Harrison and Star

Associate Director, Planning

Harrison and Star$70K — $125K *
Media
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Communications, Advertising, Media, or a related field
  • Minimum 6 years in integrated media planning
  • Expertise in local media strategies across broadcast, digital, and social
  • Auto category experience preferred
  • Strong cross-functional team collaboration skills
  • Ability to make informed operational decisions
  • Passion for process improvement
  • Proficient in Account Management and client service
  • Excellent presentation and written communication skills
  • Capacity to manage complex budgets efficiently

Responsibilities

  • Serve as the primary client relationship holder, ensuring responsiveness and accountability
  • Present media plans and strategic recommendations to clients
  • Manage complex budgets and facilitate client approvals with clear documentation
  • Mentor and motivate direct reports, fostering professional growth
  • Oversee workflow and interactions with strategy and creative teams
  • Ensure quality of all work produced by direct reports
  • Analyze campaign performance and provide actionable insights
  • Establish strategic frameworks aligned with client business goals
  • Develop and maintain strategic partnerships with clients and stakeholders

Benefits

  • Health insurance
  • Vision insurance
  • Dental insurance
  • 401(k) plan
  • Flexible Spending Accounts (Healthcare and Dependent Care)
  • Generous vacation, sick, and personal days
  • Paid parental leave
  • Paid medical leave
  • Short-term and long-term disability insurance
Full Job Description
Qualifications
  • Bachelor's degree in Communications, Advertising, Media and/or related field
  • Minimum 6 years of experience in integrated media planning.
  • Expertise in developing fully integrated media strategies and plans, with emphasis on local media (broadcast, digital, and social)
  • Auto category experience preferred
  • Experience working in a cross-functional team environment
  • Ability to make operational and investment recommendations and decisions
  • Passionate and eager to improve processes and workstreams
  • High level of proficiency in Account Management and client service. Experience developing close relationships and serving as a valuable partner to the client.
  • Excellent presentation and written communication skills
  • Ability to manage, track, and clearly report complex budgets.


Responsibilities
  • Be responsive, accountable, and detailed-oriented as a primary client relationship holder
  • Present media plans, analyses, strategic recommendations and other deliverables to clients
  • Maintain complex monthly budget and billing documents and deliver clear, client-facing documents to facilitate client approvals.
  • Manage, mentor, and motivate direct reports to encourage their professional development while providing daily supervision and guidance
  • Manage workflow, deadlines, and interactions with strategy team, creative partners, clients, and other external teams
  • Responsible for all work products created by team of direct reports
  • Provide higher level of insight and analysis to campaign performance. Draw insights and actions from data to advance the client's business forward
  • Set the tone and strategic direction of the team built around growth and application of learnings
  • Build sound strategic frameworks that ladder to client business goals
  • Maintain communication and develop strategic partnerships with key stakeholders - clients, partner agencies, peers, etc.


This is the pay range the Company believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting. Consistent with applicable law, compensation will be determined based on relevant experience, other job-related qualifications/skills, and geographic location (to account for comparative cost of living). The Company reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time. For this role, benefits include: health insurance, vision insurance, dental insurance, 401(k), Healthcare Flexible Spending Account, Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account, vacation days, sick days, personal days, paid parental leave, paid medical leave, and STD/LTD insurance benefits.

Compensation Range

$70,000-$125,000 USD

This role is hybrid, requiring three (3) days per week in the office. The remaining two (2) days may be worked remotely. Specific in-office days will be discussed during the interview process, with flexibility to align with team needs. Please note that the number or required in-office days may be adjusted over time, potentially increasing the number of required in-office days based on business needs.

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About Harrison and Star

Harrison and Star is a healthcare advertising agency that provides marketing and advertising services to pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. The company offers a range of services including brand strategy, creative development, digital marketing, and market research. Harrison and Star was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in New York, New York.
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Size
500 employees
Industry
Founded
1986
NASDAQ

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