Solutions Planner

Job Description

WHO WE ARE

Vox Media's Revenue organization handles advertising and marketing partnerships with brands and agencies, as well as lines of business in consumer revenue and commerce across the organization.

Vox Media is the leading modern media company. We guide our audience from discovery to obsession. We inspire essential conversations about what's now, what's next, and what's possible.

As a community of journalists and storytellers, business professionals, creators and technologists, we believe it is a moral and business imperative to amplify voices: to cultivate diversity, equity, and inclusion throughout our organization and media. This applies to our candidates, our teams, our storytelling, our creative work, and our platforms, products, and partnerships.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

The Sales Planner will be an integral part of the Revenue Operations group, responsible for analysis, partnering closely with Sales and Account Management to create all media plans. This role will work closely with rev ops counterparts, sales, client success and product marketing, and across the Vox Creative, Experiential, Podcast, Concert and Display/Programmatic businesses.
• Responsible for being an expert in Vox Media diverse lines of business and media product stack to match solutions with advertising objectives.
• Create media plans in internal OMS and client facing templates based on rate and inventory guidelines, client KPIs and packaging strategies.
• Partner with sales and Account Management leads on analytics around aligned business including volume, trends, etc.
• Accountable for understanding Vox Media yield management to make informed rate exceptions and reserve inventory.
• Lead mid campaign optimizations where required to mitigate revenue at risk and low performance.
• Own internal communication (Sales, Vox Creative, Account Management, Campaign Management) through the plan creation process - keep internal account aware on lead times, distribution components etc as plan takes shape.
• Join brainstorm meetings to provide proposal ideas and package solutions based on KPIs

WHO YOU ARE
• Bachelor's Degree
• 1+ years of media planning experience in related field or company
• Ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously
• Demonstrated problem solving skills with strong self-directed learning abilities
• Excellent analytical skills and detail orientation
• Proficiency in MS Office; bonus points if experienced with digital tools such as Operative One, Google Ad Manager, Prisma

If you think you have what it takes, but don't meet every single point in our job posting, please apply with a cover letter to let us know how you believe you can bring your unique skills to the Vox Media team or get in touch! We would love to have a chat and see if you could be a great addition to our team. We've hired chefs who became editors, DJs who became UX designers, and sommeliers who became writers.

WHERE YOU'LL WORK

This job is remote. We're dedicated to the health and wellbeing of all of our employees, and when we reopen, will require everyone who works from one of our offices to be fully-vaccinated against COVID-19. Employees with approved religious or medical exemptions may be subject to additional safety requirements, such as submitting to regular COVID-19 testing and/or wearing a face covering in our offices.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-gqbe66-18-226-222-12-42 in your application.