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Company Overview

Quigley-Simpson is a full-service advertising agency located in West Los Angeles and New York that specializes in strategy, marketing, media planning and buying, brand building, creative development, production, and multicultural advertising. The agency combines the disciplines of direct response advertising with branding to create effective and accountable campaigns that enhance our clients’ return on investment. We do this for both creative and media clients. Quigley-Simpson’s extensive experience spans across television, OTT/CTV, digital, audio, print, out-of-home, collateral, direct mail, and mobile advertising.

Job Overview

The Senior Media Buyer position plays a key role in the Media Investment group and toward the success of our clients. The buyer’s responsibility is to negotiate, purchase, optimize, and monitor performance to ensure client deliverables are achieved. As the ideal candidate, you will also have a firm understanding of developing creative media plans that support client business objectives as well as the ability to juggle multiple projects in a fast-paced environment. Quigley-Simpson is looking for a passionate individual who understands media and the challenges we face daily with the ability to be nimble when needed. We are a collaborative group of individuals who work hard, play hard, and have fun doing it. Quigley-Simpson cares deeply about our clients and strives to engage their audience with the most effective and efficient media.

Job Responsibilities

• Negotiate and buy profitable media for both linear and OTT; monitor buy maintenance daily such as inputting buys/IOs, making revisions, pulling reports, review pre/post logs, understand and track pacing of impressions served, optimize against benchmarks/goals, monitor performance, post wrap-ups, etc.
• Work within all types of buying, including national DRTV, hybrid, local market, OTT, etc.
• Plan, manage, and supervise media campaigns to ensure goals are being met (budgetary, TRPs, CPO/ratio, CPP, CPM, etc.)
• Reallocate spending by vendor/station as needed and work closely with media buyers and directors to proactively manage spending
• Must maintain clearances and pacing while achieving assigned goals
• Implement media plans and strategy
• Analyze media programs and reports so as to make quality buys
• Call vendors/stations for clarification on various issues and resolve discrepancies
• Develop and maintain good relationships with vendors/stations, daily contact with reps
• Liaise with other departments to ensure clients’ needs are being met
• Regularly communicate details about buys, vendor/station updates, and any research to help managers/leads make good campaign decisions
• Be an expert on the vendor/station you buy for, which includes understanding trends, marketplace, competitors, demographics of the vendor/station, programming, targeting, etc.
• Understand Traffic procedures and deadlines
• Be familiar with priority campaigns and take proactive approach to inform vendors/stations
• Understand what other departments do and how the Media Investment group fits into the company as a whole
• Understand each vendor’s/station’s restrictive programming per client(s)
• Must ensure accuracy in all areas of media management and buying

Job Requirements

• 4+ years of active experience in a media buying role (national DRTV experience preferred)
• Demonstrates solid technical and negotiating skills
• Working knowledge of Mediaocean buying software (preferred but not required)
• Proficient at problem-solving and brainstorming for thoughtful solutions
• Demonstrates intermediate proficiency with Microsoft Word and Excel
• Experience in using various media research tools such as Kantar, Nielsen, Innovid, and SRDS is preferred but not required­­

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Summary

Assist media planning and buying team(s) with planning and implementation for client accounts.

Responsibilities

• Gather information to be used in developing media plans, such as demographic profiles, media usage habits, media costs, and competitive spend data
• Assist planners in developing media strategy and recommendations
• Prepare and maintain buy details, flowcharts, and budgets for media plans using Excel, PowerPoint, and planning-specific software
• Review and verify media buys to ensure proper execution
• Issue and maintain insertion orders
• Perform media operations-based functions to ensure proper implementation and execution of media programs
• Assist in development of client dashboards, including collection and aggregation of data and final dashboard creation
• Assist planners with campaign analysis and optimization recommendations
• Maintain client and campaign budgets, including billing discrepancy resolution, financials process, and client billing
• Provide research for and write portions of media Point-Of-Views (POVs) and recommendations considering circulation, audience information, and product usage information to determine whether appropriate choice for use
• Meet with sales reps to analyze value and applicability of media vehicles for client media plan

