Media Planner

Role Summary and Impact

As a Media Planner at EssenceMediacom, you will be instrumental in supporting the development and execution of media plans . You will contribute to the day-to-day management of campaigns, foster strong relationships with clients and partner agencies, and ensure the seamless execution of media strategies. This role offers a fantastic opportunity to grow your media career within a leading global agency, directly impacting client success through data-driven and innovative media solutions.

About the Role: The Media Planner provides support to the managers in the senior team, contributes to overall client service requirements and assists in the management of media plan executions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Day to day for some client contacts across accounts
• Nurture relationships with and work directly with client partner agencies i.e. creative
• Build positive relationships with client contacts
• Assist in development and presentation of plans, in conjunction with senior planners
• Ability to develop smaller plans and execute with minimal management direction
• Ability to keep track of developed campaigns and be able to speak about them to client and senior management
• Capable of independently completing reports with little management guidance; adept at transforming narrative and statistics provided by vendors and teams into actionable insights
• Ensure team deadlines are met
• Ability to provide communication response in a timely manner, especially to clients
• Oversee all media accounting, and administrative duties required on assigned accounts including monthly media expenditure reports (BCRs)
• Traffic campaigns to specialist teams
• Work with AdOps and Account Manager to ensure all site tagging is complete prior to campaign launch
• Ensure checks are done when creative is received or when preview links are provided by teams
• Carry out buy brief meetings with Investment Team
• Ability to take detailed notes for meetings and provide contact reports
• Access appropriate research as it applies to clients’ needs, using proprietary tools
• Effectively work with Finance, Investment Team, Traffic and other internal groups in order to ensure that client activity is in good order

Your Skills & Behaviour:

• Strong customer service skills
• Demonstrated time management and multitasking skills
• Solid collaborative and team work oriented skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Solid interpersonal skills
• Begin to develop presentation skills
• Detail oriented and able to meet tight deadlines
• Begins to understand the client’s business
• Detail, accuracy and mathematical competency a must
• Strong computer skills with a