Associate Director

Description:

The Associate Director, Strategy is the day-to-day steward on media issues for assigned brands, including accurate budget control and flow of online media activity. They will be required to develop and maintain a strong knowledge of their clients’ business and apply their media understanding accordingly to help deliver against the clients’ needs/objectives. They will work closely with the Managers in the development and communication of all media recommendations.

Role Objectives:

• Strong cross-channel planning and buying skills, particularly in digital

• Successful at building strong, collaborative client relationships, instilling trust and authority on behalf of the agency

• Ability to manage timelines, projects and personnel within direct report team and across cross-functional teams

• Flexible and able to keep up with a fast-paced, constantly-evolving environment

• Including the capacity to successfully manage multiple work streams at one time

• Strong foundation in strategic and critical thinking, finding ways to innovate and collaborate with teams to improve outputs

• Experience with productive and positive vendor relationship management

• Individual should possess confidence, composure, and polished presentation skills to effectively attend and lead in-person meetings with key clients on a daily basis

• Self-motivation and organization are key due to coordination with multiple internal and external clients

Qualifications

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  Have been working in digital media planning, buying and management for 5+ years with progressive levels of responsibility

• Think strategically, take into account the bigger picture, analyze everything and think critically when solving problems to come up with unconventional solutions

• Have led a team before, know what it takes to manage a group, even when a lot of moving parts are involved

• Able to take care of the day-to-day part of overseeing others and good at helping them grow and realize their own potential

• Build great relationships with clients, vendors, and reps; have a history negotiating to get the job done right and track record of success in media; understand business; have a knack for sharing complicated ideas in a simple, understandable way

• Already active in the kinds of digital gadgets and communities that are changing our business; have a passion for tablets, smartphones, social networks, instant messaging, widgets, apps, blogs and whatever is new and life-changing; want to find ways to make them work for brands