Senior Media Planner/Buyer

SENIOR MEDIA PLANNER/BUYER

At Bader Rutter, we do more than just create media strategies. We craft connections that matter. If you're passionate about paid media, thrive in collaborative environments and love turning data and insights into impactful media opportunities, let's chat. Here, you'll find a supportive team that values curiosity, creativity and courage, along with the balance and growth opportunities to do your best work. Who You Are You're a strategic, detail-oriented media professional with experience planning and buying across digital, traditional and emerging channels. You are confident in owning day-to-day media execution while building strong relationships with clients, teams and vendors. You bring a data-driven mindset, communicate clearly and are always looking for smarter ways to improve performance.

What You'll Do Strategize & Plan:

Develop insight-driven media strategies and tactical plans aligned with broader communications goals.

Lead Execution:

Serve as the day-to-day client contact as you manage planning, buying and campaign delivery.

Collaborate:

Partner with internal teams, clients and vendors to execute integrated campaigns.

Negotiate:

Secure strong rates, added value and premium placements across channels.

Analyze & Optimize:

Monitor performance, report on results and identify opportunities to improve.

Evaluate & Innovate:

Assess media opportunities and explore new channels and best practices.

Ensure Quality:

Maintain accuracy and excellence across all plans and deliverables. What You Bring Bachelor's degree (or equivalent experience) and 4-7 years of media planning/buying experience. Strong analytical, budgeting and forecasting skills with high attention to detail. Experience developing and presenting media plans. Proficiency in Microsoft Office and familiarity with platforms like MediaOcean/Prisma, SRDS, Google Campaign Manager, MRI/Simmons, etc. Excellent communication, organization and collaboration skills.

Location:

Open to candidates based in Milwaukee and Chicago.

Salary Range:

$75,000-90,000 annually The provided salary range is a good faith estimate of what we expect to pay for this hire. The actual salary offered will be influenced by candidate experience and other job and market-related factors. In addition to the base salary, our comprehensive benefits package includes medical, dental and vision insurance with HSA and FSA options, disability and life/AD&D, accident, critical illness and hospital indemnity insurance, pet insurance, identity theft protection, unlimited virtual telemedicine and mental health counseling, 401(k) including company matching, flexible paid time off, paid holidays, paid parental leave and much more.