Media Planner

At Starcom, we are the Human Experience Company. We know brands will only thrive if they anticipate people’s desires. We create experiences people love and actions brands need. We are stronger because our commitment to human outcomes is proven to drive better business outcomes. When others dehumanize people as mere data points, we will win by knowing and treating them as human beings.

Over the past couple of years, we have been building something different by transforming the way we do our business. From structuring our investment practice around data and digital to bringing our strategy, data sciences and research practice under one house, we’ve been shaping Starcom to be the media agency of tomorrow. One that both you and I want to work at.

We also work very hard in creating a truly inclusive and empathetic culture, one where our talents feel empowered to voice their opinion, do their best work, all while having a good work life balance.

As a Media Planner at Starcom, your role is to develop media plans that deliver on client objectives, while ensuring that human insights drive business outcomes. You will be responsible for the full implementation of plans from strategic development to execution. You will manage, analyze and optimize your campaigns to ensure delivery against key business and campaign objectives.

Responsibilities

• Gather and analyze marketing, client, industry, competitive, human insight data to determine the client’s advertising and media needs
• A firm understanding of marketing objectives and strategies, the human-product relationship, and human-media relationship
• Analyze media alternatives and make multi-media recommendations to best allocate budgets across media, resulting in strategic and effective media plans
• Campaign maintenance: ensuring quality control and adherence to overall media plan objectives and preparing campaign performance documents
• Utilization and knowledge of syndicated media, research, and other data resources
• Clear communication of media objectives, strategies and executional guidelines to internal execution and specialty teams (Investment, Social, Programmatic, Precision, Apex, Search)
• Present plans to the client brand group, with assistance of Supervisor/Manager
• Maintain strong relationships with media suppliers and stay abreast of market conditions
• Work closely with external agency partners
• Active participation in account status meetings, both internal and external
• Develop/assist with development of POVs
• Active participant in the overall billing and financial process - responsible for collecting and inputting data, ensuring budgets are tracked accurately and monthly client billing is accurate and complete
• Attendance and active participation in mandatory training sessions

• Bachelor's degree; degree or concentration in advertising, marketing, business administration, and communications preferred
• 1-3 years in Media
• Experience in acquisition campaigns from start to finish
• Independently planning a campaign
• Strong written and verbal communication and presentation skills
• Demonstrated experience in negotiating
• Able to work successfully within a team, handling high volume workload, and meeting tight deadlines under pressure
• Demonstrates critical thinking and problem-solving abilities
• Strong analytical abilities and proficiency in math
• Ability to effectively utilize media research and reporting resources
• Technical proficiency, particularly with media systems, PRISMA and MS Excel, Word and PowerPoint.

Starcom is an equal opportunity employer with a strong commitment to diversity and inclusion. We create and nurture a vibrant work environment that celebrates, values and leverages all aspects of diversity and inclusiveness, attracts world-class talent and serves as the industry benchmark for best practices. We encourage applications from all qualified individuals and will provide appropriate accommodation for candidates with disabilities or accessibility needs throughout the recruitment process, upon request. Please contact our recruiter for any questions, accommodations or specific requests. We thank all candidates for their interest in Starcom however, only those candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.