Media Planner

Mekanism; New York (NY); On-site; USD 67,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading creative agency seeks a Media Planner to join their team in New York. You will support advertising campaigns through detailed media planning and data analysis, ensuring successful execution and effective communication with clients and partners. Ideal candidates are detail-oriented and passionate about media and advertising, with at least one year of agency experience.

Qualifications

• At least 1 year of experience with a media agency, preferably in cross-channel planning.
• Demonstrated ability to pull data for insights and recommendations.
• Strong bilingual communication skills for internal and external stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Executing media planning, setup, delivery, and optimization.
• Maintaining client status documents, billing trackers, and communication.
• Building effective internal team relationships to manage project workflows.

Skills

Strong attention to detail

Strong communication skills

Data analysis

Cross-channel planning

Education

Experience with a media agency

Tools

Simmons

Media Ocean

Media Radar

Job description

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Who We Are

Mekanism is a full-service modern agency making unexpected ideas unstoppable through the power of Soul & Science. We partner with brands to unleash breakthrough creativity and drive impact across the entire customer journey, delivering brand building at full volume.

MEDIA PLANNER

Who We Are

Mekanism is a full-service modern agency making unexpected ideas unstoppable through the power of Soul & Science. We partner with brands to unleash breakthrough creativity and drive impact across the entire customer journey, delivering brand building at full volume.

With eight offices spanning markets throughout the US and Canada, we serve as collaborative business partners to some of the world’s best North American brands, including Alaska Airlines, Jose Cuervo, Quaker, Ben & Jerry's, and Amtrak in the US, and CAMH, Koodo Mobile and Public Mobile in Canada.

Named a Top 10 Most Effective Independent Agency in the US by the Effie Index, Mekanism has been profiled by The New York Times, Fast Company, and ABC’s Nightline. Our campaign methodologies are studied by Harvard Business School. For more information, visit Mekanism.com.

Who You Are

You’re a curious, detail-driven team player who loves solving puzzles and spotting patterns in data. You’re ready to take the next step in your media career—bringing bold, creative energy to client campaigns, while keeping the trains running on time behind the scenes. If you’re someone who gets just as excited about pacing reports as you do about pitch decks, we’d love to meet you.

Key Areas of Responsibility:

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

Research & Support:

You will be asked to provide support across a number of tasks: As a planner, this means you will be spending a large portion of your time utilizing the research platforms and providing valuable outputs that inform business decisions.

Functional Responsibilities:

You will execute the planning, setup, delivery, and optimization of scoped media channel platforms. This includes:

• Pulling research in Simmons/MRI, Pathmatics, etc., for direct publisher plans
• Managing RFPs and IOs, trafficking sheets, and partner communication, including collecting invoices, invoice reconciliation, end of month billing.
  
  

Account Maintenance

You will be responsible for upkeep of client status documents, flowcharts, billing trackers, and keeping all documents up to date on a weekly basis with supervision from AMD, Supervisors and Sr. Media Planners. You will also be tasked with sending out meeting recap notes to the appropriate team via Slack and or email.

Collaboration

You will continue to effectively build positive relationships with internal teams (ex. Brand Management, Project Management, Strategy, and Creative) to facilitate effective workflow. You should effectively manage up to AMD, Supervisor and Sr. Media Planner by proactively communicating the status of projects and elevating conversations when necessary.

Client/Partner Responsibilities

You will manage and drive communication with internal stakeholders and external partners. Demonstrated timely and effective communication with publishers and external vendors; incl. negotiating, vendor setup, ongoing stewardship (especially for direct buys). You will actively attend Partner knowledge sharing sessions and proactively identify and set up Partner meetings when appropriate.

Embody the Mekanism Values:

• Believe in bold
• Bring your weird
• Practice optimism
• Have each other’s backs
• Pursue what’s next
• Give a sh*t
  
  

Qualifications:

• At least 1 year of experience with a media agency, experience with a fully integrated agency is a plus
• Strong foundation in cross-channel planning experience, with expertise in Digital and Social (Traditional channels are a plus but not required)
• Manage and monitor active media campaigns including correspondence with partners and manage/escalate points of issue
• Ability to pull data and extract insights into meaningful learnings and recommendations that answer for the client brief/goals.
• Strong communication skills to both internal and external stakeholders
• Strong attention to detail and organized
• Ability to work both autonomously and in a team environment
• Create and manage RFPs for vendors as well as negotiate and finalize Media Plans
• Create Spec documents to pass back to creative and client teams
• Experience in audience and research tools is a plus (Simmons, Media Ocean, Media Radar etc)
  
  

Regarding compensation, the range below represents the low and high end of the base salary someone in this role may earn as a full-time employee of Mekanism in the United States. Salaries will vary on the basis of various factors, including but not limited to professional and academic experience, training, associated responsibilities, and other business and organizational needs. Salary decisions are dependent on the circumstances of each hire.

Salary: $67,000 - $70,000

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Entry level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Marketing and Sales

• Industries

  Advertising Services

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