Associate, Media Buyer

About the Role

Associate Media Buyers play a key role in supporting CJ's Media Investment team. They are critical in the implementation of media plans, nurturing publisher portfolios, and providing support in implementing digital marketing strategies and results-driven campaigns.

Key Responsibilities

• Recruit, manage, and develop publisher relationships on behalf of advertisers.
• Communicate expectations.
• Share procedures.
• Disseminate offers and promotions.
• Provide account updates to an advertiser's growing publisher base.
• Help advertisers improve the effectiveness and efficiency of their affiliate spend by building and interpreting program performance data.
• Coordinate with Media Buyers and Planners to implement Media Plans on behalf of clients, managing:
• Budget allocation.
• Ensuring implementation of media.
• Coordinating with affiliate publishers.
• Platform enablement.
• Build relationships with long-tail clients (publishers) to foster long-term success.
• Identify and classify opportunities by Audience and Buyer types, developing materials to promote opportunities internally and externally to clients.
• Develop and inform processes for network scale and media enablement.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, PowerPoint).

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or related work experience.
• Passionate about providing excellent service to internal and external customers.
• Experience with basic negotiation or relationship-building, such as working with vendors or partners during internships or part-time roles.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent attention to detail and organizational/project management skills.
• Ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing.
• This is a hybrid role requiring 3 days a week in office.