Senior Investment Associate

4 days ago


Los Angeles, California, United States WPP Group Full time
Job Title: Senior Investment Associate

Join WPP Group as a Senior Investment Associate and play a key role in shaping the future of media investment. As a member of our team, you will be responsible for implementing media negotiations and buying/activation for assigned accounts.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Integrate with the Strategic Planning team to gain insights on objectives, KPIs, strategies, audiences, etc. to ensure tactical buys deliver against goals.
  • Participate in the RFP process and vendor selection.
  • Implement negotiations/rate tracking/planning, costs/benchmarking/budget management/management of commercial inventory allocation and make-goods for assigned account(s).
  • Manage vendor relations (Inventory avails, IOs, notify if included/excluded from buy).
  • Assist junior staff with entering the partner buys into Buy platforms, sending out IO/Contracts and preparing campaign for launches (trafficking, setting up ad serving, etc.).
  • Ensure all buys are entered correctly into systems (naming conventions, budgets, placements, compliance, updates, etc.), and ensure that campaign launches and delivery/pacing are occurring.
Requirements:
  • Bachelor's degree in advertising, marketing, business administration, and communications; OR equivalent professional work experience.
  • Build and maintain strong relationships with media, technology, analytics and GroupM teams as well as media and technology publishers.
  • Foster camaraderie within the Investment team and with all key stakeholders they support.
  • Educate media teams on the investment process.
  • Provide guidance to team members and nurture/promote team environment.
  • 1+ years of prior digital or video investment experience desired.
  • Be capable of working successfully within a team as well as independently.
  • Strong understanding of interactive research tools.
  • Strong quantitative and analytical/results-oriented skills.
  • Advanced proficiency in Excel with intermediate PowerPoint and Word skills.
  • Strong understanding of interactive research and buying tools.
About WPP Group:

WPP Group is a global media investment company with a mission to shape the next era of media where advertising works better for people. We are responsible for more than $60 billion in annual media investment, as measured by the independent research bureau COMvergence.

Our benefits include competitive medical, vision, and dental insurance, significant paid time off, preferential partner discounts, and employee mental health awareness days.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodation to, among others, individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans. If you need an accommodation because of a disability to search and apply for a career opportunity with WPP Group, please send an e-mail to [email protected] or call and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.



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