Senior Media Manager

About the Role

We have an immediate opening for a Senior Media Manager in our Overland Park, KS office. At MMGY Global, we inspire people to go places by sharing our clients’ stories from a perspective that connects media, consumers, and influencers across the globe.

Responsibilities

• Strategic Thinking
  • Collaborate with the media planning team to develop integrated, insight-driven media plans aligned to client goals and audience behaviors.
  • Contribute to the development of channel strategy recommendations, audience segmentation, and flighting approaches.
  • Own vendor negotiations — securing competitive rates, added value, and preferred placements across media partners.
  • Support the development of media POVs, marketplace updates, and strategic memos for client-facing presentations.
  • Grow into ownership of full planning deliverables for assigned client accounts, with mentorship from senior planning leadership.
  • Serve as the day-to-day campaign activation lead for select clients, attending status calls and assisting with media strategy rationale.
  • Build and maintain strong relationships with media vendors and platform partners.
  • Stay ahead of media marketplace trends, rate fluctuations, and emerging inventory opportunities relevant to travel & tourism.
  • Translate research and data (leveraging media and consumer research and platform analytics) into channel and tactic recommendations.
• Campaign Activation Management
  • Create and distribute all media RFPs, responsible for proactive ideation of new ideas against client KPIs working closely with the planning team.
  • Oversee campaign trafficking, tagging, QA, and launch readiness across all buying channels.
  • Monitor campaign performance in real-time, making proactive optimizations and budget shifts to maximize KPIs.
  • Manage and reconcile media budgets ensuring investment is paced and delivering against client KPIs and reconciled post-campaign.
  • Own end-to-end media buying and billing across paid channels working within client and billing timelines.
  • Ensure client deliverables are completed and executed to client expectations.
  • Bill media accurately and on schedule according to client invoicing requirements.
  • Work closely with the performance and measurement team on website tagging structure and strategy, and oversee tagging implementation and QA.
  • Oversee junior associate campaign ad ops work thoroughly to ensure high-quality standards, and troubleshoot internal technical issues during campaign execution.

Requirements

• Minimum 4 years of experience in media buying and trafficking work.
• Must demonstrate a high level of understanding of ad serving/trafficking, media performance analytics, and the management of digital media campaigns.
• Ability to handle multiple projects and meet tight deadlines under pressure.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong presentation skills, ability to communicate internally and externally.
• Possess a strong ability to prioritize and handle multiple tasks with flexibility.
• Solid understanding of the principles of digital marketing and media concepts.

Benefits

• Comprehensive PTO + benefits package.
• Hybrid telework policy.

Applicants for employment in the U.S. must possess work authorization which does not require sponsorship by the employer for a visa.