Media Planner

The Media Planner will be responsible for the end-to-end management of media campaigns, including media plan development, client coordination, and client relationship management. Key responsibilities include leading client kick-off calls, preparing monthly reports, and revenue management. The role involves collaborating with sales and internal teams to ensure effective campaign management and smooth, on-time delivery. The ideal candidate will develop a deep understanding of WebMD media products and foster strong client relationships.

Must Have

• Bachelor’s degree
• Minimum of 4 years of media planning experience
• Passion for customer service
• Excellent organizational and documentation skills
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
• Proactive and takes initiative

Good to Have

• Desire to learn digital media
• Ability to quickly form relationships
• Results-oriented
• Comfortable dealing with senior executives
• Effective negotiator
• Ability to multitask and meet deadlines
• Organized with proven ability to manage priorities
• A true team player
• Exceptional written and spoken English skills
• Enthusiastic with a positive attitude
• Experience with Microsoft Office and Google GSuite
• Knowledge of Digital Advertising tools (Google Ad Manager, DCM, Salesforce etc.)

WebMD is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, ancestry, color, religion, sex, gender, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, medical condition, disability, veterans status, or any other basis protected by law.

• End to end responsibility for and ownership of media campaigns, across the campaign life cycle. Including:
• Media Plan development and management
• Coordination with clients/agencies for creative assets and communicating creative QA 
• Client Services/client relationship management
• Leading client Kick Off calls for new campaigns 
• Monthly Reporting
• Revenue management
• Work in partnership with the Sales team to understand the client objectives and needs 
• Work in partnership with internal teams to ensure effective campaign management (Media Planning Ops, Sales Ops, Sales Strategists and others)
• Building and maintaining exceptional client relationships that will assist in smooth and on-time campaign launch and delivery, benefiting future business
• Develop exceptional understanding of WebMD media products
• Develop internal relationships and effectively communicate programme details to internal operations teams
• Working with pharmaceutical and other healthcare clients based across the world

• Bachelor’s degree
• Minimum of 4 years’ experience, including experience in agency or publisher environment with media planning responsibilities
• Passion for customer service and for ensuring that our physicians and clients have the best experience possible
• Strong desire to further education in the field of digital media and to continue learning in a rapidly evolving industry
• Excellent organisation and documentation skills
• Excellent presentation and strong communication skills. Demonstrated experience of successful stakeholder management
• Proactive and takes initiative
• Ability to quickly forge and maintain relationships
• Results-oriented with a positive outlook and a clear focus on quality of deliverables
• Diplomatic, credible and comfortable in dealing with senior executives
• Effective negotiator, able to influence stakeholders to achieve mutually beneficial outcomes
• Ability to multitask, function under pressure and meet delivery timeframes
• Organised with proven ability to manage conflicting priorities
• A true team player with willingness to pitch in
• Exceptional written and spoken English communication skills
• Enthusiastic with a positive attitude
• Experience with Microsoft Office Suite (particularly Excel) and Google GSuite (Mail, Calendar, Sheets, Slides, Docs)
• Knowledge of Digital Advertising tools (Google Ad Manager, DCM, Salesforce etc.)