Help & FAQ   Contact   About Us   Lister Login   Home
 
 
 
 
 
Job Seekers
 
Employers
 


…an association alliance dedicated to advancing the industry and its marketing professionals. Click for more info.

International Association of Employment Web Sites Member
The marketing research industry's career center
 
  • For Job Seekers   
  • For Employers   
Home
 
  • Getting Started   
  • Create Professional Profile   
My Account
  Jobs   Career Dev      Bookmark and Share
  Browse Jobs  •  View All Jobs  •  Saved Jobs  •  Advanced Search Not Logged In [Log In]  

Job Detail 
Job Detail

Job Summary
Media Planner POSTED: Nov 06
Salary: Open Location: Columbus, Ohio
Employer: Highlights for Children Type: Full Time - Experienced
Category: Direct Marketing/CRM/Database Required Education: 4 Year Degree



Employer Information
About Highlights for Children



View all our jobs


Job Description
Highlights for Children has an immediate opportunity for a Media Planner to be responsible for designing and implementing marketing database-related media strategies and campaign execution from start to finish. Develops new methods for maximizing profitability and efficiencies while navigating through a Marketing Database conversion to a relational database platform. Analyzes data, maintains data integrity, keeps accurate historical records, and provides reports that demonstrate campaign plans at both a strategic and detailed level.

Responsibilities: • Gain expertise on the media-related aspect of the upcoming Marketing Database conversion, and its impact on HFC’s marketing efforts. • Make recommendations for new and/or revised strategies for data selection, based on the new marketing database, as well as shifts in the external list environment. • Analyze historical campaign performance and segmentation strategies, and translate this knowledge into media planning for upcoming marketing campaigns. • Become expert on all external and internal data sources related to assigned campaign planning; understand how data is compiled and verified, brainstorm segmentation, modeling, and cooperative database options, and communicate strategies to the media and marketing database groups, as well as external suppliers. • Prepare and formally present data recommendations for marketing campaigns. Work closely with the market manager, service bureau, marketing database department and internal analysts to execute marketing list plans. • Provide clear, accurate reporting demonstrating relative profitability and strategy of the list and segmentation decisions. Effectively summarize and communicate database testing results and recommendations. • Process lists for use in campaigns. Manage the procurement process including setting schedules, organizing meetings, and writing merge-purge instructions to meet campaign deadlines. • Understand, execute, track, communicate and improve upon techniques related to data merge-purge, marketing test panel setup, and customer contact strategies. • Brainstorm new and “out of the box” paradigms for data use. Demonstrate flexible thinking and embrace change in database strategy and execution. • Maintain and update data for historical and reporting purposes according to media group guidelines and standard practices. • Continually evaluate existing processes and offer/implement suggestions for improvements and cost reduction. Analyze merge-purge output to ensure correct processing and to glean helpful marketing information. Alter process or recommend tests based on findings. • Manage good vendor relationships; make recommendations for new vendors and services. • Follow corporate procedures relative to List Acquisition. • Review and approve invoices related to processing. • Manage related projects in areas such as alternative media, modeling, overlays, etc.


Requirements
• BA required • Two years of related work experience • Strong analytical, complex reasoning skills. Working knowledge of analytical models • Proficiency in spreadsheets, word processing, and databases • Strong verbal and written communication skills • Ability to work both independently and within a group

Location: Columbus, OH

Competitive benefits include: health, dental, vision, ADD, LTD, FSA, profit sharing, 401K, paid vacation and holiday, tuition reimbursement

Send resume to: jobs@highlights.com


Location

The location markers shown are all approximations.
Change View:      
Click here to HIDE the Google map feature.


 
The Marketing JobSource is a partner of the Marketing Career Network, an alliance of national marketing association job boards dedicated to advancing the industry and its marketing professionals. The MCN partnership allows for a maximum recruitment and advertising exposure to a talent pool of over 100,000 professionals dedicated to the marketing and advertising industries.