Media Planner

Hearts United; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Hearts United in Los Angeles is seeking a Media Planner to support day-to-day operations of client media plans and budgets. You will manage flowcharts, budget trackers, and ensure timely media authorizations before buys, while monitoring plans and competitive activity.

The role partners with Mediahub, Partnership Investments, and Analytics teams to surface insights, develop scenarios, and present recommendations to clients.

Qualifications

• Experience planning or buying across cross-channel media marketplaces.
• Excellent multitasking with high attention to detail and deadlines.
• Strong verbal, written and presentation skills.
• Strong mathematical abilities.
• Proficient in MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint; knowledge of DCM, Prisma, comScore, MRI.
• Willingness to travel to markets or client events.

Responsibilities

• Attend client status meetings and summarize next steps.
• Build relationships with partner teams and investments across divisions.
• Monitor client and industry trades; surface insights and opportunities.
• Support 1-2 accounts depending on scale and scope of deliverables.
• Develop media plan scenarios for assigned clients.
• Assist in presentation development and client decks.
• Partner with analytics to implement measurement objectives and taxonomy.
• Support campaign implementation, QA, monitoring, and optimization.
• Contribute ideas for creative media tactics.

Skills

Media planning

Budget management

Analytical skills

Verbal & written communication

Presentation skills

Mathematical abilities

MS Excel

DCM

Prisma

comScore

MRI

Travel willingness

Tools

DCM

Prisma

comScore

MRI

Job description

Hearts United is the challenger agency of Omnicom Media. Born of two challengers, Hearts & Science and Mediahub, it is designed to deliver the disproportionate growth most brands leave on the table. Its mission is Magnetism in Motion: building a brand's power to attract people and make itself easier to choose, then keeping it moving on the platforms where attention lives. Predictive by design, outcomes-oriented, and senior-led, Hearts United partners with brands that refuse category-average growth, whatever their size.

Position Overview

The Business Leadership team builds strong client relationships that drive positive outcomes for their business. The team does this by immersing itself in the business, elevating strategic opportunities for growth, and developing media recommendations that keep clients at the forefront of the industry. The key to this leadership comes from Hearts United values, including a commitment to fostering curiosity, collaboration and diversity with the talented humans that power our global challenger brand. This team problem-solves, generates innovative solutions and displays energy and passion for the work presented. Successful candidates must not shy away from change, as we are an agency that thrives on the constant evolution of technology and its role in our work. Candidates must be comfortable working with data, have excellent communication and organizational skills and be confident collaborators.

The role of a Media Planner will be to assist with day-to-day operations of the client media plan and budget details, including flowchart, budget trackers, ensuring client signs accurate, timely Media Authorizations prior to buys. The Media Planner will be responsible for monitoring client and marketing industry trades, media plan performance reporting and competitive activity to surface industry updates, performance insights and opportunities to team and clients.

Responsibilities

• Attend client status meetings: take notes, summarize next steps, provide to Supervisor/Manager for approval before distributing bullet pointed list of job holder’s main responsibilities.
• Build relationships and trust with partners in Mediahub's Partnership Investments, Audience Science, Campaign Insights, Insights + Action and Radical + Disruptive, in addition to extended Mediabrands and Kinesso specialty teams.
• Monitor client and marketing industry trades, media plan performance reporting and competitive activity to surface industry updates, performance insights and opportunities to team and clients.
• Support 1-2 accounts, pending scale and complexity of business and scope of deliverables.
• Research and develop media plan scenarios for assigned clients.
• Partner with Local Investments, Kinesso and Partnership Investments on development of partner list, RFP details and evaluation prior to client recommendations.
• Support presentation development with research, creating check-ins throughout timeline, participating in discussion, and contributing to/prepare/write slides for client presentation decks.
• Partner with analytics team to implement measurement objectives and taxonomy.
• Support campaign implementation and execution, QA, monitoring/optimizing, and conduct insightful reporting.
• Utilize IGNITE planning strategy process (Implement business intelligence, generate multiple audience segments, Navigate the investment, tap into culture, Evolve with speed and precision) as part of client teams, to guarantee robust analysis of business/media role.
• Visualize, summarize, and develop insights and implications for competitive reporting.
• Gathers, organizes, and presents (pending leader’s readiness assessment) competitive research and spending data.
• Utilize planning tools (i.e. Kismet, R/F, etc) to determine the optimal media mix (across all channels) and plan delivery.
• Employ media math and how to apply calculations, demonstrating proficiency in working with and managing numbers.
• Maintain updated costs and media plan details in Media Tools (or client flowchart software).
• Confirm client media authorization approval for Partner Investments and Kinesso to set up buys, issue Insertion Orders, reconcile buys and traffic assets to vendors.
• Provide assistance with Billing Process, updating team status documents and working across the internal cross functional teams (Video Investments, R&D Labs, creative, etc.).
• Ensure familiarity with Insights + Action and Radical + Disruptive capabilities, process and approach to support integration into media plans.
• Contribute ideas that contribute to creative media tactics.

People & Culture

• Participate in a diverse, inclusive, creative culture.
• Collaborate with peer group to share work and inspire junior team members about creative-thinking, accountability, and thought-leadership.
• Responsible for developing the skill and knowledge base of those more junior as well as supervise, advise, and counsel direct report(s).

Qualifications – Required Skills

• Experience planning or buying, while developing additional acumen of cross-channel media marketplace and planning essentials (delivery levels, flighting, etc.), including Video/Audio Broadcast/Streaming, Direct and Addressable Digital, Social Media, Retail Media (if applicable), Print, OOH, etc.
• Able to demonstrate the ability to successfully multi-task while preserving high attention to detail, manage time and show superb organizational skills and the ability to meet deadlines.
• Demonstrate excellent verbal, written and presentation skills and ability to think on your feet.
• Strong mathematical abilities
• Proficient computer skills (MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and knowledge of DCM, Prisma, comScore, MRI.
• Must be able to occasionally travel to supported markets or client events.

Qualifications – Desired Skills

• 1+ years of experience desired.
• Prior experience working on an entertainment account.