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree required, with related coursework in advertising, marketing, and/or communications
• 0-1 year media planning/buying experience (internship strongly preferred)
• Working understanding of media, research resources, and terminology
• Excellent verbal and written communication, presentation, organizational, interpersonal, and analytical skills
• Detail-oriented, organized, good follow-through, able to multitask, and work well under tight deadlines in a fast-paced environment
• Mastery of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint

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Summary

Quigley-Simpson is looking to hire a Director of Customer Experience to lead and grow our Customer Experience (CX) practice. As a member of our Senior Leadership Team, the ideal candidate will be relentless in ensuring that we are delivering on our mission of putting people at the center of everything we do, both for our clients and for our agency. You will work with agency leaders, collaborating with strategy, creative, media, and data experts to design and deliver compelling customer experiences; and identifying opportunities for innovation and excellence across all consumer touchpoints. You will work on exciting client engagements, with brands in health care, financial services, travel, and CPG, designing innovative customer experiences that create meaningful brand engagement, drive customer acquisition, and generate new opportunities for business growth.   This is a hybrid role. You will be actively working on important client engagements while evolving the vision of the CX practice and the solutions and services we deliver to our clients. Your challenge will be to expand the agency’s capabilities, team and client portfolio while ensuring ongoing delivery excellence across existing client engagements. You will have the full support of the executive team to ensure success in your role.

What you’ll do:

• Establish a vision and road map for the practice, evolving existing CX solutions while identifying opportunities for innovation and service expansion.
• Leverage your network of experience design experts to expand the team and ensure that you have the best possible experts assigned to client engagements.
• Work directly on client projects, developing CX strategy, creating personas, designing wireframes, and mapping consumer journeys.
• Identify opportunities for creating digital products and branded services, and recommend media strategy and investments for the consumer journey.
• Develop and deliver research strategies that uncover unique consumer insights, and contribute to CX planning.
• Participate in new business pursuits, providing CX expertise to create winning proposals and presenting ideas during client meetings and pitches.

What you need:

• A minimum of at least seven years’ experience as a CX/UX designer at an agency or within a brand team.
• An uncanny ability to balance both team management and hands-on delivery.
• Experience in designing commerce solutions (highly preferred).
• Experience using data and analytics to drive CX decisions.
• A cross-channel mindset that understands how to design experiences that start and end anywhere and are fluid across web, mobile, apps, IoT, and emerging platforms, such as voice.
• Excitement for innovations in technology, following emerging trends that inspire new ways to design CX solutions.
• Strong interpersonal skills. You enjoy working closely with clients and are confident in challenging client assumptions, based on data and research.
• A successful track record leading interdisciplinary teams in creating great experiences, with exceptional skills in mentoring, presenting, and visual communication.
• Experience in designing for multiple industries, including CPG, travel, health care, and financial services (a plus).
• A disciplined and proven research approach that uncovers hard-to-find consumer insights based on real data.
• Extensive prototyping skills, with experience using industry standard tools (Figma, Sketch, Axure, InVision, Adobe, etc.) to frame challenges, test concepts, uncover opportunities, and communicate solutions to internal teams and clients.
• Exceptional presentation skills. You must be able to conduct compelling design meetings, both internally and with clients, to share design concepts, storyboards, wireframes, sitemaps, screen flows, and journey maps.

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Summary

A conceptual, strategic copywriter responsible for the creation and execution of 360 degree campaigns for a travel-related credit card. Experience with both brand and response-driven communications is ideal, as the copywriter is responsible for delivering big ideas, as well as more tactical, performance-driven executions. The copywriter collaborates with an art director to create content across a variety of media, including online video, digital banners, paid social across multiple platforms, email, direct mail, and landing pages, as well as brand integration and concepts for branded content. A passion for travel is a plus.

