YoungShand. Looking for Senior Media Planner/Buyer at Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand Full Time

We are looking for a Senior Media Planner/Buyer for our media team. We are looking for someone who wants more leadership responsibility and to be key member of a hungry growing media team. This role combines strategy and planning, managing client relationships and publisher buying management. We’re looking for someone that’s excited about doing new innovative media ideas, working with publishers to do new things and excited about working in an integrated way with the creative team to produce campaigns that really drive strong results

Responsibilities

• Own relationships with clients, understand their needs and develop exciting, interesting, innovative media plans.
• Comfortable with Media research tools (GWI/Nelisons). To develop a strong understanding of the target audience’s character, purchasing and media habits.
• Maintain contacts with media owners, ensuring statistics, circulation and viewing figures are up to date.
• Confident presenting media proposals, including timings and cost breakdowns, helping clients to reach a final decision about their future advertising strategy.
• Strong Buying Skills. Working with media owners to buy innovative media spaces and to negotiate great deals.
• Strong budget management skills to allocate resources effectively and optimise media spending for maximum ROI.
• Developing post campaign reporting to measure campaign effectiveness, make data-driven decisions, highlighting successes, learnings and recommendations.
• Actively contribute to agency culture through sharing knowledge, teamwork and energy.

Requirements

• You with have 6-10+ years of experience.
• Senior experience planning across TV, Radio, Outdoor and Digital channels. A strength in radio and outdoor would be ideal.
• An enthusiastic collaborator who thrives on the agency environment.
• A keen eye for detail and are passionate about accuracy.
• A clear communicator, friendly and proactive – a high EQ and self awareness is favoured.
• A persuasive negotiator with the ability to get the best deals.

Benefits

YoungShand is an indie agency on an upward trajectory. Our size enables you to work across all clients, with a strong focus on New Zealand challenger brands that want making an impact in the world. Our highly integrated model pulls together all the skill sets required to create great work – from strategy to creative, design, dev, production, client service and media.

Because we grow brands that communicate with all New Zealanders, we celebrate diversity and the unique backgrounds, experiences and viewpoints that difference brings to our team and our clients.

We encourage an inclusive, creative workplace culture and embrace flexible working, Friday lunches and summer hours. This is an opportunity to be part of the next exciting phase of YoungShand.