IPG MediaBrands

Manager, Communications Design

IPG MediaBrands • $80K — $90K *
New York, NY 10025In-Person
Media
Less than 5 years of experience
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Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in Media Planning, Audience Insights, or related fields
  • Proven leadership ability, with experience developing and managing teams
  • Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
  • Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
  • Highly detail-oriented and proactive in problem-solving

Responsibilities

  • Lead a media team in creating and optimizing multi-channel strategies
  • Utilize data analytics to inform media planning decisions
  • Collaborate with various internal and external stakeholders to generate insights
  • Manage budget efforts to ensure accurate and timely reporting
  • Deliver comprehensive performance reports and competitive analysis
  • Stay informed on industry trends and emerging technologies
  • Encourage a high-performance culture within the team

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
  • 401(k) plan with company contributions
  • Flex spending options for healthcare and dependent care
  • Generous paid family leave and family benefits
  • Employee stock purchase and discount programs
  • Discretionary time off, wellness days, and appreciation weeks
Full Job Description
Position Summary

We are seeking a dynamic Manager, Communications Design to lead a high-performing team. As the Manager, Comms Design you will play a pivotal role in crafting context-rich analysis to inform decisions that drive impact across multiple Lines of Business. You will be responsible for leading workstreams (with the support of your Director and Group Director) that deliver innovative media strategies while ensuring seamless coordination across multiple stakeholders and crafting compelling stories that resonate with executive-level audiences. This is an excellent opportunity for a media expert who thrives in a fast-paced, collaborative and high exposure environment. If you want to push the standard conventions of media planning, you have come to the right place. We work to shape the future state.
Responsibilities
  • Lead a dedicated media team in the development, execution, and optimization of multi-channel media strategies.
  • Use data and analytics to drive strategic media planning and decision-making, ensuring connectivity across business goals, media choices and measurable KPIs.
  • Collaborate across craft teams (strategy, planning, partnerships, business leadership) and external partners (media vendors, agencies, etc.) to build insightful, data-rich artifacts/presentations that inform big and small business decisions.
  • Oversees centralized Budget Management efforts ensuring timely, accurate and consistent delivery on a recurring cadence.
  • Deliver clear and concise performance reports and competitive analysis that connect context with results in a compelling narrative.
  • Stay up to date with industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices to ensure campaigns remain innovative and effective.
  • Foster a collaborative, high-performance team culture focused on delivering excellence, growth, and development for team members.


Required Skills & Experience
  • Experience in Media Planning, Audience Insights, Analytics, Strategy or Communications disciplines
  • Media planning skills must be sufficient and able to be taught to junior team members
  • Ability to delegate, develop and oversee direct reports
  • Excellent written, verbal communication and presentation skills
  • Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office (MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.)
  • Effortlessly detail-oriented
  • Proactively takes action to support the team with limited guidance when deadlines do not allow for tasks to be specifically broken down
  • Initiative does not require candidates to have a college degree


Desired Skills & Experience
  • 4+ years relevant experience with 1+ years of experience in managing or developing staff
  • Category or audience experience as relevant per assignment
  • Strong time-management and organizational skills
  • Proven problem-solving ability
  • Comfortability organizing data and developing compelling graphs
  • Patience and diligence deriving insights from data and craft both simple and complex narratives to fulfill a purpose or decision


Salary Range

$80,000-$90,000 USD

About IPG MediaBrands

The Interpublic Group of Companies, Inc. is an American publicly traded advertising company. The company consists of five major networks: FCB, IPG Mediabrands, McCann Worldgroup, MullenLowe Group, and Marketing Specialists, as well as a number of independent specialty agencies in the areas of public relations, sports marketing, talent representation, and healthcare. It is one of the "Big Four" agency companies, alongside WPP, Publicis and Omnicom. Phillippe Krakowsky became the company's CEO on January 1, 2021.
Learn more about IPG MediaBrands
Size
13,000 employees
Industry
Media
Founded
2009
* Ladders Estimates

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