Supervisor, Media Strategy

Position Overview

• Location Type: Hybrid
• Job Type: Full-time
• Salary: Not Specified

This is a full-time, hybrid position for a Supervisor, Planning at BarkleyOKRP. In this role, you will begin to own key client relationships as you craft strategic and tactical media recommendations. You will work closely with others across MissionOne Media and BarkleyOKRP client experience teams, and you will partner closely with clients.

Qualities for Success

• Curiosity and Skepticism: Always asking "WHY?" with an internal drive to learn and expand knowledge. Considers situations from multiple perspectives.
• Strategic, Creative Problem-Solving: Analytical, enjoys working with data to derive insights, and uses insights to develop robust strategies. Loves creating creative solutions to problems.
• Initiative & Accountability: A gritty self-starter driven to find answers, solve tough problems, and overcome challenges. Proactively brings solutions and is thorough in detailed review of client-facing work.
• Communication & Storytelling: Easily communicates complex information or nuanced situations. Knows what details are necessary and can marry data and storytelling to articulate a clear point of view. Confidently delivers recommendations and navigates Q&A with well-developed rationale.
• Adaptability: Comfortably adjusts in evolving or ambiguous situations. Uses creativity to tackle new and existing challenges. Excited for changes in the media landscape.
• Self-Development: Reflective and self-aware. Seeks opportunities to learn and develop oneself and others.

Responsibilities

• Ownership of key client list, leading client communication on day-to-day media and managing projects internally.
• Develops strategic and tactical media recommendations for clients, recommending channels and tactics that will deliver upon client’s objectives.
• Manages a team of individuals, balancing delegation with support for assigned projects and plans.
• Supports junior partners through training on media planning approach, process, and tools.
• Builds and maintains strong working relationships with internal teams, including client experience, activation, data & analytics, CRM, strategy, and finance.
• Builds strategic media audiences through 3rd party syndicated audience tools (MRI-Simmons, Resonate, YouGov Profiles) to develop audience recommendations and understand audience media consumption and behaviors.
• Uses competitive intelligence tools to identify category white space and drive the direction of a media strategy.
• Ensures flawless management of a client media budget, including development of media flowcharts, sending flowchart updates, working with clients to secure budget approvals, and authorizing Activation teams to purchase.
• Supports client billing, partnering with the Finance team to review draft invoices against anticipated spend, ensuring invoices align with planned investment.
• Crafts internal and external POVs based on trending topics impacting the media landscape, category or market trends, clearly articulating the impact to media recommendations.
• Participates in weekly status calls to keep clients updated on active media projects and relays important updates back to internal teams.
• Provides a strategic POV on media reporting by analyzing media performance to uncover trends and implications for plan optimizations, and impacts to future media strategies and recommendations.
• Reads industry trades and engages with the Media Team to stay current on all media trends and how those trends present opportunities for clients.
• Possesses thorough knowledge of key media planning tools, such as Vivvix, Pathmatics.