Media Supervisor

Evoke is a marketing and advertising agency servicing the healthcare industry. We partner with leading pharmaceutical, biotech, and medical device clients – consistently delivering unparalleled levels of strategic service, creative and technological innovation that build richer and more effective interactions between our clients and their customers.

The Media Supervisor role is focused on setting media strategies, media tactic selection, execution and monitoring of media plans and the overall partner negotiating with external vendors to secure the best investment options in a variety of media tactics / platforms to best deploy the media recommendation. Superior client relationship skills and excellent communication skills are a must.

Day to Day Responsibilities

• You’ll implement and manage strategic plan development, negotiation and/or execution
• You will be responsible for learning the client’s business inside and out and staying abreast of industry and competitor information
• You will work with your Associate Director and/or Director and colleagues within your primary practice area and across other practice areas to create, present and execute communication plans for assigned client brands
• You may serve as a key client contact to receive client requests and investigate proposed and alternative solutions to maximize client objectives and to identify and/or resolve any execution issues
• You may serve as a key contact for media partners in a variety of mediums to negotiate best investment opportunities
• You may monitor plan execution and serve as a first point of contact to raise and resolve any identified issues/discrepancies
• You may generate media insights using various data sources and craft strategic POVs
• You may serve as first level coach and supervisor to one or more associates which includes delegating work, checking work, providing performance feedback and completing performance reviews for your direct reports

Experience

You have a minimum of a Bachelor’s degree. If your degree is in marketing, advertising, communications, applied mathematics or consumer insights or related field, that’s a plus

• 3 - 5 years media planning and buying experience with a core focus on digital media and real time buying platforms
• You have strong quantitative and analytical skills – you can detect and translate a story behind numbers/data
• You have excellent verbal and written communication skills; demonstrated ability to translate and present complicated ideas in a simple, and easy to understand yet inspirational /creative style
• You have exceptional critical thinking and problem solving abilities – ability to think unconventionally in proposing potential solutions or opportunities to issues
• You demonstrate strong detail orientation and organizational skills
• You display effective negotiation and influence skills – steeped in required industry, brand, and competitive knowledge
• You have proven ability to multi-task and manage multiple projects effectively and work well under pressure to deliver high quality work within tight deadlines
• You display a strong team orientation
• Project/process management orientation
• You demonstrate a strong learning orientation and lean in to new opportunities and are willing to challenge status quo
• You display an intrinsic passion for new technology/digital gadgets; and utilization of social media tools to engage and inspire new solutions for clients
• You have proven experience effectively coaching and developing others
• You are highly proficient in Microsoft Office including Excel, PowerPoint and Word as well as other equivalent programs
• You’re familiar/proficient with various media tools, including MRI, Simmons, Nielsen, Kantar, comScore
• You have experience working in real time buying platforms such as Google Paid Search, DV360, Facebook, etc