Core Competencies

• Demonstrates strong writing skills in both headlines and scripts
• Strong strategic thinker who can translate a brief into big conceptual ideas
• Ability to turn a big idea into a 360 degree campaign, including more tactical executions
• Ability to adopt writing style to an established brand voice
• Knowledge of best practices across digital and social channels
• Experience writing for digital and paid social channels
• Ability to write to restrictive word counts
• Highly detail-oriented and organized
• Comfortable managing a heavy volume of deliverables
• Delivers high-quality work with an emphasis on quality control
• Able to digest client feedback and effectively revise work
• Can multitask and manage changing priorities
• Able to collaborate with team members across all departments and respect/follow processes
• Good communicator
• Team player

 

Mastery

• Able to communicate and present work with confidence and clarity
• Can present work within a strategic framework
• Ability to present work to clients and effectively field comments/questions
• Strong knack for nurturing relationships and resolving problems with an appropriate mix of verbal and written communication

Academic/Educational Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or relevant experience

 

Required Skills/Experience

• 4+ years of experience in a copywriting role
• Proficiency with Microsoft Word
• Knowledge of digital trends, innovations in culture, technology, and social media
• Excellent communication skills
• Upbeat, positive attitude
• All applicants must provide samples via a link to an online portfolio of recent work

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Summary

Seeking a hands-on, detail-oriented copywriter responsible for the creation and execution of email, landing pages, web modules, and paid media such as web banners, social media and the occasional online video. Experience writing fairly complex emails is a must, and experience with CRM (Customer Relationship Marketing) on a large brand is a plus. The copywriter collaborates with an art director to create strategic communications for a prestigious financial services client.

Core Competencies

• Exemplifies strong writing skills
• Strong thinker who can translate tactical messaging into consumer-facing language
• Ability to adapt writing to any brand voice
• Ability to write smart, clever headlines and clear, concise copy
• Knowledge of best practices across digital and social channels
• Experience writing email, web pages, social media and web banners
• Ability to write to restrictive word counts
• Highly detail-oriented and organized
• Comfortable managing heavy volume of deliverables
• Delivers high-quality work with emphasis on quality control
• Able to digest client feedback and effectively revise work
• Can multitask and manage changing priorities
• Able to collaborate with team members across all departments and respect/follow processes
• Team player

Mastery

• Able to communicate and present work with confidence and clarity
• Can present work within a strategic framework
• Able to present work to clients and effectively field comments/questions
• Nurtures relationships and resolves problems with an appropriate mix of verbal and written communication

Academic/Educational Requirements

• A B.S./B.A. degree or relevant experience

Required Skills/Experience

• 3+ years of experience in a copywriting role
• Proficiency with Microsoft Word
• Knowledge of digital trends, innovations in culture, technology and social media
• Excellent communication skills
• Upbeat, positive attitude
• All applicants must provide samples (including Email) via a link to an online portfolio of recent work

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Summary:

The ACD/Art Director is a hands-on maker and manager, responsible for the creation and oversight of email, landing pages, web modules, and paid media such as web banners, social media and the occasional online video for our credit card business. Experience creating fairly complex emails is a must, and experience with CRM (Customer Relationship Marketing) on a large brand is a plus. The ACD/AD collaborates with an ACD/CW to manage this business for a prestigious financial services client.  

Core Accountabilities:

• Exemplify strong digital design skills with the ability to adapt to and create within master brand guidelines
• Strong strategic and critical thinker
• Able to communicate and present work within a strategic framework, with confidence and clarity, and effectively field comments/questions
• Proven ability to manage a creative team and line of business
• Deliver high-quality work on time and on strategy
• Nurture relationships and resolve problems with a large internal team
• Provide constructive, ongoing feedback to creative staff
• Able to multitask and manage changing priorities
• Detail-oriented
• Proactive, independent thinker
• Remains calm and carries on
• A team player
• Organized
• Able to collaborate with team members across all departments and respect/follow processes
• Have a good working knowledge of and experience in digital and email production

Academic/Educational Requirements:

• Bachelor’s-level or higher in relevant area or relevant experience

 

Required Skills/Experience:

• 5-7+ years’ experience in a creative role, with oversight of other art directors for minimum of 1 year
• Knowledge of digital and email standards/best practices
• Mastery of Adobe Creative Suite, including Layer Comps feature of Photoshop
• Knowledge of innovations in culture, technology, social media and digital trends
• Expert communication/presentation skills and experience in client-facing roles
• Upbeat, positive attitude; unwavering focus

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Summary:

A conceptual and design-driven art director responsible for the creation and execution of 360 degree campaigns for a travel-related credit card. Experience with both brand and response-driven communications is ideal, as the art director  is responsible for delivering big ideas, as well as more tactical, performance-driven executions. The art director collaborates with a copywriter to create content across a variety of media, including online video, digital banners, paid social across multiple platforms, email, direct mail, and landing pages, as well as brand integration and concepts for branded content. A passion for travel is a plus.  

