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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: $ 71,500 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 the 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 form 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 goal (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

• 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

• 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

• Collaborate and develop media plans with media planners for upcoming campaigns by determining the best platforms, target audience, and creative strategies to implement

• Frequent optimization recommendations, campaign monitoring in-platform and adjustments, to maximize KPI output

• Assist in the training and development of new and existing Media Analysts on the team

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.

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