Assistant Media Planner Job at Zimmerman Advertising in Fort Lauderdale

Responsibilities

• Help in the conception, creation and delivery of innovative, well-targeted, business-building marketing solutions across a variety of digital media to meet or exceed client objectives
• Work with media vendors and negotiate rates
• Maintain status reports on all interactive media initiatives
• Assists in the development, negotiation, implementation, tracking, reporting and optimization of online media buys
• Analyzes reports and works with the Digital media team and media planning team to recommend needed optimization and changes
• Completes the proposal, purchase and implementation of the developed plan i.e. RFPs, creating insertion orders, follow up on signatures
• Review vendor media kits, provide POVs and maintain vendor database
• Communicates day to day digital media related needs and outstanding project tasks to the account service team, project manager and traffic teams for any interactive media campaigns
• Assist with competitive reporting projects and site/network rankers for campaigns
• Assists the digital team in staying abreast of emerging trends and communicating innovative, business-building new media recommendations
• Reads and selects articles to include in our research archive and send to team weekly
• Works with traffic to ensure proper tagging of campaign as it will reflect reporting
• Maintain campaign timelines relating to media deliverables
• Supports the Digital media team to ensure that mobile, SEO, SEM, Social, and other local elements are part of the overall plan and reaching the originally defined media objectives
• Processes invoices, maintains finance chart on invoices and campaign finances to ensure that media vendors are paid properly and on time (including partner companies)

Required Skills

• Bachelor’s degree in related field or equivalent work experience
• Internship in a full service agency in the area of interactive marketing preferred
• Basic knowledge of interactive media concepts and methodologies
• MS Office: Internet Explorer, Excel, Word and PowerPoint
• Presentation skills and experience are highly desirable
• Familiarity with one or more of the following media planning tools is desirable: TNS, Scarborough, Media Monitors, Nielsen, Arbitron, Tactician, Strata and Simmons
• Third-party ad serving, tracking and reporting expertise (e.g. Double-click)
• Experience or related intern assignments in retail, restaurant, franchisee operations or Interactive advertising is highly desirable
• Employed at or intern role at full service agency is highly desirable