Senior Media Buyer

Employer: VaynerMedia Canada Inc.

Position: Senior Media Buyer

Terms of Employment: Full-time / Permanent

Location: Toronto, Ontario

Employment Address: 150 York Street, Suite 1702, Toronto, Ontario M5H 3S5

Hours of Work: 40 hours/week

Language: English

Benefits: Eligible for discretionary bonuses and/or salary increases in accordance with company policy. Eligible for Life Insurance, AD&D, RRSP, Private Medical, Dialogue and Dental and Health coverage.

Salary: $ 72,800 CAD / year

On behalf of a digital agency, the Media Buying team ensures that the execution of media plans is running smoothly, aligns with client goals and expectations, and is ultimately successful. As a Senior Media Buyer, you will be responsible for placing campaigns across various digital platforms, developing media buying strategies, and forecasting media spend to deliver against campaign goals.

Duties:

• Identify, problem-solve and find strategic ways to transform complex data into comprehensible information to meet business objectives.
• Formulate and apply modeling and optimizing methods to interpret data.
• Bid/buy, place campaigns within various digital platforms, and manage the ongoing real-time optimization of live media to ensure client goals are met and/or exceeded.
• Collaborate and develop media plans with media planners for upcoming campaigns by determining the best platforms, target audience, and creative strategies to implement.
• Responsible for consistently working to improve campaign performance, insights collection and takeaways, and generally strive to “over-deliver” to clients.
• Evaluate and monitor campaigns for performance, ensuring campaigns are pacing accordingly, managing spend, troubleshooting campaigns, creating insights about performance, making updates accordingly and flagging potential issues to management.
• Begin to develop relationships with existing clients to be able to answer questions, provide clarity, etc.
• Create and occasionally present client-facing campaign reporting: pacing reports, campaign build, ad-hoc analysis, and high-touch optimizations to ensure relevant metrics and insights are shown and make recommendations by condensing or strengthening key insights from campaign reports to optimize performance.
• Manage platform relationships regularly via: Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, Google, etc.
• Assess requirements of a campaign and develop specifications to achieve goals (i.e., allocating media spend dollars to track for campaign – ensure we’re not overspending).
• Frequent optimization recommendations, campaign monitoring in-platform and adjustments, to maximize KPI output.
• Oversee trafficking process for Media Analysts, resolving issues as they arise and ability to adjust processes in partnership with Analytics.
• Assist in the training and development of new and existing Media Analysts on the team.
• Establish any logistics schedules, monitor progress and contact clients with manager to resolve any problems.

Requirements:

• BA/BS degree is required.
• Minimum 1 year experience as a Media Buyer within a digital agency and/or entrepreneurial street card.
• Advanced skills in Excel including pivot tables, V-Look Ups, and macros (both in G-Suite and Microsoft).
• Experience across buying/biddable platforms in any of the following:
• Social: Facebook/Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, Pinterest, LinkedIn, TikTok.
• Amazon (AMS, Amazon DSP, AMG).
• Programmatic Display/Video (DV360, The Trade Desk, AppNexus, etc.).
• Publisher/Partner Direct.
• Connected TV/OTT (Roku, Hulu, etc.).
• Digital Audio (Spotify, Pandora, etc.).
• Paid Search (Google, Bing, Amazon).
• Experience working with analytics, attribution and measurement systems, including but not limited to:
• Google Analytics.
• MOAT/IAS/Double Verify.
• Nielsen/Millward Brown/Oracle Measurement.
• Experience working with attribution partners.
• MTA: VIQ, Neustera.
• Foot Traffic: Placed, 9th Decimal, PlaceIQ.
• Call Attribution: Dialogtech.
• You live for today’s digital and mobile consumer, are driven, hungry to succeed and always looking to learn more.
• You want to have an impact and are passionate about the work you do.
• You are always looking to adopt new techniques and technologies that are relevant for clients’ media strategies.
• You thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced, collaborative, high-energy environment where you’re continuously solving problems creatively and analytically.

This position will be required to come into the office two days a week.