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About the Role

The Sales Planner will act in partnership with our Advertising Sales team to provide thoughtful and compelling programs that deliver successful outcomes for our Advertisers. The Sales Planner will be trained and mentored to become knowledgeable of digital and audio advertising platforms, tools, and products and advise our advertiser and agency partners of New York Times solutions that meet their goals. The Sales Planner will be assigned to specific markets and be a partner to sales and other operational teams.

Responsibilities:

+ Support development of Requests for Proposal (RFP) process using the full scope of NYT ad products that address the advertiser's needs and campaign goals for digital and audio business lines.

+ Build and revise media plans, check avails, reserve fixed placements and update associated fixed placement calendars, negotiate Terms & Conditions. Enter final plans into online proposal systems.

+ Manage the digital process workflow from RFP to IO and collaborate with approval stakeholders in AdOps, Revenue Analytics, Legal, Ad Product, Research and Strategy.

+ Follow process controls and ensure all approvals are accurately secured.

+ Maintain proper documentation of all IOs, T&Cs and Campaign activities.

+ Attend all Product training and develop an understanding of the full suite of NYT products across all platforms.

+ Help with campaign kick off management.

+ Coordinate handoff of digital campaigns to AdOps to ensure pre and post sales continuity

+ Field customer complaints and work with the appropriate department to resolve them.

+ Respond to servicing and information requests from team members and clients: work with various internal teams to gather information for customers and fulfill requests

+ Provide excellent customer service to both internal and external clients.

+ Communicate detailed and specific account information to Sales and Operations management.

+ When other pod team members are OOO or low on bandwidth, Planner is responsible for coverage and resourcing assistance to support larger pod needs.

+ Demonstrate support and understanding of our value of journalistic independence (https://www.nytco.com/company/mission-and-values/) and a strong commitment to our mission to seek the truth and help people understand the world.

Basic Qualifications:

+ 2+ years media experience

+ 2+ years of experience with Microsoft and Google Suite applications

+ Excellent knowledge of advertising and digital media

+ Collaborative, responsive and accountable

Preferred Qualifications:

+ BS/BA degree or equivalent work experience

+ 2+ years of experience with Salesforce

+ Experience in Media

+ Experience working in an Advertising or Publication industry

This position is represented by the NewsGuild of NY.

REQ-019060

The hourly rate of base pay for this role is:

$39.64 — $43.96 USD

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