Associate Media Planner

Job Description:
As an Associate Media Planner, you play a critical role in translating media plans and emerging business initiatives into compliant, execution-ready campaigns. Working closely with Media Planners, Media Managers, Operations, Finance, Procurement, Legal, Data Privacy, vendors, and account teams, you coordinate contracting, campaign activation, documentation, financial tracking, and issue resolution. You help clarify requirements and dependencies, maintain accurate records, flag risks related to timing, budget, compliance, and resourcing, and support continuous optimization across media initiatives.

Responsibilities:
Support the development and implementation of media strategies, plans, and activation recommendations alongside Media Planners and Media Managers.
Own and maintain campaign documentation, including media calendars, contracting status trackers, finance and invoice trackers, creative trackers, buy authorizations, work orders, insertion orders, and purchase-order records.
Coordinate end-to-end media contracting and change requests, including intake, vendor onboarding, work-order and POCN development, data-privacy requirements, QA, signature routing, SNAPP submission, approvals, and final filing.
Coordinate campaign activation and advertising-material trafficking; confirm specifications and handoffs, monitor launch readiness, verify placements are live, collect proof-of-performance screenshots, and maintain accurate campaign records.
Serve as a day-to-day contact for media vendors and internal partners across Procurement, Legal, Data Privacy, Finance, Operations, and account teams; clarify next steps, required information, owners, and dependencies, and resolve issues promptly.
Track and report campaign spend, budget status, purchase orders, invoices, monthly amounts, savings, and variances; reconcile records and escalate financial risks or discrepancies.
Ensure work complies with pharmaceutical, privacy, procurement, contracting, and media-delivery requirements; proactively flag risks related to timing, budget, resourcing, approvals, and dependencies.
Support reporting, optimization, and planning discussions by gathering launch updates, placement documentation, vendor inputs, and campaign-status information.
Provide day-to-day executional support to Media Planners and Media Managers, help establish efficient intake-driven workflows, and contribute to onboarding or guidance for junior team members and interns as assigned.

Skills:
Strong organizations skills and attention to detail
Understanding of media channels
Ability to coordinate between internal and external stakeholder

Qualifications:
Bachelor s degree in marketing, advertising, communications, or related field
2 4 years of experience in marketing, healthcare, media planning, media buying, campaign operations, or a related field
Exceptional organizational skills, attention to detail, sound judgment, and the ability to manage multiple deadlines and dependencies
Proficiency with Microsoft 365, especially Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, and shared tracking tools
Excellent written and verbal communication, vendor-management, and cross-functional relationship-building abilities
Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced, regulated environment, proactively escalating risks and resolving issues

EEO:
Mindlance is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in employment on the basis of Minority/Gender/Disability/Religion/LGBTQI/Age/Veterans.