Media Manager

Overview

VaynerX is a family of companies working together to build and grow brands. VaynerMedia is a contemporary global creative and media agency with offices around the world. This opportunity involves working with paid media, creative advertising, and cross-functional collaboration to deliver innovative media plans and drive business results.

Responsibilities

• Manage client expectations regularly, ensuring clear communication across updates, timelines, recommending adjustments, creating presentations, etc.
• Partner with internal teams to represent client perspectives, provide feedback, and present to clients.
• Collaborate with leaders of Analytics, Creative, Production, Strategy to improve and execute client deliverables, processes, and output.
• Develop relationships with media networks and external platforms, expanding relationships beyond the agency walls.
• Work with buying teams to create strategic frameworks and tactical media plans, ensuring final decks and QA exceed client expectations.
• Ensure execution excellence and supply buyers with what they need to launch campaigns, flagging dependencies to clients as needed.
• Be a key driver for on-time, accurate, and innovative media plan output.
• Lead the RFP process with the Associate Directors to secure the best possible plan for the communications idea.
• Develop and deliver flawless media plans from industry insights and expertise.
• Ensure plans integrate paid, owned, and earned channels.
• Translate strategic plan pillars into a consumer journey that covers all communication strategies.
• Act as an in-house media strategy expert for all channels, staying up to date on the media landscape and seeking innovative partners and platforms.
• Mentor associates and support senior analysts, contributing to team career growth.
• Coordinate tasks within the team, define priority, and ensure timely delivery.
• Digest media briefs, compile questions, and create feasible timelines for internal teams.
• Maintain campaign success: review pacing, optimization, reporting, insights, and identify business opportunities.
• Contribute to the growth and stability of VaynerMedia by making decisions that benefit the company today and tomorrow.

Your Experience And "Nice To Haves"

• 4+ years of industry experience executing digital programs and investments.
• Strategic understanding of traditional, digital, and social-specific media planning and buying, with appropriate metrics for success.
• Programmatic and Search experience.
• Experience with execution across multiple biddable and native platforms (e.g., Facebook/Instagram, Google Ads, Google Display Network, Twitter/X, Snapchat, Pinterest, LinkedIn).
• Strong knowledge of paid media and measurement tools (e.g., Google Analytics, MOAT/IAS/Double Verify, Nielsen/Millward Brown/Oracle Measurement).
• Experience with insertion order buying, building, tracking, and managing IOs.
• Experience leading and managing growing teams.
• Strong Excel skills (formulas, pivot tables) and data visualization.
• Advanced written and presentation communication skills.
• Understanding of brand strategy and how it integrates with the wider marketing mix for Fortune 500 brands.
• Experience with industry tools such as GfK/MRI, Nielsen, ComScore, eMarketer, Mintel, etc.
• Regional/global experience with Asia markets is a plus.

What You Should Know About VaynerMedia

Think "lab" and not "agency". We solve business problems, break rules, and test hypotheses to improve our craft. Our environment is fast-paced and entrepreneurial, with opportunities to collaborate with a talented team and big brands.

We can't wait to meet you.

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Marketing and Sales
• Industries
• Advertising Services

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