Associate Director

Description:

As Associate Director, Planning, you’ll support the vision and strategic plan for the account, ensuring success across Work Quality, Client Relationships, Financials, and Team Health. You’ll play a key role in planning and executing media strategies integral to their business success and launch industry-leading work that propels the business forward.

Responsibilities
 

• Oversee the day-to-day management and communication of media plans for designated client from ideation to delivery
• Lead communication and relationships with internal agency specialty teams and creative partners
• Ensure the strategy and audience insights are funneled down into the tactical media plan
• Ensure accuracy of all client deliverables
• Ensure measurement and learning agendas are implemented within the media plan and delivered to the client
• Lead day to day communication and relationship with investment teams to identify the right channels and partners to execute the media plan
• Responsible and accountable to the implementation of media plan and deliverables, driving relationship with internal teams and partners including strategy, buying, analytics and SBUs
• Responsible for development of the media plan, making strategic ideas come to life in partnership with cross functional partners (i.e. SBUs, buying team, analytics, etc.)
   

Required Skills & Experience
 

• Strong institutional knowledge of media planning principals
• Build strong collaborative relationships with cross functional partners, internal teams, and stakeholders
• Comfortable exploring new technologies, platforms and approaches to push the needle on big ideas
• Ability to manage both upwards and downwards to ensure cross team communication
• Ability to speak/present to both junior and senior level clients
• Strong presentation skills
• Proactive approach to problem solving
• UM does not require candidates to have a college degree