Advertising and Media (TV & Online Video) Associate Manager

About This Role

As the Advertising and Media (TV & Online Video) Associate Manager, internally known as Associate Marketing Manager – Advertising & Media, you will support Ace’s national creative advertising and brand media efforts across all channels, serving as the primary day-to-day lead with Ace’s creative advertising agency and secondary lead with the media agency.

Your primary responsibilities are to help develop and produce all creative for all national advertising campaigns and media executions as well as support the annual planning/buying process and ongoing changes throughout the year in which this creative is placed. In this role you will lead the strategic brief process, oversees master timelines, and manages all projects from inception to implementation to ensure breakthrough creative is delivered and optimized across media channels. You will ensure cross-functional alignment of media strategy and creative execution across all channels and departments to produce optimal results for Ace.  

You will serve as the Ace Brand steward and you will be responsible to protect and grow brand equity and ensure the brand is represented properly throughout the Ace enterprise.

What You’ll Do

• You’ll lead creative advertising efforts to develop and manage marketing assets, with a focus on TV and online video creation, production, and media management. Collaborate with teams to execute and monitor campaigns across traditional and digital platforms.
• You’ll support the Advertising & Media Manager:
  • in the national creative development, production, review, and approval process including TV, online video, terrestrial radio, streaming audio, and digital.  Ensuring strategic integrity, consistent look, and messaging across tactics. 
  • in the annual media planning and buying process, including activation, measurement, optimization, and updates/changes annually and throughout the year
  • in ensuring cohesiveness of brand strategy, positioning, messaging and creative across paid and non-paid marketing channels
• You’ll manage:
  • day to day Advertising & Media budget, timelines, activations, executions from sub-agencies within lead strategic agency, plus measurement and success metrics
  • day-to-day budgeting and billing processes for both the Advertising Production and Media budgets, including estimate and invoice processing, monthly projections, contract execution, etc
  • strategic creative agency to develop and maintain a campaign guide and key assets to ensure full integration of campaigns across all marketing channels
• You will partner with legal counsel to substantiate all creative communication legal disclaimers for National TV claims in advertising

Who You Are

You bring passion, charisma, and a strong belief in the power of strategy and creativity to drive business results. Naturally curious and collaborative, you thrive on owning and leading projects from start to finish, inspiring teams and partners along the way.

Required Skills

• Strong competence in advertising production, editing, and trafficking, with experience in TV/online video and production processes
• A minimum of 5 years of experience in Advertising
• Previous agency experience and/or successful track record of managing multiple agencies and vendor partners
• A minimum of a bachelor’s degree in advertising, marketing or related field Business or related field (commensurate experience considered) preferred.
• Detail-oriented with ability to work within and thrive in a fast-paced multi-project environment
• Excellent interpersonal and written/verbal communications skills, including the ability to communicate effectively through presentations, one-on-one meetings, e-mails and other correspondence
• Demonstrated ability to manage a multitude of projects at any one given time, while being able to work with a team and meet respective deadlines
• Strong ability to work cross-functionally to achieve results

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Compensation Details:

$84600 - $106000 Per Year

Why should you join our team?

We live our values - W.E.L.I.G.H.T (Winning, Excellence, Love, Integrity, Gratitude, Humility, and Teamwork). Gratitude. Humility. Love. You don’t often see values like these in most corporate statements, but Ace is different. These things are important to us. They represent our commitment to the company, our employees, to Ace retailers and to the Ace brand.

In addition to providing our employees a great culture, Ace also offers competitive benefits* that address life’s necessities and perks, many of which expand and improve year after year, including:

• Incentive opportunities, based on role/grade level (rapid company growth over the