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Manager, Media

New York, NYOnsiteFull TimeManager / HeadPosted 1 day agoVisa sponsorship available

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Required skills

  • Media Buyer
  • Media Analysts
  • Campaigns
  • Client Goals
  • Performance Metrics
  • Spend Management
  • Excel
  • Pivot Tables
  • VLOOKUP
  • Macros

Nice to have

  • Analytics
  • Attribution
  • Measurement Systems
  • Google Analytics
  • MOAT
  • IAS

Role summary

VaynerMedia, a global integrated creative and media agency, is seeking a Manager, Buying to oversee media plan execution, optimization, and reporting. This role involves leading a team of Media Analysts, managing campaign performance, developing investment strategies, and presenting client-facing reports. The ideal candidate has 3-4 years of media agency experience, including team leadership and advanced Excel skills, with experience across various buying platforms like social media and Amazon. Experience with analytics and ad technology is a plus. This is a hybrid role based in New York.

ABOUT VAYNERMEDIA

VaynerMedia is a global integrated creative and media agency, built for today's consumers. As the Modern Agency of Record, it understands the nuances of today's attention landscape, empowering brands to win attention, drive relevance, and deliver business results. Founded in 2009, by Gary Vaynerchuk, the independently owned agency operates in 15 offices worldwide, including Amsterdam, Bangkok, Chicago, New Delhi, Kuala Lumpur, London, Los Angeles, Mexico City, Miami, New York, Tokyo, Toronto, Singapore, and Sydney. VaynerMedia is part of the VaynerX family of companies.

In A Nutshell:

Our Manager, Buying ensures the execution of media plans are running smoothly and line up with client goals and expectations. As the Media Manager, Buying you will be responsible for planning, optimizing and reporting campaigns to meet and surpass the clients’ success metrics while also supporting the team where needed with other projects and planning.

What You’d Do:

  • Oversee a team of Media Analysts providing leadership, mentorship, vision and technical expertise.
  • Monitor campaigns for performance along with a team of Media Analysts and Senior Media Analysts,ensuring campaigns are pacing accordingly, managing spend, troubleshooting campaigns, creating insights about performance, making updates accordingly and flagging potential issues to management.
  • Create and present sophisticated media investment strategies to clients, derived from industry insights and QA reporting.
  • Develop and deliver client-facing campaign reports to showcase performance, new business opportunities, and storytelling: pacing reports, campaign build, ad-hoc analysis, and high-touch optimizations to ensure relevant metrics and insights are highlighted.
  • Manage up to senior leadership corresponding the most crucial aspects of a client's business, keeping them abreast of any pertinent developments and urgent client needs.
  • Manage ad technology vendors needed to execute specific campaign work.
  • Collaborate across disciplines to craft best-in-class, holistic omnichannel media strategies rooted in driving tangible business outcomes for large brands.

    • What You’ve Got:

  • 3-4 years experience media agency experience as a Media Buyer
  • Experience leading and managing a teams or an individual
  • Advanced skills in Excel including pivot tables, V-Look Ups, and macros
  • Experience across buying/biddable platforms in any of the following:
  • Social: Facebook/Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, Pinterest, LinkedIn, TikTok
  • Amazon (AMS, Amazon DSP, AMG)

  • Any Additional Experience in the following a plus:

  • Experience working with analytics, attribution and measurement systems. Including but not limited to:
  • Google Analytics
  • MOAT/IAS/Double Verify
  • An empathetic, patient and collaborative spirit that fosters a positive day-to-day experience for their teammates.
  • You live for today’s digital & mobile consumer,driven, and hungry to succeed and always looking to learn more.
  • Has the ability to lead by example in terms of attention to detail, general work ethic, empathy and internal/external professionalism.

    • This position is currently designated as hybrid and is subject to the Company's workplace attendance and in-office work requirements, as in effect from time to time. The Company reserves the right to modify these requirements at any time.

    All information submitted with this application and disclosed in the interview and screening processes must be truthful. The Company reserves the right in its sole discretion, to disqualify a candidate from consideration, withdraw a conditional offer of employment, or terminate employment, if it discovers a candidate provided false, misleading, or materially incomplete information during the application process.

    VaynerX is committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where everyone has the opportunity to succeed. We provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, reproductive health decisions, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, military status, veteran status, citizenship or immigration status (as permitted by applicable law), or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.

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