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The Role
The Media Buyer will manage and optimize digital media campaigns across multiple clients, monitor performance, and collaborate on planning initiatives.
Summary Generated by Built In
Walz Tetrick is seeking a Digital Media Buyer to join our dynamic team. The successful candidate will be responsible for executing digital strategies and activations across various client accounts. We are looking for an individual with a proven track record in digital media buying and a strong ability to manage omnichannel campaigns effectively.
If you are a results-driven digital expert who is dedicated to delivering outstanding digital experiences, this very well could be the opportunity for you!
Job Responsibilities
- Develop, QA, and optimize digital media campaigns across a diverse portfolio of clients.
- Monitor campaign performance regularly, implementing necessary optimizations to enhance results.
- Collaborate with media planners and directors on annual and ad hoc planning initiatives.
- Lead the preparation of weekly, monthly, and quarterly reports for assigned campaigns, delivering accurate data and actionable insights.
- Adhere to strict client campaign and reporting deadlines.
- Facilitate internal and external communication related to assigned tactics.
- Stay informed about digital media trends and emerging technologies through ongoing research.
- Serve as the primary point of contact for programmatic efforts across internal departments and external partnerships.
- Conduct audits and provide creative recommendations based on digital buy execution.
- Manage trafficking of digital media assets (e.g. creative assets, ad tags, pixels) to ensure accurate delivery, placement, and performance across all channels.
- Coordinate with analytics and ad ops teams to ensure campaign frameworks align with set KPIs.
Job Requirements
- 2 years of paid digital media experience with buying experience preferred.
- Preferred experience with self-serve platforms within leading DSPs such as The Trade Desk and Google DV360.
- The Trade Desk experience is preferred but not required.
- Proven ability to manage multiple clients across various platforms.
- Positive attitude and ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Keen attention to detail.
- Strong analytics skills to evaluate campaign effectiveness and ROI.
- Self-starter with a passion for continued learning.
- Strategic thinker with proactive client service abilities.
- Ability to identify and resolve problems independently.
- Effective team player in a collaborative, cross-functional environment.
About Walz Tetrick Advertising
Walz Tetrick is a full-service marketing, creative and media agency in Kansas City. The Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce named Walz Tetrick one of its Top 10 Small Businesses, honoring our resilience, innovation and values. Though we’ve been around since 1967, we approach every opportunity with the same zeal we did when we were just getting started. We look for associates, partners and clients who share that enthusiasm and appreciate our all-in approach to brand activation. With each day, we harness more tools and information to illuminate our way.
Walz Tetrick offers an office culture like no other. CEO Charlie Tetrick values his employees and creates a uniquely positive and supportive culture. We work and play as a family. Our current work hours are “in office” Monday through Thursday with an option to “work from anywhere” on Friday.
We’re proud of our strong benefits package that includes a 401(k) with an employer match, long-term disability and dental insurance. We offer excellent health insurance, and the agency pays 90 percent of the employees’ premiums with an option to add a spouse and family. We have a generous paid time off policy that includes days to volunteer at a charity of your choice.
If you’re passionate, strategic, collaborative and kind, with a dose of scrappy thrown in, we want to meet you.
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Top Skills
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The Company
What We Do
At Walz Tetrick Advertising, we have a saying: Why outspend the competition when you can outsmart them? That’s the mission of every member of our team. To uncover illuminating insights and develop customized, game-changing, data-driven campaigns that make our clients look bigger and feel more local. Strategies that deliver bottom-line results and a roadmap for future success.
In our fast-paced industry, we know the importance of staying nimble. And we’re also built to think ahead. So as we push forward, we illuminate the opportunities beyond what others thought possible. We lead our clients, so they can lead their competition. And their industries. Every day we go out of our way to outplan, outwork, outwit and outperform so we can deliver better outcomes for our clients. Are you ready to outsmart your competition? Would you like to become a member of our team? Let’s talk.