Core Accountabilities:

• Possesses strong design skills across a variety of media
• Ability to create a big idea and turn it into a 360 degree campaign, including more tactical executions
• Knowledge of best practices across digital and social channels
• Experience creating ads in paid social channels
• Ability to design using established specs, templates, and brand guidelines
• Highly detail-oriented and organized
• Comfortable managing a heavy volume of deliverables
• Delivers high-quality work with an emphasis on quality control
• Able to digest client feedback and effectively revise work
• Can multitask and manage changing priorities
• Able to collaborate with team members across all departments and respect/follow processes
• Team player

Mastery:

• Able to communicate and present work with confidence and clarity
• Able to communicate with developers to deploy web designs

 

Academic/Educational Requirements:

• Bachelor’s-level or higher in relevant area or relevant experience

 

Required Skills/Experience:

• 4+ years of experience in an art direction role
• Knowledge of digital standards and best practices, including Web Accessibility
• Strong design skills to inform your work from layout to production
• Software skills: Adobe Creative Suite
• Expertise in Layer Comp feature of Photoshop
• Knowledge of innovations and trends in digital and social
• All applicants must provide samples via a link to an online portfolio of recent work

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Summary

This position assists our Media Buyers in placing and maintaining media buys, preparing and confirming bookings, making revisions, maintaining/updating logs, screening/tracking programming content and data entry. Forms of media are television, CTV/OTT, streaming audio, podcasting, etc. Heavy focus in television.

This is an entry-level position working in the Media Investment department. The ideal candidate is driven and focused, loves working with numbers and details, organized and communicates well with vendors and internally with those around them outside of just emails. Position title will be based on experience.

Responsibilities

• Contact television stations and OTT vendors to obtain buy confirmations
• Input buys and solve discrepancies
• Create reports and format in Excel
• Pull, read and analyze reports
• Email stations weekly regarding various issues (e.g., restrictive programming)
• Manage confirmations and cancellations
• Write credit memos to stations and confirm receipt
• Manage post-log deadlines
• Connect with stations to resolve discrepancies
• Understand traffic procedures and deadlines
• Regularly communicate with buyer on clearance, order confirmations and rotations
• Assist in a variety of miscellaneous department tasks

Accountabilities

• Ensure accuracy in data entry
• Troubleshoot and problem-solve as appropriate
• Demonstrate excellent attention to detail and follow-through skills
• Meet media deadlines

Skills

• Detail-oriented
• Able to multitask and manage shifts in priorities
• Professional business writing skills
• Able to effectively investigate and solve problems
• Proactive, independent thinker
• Able to effectively communicate both verbally and in writing
• Able to manage expectations and adapt to a variety of personalities
• Able to make good decisions
• Beginning to intermediate proficiency at MS Office programs, including Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in communications or related field
• 0-2+ years prior experience in an administrative assistant or coordinator capacity

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Company Overview

Quigley-Simpson is a full-service advertising agency located in West Los Angeles and New York that specializes in strategy, marketing, media planning and buying, brand building, creative development, production, and multicultural advertising. The agency combines the disciplines of direct response advertising with branding to create effective and accountable campaigns that enhance our clients’ return on investment. We do this for both creative and media clients. Quigley-Simpson’s extensive experience spans across television, OTT/CTV, digital, audio, print, out-of-home, collateral, direct mail, and mobile advertising.

Job Overview

The Media Buyer position plays a key role in the Media Investment group and toward the success of our clients. The buyer’s responsibility is to negotiate, purchase, optimize, and monitor performance to ensure client deliverables are achieved. Quigley-Simpson is looking for a passionate individual who understands media and the challenges we face daily with the ability to be nimble when needed. We are a collaborative group of individuals who work hard, play hard, and have fun doing it. Quigley-Simpson cares deeply about our clients and strives to engage their audience with the most effective and efficient media.

