Media Planner at OUTsurance

Minimum Qualifications and Experience:

• A Marketing Diploma/ Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent qualification.
• A minimum of 2 years’ experience in a media planning or an analytical role.
• A good understanding of the media industry
• MS Excel proficient
• Working on Telmar and/ Nielson - advantageous 

Key Responsibilities:

• Analysing previous media costs and results and subsequently base future planning on the analysis.
• Negotiate compensation for non-placement and incorrect media placement and respond to any misplacement or non-placement of advertising.
• Ensure that written approval is obtained from the Media Manager prior to any booking being made.
• Providing accurate and detailed information on all bookings.
• Notification of unavailable spots/positions and suitable alternatives.
• Balancing back and updating of media bookings to ensure there is not an over-underspend in plans received
• Co-ordination with finance department to ensure billing ensues correctly and timeously.
• Maintaining good media owner relationships.
• Daily, Weekly and Monthly analysing of stats and reporting thereof.
• Quarterly competitor analysis

Competencies:

• Good planning and organising skills.
• Strong Analytical Ability.
• A high sense of accountability and responsibility. This includes understanding the impact on the business of non-delivery to agreed commitments.
• Striving to deliver the highest quality at all times with high attention to detail.
• Displaying a consistent high degree of accuracy and a sense of urgency when under pressure.
• Ability to consolidate information and demonstrate resourcefulness and make decisions quickly.
• Aptitude and confidence with numbers – high degree of mathematical ability.
• Team player and interpersonal skills - ability to build and maintain strong relationships with media owners, creative agency teams and internal colleagues.
• Trustworthy.
• Proven paid for campaign monitoring, excel experience and analytical ability 
• Good administration skills.
• Reliable, flexible
• Proactive and productive
• Completes a reasonable amount of work of acceptable standard, timeously.
• Money management skills.
• Good communication skills both written and verbal.
• Computer literacy with high proficiency in Microsoft Excel.
• Willingness to learn and accept instructions, correction and supervision and direction.

Additional Information:

• The above job description does not include all of the duties that a Media Planner will be asked to perform while on  the job. A Media Planner will also be asked to perform other duties and handle other responsibilities. In addition, a portion of the all of the above job description may be changed or revised from time to time.
• An ideal candidate will be able to align their personal work values to the OUTsurance values of awesome service, dynamic, honest, human, passionate and recognition.
• In accordance with OUTsurance Insurance Company Ltd Employment Equity goals, preference will be given to individuals who meet the job requirements and are from the various designated groups.