campaigns, and are carried out with best in class media acumen, cost negotiation, and strategic thinking. Your expertise will be essential to client performance across channels–primarily TV, audio, and display–serving as a key liaison with our media partners and agency’s client teams, and developing innovative strategies to meet our brand’s diverse needs. This role requires a strategic thinker with expert knowledge of strategic media buying, particularly in video and audio advertising, long-standing proven relationships with key media publishers and networks to help support our buying footprint, and the ongoing drive to stay well-versed in technological and industry developments to provide guidance and education to peers and clients.

As a Senior Buyer, you will focus on:

• Media Buying and Investment Strategy: Research, vet, and execute media plans for our largest, most complex agency clients, ensuring that they run efficiently and accurately through both hands-on management and team delegation. Initiate opportunities for strategic expansion, optimization, and campaign growth across the department. Serve as a trusted subject matter expert in at least one focused area of the overarching TV/audio/programmatic landscape, facilitating team education, operational processes, and channel or technical expansion.

• Campaign Performance: Oversee daily and bigger picture campaign delivery across channels, ensuring strategies are appropriately implemented, errors are kept to a minimum, and nuanced full-funnel goals are being achieved 

• Collaboration: Interface with large network partners, vendors, and internal teams to ensure smooth campaign execution, complex problem solving, and innovative thinking with a solution-oriented mindset and an understanding of others’ perspectives and goals

• Partner Engagement: Firm knowledge of TV, audio, and display trends through educational meetings with publishers as well as your own independent research, utilizing insights to make informed media recommendations and fostering knowledge sharing among your peers. Demonstrate clear investment in external relationships at the sales level with large networks and regularly cascade meaningful opportunities and updates to our agency, advocating for our needs, and maintaining strong ties with these valued partners.

• Media Negotiation: Evaluate partner materials and negotiate media plans and costs for complex, full-funnel campaign objectives, with a clear ability to vet new offerings and assess the value of media opportunities for the clients you work on while finding ways to expand access to these offerings.  Use your strong knowledge of the wider media marketplace to contextualize media opportunities and their potential, and use that insight and your partner relationships to negotiate highly competitive costs and terms.

• Team Projects: Accountable for moderately complex projects that have a major impact on the Media Investment department,