Media Buyer

Media Buyer/Digital Strategist – Media Operations

• Start date: Monday, November 9th, 2026
• Term: Temporary assignment for approximately 4–5 months, through the end of March 2027.
• Schedule: Monday – Friday, 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m., with weekend availability as needed
• Hourly Rate: $50.00 $60.00 per hour depending on experience.

Areas of Focus:

• Digital and social media buying
• Traditional media buying, including TV, radio, and billboards/OOH
• Audience targeting and strategy
• Media reporting and campaign performance
• Media flowcharts and planning processes
• Budgets, schedules, placements, and campaign execution

Manager Notes:

• Emphasis on Strong Technical Media Planning, Media Operations, and Project Management.
• Technical media areas that we use: campaign social planning/buying, programmatic planning/buying, OLV planning/buying.
• The ideal candidate that we need is a media professional and knows and works closely with planning/buying/deployment/reporting on the media operations side (client or agency sides)
• We would also ideally like a candidate that has strong B2C understanding.

Position Overview: A flexible manager role that is well versed in multiple digital disciplines and is familiar with retail customer/shopper marketing strategy that can take projects across both Customer and Consumer side of digital marketing immediately. Although this position will need to be versed in a variety of digital disciplines, their primary responsibilities will be in leading/executing media operations, both digital and tradition, across the organization. Direct report to Head of North American Marketing Operations, who can take over execution, measurement, and optimization for key media related strategy projects within the Digital Strategy Roadmap – allowing greater acceleration of overall strategy rollout, piloting of test projects, and the rapid scaling up of successful pilots that are validated.

The role is directly responsible for envisioning all media solutions, putting together action plans, executing said action plans across a spectrum of internal and external parties (overseeing/coordinating/working through these parties as owner of these actions plans), managing all legal/payment/authorization elements of action plans, and coordinating/leading reporting and analysis of digital/media operations.

This role will need to be not only well versed in operational basics of digital core competencies listed below but will need to demonstrate a strong sense of project management, organizational skills, cross-functional team leadership, and strong project ownership.

Core Competencies:

• Media Planning/Execution
• Digital Analytics/Tracking
• eCommerce Strategy/Execution
• eCommerce Media
• eCommerce Content Strategy
• Customer/Shopper Marketing
• Project Management
• High Detail Orientation
• Search Engine Marketing
• Digital Media Strategy
• Content Strategy
• CRM Strategy
• CPG experience
• Giveaway Fulfillment

Education & Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in marketing, communications, or a related field
• Media and Communications executive with 5+ years of deep functional leadership experience in relevant media areas and integrated marketing communications.
• Experience in having demonstrated a propensity to challenge organizations to accelerate investment in both new and traditional pioneering media properties and programs
• Deep understanding of media technology platforms
• Good understanding of media planning Search Engine marketing, Data/tracking, analytics, CRM, web infrastructure

Job Responsibilities:

• Strong project management and organizational skills to oversee and have complete ownership from vision to execution to reporting for all open assigned projects
• Natural problem solver with a strong desire to find solutions to project needs
• Craft the next level of integrated media and marketing strategies and create a plan and vision that can lead to significant impact, innovation and industry acclaim for the brand and business.
• Lead communications planning and media buying strategy across all paid channels including television, radio, print, out-of-home, digital, social, shopper, and mobile media Leverage insights, learnings, and modeling to help determine the right channel mix
• Leverage data tactics across channels to further bolster the data-informed portions of our plans with personalized messaging served during the right mindset.
• Manage media agency partner teams to ensure that strategies and plans deliver against business objectives and create impact in the marketplace
• Strong understanding of basic trade marketing/shopper marketing/retail customer strategies and operations to ensure strong execution of all projects and operations
• Manage North American media brand and business budgets, including all operational, fiscal, and investment ROI and evaluation responsibilities
• Project manage and oversee giveaway social giveaway fulfillment operations through agency resources
• Collaborate with creative, experience, partner, social, performance, insights, data, trade, and analytics teams
• Coordinate/partner with internal and external stakeholders to author and present best practices, and strategic planning guidelines
• Help create a pipeline of new ideas and methods of marketing including "test and learn" plans and analyze relative ROI possibilities
• Create an environment of collaboration, teamwork, learning and sharing that can help drive associate

Job Environment:

• Most work is performed in a temperature-controlled office environment
• Incumbent may sit for long periods of time at desk or computer terminal
• Incumbent may use calculators, keyboards, telephone, and other office equipment in the course of normal workday
• Stooping, bending, twisting, and reaching may be required in completion of job duties