Manager, Client Media Solutions

About the role

The Manager, Client Media Solutions is a detail-oriented, solutions-driven team member who is eager to grow their skills in paid media and strategy while serving as a highly dependable partner to both internal teams and clients.

Responsibilities

• Support the Integrated Planning (IP) team on day-to-day tasks including, but not limited to, campaign research, strategy support, tactical recommendations, partner relationships and POVs, and the development and maintenance of key planning documents.
• You’ll be responsible for owning and updating flowcharts, budget trackers, billing reconciliation documents, and media authorization forms across multiple clients and brands.
• Budget Management & Financial Stewardship: Serve as a highly detail-oriented steward of campaign finances, ensuring budgets are tracked accurately, billing is reconciled in a timely manner, and all financial and operational documentation is maintained with precision.
• Campaign Planning and Management: Gain hands-on experience developing media plans and overseeing their execution, working with a team of expert buyers across the linear, direct, programmatic, social, and search media ecosystem. You’ll act as a key point of contact for financial operations and campaign stewardship, helping ensure campaigns are executed accurately, on time, and within budget.
• Project Management: Support project management across accounts, ensuring the team is on track with deliverables, timelines, trackers, approvals, and operational processes.
• Audience & Competitive Research: Leverage planning tools to learn more about our clients’ audiences and competitive landscapes and use those insights to support planning and optimization recommendations.
• Cross-Channel Integration: You will have exposure to a variety of services and disciplines to help bring creative, integrated solutions to our clients. You will work with Associates, Managers, and cross-functional SMEs to ensure seamless collaboration and strong execution.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree, preferably with a concentration in Advertising, Marketing, or a related field.
• Strong attention to detail, organization, and communication skills.
• Demonstrated comfort with budget management, financial tracking, billing reconciliation, and maintaining detailed campaign documentation.
• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Excel, including formulas, pivot tables, and budget tracking/management.
• Experience analyzing data, identifying trends, and recommending optimizations based on findings.
• General understanding of the digital marketplace; avid explorer and user of digital channels with knowledge of opportunities across online and offline media.
• Knowledge of or applicable understanding of industry tools such as Prisma, Comscore, Kantar, Pathmatics, Telmar, etc. is a plus.
• Prior healthcare or pharmaceutical client experience is highly useful, but not required.

Qualifications

• Curiosity about leveraging data for audience planning, or familiarity with major data providers and audience targeting solutions.

Skills

• Meticulous — you care about getting the details right, especially when it comes to budgets, trackers, reconciliations, and executional accuracy.
• Numbers-oriented — you’re comfortable working in spreadsheets, managing budgets, and spotting discrepancies before they become issues.
• Dependable — your team knows they can count on you to follow through and keep important processes moving.
• Humble and team-first — you’re willing to roll up your sleeves and take ownership of foundational work that is critical to team success, regardless of title.
• A doer — you see issues and solve them, requiring minimal oversight to do your best work.
• Flexible — you know when to lean in and adapt to keep work moving.
• An authentic partner — you tailor your approach to a range of audiences and collaborators to deliver thoughtful, effective communication.
• Loves to learn — staying current with the latest in the business and keeping pace with an ever-changing industry.

Benefits

Real Chemistry offers a comprehensive benefit program and perks, tailored to your region. Globally, this includes offices in our key markets with free snacks to keep you running all day long, generous holiday and paid time off, options for private medical, dental, and vision plans, and support in saving for the future. Other perks include mental wellness coaching and support and access to more than 13,000 online classes with LinkedIn Learning. Learn more about our great benefits and perks and search specific offerings in your region at: www.realchemistrybenefits.com.

Pay

$67,000 - $80,000

Schedule

This is a hybrid role, based in any of our US offices—including New York City, Boston, Chicago, Carmel, or San Francisco—or remotely within the US.