About This Role
This Media Buyer III role is critical for translating media plans and business initiatives into compliant, execution-ready campaigns. The person in this role coordinates contracting, campaign activation, documentation, financial tracking, and issue resolution, working closely with various internal and external stakeholders. It suits a candidate with strong organizational skills and an understanding of media channels.
Responsibilities
- Support the development and implementation of media strategies, plans, and activation recommendations alongside Media Planners and Media Managers
- Own and maintain campaign documentation, including media calendars, contracting status trackers, finance and invoice trackers, creative trackers, buy authorizations, work orders, insertion orders, and purchase-order records
- Coordinate end-to-end media contracting and change requests, including intake, vendor onboarding, work-order and POCN development, data-privacy requirements, QA, signature routing, SNAPP submission, approvals, and final filing
- Coordinate campaign activation and advertising-material trafficking; confirm specifications and handoffs, monitor launch readiness, verify placements are live, collect proof-of-performance screenshots, and maintain accurate campaign records
- Serve as a day-to-day contact for media vendors and internal partners across Procurement, Legal, Data Privacy, Finance, Operations, and account teams; clarify next steps, required information, owners, and dependencies, and resolve issues promptly
- Track and report campaign spend, budget status, purchase orders, invoices, monthly amounts, savings, and variances; reconcile records and escalate financial risks or discrepancies
- Ensure work complies with pharmaceutical, privacy, procurement, contracting, and media-delivery requirements; proactively flag risks related to timing, budget, resourcing, approvals, and dependencies
- Support reporting, optimization, and planning discussions by gathering launch updates, placement documentation, vendor inputs, and campaign-status information
- Provide day-to-day executional support to Media Planners and Media Managers, help establish efficient intake-driven workflows, and contribute to onboarding or guidance for junior team members and interns as assigned
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in marketing, advertising, communications, or related field
- 2–4 years of experience in marketing, healthcare, media planning, media buying, campaign operations, or a related field
- Exceptional organizational skills, attention to detail, sound judgment, and the ability to manage multiple deadlines and dependencies
- Proficiency with Microsoft 365, especially Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, and shared tracking tools
- Excellent written and verbal communication, vendor-management, and cross-functional relationship-building abilities
