Company Description

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.

Job Description

Overview:

Negotiate, purchase, maintain, and steward National Video media buys

Role Objectives:

• Oversee, train and mentor Assistant Negotiators

• Mentor media trainees within the group

• Negotiate and purchase National Video scatter/upfront activity

• Maintain current knowledge of marketplace conditions through network meetings and trade publications

• Project delivery for inventory against relevant target demographics

• Steward media schedules adhering to each client’s buying guidelines

• Help oversee timeline and execution of added value opportunities

• Maintain confirmation of purchase, schedules, budgets, and reconciliation of network billing

• Monitor performance of buys using current rating information. Secure makegoods and/or audience deficiency units for underdelivery

• Contribute to post-analysis reports

• Meet all due dates for buys, post analyses, and assigned projects; help team set up project deadlines to achieve all timelines

• Communicate regularly with salespeople and negotiate to maintain or improve the integrity of the buys as they are stewarded

• Advise supervisors of marketplace conditions, special opportunities, and potential schedule interruptions

• Assist in development of cost per points, competitive checks and group projects

Qualifications

• Agency experience highly preferred

• 10+ years of experience working in a national media investment buying environment

• Experience negotiating TV dayparts and online video

• Strong negotiating and presenting skills

• Excellent communication, organizational and analytical skills

• Detail-oriented, able to multi-task and work well under tight deadlines in a fast-paced environment

• Proficiency in MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Experience with Media Ocean software (DDS, MBOX) preferred

Additional Information

This is a hybrid role, requiring three days in-office each week. If you are contacted for an interview, your recruiter will discuss specifics with you, inclusive of any necessary reasonable accommodations.

If you require accommodation or assistance with the application or onboarding process specifically, please contact USMSTACompliance@publicis.com .

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

Compensation Range: $143,000-$225,000 annually. 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. The Company anticipates the application deadline for this job posting will be 08/26/2024.

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