The Services External Marketing team is responsible for cultivating awareness and education of the company's full suite of services and driving new customer acquisition through various marketing channels. Our rapidly growing team is looking for a Strategic Planning Specialist across the company's payment properties to join the Strategic Planning team. In this role, you will collaborate closely with marketing leads, media teams, creative strategists, analytics, and data personnel to build data-informed recommendations and campaigns. Excellent communication, interpersonal and presentation skills are essential, along with the ability to prioritize, adapt to change and multi-task within a dynamic environment.

Key Qualifications:

• 5+ years media planning and strategy experience, agency experience a plus!
• Expertise in cross channel tactical planning for performance and brand KPIs.
• Demonstrated ability to leverage data and insights to build audience profiles, create clear communication plans, and develop channel-level marketing strategies that tie back to business objectives
• Familiarity with traditional media channels (OOH, TV), digital advertising, and social media platforms and their relationship with each other in multifaceted, integrated campaigns
• Track record of measuring impact through different testing and measurement solutions with the ability to also share results and future recommendations in a digestible way
• Proficiency working within syndicated research sources (MRI/ Simmons, comScore, etc.) and social listening tools
• A self-starter who can work autonomously with agility, prioritize effectively, and manage multiple projects at one time
• Excellent presentation, written and verbal communication skills
• Knowledge of financial services marketing and/ or acquisition marketing strategies a plus.

Description:
You will be responsible for developing integrated media strategies within Services. Additionally, you will manage workflow between external and internal media teams and the implementation of each strategy. You will analyze the performance of media channels and provide insights to
ensure key partners understand plans, optimizations and results. In addition to developing sophisticated external marketing strategies, you will position yourself as the strategic thought leader for your business stakeholders and provide direction on how they allocate budgets, effectively leverage media for their needs while providing insight on branding and messaging within creative. Your ability to clearly communicate challenges, solutions, recommendations, and perspectives will be integral to the team's success in a constantly evolving environment.

Education

• BS/BA degree required

The target hiring compensation range for this role is $62.61 to $69.57 an hour. Compensation is based on several factors including, but not limited to education, relevant work experience, relevant certifications, and location.

About Aquent Talent:

Aquent Talent connects the best talent in marketing, creative, and design with the world’s biggest brands.

Our eligible talent get access to amazing benefits like subsidized health, vision, and dental plans, paid sick leave, and retirement plans with a match. We also offer free online training through Aquent Gymnasium. More information on our awesome benefits! 

Aquent is an equal-opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics. We’re about creating an inclusive environment-one where different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives are valued, and everyone can contribute, grow their careers, and thrive.

Our client, a leader in consumer electronics, is one of the greatest, most innovative, world-changing companies ever created! More like a cluster of start-ups versus a large company, they are single-handedly credited with creating some of the most impactful products of this generation.

Working alongside some of the brightest and most talented people, the work you do here will add up to something big that could not be done anywhere else.  There is no doubt that your best work will be brought out achieving some hefty goals at a heroic pace.

One thing we know is that you WILL NOT ever be bored.

Here are some more things you can expect:

• Wi-fi equipped shuttle service
• Free parking
• Onsite cafeteria

WORKING WITH AQUENT: long-term assignments with Aquent gets you access to some pretty cool things:
– You’re paid weekly
– Subsidized health (including term life and LTD) and dental benefits after your first four weeks of work (averaging at least 20 hrs/wk)
– Access to Fidelity 401(k)
– Access to FSA Program
– Direct deposit for your pay check
– Access to our Talent Rewards Program (we reward for referrals!)
– Access to free online courses via Aquent’s Gymnasium, to help you develop your skills: http://gymnasium.aquent.com/
– Access to free online courses via Lynda.com
– Aquent support: your Aquent Agent checks in with you during the course of your contract to make sure you’re happy and progressing according to your expectations (we’re also there to be looking for new opportunities for you when you’re close to wrapping up)