Investment Planner

Talon; Almere; On-site; EUR 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Talon Outdoor Netherlands is seeking an Investment Planner to manage daily media investments with media owners and clients. You will monitor spend, negotiate deals, and optimize inventory to meet commercial targets.

You’ll contribute to forecasting, reporting, and collaboration with planning and sales teams to maximize investment potential and performance.

Qualifications

• Commercial trading experience or capability
• Strong numeracy and analytical skills
• Ability to negotiate and close deals
• Experience working with media owners or agencies
• Proactive, self-driven with a hands-on approach

Responsibilities

• Manage daily investments with media owners and client teams.
• Lead trading and negotiation across assigned agency business.
• Forecast and optimize year deals and inventory usage.
• Support forecasting and reporting on investment performance.

Skills

Commercial mindset

Negotiation

Analytical skills

Strong numeracy

Team collaboration

Self-starter

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Talon Outdoor Netherlands is part of the Talon Group and specializes in the planning and purchasing of (digital) outdoor advertising. Thanks in part to our unique insights, proposition, working method and the daily negotiations we conduct with all operators/providers, we achieve the best results for our clients. We can now count beautiful brands such as Anytime Fitness, Tony Chocolonely, Flink, Swapfiets, Enterprise, Talpa Radio (538, Sky Radio, Veronica) Talpa TV (SBS6, Veronica, Net 5) Linda, Swatch Group, Zeeman and many other advertisers and also (international) media agencies among our regular "happy clients".

Investment Planner

The Investment Planner is responsible for managing (daily) media investments with media owners. You will monitor spend with the media owner, asset, and client levels. You deliver best in class buying and negotiation of out of home campaigns and work closely with the (digital) planning department and Sales Manager to maximize investment potential and performance. This includes inventory management, daily trading and dealmaking at client and campaign level and operating against optimization of year (volume) deals. You contribute to local and global forecasting and reporting with regards to investment and trading deals, including inventory to hit commercial targets. As the Investment Planner you will play an essential role in enabling us to fulfil this remit.

A day in the life

• Work with the team to service a range of clients and agencies at the highest service level possible.
• Manage the trading & negotiation across assigned agency business. Oversee (daily) investments with the client service team and ensure that pricing is appropriate and commercial objectives are being met.
• Forecast and monitor optimal use of year deals, including recognizing the importance of and utilizing the maximum of inventory deals.
• Understand and work towards all relevant commercial targets. Assist in the delivery of these priorities within your team.
• Assist in overseeing the delivery of generator pieces/deals (including short term incentive deals). Identify weaker market points and collate and distribute proactive deals.
• Develop strong relationships with all media owner contracts to enable joint commercial success and delivering best in class service for our clients and agencies.
• Actively contribute to Talon’s tools and systems to improve the output of the team.
• Comprehensively understand the media owners, their business and be an internal brand ambassador.
• Develop and grow industry knowledge through attendance of internal and external training programmes. Share knowledge and best practice across the team and business.
• Understand Talon philosophy and specialist business unit’s offerings and communicate them appropriately.

What we're looking for

Bold Skills

• Commercial driven, looks for new opportunities and ways generates added value
• Mindset to global network cooperation
• Relevant network
• Don’t back down when conversations get difficult
• Growth mindset
• Self-starter & hands-on

Human Skills

• Enthusiastic and driven
• Energetic & positive attitude
• Cooperating foreman (not just theorist)

Smart Skills

• Comply with all company and departmental policies and procedures
• Participate in projects and initiatives which drive Talon’s commitment to positive social and environmental causes.
• A high-level attention to detail

As well as

• Commercial trading & deal making experience > 3 years
• Media (preference Out of home) experience > 3 years
• Previous media planning and/or office/admin experience
• Strong numeracy & analytical skills
• Negotiation and innovative trading ability
• Accurate and acute attention to detail
• Experience of building strong relationships with clients/media owners
• Microsoft Office Skills

Our team

We are Talon Outdoor Netherlands: a young, fast-growing media company that specialises in strategy, planning and purchasing of (digital) outdoor advertising (D)OOH. We work with smart tools that provide insight into locations, performance, target groups and more. Our goal? Putting the best campaigns on the street!

Why us

“The best thing about working at Talon is the space, time and expertise I’ve been given over the years to grow and develop my skills.”

Client Director

Our values and how we work together

We are bold

As industry provocateurs and pioneers, we respectfully challenge the status quo, take pride in our people, big ideas and partnerships.

• We embrace change
• We challenge respectfully
• We lead the way

We are human

We are a diverse collective of changemakers who value respect, fairness, and integrity and expect the same in return.

• We value collaboration and togetherness
• We are empathetic
• We embrace individuality

We are smart

Our trailblazing spirit and learning centric culture ensures our knowledge provides maximum value to each other and our clients.

• We grow and learn
• We are trusted
• We are mission possible