Media Manager

Job Description:

At Red House, a Media Manager facilitates the execution and management of paid media campaigns. This position requires a thorough understanding of the current media landscape, including all digital and traditional media vehicles and tactics. It’s essential that candidates have experience in directly managing self-service digital media platforms (i.e., Google AdWords, Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, etc.). Candidates must possess 2-4 years of prior advertising agency experience.

This position reports to the Associate Media Director, Operations. It requires physically working from our Pittsburgh office four days a week.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Creates comprehensive media spec sheets
• Communicates outstanding asset needs to external clients
• Assists in the creation and management of media insertion orders, campaign assets, and self-service platform management for all agency media clients
• Provides baseline support to media and accounting across all active media accounts
• Works closely with all internal departments to communicate key media buy specs & details, including Project Management on scheduling and monitoring all active projects
• Assists with reconciling vendor invoice discrepancies
• Possess a solid understanding of the external business and market dynamics of assigned clients

Routine Tasks:

• Receive, proof, and organize assets into accessible, straightforward asset guides and copy templates
• Stay up to date on platform ad spec changes
• Become knowledgeable on the different types of tags and which vendors use each type of tag, while also learn to troubleshoot tag issues as needed
• Load digital and social platforms as needed for review by the Planning team
• Proof all IOs and POs, reports and plans, digital and social platforms as needed
• Traffic assets to external vendors and key partners
• Creates, edits, and tracks media insertion orders, while importing across internal systems as needed
• Manages and organizes media campaign assets on the server
• Regularly compiles digital reports and analytics on a weekly basis and for media campaign reporting against established schedules 
• Manage self-service media buying platforms across multiple clients
• Provide input on process and template refinement as relevant

Skills Required:

Demonstrated complete understanding of:

• Basic accounting concepts
• Advertising and marketing strategies
• Media reporting and analysis
• Asset collection and organization
• Self-service digital media platforms
• Media vendors in the Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Washington DC, Erie, Johnstown-Altoona-State College, Harrisburg, Wilkes-Barre Scranton and Philadelphia markets
• Digital and social media best practices

The Ideal Candidate:

• Is an innovative thinker who embraces challenges
• Is self-motivated with a positive attitude and strong communications skills
• Possesses the ability to effectively manage multiple simultaneous projects
• Has above-average organizational and time management skills.
• Has experience managing self-service media buying platforms
• Is looking for a place to work that is busy, fast-paced, and high energy
• Must be highly detail oriented, excel at data entry, and be able to clearly communicate
• Strong Microsoft Office skills (Excel, PowerPoint, Word)

Red House Communications, Inc.