Investment Planner

Talon_NL; Almere; On-site; EUR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Talon Outdoor Netherlands is seeking an Investment Planner to manage daily media investments with media owners and clients, ensuring spend aligns with targets and delivering best-in-class OOH campaigns.

You will collaborate with the planning department and Sales Manager to maximise investment potential, manage inventory, and contribute to forecasting and reporting. This is a dynamic role within a fast-growing team.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years in commercial trading or media investment roles.
• Experience in Out of Home media is preferred.
• Strong numeracy and analytical skills.

Responsibilities

• Manage daily media investments with media owners and clients; monitor spend and pricing.
• Negotiate and optimize year-long deals; collaborate with planning and Sales Manager to maximize investment potential.
• Forecast and monitor inventory usage; contribute to local and global forecasting and reporting.
• Develop strong relationships with media owners and internal teams to drive commercial success.

Skills

Commercial mindset

Negotiation

Numerical analysis

Team collaboration

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

At Talon, our mission is to unlock the full potential of out of home, making it more effective, creative, measurable and sustainable than ever.

We’re passionate about OOH and are on a mission to drive the growth of this sector within the media industry. In just over a decade, our desire to offer intelligent, creative, technology-led OOH solutions and a full-service OOH offering saw us grow into a team of over 450+ people located in key cities across the globe. In that time, we have been awarded for our approach to our people, our clients and our industry. We hire the finest talent to help us unlock the full potential of the Out of Home (OOH) environment for our clients; and pride ourselves on the individuals who represent our business.

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".

THE ROLE_

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_

• Commercial driven, looks for new opportunities and ways generates added value
• Mindset to global network cooperation
• Don’t back down when conversations get difficult
• Growth mindset
• Enthusiastic and driven
• Energetic & positive attitude
• Cooperating foreman (not just theorist)
• 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.

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 at Talon

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 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 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

Talon is an equal opportunities employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where all individuals can thrive. We seek to employ and develop a workforce representative of the markets that we serve and brands that we represent.