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Universal Music Group

Junior Media Planner - New York, 10019

Universal Music Group, New York

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Junior Media Planner - New York, 10019, United States of America

How we LEAD:

The REPUBLIC Collective, a division of the east coast record label groups, are seeking a Junior Media Planner to support frontline and catalog repertoire. This is a permanent, full-time position based in our New York City headquarters. Artist success is our ultimate metric, and what drives our mindset, skillset, and company culture. The ideal candidate for this position is passionate about the ever-changing advertising landscape, understands how to setup and strategically plan effective ad campaigns, and they care deeply about MUSIC! They have hands-on experience planning or buying across digital media channels, including paid search, social, programmatic, display, video, mobile as well as emerging media and new technology platforms. This role requires someone who thrives in a fast-paced, collaborative environment, managing multiple workstreams and communications simultaneously. The Junior Media Planner must bring strong organizational skills and attention to detail, building and maintaining media plans, gathering and tracking approved assets, tracking POs and budgets, optimizing campaigns, driving toward goals and ROI, and clearly communicating strategy and campaign results to marketing stakeholders.

 How you’ll CREATE:

  • Develop and plan paid media campaigns including ecommerce promotions across socials, search, video, and programmatic platforms.
  • Understand pixel implementation on websites for data collection and conversion tracking.
  • Identify and define target audiences, analyzing consumer behaviors, shopping habits, and media consumption patterns.
  • Build and manage first-party and custom audiences for ad campaigns across different music genres
  • Manage media budgets and POs, track spend, pacing, and optimization opportunities
  • Research trends, innovations, and changes that impact media planning and buying
  • Lead test-and-learn initiatives including creative A/B testing, multivariate testing, and platform or format experimentation.
  • Provide recommendations to improve landing pages, websites, and overall user experience to optimize paid conversions
  • Identify growth areas and strategies to sell D2C eCommerce products, drive streaming, downloads, and break new artists

Bring your VIBE:

  • Bachelor's degree, preferably with a concentration in advertising, marketing, business administration, or communications preferred
  • Minimum 2 years media planning or buying experience - preferably within entertainment, e-commerce, or agency environments. 
  • Confidence in written and verbal communication skills in a professional environment
  • Experience planning or buying Meta, Google AdWords, TikTok, X, Snapchat, and other channels 
  • Understanding of Google Shopping, Demand Gen, and PMAX campaigns, Facebook Commerce Manager, and Shopify
  • Proficiency in Keynote, Word, Excel and PowerPoint with ability to build compelling reports detailing campaign successes, ROI and learnings.
  • Experience with DoubleClick, Google Analytics, Domo, Looker, Linkfire 
  • Demonstrated ability to drive eCommerce revenue growth and lead generation through paid media.
  • Passionate music fan with understanding of different artists & music fan community dynamics