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About the Role
The Senior Direct Investments Specialist plays a key role in executing direct media investments, managing vendor relationships, and ensuring smooth campaign implementation. This position actively contributes to the tactical execution of media placements across offline and digital channels, including audio, video, print, and OOH, within approved media plans. The role ensures accuracy in media activations, supports contract negotiations, and provides input on strategic recommendations, while applying a strong understanding of media measurement to help develop effective tactical approaches and budgets that drive impactful results.
Responsibilities
- Executing direct media investments
- Managing vendor relationships
- Ensuring smooth campaign implementation
- Tactical execution of media placements across offline and digital channels (audio, video, print, OOH)
- Ensuring accuracy in media activations
- Supporting contract negotiations
- Providing input on strategic recommendations
- Developing effective tactical approaches and budgets
- Establishing good working relationships with media reps
- Negotiating rates and makegoods
Requirements
- Minimum 1 year of Media Buying experience
- Knowledge and prior use of buying software (Strata preferred)
- Experience working in a DSP (The Trade Desk preferred)
- Knowledge and utilization of 1st and/or 3rd party data
- Strong organizational and mathematical skills
- Ability to multi-task and deliver work on-time for set deadlines
- Ability to establish good working relationships with media sales reps
- Ability to work effectively with a variety of internal teams and business groups (Creative, Account Management, Finance, Project Management)
- Ability to communicate effectively within a team environment, with outside media reps, and with current clients
- Must be prepared for a fast-paced environment
- Comfortable making decisions
Skills
- Curiosity and Skepticism
- Strategic, Creative Problem-Solving
- Initiative
- Communication & Storytelling
- Adaptability
- Self-Development
- Media Buying
- Buying software (Strata preferred)
- DSP (The Trade Desk preferred)
- 1st and/or 3rd party data utilization
- Organizational skills
- Mathematical skills
- Multi-tasking
- Time management
- Relationship building with media reps
- Negotiation
- Internal team collaboration
- Client communication
- Decision making
Experience Level
- Senior
Salary/Compensations
- $60,000 - $84,000 USD
Benefits
- Multiple health insurance options
- Flexible PTO
- Life insurance
- 401K
About the Company
- MissionOne Media is a brand within BarkleyOKRP that combines full-funnel media planning and buying services, CRM, data, analytics, retail media, SEO, and digital experiences.
- BarkleyOKRP's Commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion + Belonging: DEI+B drives work that matters. We believe people and creativity are made of the same substance, and when every perspective is valued, the impact is stronger. We build belonging as a business strategy, power inclusive creativity that delivers measurable results, and hold ourselves accountable as a B Corp committed to progress over performative intent. When people are valued, the work carries greater impact.