Associate, Video Investment

About Spark Foundry:
Spark Foundry is a global media agency that exists to bring HEAT – Higher Engagement, Affinity, and Transactions – to brands. By combining flawless media fundamentals with aggressive innovation, Spark inspires consumers to pay more attention, to care more about our clients’ brands, and to buy more products and services from them.

Balancing the nimble spirit of a startup with the powerhouse soul of Publicis Media, Spark Foundry delivers the best of both worlds to a client roster that spans some of the world’s best and most beloved brands and companies. We combine boutique-caliber insights and service with the buying clout and first-look access of a global leader, bringing the heat to challenger brands that want to act like giants, and to giant brands that want to act like challengers.

With a bottom-up culture that celebrates diversity and aims for all voices to be heard, Spark has become a magnet for the industry’s best talent, with one of the best retention rates in the industry. And by applying a whole-person approach to professional and personal development, Spark develops a workforce that is well prepared for today’s challenges, and also poised to create meaningful careers in the years to come.

Because we know that heat arises the intersection of complementary forces, our professionals come from myriad disciplines and backgrounds: data, analytics, and insights, content and creative production, communications and strategy, finance and marketing, and sociology, psychology, and other liberal arts disciplines.

Overview:
The Associate is an integral role on the Video Investment Team. This person is key to the development and maintenance of all campaigns across all video channels. The Associate maintains quality control of the media campaigns in market and continually evaluates and improves performance against client goals. This role is also key to building and maintaining industry partner relationships.

We are looking for a highly motivated candidate who wants to make an impact, bring, and execute on ideas across the video eco-system (Linear TV, FEP, VOD, OTT, Mobile, Connected TV, and Addressable). The candidate must have a strong understanding of the TV landscape.

Role Objectives:

• Daily maintenance of account including, but not limited to: schedule changes, ADU requests, deal delivery, billing, budget revisions, post buy analyses, etc.

• Research, strategy, planning, and presentation of plans (full execution)

• Planning, buying, and negotiation of media (inclusive of TV, desktop, mobile, OTT, FEP, Connected TV, Addressable TV)

• Manage media authorizations and reconciliation reviews

• Liaise with Traffic, Creative, Ad Ops (TAAG), and Analytics teams to manage deliverables

• Develop thoughtful insights for post-campaign reports across all video channels

• Develop and foster strong relationships with vendors and clients

• Stay apprised of industry standards, new media programs/trends, and competitive landscape

• Effectively answer posts looking beyond a simple PUT/SHARE increase or decrease, carefully analyze schedule to determine true cause of poor performance (i.e. poor rotations, missed spots, outside viewership, station contests etc.), being as specific as possible when answering a post

• Accurately prepare necessary paperwork and meet due dates pertaining to: cost requests, competitive reports, merchandising, and posts

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  Well-versed in Microsoft Office suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, etc.)

• Strong oral/written communication and negotiation skills

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Compensation Range: $35,000-$51,000. This is the pay range the Company believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting. Consistent with applicable law, compensation will be determined based on the skills, qualifications, and experience of the applicant along with the requirements of the position, and the Company reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time. For this role, the Company will offer medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401k, and paid time off

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