Role: Linear TV Buying Coordinator
Location: New York, United States
Work Pattern: Hybrid
Reports to: Senior Manager of TV and Radio Buying
About Us
We are creators and champions of the best British TV, and hosts to the world’s largest collection. It’s our mission to bring the most engaging and relevant British TV experience to fans like us all around the world.
We’re relentlessly creative and in this new world of content, where the possibilities are endless, we are charting our own course.
We are thriving in 5 markets already around the world and have ambitious plans ahead of us. This is where you come in…. we are on the lookout for talented individuals to join our BritBoxer family and help us to navigate the adventures ahead.
Job Purpose
Reporting to the Senior Manager of TV and Radio Buying, this person will support the planning, buying, management, trafficking and reporting of linear television advertising for BritBox campaigns in the US and Canada.
The ideal candidate will be highly detail-oriented, organized, and passionate about television – both traditional broadcast and cable advertising as well as CTV advertising. They are driven to help a brand like BritBox break through the noise by leveraging smart advertising tactics to drive brand awareness – and ultimately sign ups. They will have direct experience working to support large-scale linear TV campaigns.
They will be comfortable working in a fast-paced, KPI-driven environment and thrive when making a big impact on a small team. They aren’t afraid to set a high bar for themselves and to work among a team of high performers.
Responsibilities
- Confirming orders with stations/networks, checking contracts against orders
- Gathering pre-logs and post-logs, cross comparing to schedules and resolving discrepancies
- Coordinating creative delivery and approval, including ISCI codes, between Creative team, tagging/trafficking partner, and networks; issue traffic instructions for networks
- Entering logs for undetected networks and reconcile any tracking issues
- Working with Finance to set up new vendors, gather and reconcile invoices, and reinvest under-cleared media
- Internal monthly and quarterly reporting of TV performance
- Supporting in the development of Linear TV buying strategy
Qualifications and Experience
- Experience working in Linear TV advertising, ideally at an agency for large clients
- Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Excel and Powerpoint
- Experience with trafficking/buying/inventory systems like MediaOcean, Core or WideOrbit is a plus
- Experience in entertainment industry or with subscription-based clients gets extra bonus points. Experience with other forms of traditional advertising, such as radio or out-of-home, is also a plus.
Skills and Personal Attributes
- Extremely detail-oriented and organized, able to manage complex processes at a high volume.
- Fast learner of new tech platforms; extremely comfortable manipulating data across a variety of systems.
- Self-starter who thrives in a fast-paced, dynamic start-up environment, with an excitement to learn and grow as part of a small team of media buying experts.
- Strong planning skills and the ability to prioritize a large workload according to ever-changing business needs.
- Superb work ethic and positive, can-do attitude.
- Interest in the evolving TV advertising landscape – across cable and broadcast TV to addressable TV and connected TV.
- Fans of British TV are a plus!
Salary Range: $50-60K base salary + competitive benefits + bonus potential
Please note that the salary range is intended to give as an indicator of the salaries that could be attributed to the breadth or experience for a given role. All candidates will be measured based on their level of experience.
This job spec is not exhaustive and may change from time to time in line with the evolving nature of a dynamic and growing business. As part of a relatively small team it will be important for the incoming person to be a self-starter, happy to pick up tasks and projects that may not fall directly in their remit and be prepared to get involved in anything and everything.
BritBox International
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