Media Strategist Job Description
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Employers hiring for the media strategist job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Collage Degree in Marketing, Communications, Journalism, Advertising, Public Relations, Business, Education, English, Social Media, Economics
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Media Strategist Job Description
- Audit, restructure, and own on-going management of paid media channels, including but not limited to Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, and Twitter
- Work with our in-house creative team and account reps to prioritize and manage on-going creative and audience testing
- Track and manage direct response performance KPIs, and optimize efficiency of performance across campaigns
- Monitor metrics to inform continued tests and enhancements with the goal of continually improving social advertising
- Optimize targeting, creative, messaging, and budget allocation
- Measure campaign impact, effectiveness, and ROI across all efforts
- Budget management daily in-channel, weekly cross-channel
- Exploits channel synergies
- Aligns market approach with seasonality, company’s product offering, weekly merchandising and trading reports
- Tailors channel approach to local market and the different client’s profile
- Demonstrate a “self-starter” mentality
- Google Analytics (Discovery’s internal analytics tool for measuring owned and operated websites)
- Brightcove/Video Cloud Analytics (DNI’s digital video publishing and delivery platform, with video analytics for DNI sites)
- ComScore (provide global digital analytics measurement for digital properties)
- Analytics skillset across Mobile app, YouTube, iTunes, Facebook, etc
- Experience with media research, preferably digital research
Media Strategist Job Description
- Leads testing of new channels/products/ optimisation approach
- Aligns optimisation cycles with buying, product schedule upload and weekly sales figures
- First point of contact for biddable analyst
- Takes responsibility for the channel’s performance for one of the group regions AM+LATAM, APAC or UK+EU
- Perform detailed campaign performance analysis and provide recommendations to boost performance
- Identify new opportunities for clients to increase spend
- Assist in the strategic development of integrated media plans and marketing recommendations
- Identify media opportunities and recommend solutions
- Ability to articulate trends and behaviors and be able to apply their findings and determine what the implications might be for our clients
- Manage and build outstanding client relationships
- Briefing Data teams and working with analytics teams when required
- Build strong relationships with product marketing teams, comms teams, media teams, territory marketing leads, cross-functional teams and 3rd party suppliers
- Maintain the global campaign schedule, ensuring all relevant stakeholders are kept up to date with plans
- Contribute to and/or lead campaign reporting
- Bachelor Degree in Business-related field, preferably Marketing
- Good understanding of Internet-based consumer behavior and direct marketing
Media Strategist Job Description
- Gain expertise in the use of tools, techniques and procedures leading to more strategic, more insight-based plans, becoming industry experts to bring that general knowledge to bear in the strategic planning process
- Responsible for generating Excel spreadsheets and Flowcharts
- Transfers raw report outputs into readable, digestible format
- Runs all delivery analyses (reach/frequencies, proprietary tool reports)
- Inputs and revises media plans in Media Tools
- Compiles and updates regular status reports
- Ensures communication of creative needs and coordinates with creative teams on timely delivery of all assets for proper campaign launches
- Contributes in brainstorms and ideation sessions
- Collects and consolidates all relevant information for agency POVs
- Handles day to day tasks and ad hoc projects
- Self-started and pro-active
- Passion for Sports, specifically football (Soccer)
- Videogame interest/experience a plus
- Degree qualification + 1-2 years experience working in media / services / customer experience
- Strong organizational skills, written and oral communication skills
- Analytical skills (ability to manipulate and present data an advantage)
Media Strategist Job Description
- Passion and interest across all media platforms
- Ability to successfully articulate trends and behaviors and be able to apply those findings and determine what the implications might be for our clients
- Manage and build outstanding internal and client relationships
- Assist in the development of tools, techniques and procedures leading to more strategic, more insight-based plans, becoming industry experts to bring that general knowledge to bear in the strategic planning process
- Define projects for Strategists and Associates
- Transfer raw report outputs into readable, digestible formats
- Run all delivery analyses (reach/frequencies, proprietary tool reports)
- Input and revise media plans in Media Tools
- Represent Agency professionally with clients and industry
- Work with colleagues responsible for social media and multimedia to determine the best channel for disseminating complex scientific information
- Experience with developing and executing successful ROI-driven marketing campaigns
- Knowledge of online metrics and best practices
- 2 – 4 years of work experience in a professional services environment
- Required specialties include integrated (TV, digital, SEM, Social, mobile, ) marketing and media planning across devices
- Experience with Digital Advertising a very strong recommendation - Adwords experience a strong recommendation
- Technology expertise focused on the media production and distribution space, coupled with the ICT space
Media Strategist Job Description
- Identify opportunities for innovation and storytelling to the right audience in the right context
- Build media strategy and execution across the 401(k) business unit, specifically within service and marketing
- Monitor industry news channels for trending topics and make recommendations for newsworthy content development
- Creatively seek new topics and programs that maximize opportunities to get picked up by the media
- Manage relationship with our external public relations agency
- Maintains familiarity with the client procedures knowledge in the industry
- Collaborate with Sales to develop, pitch, execute and renew strategic best-in-class multi-platform ideas/solutions for advertising clients (across digital, mobile, social media, magazine, TV, radio and events)
- Maintain RFP responses
- Attend internal and external meetings with clients and help bring ideas to life
- Proven experience creating custom ideas and writing proposals – experience in Financial and B2B categories is highly desired
- Manage the creation and execution of global campaigns across multiple channels including email, web, in-game, mobile
- Support territories with localization and live testing
- Strong understanding of leading Internet, wired and wireless technology with emphasis on media delivery
- Technical background in IPTV, Cloud Computing, SaaS, OTT / OVP / ABR, CDN, and User experience
- Must have significant industry experience with the proven ability to create forward looking strategies and communicate vision and roadmaps effectively
- Direct experience building strategic plans based on trends, user requirements and technology opportunities