Job Title: Media Program Coordinator
Job Location: Johnston, IA
Job Duration: 24 months contract (High Possibility of Extension)
Shift: 1st shift (8:00 am to 4:30 pm) with minimal overtime
Major Purpose:
Own the operational readiness and day-to-day coordination of paid media campaigns so campaigns launch accurately, on time, and with clear status visibility. The role converts approved media plans into disciplined execution across campaign management, creative readiness, trafficking, and metric collection.
Major Duties:
- Campaign management administration: Maintain daily campaign details, keeping records current, and flag missing inputs or schedule risks. Inclusive of managing planned details in internal systems and shared planning documents.
- Creative trafficking and launch readiness: Oversee creative trafficking workflow, serve as the first point of contact for questions, monitor creative progress, coordinate approvals, and communicate potential delays
- Manage print operations: Enter print buys in internal systems and verify that print placements and required materials are connected to the correct campaign records
- Specifications and process documentation: Maintain the media spec records, completing annual fiscal-year updates and ongoing revisions as new requirements are received
- Performance data collection: Manage monthly campaign performance metrics and surface insights or concerns
- Operational issue management: Maintain a clear pulse on active work, identify dependencies and risks, resolve routine execution issues, and escalate decisions involving strategy, budget, Product, brand risk, or material timing changes.
- Accuracy and completeness of operational details for media plans.
- Coordinating campaign executional workflows including creative production, trafficking, and metric collection.
- Day-to-day status communication and follow-up
Skills, Abilities, Knowledge:
• Experience working in marketing, an agency or related field
• Project management experience
• Experience working with multiple stakeholders
• Attention to detail
• Great communicator
• Problem-solving
• Self starter
Education:
- Degree in Marketing, Advertising, Communication or Business related degrees
- Willing to consider recent grad candidates with internships in a related field.
Work and Other Details:
- Onsite only (no remote)
- Business casual dress code
- Interview preference: Teams
- No driving associated with this position
- Visa sponsorship is not available, now or in the future, for this position