Media Investment Analyst

Vendor-MGT; Amsterdam; Hybrid; EUR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Vendor-MGT is seeking a Media Investment Analyst to work on the advertiser's side, digging into media plans, delivery reports and invoices to expose value leaks between deals and buying, and translate opaque numbers into clear, defensible answers for our clients.

Based in Amsterdam with optional Jakarta flexibility, you will audit plans, trace data sources, and turn cross-channel findings into actionable recommendations for CMOs and CFOs.

Qualifications

• Five or more years in media with strong grasp of planning, buying and reporting.
• Financial and analytical instinct; reconciling numbers.
• Independence of mind to challenge findings with evidence.
• Clear writing to explain issues to executives.
• Comfort working across markets and channels, online and offline.
• Expect tooling to count; focus on what numbers mean.

Responsibilities

• Audit media plans, delivery reports and invoices against contracts and benchmarks.
• Trace numbers back to source and flag transparency gaps.
• Turn cross-channel data into clear findings and actionable recommendations.
• Support media agency selections, audits and vendor-management programs worldwide.
• Sharpen checks and definitions to ensure consistency.

Skills

Media planning

Analytical skills

Financial reconciliation

Clear writing

Cross-market collaboration

Questioning findings

Tools

Analytical tooling

Job description

As a Media Investment Analyst at Vendor-MGT you work on the advertiser's side of the table. You dig into media plans, delivery reports and invoices, expose where value leaks between deals and buying, and translate opaque numbers into clear, defensible answers for our clients. We are independent by design - we work only for advertisers and never buy or sell media - so your only agenda is the truth.

What you'll do

• Audit media plans, delivery reports and invoices against contracts and external benchmarks.
• Trace numbers back to their source and flag where transparency breaks down.
• Turn complex, cross-channel data into clear findings and recommendations advertisers can act on.
• Support media agency selections, audits and vendor-management programmes worldwide - single markets, regional groups and global reviews across dozens of countries.
• Sharpen our methods, checks and definitions so every review is consistent and repeatable.

What you bring

• Five or more years in media - agency, auditor, advertiser or ad-tech - with a strong grasp of how media is planned, bought and reported.
• A financial and analytical instinct: you like reconciling numbers and you notice when they do not add up.
• The independence of mind to challenge a finding and defend it with evidence.
• Clear writing and communication - you can explain a complex issue to a CMO and a CFO alike.
• Comfort working across markets and channels, online and offline.
• You expect the tooling to do the counting, and you spend your time on what the numbers mean.

What we offer

• A role entirely on the advertiser's side - no agency margins, no conflicts of interest.
• Work on the media investments of some of the world's best-known advertisers, where a single finding can change what a year of media delivers.
• A small, senior team that values craft, rigour and raising the level of the game.
• Flexible working from our Amsterdam or Jakarta base, with room to work partly remotely.
• We build our own analytical tooling for this work - you help shape what it looks for, rather than using what someone else built.