Associate - Atlanta

About the role

The Associate role is a great place to begin your career in the continuously evolving world of advertising. At Publicis Media, we provide you extensive training and development opportunities through our Publicis Media Training Program. Associates support the creation, management, and stewardship of client media plans and investments. You will have the opportunity to work on client teams and develop strong relationships with their clients to create and present recommendations about when and where advertising dollars should be spent.

Responsibilities

• Media Negotiating & Planning
  • Participate in team brainstorms to kick off plan and consideration set development.
    • Evaluate RFPs, contract rates, and increase program value.
    • Create and present media specific documents such as media plans, tactical decks, and other related functions.
    • Meet with vendors to stay on top of marketplace innovations and cultivate relationships within the vendor community.
  • Campaign Management & Execution
    • Work with Senior Associate to project manage programs from proposal stage through end date including compiling specs documents, overseeing asset production, and gaining brand approval.
    • Responsible for generating insertion orders and placement and creative trafficking.
    • Responsible for the creation of campaign post-launch information such as screenshots, links and placement information to demonstrate proof of placement for clients.
    • Own post-campaign reconciliation and billing.
    • Affords responsibility for management of day-to-day communication with key partners: Vendors, Partner Agencies, and Creative media and social clients.

Qualifications

• You thrive on a team, can meet tight deadlines, and can juggle multiple tasks simultaneously.
• You are comfortable using Microsoft Excel and Power Point.
• You’ll use spreadsheets to perform math calculations and percentages to create understand data and create results.
• You want to work in a world of creativity.
• You have a basic understanding of consumer behavior, and you want to spend your days influencing the way brands and consumers interact.
• You enjoy managing projects and/or processes and taking on new opportunities.
• You want to develop and present your thoughts and ideas.

Additional Information

Our Publicis Groupe motto “Viva La Différence” means we’re better together, and we believe that our differences make us stronger. It means we honor and celebrate all identities, across all facets of intersectionality, and it underpins all that we do as an organization. We are focused on fostering belonging and creating equitable & inclusive experiences for all talent. Publicis Groupe provides robust and inclusive benefit programs and policies to support the evolving and diverse needs of our talent and enable every person to grow and thrive. Our benefits package includes medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401K, as well as parental and family care leave, family forming assistance, tuition reimbursement, and flexible time off.