Senior Media Planner: Digital & Traditional (Hybrid/Remote)

24 Seven Talent; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

24 Seven Talent seeks a Senior Media Planner to own multi-channel media plans, budgets, and flighting for a large tourism account with exposure to travel and tech clients. The role combines digital and traditional strategies with hands-on planning, vendor negotiations, and budget reconciliation.

The hybrid onsite role includes coordinating with creative, strategy, analytics, and account teams to ensure timely deliverables, accurate budgets, and optimized campaigns across channels.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of media planning experience with a strong digital focus.
• Hands-on experience building media plans, flowcharts, budgets, and flighting from approved strategy.
• Strong budget discipline with experience owning budget pacing, revisions, invoicing, and reconciliation.
• Direct experience independently negotiating vendor contracts; OOH, broadcast, or airport media experience preferred.
• Advanced Excel skills to build and manage complex budget trackers, flowcharts, and reconciliation documents.
• Experience planning across multiple digital and traditional media channels.

Responsibilities

• Build and own multi-channel media plans, translating approved strategies into detailed budgets, flowcharts, flighting, and campaign plans
• Plan across digital and traditional channels including paid social, programmatic, CTV, streaming audio, OLV, publisher direct, print, OOH, broadcast, and airport media
• Own working media budgets from initial allocation through revisions, pacing, authorizations, invoicing, and final reconciliation
• Maintain accurate budget trackers and flowcharts, adjusting monthly allocations to match approved plans
• Review and approve media invoices, proof of performance, and documentation for accuracy
• Negotiate annual vendor contracts across traditional media channels including OOH, broadcast, and airport placements
• Request and evaluate vendor performance metrics for custom media placements
• Manage media specifications, calendars, materials tracking, tagging, and trafficking requirements
• Partner with creative, strategy, analytics, account, and project management to align deliverables, timelines, and budgets
• Handle ongoing client requests, media POVs, plan revisions, and optimization needs
• Independently manage multiple accounts, deadlines, and priorities with escalation to senior leadership
• Strong cross-functional communication and collaboration skills

Skills

Media planning

Budget management

Vendor negotiation

Digital & traditional media

Cross-channel planning

Excel

Flowcharting

Tools

Strata

Mediaocean

Excel

Job description

24 Seven Talent seeks a Senior Media Planner to own multi-channel media plans, budgets, and flighting for a large tourism account with exposure to travel and tech clients. The role combines digital and traditional strategies with hands-on planning, vendor negotiations, and budget reconciliation.

The hybrid onsite role includes coordinating with creative, strategy, analytics, and account teams to ensure timely deliverables, accurate budgets, and optimized campaigns across channels.