Senior Paid Media Buying Lead

Publicis Groupe; Bogotá; On-site; COP 42,000,000 - 78,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Publicis Groupe in Bogotá is seeking a Paid Media Manager to handle large media campaigns for digital channels. You will drive ROI across Search, Social, Programmatic, and other channels while ensuring efficient budget allocation and performance reporting. The role requires agency experience and strong analytical skills.

Join a dynamic team delivering high-quality campaigns, mentoring junior staff, and collaborating with clients to optimize media strategies and outcomes.

Qualifications

• B2+ English language level or higher.
• Bachelor's Degree in Media/Advertising or related field.
• +2 Years of Paid Media Marketing experience in agency marketing role.

Responsibilities

• Assist in buying/allocation process.
• Develops reports on program content after receiving information from screening service for all prime-time properties.
• Participates in agency training programs.
• Negotiates scatter buys.
• Maintain buys–confirm flighting, estimates and track delivery, secure make-goods and ADUs, request, and issue pre-logs and post-analysis.
• Ensure commercial inventory is inserted into MBOX system, including estimate and package set up, issuing client schedules, managing inventory, overseeing changes, and writing/checking order letters.
• Ability to turn around high-quality work on quick timelines and to proactively coordinate the workload with managers.
• Deliver recommendations, execution, and analysis.
• Main point of contact for troubleshooting and account documentation.
• Point of contact for junior team members.
• Manage and supervise biddable media campaigns across all platforms
• Responsible for innovation and beta testing campaigns
• Responsible for client communication and stakeholder management
• Responsible for creating PCAs (Post Campaign Analysis)
• Work on different/complete marketing funnels of biddable media
• Responsible for Quarterly Business Review and performance calls
• Understanding of campaign measurement reporting and insights generation
• Building and implementing account structures & marketing strategy
• Proactively manage relationships with media vendors
• Independently plan, execute, and optimize digital advertising campaigns across platforms for assigned clients
• Create reports and actively monitor reporting to ensure campaigns are running efficiently and effectively
• Communicate campaign performance with internal team and with clients on external calls
• Provide strategic program recommendations to clients to help them reach their goals
• Stay up to date on digital advertising industry trends, best practices, and new offerings
• Monitor costs and return on investment (ROI)

Skills

English B2+

Big-budget campaigns

Data-driven insights

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Media/Advertising or related, Communication or Business Related

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

Publicis Groupe in Bogotá is seeking a Paid Media Manager to handle large media campaigns for digital channels. You will drive ROI across Search, Social, Programmatic, and other channels while ensuring efficient budget allocation and performance reporting. The role requires agency experience and strong analytical skills.

Join a dynamic team delivering high-quality campaigns, mentoring junior staff, and collaborating with clients to optimize media strategies and outcomes.