Bain & Company

Bain & Company is the management consulting firm that the world’s business leaders come to when they want results. Bain advises clients on strategy, operations, information technology, organization, private equity, digital transformation and strategy, and mergers and acquisition, developing practical insights that clients act on and transferring skills that make change stick.  The firm aligns its incentives with clients by linking its fees to their results. Bain clients have outperformed the stock market 4 to 1. Founded in 1973, Bain has 57 offices in 36 countries, and its deep expertise and client roster cross every industry and economic sector. In May 2018 Bain acquired FRWD, having partnered with them for many years. The acquisition will dramatically strengthen Bain & Company’s ability to help its clients drive superior results across marketing channels, and ecommerce, decrease their long-term reliance on external partners, and leverage customer data sets for better accuracy in reaching consumers.

FRWD

FRWD is a unique digital marketing agency designed to build client capability through a comprehensive approach to helping companies make the best digital marketing investments. To do so, FRWD extends client teams through co-location of top creative, media optimization, data science, and advertising technology teams to shorten test cycle time and leverage learnings to move forward. The agency also acquires and trains talent for clients to create sustainable campaigns and drive continual improvement without further FRWD presence. FRWD works with some of the world’s most recognized consumer brands, leading healthcare providers, entertainment companies and more. FRWD is currently based in Minneapolis.

With the combined skills of Bain and FRWD, we are able to bridge the gap between brand, marketing, strategy and execution, trialing strategies in immediate real-life tests, while having the operating model and organizational design experience to scale the results throughout the organization.

In this role you, will support FRWD the media team across various media tactics within modern programmatic, display media, content syndication, paid search, and social PPC. You will also maintain healthy relationships with technology, analytics and media partners on campaign specific needs while executing planning and buying for FRWD clients.

• Manage media budgets, draft and revise media schedules and insertion orders
• Evaluate, negotiate and purchase media
• Campaign trafficking
• Write ad copy
• Conduct keyword and audience target research
• Build client facing campaign reports with full campaign analysis
• Meet with the vendor community on a regular basis to ensure clients are leveraging the latest products and technologies

We are seeking candidates with the following qualifications:

• Proficient in Microsoft Excel, Word and PowerPoint
• Experience in marketing/advertising with at least 6 months to 1 year focused on digital
• Passion for technology, marketing and its influence on consumer behavior
• Strong communication, project management, time management and analytical skills required
• Detail-oriented, very organized, a multi-tasker and able to work well under pressure
• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Marketing, Mathematics, Mass Communication or related field
• Collaborative leadership style, team oriented; brings professionalism and business acumen in all aspects of your work.
• The self-motivation to complete multiple tasks and projects on time

Looking for someone who loves digital, and won’t settle for just any job. This person should “have to be” in media and be eager and ready for anything that comes his or her way. And most importantly, someone who takes contributing to a positive and healthy work place as a serious responsibility . . . whether that be through proactive encouragement of others, random goofiness, funny but informative mass emails to the team or is just plain awesome to work with.