Senior Tourism Media Planner – End-to-End Ownership

Envisionit; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 85,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid office model

WFH 2+ days/week

20 days off yearly

12 company holidays

Employer-matched 401k

Transit benefits

Job summary

Envisionit, a Chicago-based digital marketing agency, seeks a Senior Media Planner to own end-to-end media plans for tourism accounts. You will manage budgets, flighting, and vendor contracts, with autonomy to push plans through from strategy to execution.

You will coordinate with the media director and cross-functional teams, ensuring accuracy, performance reporting, and timely reconciliations across channels including digital and traditional media. Hybrid work options available.

Qualifications

• 4+ years building media plans including budgets and flighting.
• Negotiated vendor contracts directly in OOH, broadcast, radio, or airport.
• Owned budget accuracy including MAFs, sign-offs, and monthly reconciliation.
• Advanced Excel: build budget trackers from scratch.
• Managed several plans or accounts simultaneously.

Responsibilities

• Build multi-channel media plans from approved strategy with channels, budgets and flighting.
• Manage working budget and media authorizations (MAFs) from allocation to revisions.
• Approve media invoices and reconcile monthly against the flowchart, budget tracker and approved plan.
• Negotiate annual vendor contracts for OOH, broadcast and airport, and get performance reporting for placements.
• Update plans as performance data, scope and client feedback change.
• Keep handoffs to channel buyers, creative and vendors from the same version of the plan.
• Maintain specs, the creative calendar and materials tracking, including chasing late or unapproved items.
• Keep collaboration across creative, strategy, analytics, account and PM from one version of the plan.

Skills

Media planning

Budget management

Vendor negotiations

Advanced Excel

Account management

Tools

Strata

Mediaocean/Prisma

Excel

Job description

Envisionit, a Chicago-based digital marketing agency, seeks a Senior Media Planner to own end-to-end media plans for tourism accounts. You will manage budgets, flighting, and vendor contracts, with autonomy to push plans through from strategy to execution.

You will coordinate with the media director and cross-functional teams, ensuring accuracy, performance reporting, and timely reconciliations across channels including digital and traditional media. Hybrid work options available.