About the Role
The Marketing Advisor - Media Planning & Performance is responsible for the buying, execution, and optimization of all digital media campaigns for Air Canada & Aeroplan. This role bridges media planning and hands-on performance execution, ensuring digital media investments across search, social, and programmatic channels are activated flawlessly, optimized continuously, and deliver against key business objectives.
Responsibilities
- Lead the activation and optimization of paid digital media campaigns across search, social, and programmatic platforms.
- Own end-to-end campaign setup, including targeting, bidding strategies, ad placements, tracking, tagging, and conversion measurement.
- Maintain financial control over media budgets, ensuring optimized spend and pacing across investments.
- Monitor in-flight performance against KPIs, identifying optimization opportunities and performance risks.
- Optimize bids, budgets, audiences, placements, and creative rotation using data-driven insights.
- Partner with Marketing Communications and Creative teams to recommend and execute cross-channel testing opportunities.
- Conduct A/B testing to refine performance across SEM, social, and programmatic media.
- Analyze campaign performance by combining paid media data with internal data sources to generate actionable insights.
- Deliver regular performance reporting highlighting trends, learnings, and opportunities for improvement.
- Contribute to the improvement of media execution, optimization, and reporting processes.
- Manage relationships with media and technology partners to stay current on platform capabilities and innovations.
- Manage multiple campaigns concurrently while maintaining clear communication with internal stakeholders.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree, preferably with a concentration in advertising, marketing, communications or related field.
- 3–5 years of experience in digital paid media with hands-on experience across search, social, and programmatic channels.
- Practical experience with platforms such as Google Ads, Meta, DV360, Campaign Manager, and associated analytics tools.
- Experience within the travel industry or banking (specifically credit card acquisition) considered a strong asset.
- Knowledge of the principles of advertising, marketing and media.
- Knowledge of all aspects of digital paid media as it pertains to display, social & search.
- Digital media buying experience is essential.
- Possesses a data-driven mind-set to support effective decision making and for proving success.
- Strong ability to use and interpret data to identify insights and opportunities.
- Experience leveraging both internal and third-party data sources to assess media effectiveness.
- Proficiency with media tools; ComScore, AdWords, DV360, Campaign Manager, Adobe Analytics & GA360.
- Ability to learn and grasp new technologies and tools quickly.
- Proficiency with Office suite; Word, Excel & PowerPoint.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills.
- Experience working with tight timelines in a dynamic and fast-paced environment.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, with comfort working cross-functionally.
- Ability to perform in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment with multiple initiatives running in parallel.
- Candidates must be eligible to work in the country of interest at the time any offer of employment is made and are responsible for obtaining any required work permits, visas, or other authorizations necessary for employment.
- Prior to their start date, candidates will also need to provide proof of their eligibility to work in the country of interest.
Skills
- Digital media planning
- Performance execution
- Search advertising
- Social media advertising
- Programmatic advertising
- Campaign setup
- Targeting
- Bidding strategies
- Ad placements
- Tracking
- Tagging
- Conversion measurement
- Budget management
- Performance monitoring
- KPI analysis
- Data-driven insights
- A/B testing
- Data analysis
- Reporting
- Process improvement
- Partner relationship management
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Communication skills
- Time management
- Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
Experience Level
- 3-5 years
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree
About the Company
- Being part of Air Canada is to become part of an iconic Canadian symbol, recently ranked the best Airline in North America.
- Let your career take flight by joining our diverse and vibrant team at the leading edge of passenger aviation.
Equal Opportunity
- Air Canada is strongly committed to Diversity and Inclusion and aims to create a healthy, accessible and rewarding work environment which highlights employees’ unique contributions to our company’s success.
- As an equal opportunity employer, we welcome applications from all to help us build a diverse workforce which reflects the diversity of our customers, and communities, in which we live and serve.
