Since its founding in 2009, The Many has combined technology, creativity and empathy to make stuff consumers actively seek, engage and share.
It has resulted in loads of integrated campaigns and award-winning work for social and digital, long-form and creator content, and activations.
The secret sauce: we harness the power of participation. Because if you look around you’ll notice that brands are no longer built in isolation, they’re built in participation with the many.
We are looking for candidates who are motivated, detail-oriented, a strong collaborator and self-starter. Our ideal team member is highly organized, enjoys creative thinking, and is eager to dive into the details for thoughtful insights. As a member of The Many, we look for those who maintain a positive attitude in the face of a constantly changing environment. We’re looking for problem solvers, who are professionals in all communications both inside the agency and with clients. You are partners to our Digital and Analytics teams on a daily basis leading campaign management, and also cross-functionally with our Brand, PM, Strategy, and Creative teams throughout the planning and execution process. Senior Media Planners are seasoned team members of the Media Department, who take a proactive approach to servicing clients, and are integral in keeping our campaigns running smoothly.
What this role is responsible for:
- Embrace your clients’ business, including understanding of the target, category, and client’s competitors
- Provide education on best practices, media principles, and industry at large
- Craft and build target audiences in syndicated research tools, and analyze relevant data and stats to provide target, brand, and/or category insights
- Aggregate and analyze data from competitive research tools and provide insights on spending and marketing activity and implications for clients’ approach to paid media
- Have foresight and understanding of projects to maintain and adjust timing of deliverables for team at large, communicating updates to managers, leadership, and cross-functional teams
- Responsible for the day to day management of accounts, including but not limited to client status docs, creating and issuing IOs and MAFs, managing and updating flowcharts and budgets, ongoing budget pacing, billing, etc.
- Begin serving as a resource and trusted partner for clients
- Build productive relationships internally, with external agency partners, media sales vendors, and with clients
- Translate strategy into tactical plan recommendations and executional elements, including the development of RFPs, briefing vendors, evaluating partner proposals, negotiating plan details, and budget allocation and optimization
- Trafficking and QA of all media, including coordination and communication with internal and external buying teams to ensure proper execution
- Responsible for monthly, quarterly, and campaign reporting, providing performance insights on media strategy and tactics, including communication of optimization strategies, challenges and opportunities across all channels
- Responsible for ongoing campaign billing tracking, management, and reconciliations
- Contribute to other junior team member(s) development, including onboarding and guiding them in setting goals, project tasks and timelines
What we need from you:
- 2 years of agency experience required
- Motivation and eagerness to learn
- A natural curiosity of the media landscape and a desire to innovate and keep up with trends
- Familiarity with marketing principles, analytics and concepts
- Knowledge of various media channels and buying methods (TV, CTV, Digital Partnerships, Audio, Social, Programmatic, OOH, etc.)
- A collaborative and team-oriented mindset, and willingness to roll up your sleeves
- Enthusiasm for mentoring and teaching team members
- An eye for details
- Exceptional organizational skills
- The ability to thrive in a deadline-driven, fast-paced environment, while juggling multiple projects
- A solution-oriented and proactive mindset
- Excellent communication, presenting, and writing skills
- Proficient working knowledge of Microsoft Office and/or Google suites
- Open to working in-office three days a week
Other things we’d like to see:
- Experience in negotiating, constructing, and executing digital media plans
- Expertise in third party research tools: MRI, YouGov, Pathmatics, Kantar
- Expertise in third-party ad server and ad verifications (DCM and IAS Preferred)
Our salary range for this opportunity is $75,000 to $78,000 annually. There are several factors taken into consideration in determining base salary, including but not limited to: job-related qualifications, skills, education and experience, as well as job location and the value of other elements of an employee’s total compensation package (i.e. benefits, retirement plan employer match, etc.).
The Many is more than an agency. The Many is also a movement to push the world forward and we believe that diversity is an integral part of that mission. Every identity, from your heritage to those you hold dear, your beliefs, abilities, status, ethnicity, as well as your gender (and please share your pronouns), these are the threads that strengthen our collective fabric. We want you to feel seen and supported from the get-go. If there's any way we can assist or accommodate you during the interview process, we're just a message away.
