Senior Associate, Video Investment

We are OMD, Adweek’s Global Media Agency of the Year in 2020. We are the world’s largest media network with more than 12,000 people working in over 100 countries. As the world grows with opportunities, the key is reacting to them, by making better decisions, faster - combining innovation, creativity, empathy and evidence to help them move faster, reach further and take smarter risks every day.

We pride ourselves on being a people-obsessed, outcomes-focused business that applies evidence and data-based solutions, married with the practice of empathy, to drive performance and growth. When working with our clients, we put ourselves in the shoes of the consumer in order to see the world through their eyes. We focus on finding greater empathy with the consumer so as to uncover insights and opportunities that deliver more valued and valuable connections.

What You Can Expect

Our success is underwritten by our core principles:

• Dynamic diversity. Bringing diversity of perspective, skillset, and background, as well as the mix of ages, genders, ethnicities, skillsets & backgrounds.
• Radical collaboration. Connecting a diverse group of people through instinctive structures, skills and mindsets.
• Rapid prototyping. Fostering a mindset of curiosity in which our people are always building, testing, evolving and retesting hypotheses. All of which is underpinned by a commitment to total transparency.
  
  

Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of buying systems and marketplace intelligence
• Four-year college degree
• 1+ years previous media buying experience
• Proven analytical and communication skills
• Proven prioritizing skills
• Able to work under pressure while meeting deadlines
• Donovan (DDS)/MediaOcean and Prisma Experience
• Advance level of proficiency with Microsoft Word for Windows and Excel
  
  

Responsibilities

• Manage client relationships
• Present buys and post-analysis
• Update planning team on status of client projects
• Manage the negotiation, presentation, and implementation of national television and cable schedules and digital video buys.
• Alert clients of market place shifts that affect future buys.
• Follow buying guidelines to establish goals.
• Monitors schedules requesting upgrades and bonus for make-goods and discrepancies.
• Allocate market funds across stations/groups.
• Advise client(s) of fluctuations in the marketplace.
• Evaluate media opportunities and make proper recommendations.
• Facilitate good relations and flow of ideas with the sales management contacts.
• Assure that all buys for their accounts deliver the media strategy and investment specification.
• Maintain accurate records of buys, budgets, revisions, credits, etc.
• Manage and monitor clearance of discrepancies and accounting functions for their particular accounts on a timely basis.
• Monitor ratings and cost trends in assigned markets.
  
  

This is the pay range the Company believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting. Consistent with applicable law, compensation will be determined based on relevant experience, other job-related qualifications/skills, and geographic location (to account for comparative cost of living). The Company reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time. For this role, benefits include: health insurance, vision insurance, dental insurance, 401(k), Healthcare Flexible Spending Account, Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account, vacation days, sick days, personal days, paid parental leave, paid medical leave, and STD/LTD insurance benefits.

Compensation Range

$40,000—$75,000 USD

OMD is An Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status, age or any other federally protected class.

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