Media Buyer

Company Description

Welcome to Our World
We’ve been leading the charge in the affiliate industry from day one—establishing performance marketing and paving the way for future innovations. We're known for maintaining one of the largest, most reliable partnership platforms with impeccable, personalized service. Founded in Santa Barbara, California in 1998, CJ (formerly Commission Junction) stands as the most trusted name in performance marketing. We specialize in building partnerships between top brands and reputable publishers to drive revenue and business growth.

CJ’s industry-leading solutions make us the platform of choice for over 3,800 global brands across sectors like retail, travel, finance, technology, and home services. As part of Publicis Groupe, our savvy data capabilities, cutting-edge tech, and strategic expertise facilitate genuine connections, allowing brands to reach consumers wherever they are.A Quick Peek at Affiliate Marketing
Think back to your last online purchase. Did an influencer tip you off about a great product and offer a discount? Or perhaps you relied on a trusted review site to make your decision? Whatever path you took, affiliate publishers likely played a role by influencing, informing, or helping you find the best deal. CJ connects brands with these publishers, creating valuable resources for shoppers like you.

As a Media Buyer, you will play a key role in support of CJ's advertisers. You will be an extension of an advertiser’s team by maintaining all publisher relationships and by creating recruitment and optimization campaigns. You will contribute to the development of an affiliate marketing strategy for each advertiser and ensure the successful execution of that strategy, including managing Client Partnerships Associates in their tactical execution.

• Prepare strategic and revenue generating opportunities to present directly to clients
• Identify new sources of revenue: own and build top tier publisher relationships, negotiate media placements and packages, evaluate performance, and make recommendations for future investments.
• Recruit, manage and develop top tier publisher relationships on behalf of advertisers, communicating expectations, sharing best practices, disseminating offers and promotions, and providing account updates to an advertiser's growing publisher base.
• Help advertisers improve the effectiveness and efficiency of their affiliate spend by building and interpreting program performance data
• As a growth opportunity, potential to lead overall strategy and execution of an advertiser’s affiliate program
• As part of a Client Development team, collaborate with cross-departmental teams to identify and troubleshoot complex program management and technical challenges.
• Align with Client Development team to ensure accurate execution and timeliness of internal and client deliverables.
• Mentor Client Partnerships Associates: coach, provide guidance and best practices to help team members succeed at CJ

• Bachelor's Degree or related work experience and minimum of 2 years’ experience in the online marketing industry-ideally digital performance marketing.
• Clear and effective communication and can convey complex results in a simple, clear manner, using solid eye for business, demonstrating a competent level command of digital marketing concepts.
• Ability to influence/develop account strategies that employ analysis and insights to contribute to meeting or exceeding advertiser objectives.
• Ability to complete a variety of tasks within designated time frames, delivering exceptional quality results and are able to directly contribute to the formation of client campaigns and quarterly business results.
• Results oriented problem solver.
• Proficient knowledge of the Microsoft suite of products including Windows, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Respectful to varying opinions and perspectives

This is a hybrid role requiring 3 days a week in office. CJ is the leader in Performance Marketing. We take pride in our innovative technology, comprehensive data solutions and our people. We equip our teams with advanced tools, training and…