Principal Brand & Advertising Optimization (Media)

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Job Description:
What You'll Do

• The Media Center of Excellence is a part of Enterprise Marketing and is responsible for centralization and standardization of fundamental paid media marketing and governance/compliance efforts, as well as bringing tactical and detail-oriented work streams together to find smarter, more efficient ways of working and collaboration.
• This role ensures media agency management and effectiveness, best practices and merchandising work sharing, operations / compliance activities, consulting services management (e.g. media governance), and active monitoring and coordination of brand safety and suitability practices with 1P & 3P platforms.
• This involves managing expectations, deliverables, integration, deadlines, and communicating with lines of business, agency media planners and buyers, and consultancy partners, resolving issues as they arise, and ensuring that agency procedures are followed to maximize efficiencies in workflow and media spending and media governance/compliance.

• Responsible for partnering with external vendors as well as analytics organizations internally to deploy measurement and attribution solutions to enable media budget optimization. Leads the enablement of effective integration of media strategic and tactics with other core business areas through partnerships with management across the business.
• Building relationships with stakeholders and key members of various practice areas (media governance/transparency, ad verification including brand safety, operations/compliance, financials, merchandising work, sourcing, enterprise supplier management)
• Identify and implement process development and improvement in areas such as media planning/investment, media best practice/campaign highlights sharing, operations, compliance, media governance and transparency
• Direct relationship management of media agency partners for cross Line of Business servicing efforts.
  • Partner with Line of Business leads to populate Agency Business Plans
  • Support Agency Performance goals and monitoring
  • Supporting Agency best practice sharing, POVs, QBRs, playbooks
  • Support annual agency scoping and staffing conversations
• Oversee & manage financial deliverables such as:
  • Cross line of business spend tracking and reporting
  • Delivery of media savings targets and efficiency efforts
  • Coordinate billing and payment activities with Accounts Payable to resolve any delinquent remittances ensuring all teams are adhering to payment terms
  • Tracking of joint business partnership spends and credits
• Ensure compliant delivery of media related activities inclusive of:
  • Fair Banking reviews of campaign targets and tactical practices
  • CMS routines and controls
  • 3rd and 4th party vendor management and governance
  • Supporting engagement & contracting process for new vendors
• Support rollout, process and consistent operation of core systems and tools
• Oversee firm-wide ad verification brand safety & suitability best practices and monitoring efforts
  • Work with Programmatic and Social specialists to ensure partnerships and monitoring solutions are working effectively
• Support POVs, playbooks, media merchandising/best practices and knowledge sharing across Enterprise.

How You'll Do It

• Partners with external vendors as well as analytics organizations internally to deploy measurement and attribution solutions to enable media budget optimization.
• Leads the enablement of effective integration of media strategic and tactics with other core business areas through partnerships with management across the business.
• Manages a team and the work of vendors.
• Serves as thought leader across all lines of business to deliver most relevant message and experience to prospects and customers
• Able to balance numerous, simultaneous work streams
• Organized, detail-oriented, good with time management, obsessed with accuracy, attention to detail, a strong critical thinker/problem solver, and able to multitask
• Good at building relationships - a creative problem solver, ability to work with different teams and levels, a customer service expert, a great team player/collaborator, balance of being a leader and supporter
• A strong communicator - able to write clearly, speak professionally, and translate data analysis into insights that can be acted upon by strategists, planners, and buyers alike
• Excited by the idea of diving deep into data, including new technologies where benchmarks are just beginning to emerge
• The ability to work in the grey, innovate where new processes have yet to be established but is resourceful and can collaborate to build something new

Qualifications You'll Need
The Basics

• Bachelors Business Administration and Management, Marketing, or related.
• 4+ years Marketing, Advertising, Measurement & Attribution or related experience

Physical and Cognitive Requirements
The physical requirements described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable a qualified individual with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the position as required by federal, state, and local laws:

• Primarily remain in a stationary position.
• No required movement about the work environment to complete the major responsibilities of the job.
• Primarily performed indoors in an office setting.
• Ability to operate office equipment such as but not limited to computer, telephone, printer, and calculator.
• Ability to communicate verbally.; Ability to communicate in written form.
• Travel up to 10% of the time.

Bonus Points If You Have

• Operations / financials experience
• Experience working on multiple media channels and platforms
• Experience with vendor management
• Experience with media agency resources (internally / externally) relating to ad verification, principal media buying, media governance, DSPs, SPO

Discover will not sponsor or transfer employment work visas for this position. Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.
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Application Deadline:
The application window for this position is anticipated to close on Apr-07-2025. We encourage you to apply as soon as possible. The posting may be available past this date, but it is not guaranteed.
Compensation:
The base pay for this position generally ranges between $91,000.00 to $153,400.00. Additional incentives may be provided as part of a market competitive total compensation package. Factors, such as but not limited to, geographical location, relevant experience, education, and skill level may impact the pay for this position.
Benefits:
We also offer a range of benefits and programs based on eligibility. These benefits include:

• Paid Parental Leave
• Paid Time Off
• 401(k) Plan
• Medical, Dental, Vision, & Health Savings Account
• Short and Long Term Disability, Life, and Accidental Death & Dismemberment insurances
• Recognition Program
• Education Assistance
• Commuter Benefits
• Family Support Programs
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Learn more at mydiscoverbenefits.com .
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