Join a leading technology company’s Services team and help shape the future of our sports media properties. As a Strategic Planning Specialist supporting our sports businesses (soccer, baseball, and sports app), you’ll work at the intersection of strategy, media planning, and project management to drive audience growth and engagement across multiple platforms. In this fast-paced role, you’ll collaborate with marketing teams, creative partners, data analysts, and business stakeholders to develop and execute integrated media strategies that align with our sports business objectives.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and execute integrated media strategies across our sports properties
• Lead day-to-day media planning process, from securing budgets to tracking performance
• Work closely with creative operations team to develop and implement campaign creative assets
• Manage specifications in Air Table for creative tracking and ensure timely delivery
• Provide regular status updates and maintain detailed documentation for marketing stakeholders
• Collaborate with data analytics teams to monitor campaign performance and implement optimizations
• Translate performance insights into strategic recommendations for future campaigns
• Create compelling, digestible presentations to communicate plans, results, and strategies to stakeholders
• Maintain organized documentation of cross-functional meetings and action items

Required Qualifications

• 4-5+ years of media planning and strategy experience (agency experience strongly preferred)
• Experience developing cross-channel media plans across digital, social, OOH, CTV, and traditional channels
• Strong understanding of media budget allocation based on performance data and strategic goals
• Expertise in building media briefs, reviewing media plans, and translating complex information into clear presentations
• Experience working with creative teams on campaign development from concept to execution
• Strong project management skills with ability to track multiple workstreams simultaneously
• Exceptional communication and presentation skills
• Adaptability and ability to thrive in a fast-paced, meeting-heavy environment
• Passionate knowledge of sports and understanding of sports media/marketing landscape

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working directly on sports campaigns or with sports media properties
• Background in audience strategy and insights
• Experience with data analysis tools and performance measurement frameworks
• Understanding of media trafficking processes and specifications

Education

• Bachelor’s degree required

The target hiring compensation range for this role is $58.50 to $65.00 an hour. Compensation is based on several factors including, but not limited to education, relevant work experience, relevant certifications, and location.

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About the Team

The Strategic Planning team sits at the center of our sports media business, connecting marketing, creative, analytics, and business teams to develop cohesive strategies. Our team moves quickly to adapt to the dynamic nature of live sports and works collaboratively to grow our presence in the sports media landscape. This role offers an opportunity to make a significant impact on how millions of fans experience sports through our platforms.

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 assignment 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)