Evergreen Trading

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Group Media Manager, Local Investment

 The Group Media Manager will supervise local broadcast staff and negotiate spot broadcast buys within a group of designated markets by negotiating, placing, and maintaining all broadcast buys, merchandising and promotions within boundaries of specific market list.

Duties & Responsibilities:

  • Check ATBs and goals for accuracy before handing them out to buyers and coordinators in outer offices
  • Set up pre-buy meetings to discuss client expectations, objectives for the campaign
  • Gather buying and merchandising guidelines, promotional requests, preferred programming grids, and any qualitative data
  • Sets due dates, with input from Local Broadcast Director
  • Review buys prior to purchase:  check programming choices, daypart goals, budgets
  • Review merchandising forms
  • Responsible for pulling all recaps/reports and presenting to planning groups and clients when possible
  • Responsible for ‘Locking’ the buys after all recaps have been checked and turned into planning
  • Facilitate any revisions/adds to schedule/cancellations that come down
  • Monitor schedules by checking log times and running pre-posts to ensure delivery is on track
  • Checking all posts prior to turning them over to Local Broadcast Director
  • Carry out supervisory responsibilities, determine and delegate workflow, priorities, deadlines and train and mentor staff
  • Participate in client meetings, new business presentations and other professional functions
  • Estimate ratings, understand market nuances
  • Negotiate buys by communicating all ratings estimates to station reps.
  • Stewardship and Monitoring schedules/revisions/makegoods
  • Reconciliation of invoices

Skills and Experience

  • Bachelor’s Degree with coursework in Advertising, Communications, or Marketing
  • 6+ years of related local broadcast buying experience including at least 1 year in supervisory capacity. Must include experience in buying top 15 markets
  • Strong negotiating and presenting skills, excellent communication, organizational, and analytical skills

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