Job Responsibilities

• Negotiate and buy profitable media for both linear and OTT; monitor buy maintenance daily such as inputting buys/IOs, making revisions, pulling reports, review pre/post logs, understand and track pacing of impressions served, optimize against benchmarks/goals, monitor performance, post wrap-ups, etc.
• Work within all types of buying, including national DRTV, hybrid, local market, OTT, etc.
• Must maintain clearances and pacing while achieving assigned goals
• Implement media plans and strategy
• Analyze media programs and reports so as to make quality buys
• Call vendors/stations for clarification on various issues and resolve discrepancies
• Develop and maintain good relationships with vendors/stations, daily contact with reps
• Liaise with other departments to ensure clients’ needs are being met
• Regularly communicate details about buys, vendor/station updates, and any research to help managers/leads make good campaign decisions
• Be an expert on the vendor/station you buy for, which includes understanding trends, marketplace, competitors, demographics of the vendor/station, programming, targeting, etc.
• Understand Traffic procedures and deadlines
• Be familiar with priority campaigns and take proactive approach to inform vendors/stations
• Understand what other departments do and how the Media Investment group fits into the company as a whole
• Understand each vendor’s/station’s restrictive programming per client(s)
• Have a basic understanding of Media Math (CPO, Ratio, CPC, CPP, CPM ROI, etc.) and know how to build a buy when given goals such as TRPs, CPP, CPM, etc.
• Must ensure accuracy in all areas of media management and buying
• Assist leads in reporting, special projects, and other miscellaneous tasks

Job Requirements

• 2 years of experience (minimum) in a media buying role (national DRTV experience preferred)
• Demonstrates solid technical and negotiating skills
• Working knowledge of Mediaocean buying software (preferred but not required)
• Proficient at problem-solving and brainstorming for thoughtful solutions
• Demonstrates intermediate proficiency with Microsoft Word and Excel
• Experience in using various media research tools such as Kantar, Nielsen, Innovid, and SRDS is preferred but not required­­

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Summary

We are looking to expand our growth media solutions in the DTC/e-commerce space and are looking for someone motivated to help build and activate against current and future clients. We are looking for someone that can pull a big picture growth activation strategy together based on their intimate strategic knowledge across Search, Social, and Programmatic buying platforms. This person understands data and can apply it in real-time, delivering optimization recommendations across the growth ecosystem.   This person will own the paid media channels from end-to-end – from creating initial strategy, waterfalling budgets, activating campaigns, developing learning agendas and optimization strategies. As a leader you’ll work with our team of talented in-platform Activation team members, mentoring them and helping ensure we hit our clients’ growth goals.   Growth marketing is the future of media, and we are looking for people who understand the world of bid-based media solutions in order to deliver a goal. This person should have a deep understanding in algorithm-driven solutions with a penchant for debunking best practices as the goal line continually moves.  

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead strategic and tactical growth (DTC/e-Commerce) planning activities with oversight responsibilities; act as a primary day-to-day contact for clients and internal/external partners
• Manage and help grow a best-in-class team of performance/growth marketers dedicated to each client business
• Responsible for ambitious vision and goal planning for growth targets, across acquisition, CAC and key in-app actions for our clients
• Accountable for building, developing, implementing, and maintaining integrated client media plans that deliver against objectives/strategies; proactively investigate media opportunities and craft well-supported, articulate points of view
• Have a deep knowledge of activation platforms i.e. Google. Facebook, TheTradeDesk, etc
• Understand multiple targeting and buying techniques that are focused or delivering against our clients’ KPIs and long-term objectives
• Set realistic client expectations and make every effort to exceed them by providing quality work in a timely and responsive manner
• Will oversee campaign setup that includes ad serving, checking billing/budgets, traffic and tracking implementation
• Actively drive the planning process and identify opportunities for innovation and improvement
• Collaborate with our Analytics team to develop test and learn strategies, reporting solutions, and optimization recommendations
• Connect and engage with platform partners to ensure we are delivering best practices against current marketplace conditions and trends
• Oversee and steward competitive reporting process
• Manage and be accountable for budgets with team; oversee reports and client billing
• Actively contribute to brainstorming and ideation sessions
• Thought leadership and development of custom content/branded content programs

