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Media Assistant

Posted on April 9, 2025

Auckland City, New Zealand
0 - 0 USD (yearly)

Full Time

Haere mai ki PHD Aotearoa!

Interested in joining our award-winning team?

PHD's reputation as a fantastic place to work is widely recognised, from our limitless learning and development opportunities across an enviable client list and agency specialisms, to our fun culture and inclusive environment.

Amongst the wider industry, we are equally renowned as the media agency delivering clients an unfair advantage. Behind this advantage is our unique winning formula - a handpicked winning team of experts, backed by a comprehensive suite of best-in-class services, advanced products, and innovative technology.

As our newest PHD'er, what would this this mean for you? You'd get to deliver this advantage to clients through your mahi, talents, skills, and `play to win' attitude while keeping yourself future fit and having a phenomenal time.

As for other agency benefits loved by the PHD team? There's our free life insurance and discounted health insurance and gym memberships and a wellness program keeping us all happy and healthy, birthday and long weekend gift day programs which bump up our leave days, along with an annual calendar of industry, social and cultural celebration events.

We welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, neurodivergent status, religion and/or beliefs, and all applicants are valued for the talents, expertise, experience, and perspective they offer.

We'd love to tell you more about PHD and the role, and encourage you to apply through the job ad.

About the role

What does a Media Agency do?

Simply put, we manage the strategy, planning and buying of media for some of the world's largest advertisers and most iconic brands. We work with some of the best creative minds in the world to deliver media solutions that span across all offline and online channels (television, radio, cinema, press, OOH, digital) and continents. Sounds cool, right? It is...

What does a Media Assistant do?

A Media Assistant position is the gateway to a career in media and will enable you to gain a solid foundation into any career in Marketing/Advertising. The commitment and investment that we will make towards your training now, and throughout your career is significant as you will not only learn media skills but also benefit from our extensive professional development program.

Over the first 12-18 months, whilst you learn as much as you can about the industry & tools (there are a few!) you will play a key role in your client team supporting the administrative & buying process for your designated client portfolio. Your contribution to the team and the broader business will never be underestimated!

As your knowledge increases you will interact with clients & media owners more and more and gradually, under guidance, you will take on planning and buying responsibilities.

Key day-to-day tasks

Turn up with a positive attitude and apply yourself to become indispensable to the team
Support the team with a range of administrative tasks - Check/manage/implement media bookings, compile competitive analysis and research, track campaign performance and manage reporting
Stay updated on any program changes / launches, audience viewing figures (screen & OOH), circulation / readership figures (print), listener numbers (radio), new media developments
Build strong and successful working relationships with your team, other internal teams, media representatives and creative agencies
Weekly monitoring of all campaigns to identify any discrepancies
Attend training sessions, workshops and strategy sessions. Continually seek to learn and develop
The role and ultimately your career, will centre around data as we report on every cent of media spend, track every campaign and as every day goes by, we use data more frequently and in more sophisticated ways.
Whilst having a strong mathematical background isn't necessary (excel does the maths for us nowadays!) a strong attention to detail and an understanding of the importance or reporting and finances is a must.

At this stage of your career, there is little experience required, it's all about attitude... the tools and training programs are there to help you succeed.

Some key attributes that we look for are: