Great Location! Great Company! Great Job! Are you looking to join one of the nation’s most diversified media, information, and technology companies? One that offers a continuous learning environment, opportunities for advancement, and exceptional benefits? Then industry leader Hearst Television may be your perfect fit.
Located in beautiful Charlotte, our Ad Operations unit has a unique opening for a Traffic Specialist. Based at our state-of-the-art Hub, this position supports Hearst Television’s 33 stations across the country. From processing orders, preparing daily logs, and completing general ad operations duties, you will provide support and solutions to sales team members and sales management at stations in assigned markets.
Job Responsibilities:
Primary role is to provide back up for when other Specialists are out of the office. Daily duties could include one or more of the following
- Prepare and maintain on-air logs through careful management of commercial inventory
- Maximization of both revenue and inventory for a group of stations
- Utilize innovative problem solving and decision-making skills to achieve station goals
- Printing and exporting of stations daily program logs
- Receive all traffic instructions (original and revisions) from station clients
- Interpret commercial copy and agency instructions
- Build instruction/rotation sets for assignment in WideOrbit and assign instruction sets to applicable orders
- Review “Missing Instruction” report and communicate to agency and station personnel regarding missing commercial instructions and material
- Maintain electronic files of all commercial copy instructions
- Responsible for accuracy of entering station advertising orders
- Responsible for checking orders in WO against what was submitted by the station
- Assist in the implementation of HTV Best Practices and SOPs
Qualifications Requirements:
- Organized and detailed oriented
- Ability to analyze large quantities of data and identify critical trends
- Strong communications skills
- Ability to work under pressure against deadlines
- Ability to work independently with minimal supervision
- Willingness to learn and take on all tasks assigned
- Team player - will be working will all levels in the organization
- Onsite attendance is required
Experience:
- Must be computer literate and experienced with Microsoft Office
- Experience with WideOrbit system preferred, but not required. Will train the right candidate
Compensation and Benefits:
- Competitive pay - commensurate with experience
- Extensive training program
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- 401k plan
- Paid vacation and holidays
- Career advancement opportunities
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. we do not discriminate in hiring on the basis of sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, creed, national, origin, physical or mental disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.
Skills Required
- Organized and detail oriented
- Ability to analyze large quantities of data and identify critical trends
- Strong communications skills
- Ability to work under pressure against deadlines
- Ability to work independently with minimal supervision
- Willingness to learn and take on all tasks assigned
- Team player, works with all levels of the organization
- Onsite attendance required
- Computer literate and experienced with Microsoft Office
- Experience with WideOrbit system
Hearst Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Hearst and has not been reviewed or approved by Hearst.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is described as comprehensive, including medical plan choice, full in-network preventive coverage, dental and vision, telemedicine, prescription coverage, and fertility resources. Mental-health resources and other wellbeing services (e.g., therapy sessions, crisis support, virtual physical therapy, and chronic-condition programs) further strengthen the health offering.
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Retirement Support — Retirement support is positioned as meaningful through a 401(k) plan with company matching and Hearst covering plan administration fees. Performance bonuses are also noted as available in some roles, adding an additional rewards component beyond base pay.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off benefits include paid holidays, paid sick days, and vacation time with a commonly cited annual range, alongside paid parental leave and family medical leave. A remote work program and flexibility signals are also included as part of the overall rewards experience.
Hearst Insights
What We Do
Hearst is a leading global, diversified media, information and services company with more than 360 businesses. Its major interests include ownership in cable television networks such as A&E, HISTORY, Lifetime and ESPN; global financial services leader Fitch Group; Hearst Health, a group of medical information and services businesses; transportation assets including CAMP Systems International, a major provider of software-as-a-service solutions for managing maintenance of jets and helicopters; 33 television stations such as WCVB-TV in Boston and KCRA-TV in Sacramento, California, which reach a combined 19 percent of U.S. viewers; newspapers such as the Houston Chronicle, San Francisco Chronicle and Times Union (Albany, New York); more than 300 magazines around the world, including Cosmopolitan, ELLE, Men's Health and Car and Driver, and digital services businesses such as iCrossing and KUBRA; and investments in emerging digital entertainment companies such as Complex Networks.
