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Position Description
The Investment department is made up of experts responsible for delivering smart, innovative and performance-driven campaigns for its clients. They support the Buyers in identifying and selecting media partners that achieve identified strategic and tactical objectives as laid out by the Media Planning and Comms Planning teams. This team is responsible for maintaining vendor relationships and facilitating negotiations and value creation with these vendors, ensuring each plan is executed with excellence. The team is expected to stay at the cutting edge of innovation within the industry and educate the larger brand/client teams on relevant opportunities and challenges. In order to fulfill these requirements, the Investment teams must collaborate seamlessly with other functional teams and specialties.
MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES
Plan Creation & Execution
- Learn how to utilize internal and syndicated sources to gather data and support Buyer in recommendation of prospective partners.
- Assist Buyer in creation of index table to benchmark rates for new publishing partners.
- Assist Buyer with the preparation and submission of RFPs (Request For Proposal) to prospective site partners.
- Collate site partner responses for team review and participate in assessment of responses with team.
- Assist with providing supporting content for recommended partners and programs to the Connection Planning team for plan recommendation to client.
- Contribute to client status report on behalf of Digital Investment team.
- Prepare and issue insertion orders through Prisma system after Connections Planning team provides client authorization; Update as necessary.
- Assists in creation of plan detail and spec sheet to creative team and/or brand for trafficking.
- Partner with ad ops team to ensure go live readiness.
Reporting/Tracking
- Assist in documenting all rate and added value detail by vendor for use in future negotiation.
- Assist in compiling campaign performance data into reports to help the team optimize plans to best performing partners and placements.
- Partner with Connection Planning team to ensure up to date investment tracking for monthly reporting.
Vendor Partnerships & Industry
- Meet with vendor sales representatives to obtain information about their products.
- Coordinate vendor connections including sit-down meetings, phone calls, and webinars.
- Sets up creative kick off calls with any media partner if necessary for creative and/or brand teams.
- Keep abreast of industry trends through advertising and media trade communication.
KEY COMPETENCIES
- Strong interest in digital and analytics.
- Self-Starter/demonstrates initiative.
- Enthusiasm/willingness to learn.
- Organized and ability to multitask.
- Thrives in team environment with strong collaboration skills.
- Ability to communicate concisely and clearly both orally and in writing.
- Keen eye for details.
- Proficient skills in Microsoft Office.
ABOUT HAVAS MEDIA NETWORK NORTH AMERICA:
Havas Media Network North America is the Media Experience agency. We deliver this brand promise through our proprietary Mx System, where meaningful media helps build more meaningful brands. Our focus is on understanding the most Meaningful Media – the media channels, moments and brands that really move consumers to action, the media that is trusted, engaging, and influential will have the best chance of helping an advertiser reach an engaged audience.
Our global mission to make a meaningful difference starts at home – because we can’t grow if our people can’t grow. It’s this simple but oftentimes overlooked insight that guides everything we do, from the decisions and investments made in our work for clients, to the inclusive programs that prioritize our people’s needs and the needs of our community. Our Values are the basis of our decision-making at Havas Media Network — from the clients we seek to the talent we attract, to how we reward and recognize our staff, to how we reinforce these values of Taking the Lead, Having a Voice, and Showing We Care on a daily basis.
We are part of Havas Group, owned by Vivendi, one of the world's largest integrated content, media, and communications groups. Globally, we are home to more than 10,000 specialists across 150 countries worldwide, with 69 Villages. Our North American clients include Puma, Wolverine, Fidelity Investments, Dolce & Gabbana, Sanofi and many others. Our most important asset however is our talent. We hope you agree!