Agency: Initiative
Job Function: Investment
Location: New York, United States
Job Ref#: 10918
Description & Requirements
Position Summary
The Associate in Partnerships is an entry level position within Initiative requiring an eager, proactive and energetic person who is interested in beginning a career in media. The Associate is an important position within the integrated investment process and supports the team as they build a go-to-market media approach. The ideal candidate should like working with numbers, be detail oriented, have strong communication skills, work well in a team environment and have a level of curiosity that infects the entire team.
Key Responsibilities
Client
- Maintain client’s schedules in accordance with their goals
- Responsiveness to client request
Internal
- Proactively seek out mentorship and learning from other Discipline leaders at Initiative (Strategy, Analytics, Communications Design, Client Advice)
- Attend company events and department wide meetings
- Learn key programs and tools including (ComScore, PRISMA, DCM, Kantar, Pathmatics and master media math ) and master media math
- Distribute, collect and organize RFPs
- Assist in reporting and tracking budgets, savings and value, ensuring accuracy for internal team
- Assist in evaluating partner proposals
- Responsible for smooth running of day-to-day activities
Stewardship
- Enter buys into PRISMA and insure system reflects accurate buys
- Update buy summary documents
- Pull necessary reporting weekly and on ad hoc basis
- Assist with traffic issues
- Integral in campaign set up and execution including order letters, specs, creative rotation and billing documentation
- Be responsible for billing discrepancies and produce resolutions
- Assist in actualizations with partners and final billing numbers
- Participate in analysis and post campaign summary of integrated programs
- Coordination and scheduling of partner and team meetings
- Compilation and distribution of conference reports from status meetings
- Participate in departmental projects as requested
- Integral in campaign set up and execution including insertion orders, specs and creative trackers
- Be responsible for billing discrepancies and produce resolutions
- Assist in actualizations with partners and final billing numbers
- Participate in analysis and post campaign summary of integrated programs
- Compilation and distribution of conference reports from status meetings
- Participate in departmental projects as requested
Commercial
- Timely resolution of billing discrepancies
- Ensures and advocates for partner relationships
Desired Skills & Experience
- Proficiency with Microsoft programs, especially Excel and PowerPoint
- Ability to communicate concisely and clearly, both written and oral
- Strong organizational and analytical skills
- Proven ability to work independently and as part of an integrated team
- Detail-oriented, organized, conscientious, with the ability to multi-task and work well under tight deadlines in a fast-paced environment
Employment Transparency
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Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
The employer will make reasonable accommodations in compliance with the American with Disabilities Act of 1990. The job description will be reviewed periodically as duties and responsibilities change with business necessity. Essential and other job functions are subject to modification. Reasonable accommodations may be provided to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
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About Us
Initiative is different to other media agencies.
We are not trapped by a legacy structure primarily centered on paid advertising. Instead, we are liberated by a new world structure designed to deliver highly differentiated and highly effective communications strategies for our clients.
We are the world’s fastest growing media agency built upon the strongest strategic capability of any agency in the market. Core to this strategic proposition is the belief that the faster a brand can move through culture the more relevant it can become.
We call this Cultural Velocity ™.
Our process is designed to create ideas that move through culture through unique insight, market leading analytics and strategic media brilliance.
Our new world model is comprised of “craft centers” – Client Advice and Management, Strategy, Communications Design, Partnership and Culture, Insights & Analytics.
All U.S. Mediabrands employees must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 or have an approved accommodation.