Media Buyer, Paid Social

Are you a paid social media pro who thrives in a fast-paced, team-driven environment? Do you stay ahead of emerging platforms and trends, eager to bring fresh opportunities to clients? If you’re detail-oriented yet strategic, adaptable to change, and energized by variety, Walz Tetrick’s growing digital media team could be the perfect place for you.

As a Media Buyer on the Paid Social team, you’ll actively contribute to client meetings, offering insights, recommendations, and innovative ideas to enhance both new and existing campaigns. You’ll take ownership of weekly and monthly reporting for a dedicated client roster. If you love wearing multiple hats, staying busy, and collaborating with a dynamic team, this is the opportunity for you.

• Develop strategic integrated media plans.
• Align client objectives with KPIs that achieve optimal campaign performance.
• Provide client reporting monthly and, in some cases, weekly or as requested.
• Collaborate with the agency team in brainstorming, identifying, evaluating, and recommending new opportunities.
• Oversee client and vendor billing and reconcile with accounting.
• Maintain strong relationships with other agency departments and agency partners.
• Prioritize client requests with team collaboration, including account service.
• Identify department training needs and provide input for educational initiatives.
• Work directly in social platforms to build recommendations, activate campaigns, and pull reporting and insights.
• Manage and track pixel placement.
• Manage and report on higher-budget conversion campaigns.
• Lead by example, support Walz Tetrick’s values, and positively contribute to the culture.

• 3-5 years of experience in paid social advertising.
• Experience in planning and buying directly in social platforms with a variety of objectives and budgets.
• Self-motivation and proven time management.
• Strong written and oral communication skills.
• Established organizational expertise and keen attention to detail.
• Involvement with client and vendor billing and reconciliation.
• Ability to identify and solve problems.
• Strategic thinking and interest in what’s on the horizon and how it may impact digital/social advertising to come.
• Work well in a cross-functional, collaborative, team environment.

About Walz Tetrick Advertising

Walz Tetrick is a full-service marketing, creative and media agency in Kansas City. The Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce named Walz Tetrick one of its Top 10 Small Businesses in 2022, honoring our resilience, innovation and values. Though we’ve been around since 1967, we approach every opportunity with the same zeal we did when we were just getting started. We look for associates, partners and clients who share that enthusiasm and appreciate our all-in approach to brand activation. With each day, we harness more tools and information to illuminate our way.

Walz Tetrick offers an office culture like no other. CEO Charlie Tetrick values his employees and creates a uniquely positive and supportive culture. We work and play as a family. Our current work hours are “in office” Monday, Wednesday and Thursday with an option to “work from anywhere” Tuesday and Friday.

We’re proud of our strong benefits package that includes a 401(k) with an employer match, long-term disability and dental insurance. We offer excellent health insurance, and the agency pays 90 percent of the employees’ premiums with an option to add a spouse and family. We have a generous paid time off policy that includes days to volunteer at a charity of your choice.

If you’re passionate, strategic, collaborative and kind, with a dose of scrappy thrown in, we want to meet you.

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