 

QUALIFICATIONS

To be considered, you’ll need the following:

• Bachelor’s degree
• 7+ years of digital performance-based strategy, activation, and KPI delivery
• Experience managing and building high performance growth teams
• Experience analyzing marketing metrics, making quantitative evaluations of planned and completed marketing efforts, establishing test methodologies and analyzing tests
• Experience managing large marketing budgets and ROI optimization
• Must have strong analytical skills, ability to review online marketing results on a daily basis and, based on these results, make quick decisions on canceling channels and bringing on new channels to achieve goals
• Experience working with brand-awareness-based marketing programs
• Must know and use third-party ad servers (ideally DCM)
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, problem-solving skills and strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively work and lead cross-functionally, resolving issues quickly
• Understanding of website and online advertising metrics, including a track record of success
• Ability to manage multiple projects in a fast-paced environment
• Advanced proficiency in Excel and demonstrated experience using metrics to gain insights to ultimately drive business decisions
• Strong eye for detail; must be accurate, organized and possess follow-through skills
• Be a strategic thinker who is organized and proactively solution-oriented
• Commitment to respond to client communication within a short window
• Ability to work with large workload waves and effectively meet deadlines
• Enthusiastic team player with an “anything is possible” attitude
• Adept at following legal regulations governing categories, data policies and confidentiality
• Ability to boost team morale and drive agency-wide engagement

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The Media Planner will assist the Associate Media Director in day-to-day account management and media planning responsibilities across Quigley-Simpson accounts, two nonprofit accounts (including DRTV, programmatic, search, social and CTV channels) and e-commerce accounts (including DRTV and DR OTT). Responsibilities include management of multichannel media campaigns with daily client, vendor, and partner agency communication; budget management; digital reporting and optimizations; managing team task lists; formulating strategic and tactical recommendations; and overall problem-solving associated with management, development, and implementation of media plans across three multichannel accounts. Digital media buying/planning experience is preferred. DR media experience is a plus, but not required.

Primary Responsibilities

• Act as a client relationship manager, understand clients’ media objectives, and work with media teams to develop strategies that meet those objectives daily
• Act as a primary advocate for clients’ brands, ensuring brand efficiency and effectiveness across all projects, and actively acquiring a thorough knowledge of clients’ businesses to meet and exceed objectives
• Responsible for media planning scenarios, reporting, and optimization
• Maintain media plan and budget documents with 100% accuracy, while planning, re-planning, actualizing, etc.
• Manage digital vendor relationships by formulating RFPs, organizing meetings, managing IOs, monitoring budgets/results, and troubleshooting campaigns
• Possess the ability to manipulate and analyze large volumes of data in order to formulate meaningful insights, that is, by pulling reports and/or pivot tables; preparing client-ready documents and/or charts for manager’s review; and providing top-line POV/analyses
• Manage digital creative by maintaining repository of creative assets and pulling regular creative reports
• Effectively communicate and collaborate with outside agencies to ensure flawless execution of plans, including with the buying team and traffic team coordination
• Manage the daily operations to ensure that clients are satisfied
• Contribute new media ideas to further grow the brand
• Serve as a role model, with a positive attitude, and facilitate a team environment
• Coach and develop junior personnel
• Work closely to assist the Associate Media Director, as well as the Media Director, when needed

 

Education and Experience

• A Bachelor of Science or Bachelor of Arts degree in marketing, communications, or related field
• Minimum of two to three years of agency experience
• A strong understanding of integrated account management
• DR media experience is a plus, but not required
• Excellent analytical ability and an understanding of media math
• Excellent attention to detail and follow-through skills
• Detail-oriented and organized, possessing superior written/verbal communication and presentation skills
• Self-starter, an ability to problem-solve and to work independently
• Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
• Proficiency with media-related and other basic software packages (e.g., MRI, Scarborough, Kantar, Comscore, Mediaocean OX, Sizmek, Telmar, IMS, Nielsen, and DAR)
• Enthusiastic team player with an “anything is possible” attitude

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