Media Planning Manager
The Media Planning Manager at Confidential Client leads tactical media planning and execution for major consumer brands, collaborating closely with digital buyers and creative teams to achieve brand and business goals. This role requires managing media deliverables, coordinating with agencies, and leveraging data insights to optimize media strategies within a fast-paced, consumer-focused environment.
About Careertakes
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Role overview
Confidential Client is seeking a Media Planning Manager to join an in-house media team in Cincinnati, OH. This hands-on role leads tactical media planning, coordinates with brand and creative teams, and partners closely with digital media buyers to ensure campaigns are executed and optimized to meet brand and business goals.
What you’ll do
- Lead day-to-day tactical planning and execution for brand media plans.
- Coordinate statuses, timelines, and communications with brand teams and creative agency partners.
- Prepare, develop, execute, and monitor media plans (video, search, social, publishing, programmatic).
- Gather and assess data inputs (demographic profiles, media usage, media costs) to inform planning.
- Maintain flowcharts, monthly budgets, authorizations, delivery recaps, competitive analyses, and billing documentation.
- Work closely with digital media buyers to ensure digital campaign activation and ongoing optimization.
- Drive on-time delivery and quality control across media deliverables.
Who you are / Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent).
- 2–3 years media agency experience in media or communications planning.
- Experience with national advertising clients; experience in Consumer-Packaged Goods (CPG) or fast-moving consumer brands is a plus.
- Hands-on experience across video, search, social, publishing, and programmatic channels.
- Familiarity with media planning and buying platforms and data tools (e.g., MediaTools, MediaOcean, Prisma, comScore, MRI) and strong Excel/PowerPoint skills.
- Strong analytical thinking, attention to detail, and ability to use data/insights to influence decisions.
- Excellent cross-functional communication and project-management skills; bias toward action and delivery.
Compensation & location
- Location: Cincinnati, OH (on-site at the Cincinnati offices).
- Employment type: Full-time.
- Salary range: $92,000 – $116,500 per year (as provided by the source posting). Actual compensation will depend on non-discriminatory factors such as experience, skills, and job location.
Additional details
- Job level: Entry level (per source classification).
- Job ID (source): R000161303
- Sponsorship / work authorization: Immigration sponsorship is not available for this role (per source). Confidential Client participates in E-Verify.
- Confidential Client is committed to equal employment opportunity and reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities.
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