Offer summary

Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Marketing, Media Studies, or Communications, 3-5 years of experience in media finance or managing media campaigns, Experience with Media Ocean, NetSuite and/or Adobe Workfront, Strong interpersonal, analytical, and problem-solving skills..

Key responsibilities:

Oversee the media vendor billing process including invoice approvals and monthly reconciliation

Collaborate with agency finance and client teams to implement and improve billing processes

Act as the point of contact for all media out of pocket expenses across the organization

Manage vendor contracts and logistics related to NDAs and insertion orders.

Job description

About Avalere Health

Guided by a single mission to make EVERY PATIENT POSSIBLE, our Advisory, Medical, and Marketing capabilities move as one, ensuring every patient is identified, supported, treated, and cared for. Equally.

Avalere Health is a global strategic partner, perfectly formed to solve the biggest challenges in health—at pace and at scale. We are united across the product lifecycle, uniquely positioned to understand every angle of life, health, and the human condition. Partnering with our clients, we are building a world where healthcare is not a barrier. And no patient is left behind.

We are powered by our unique and proprietary model, SenseMaking. Combining strategic tools and human ingenuity, SenseMaking allows us to transform limitations into pathways, obstacles into possibilities, and intricacy into action. Our talented, diverse, and passionate team—known as SenseMakers—strive each day to make EVERY PATIENT POSSIBLE.

We take pride in being part of the Disability Confident Scheme. This helps make sure you can be interviewed fairly if you have a disability, long term health condition, or are neurodiverse. If you'd like to apply and need adjustments made, you can let us know in your application.

About the role

The Media Finance Manager is part of the Media Department and will partner with our media planning teams across a portfolio of multiple brands, to approve and reconcile media out of pocket spend. The Media Finance Manager will approve all display media invoices and reconcile each month, track approved media SOWs and MAFs (Media Authorization Form) for each campaign. The Media Finance Manager will be asked to attend monthly meetings between media brand teams and agency finance to ensure media finance tracking is correct with all parties. The role will also include managing vendor contracting and onboarding new vendor partners.

What you'll do

Oversee all aspects of the media vendor billing process, including billing schedules, invoice approvals, monthly reconciliation, invoice/billing discrepancies

Ensure media billing process is implemented across all legacy agencies/LOBs

Work with agency finance department and Media Supervisor to implement billing process with a focus on improving cross charge billing process

Work collaboratively with client teams to implement pre-billing process

Point of contact for all media OOP across Avalere Health

Work closely with Accounts Payable/Receivable to ensure alignment on media finance.

Participate in weekly/monthly client teams meetings to ensure media finance tracking is correct with all parties

Review and submit vendor contracts for approval

Manage the logistics around NDAs and insertion orders for vendors

About you

Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Marketing, Media Studies, or Communications

3-5 years of experience in media finance or managing medium-to-large scale media campaigns (both digital and non-digital)

Experience with Media Ocean, NetSuite and/or Adobe Workfront

Exceptional knowledge of media buying process

Experience communicating with key stakeholders including internal teams and agency partners

Ability to multitask and be a team player in fast paced environment

Strong interpersonal, analytical, problem-solving, negotiating, and conflict resolution skills

Strong time management skills

Strong personal organization

What we can offer

Avalere Health aims to empower every employee to develop and thrive. We empower our team with the tools, skills, and support needed to think differently and to solve healthcare’s most complex challenges.

At the center of our people-led culture is our Career Experience team, whose mission is to provide every employee with a purpose-driven career. We also pride ourselves on our personalized learning approach to ensure you receive the training you need to help you grow within the company and take advantage of our global scale and scope.

We are committed to embedding diversity and inclusion in every aspect of our organization. We encourage diversity of thought, inclusive behavior, and break down barriers to ensure every individual feels valued and encouraged to contribute their unique abilities and potential. As part of our commitment to building a healthier world, every employee is also encouraged to participate in our community engagement efforts, which support a wide range of healthcare programs and wellbeing causes worldwide.

We have city hubs across North America, Europe, and Asia, geared toward collaborating, training, socializing, and coming together as a global organization while maintaining and fully supporting flexible working practices. Our compensation and benefits package is benchmarked across the industry. We offer a generous company pension/retirement plan, private medical insurance, comprehensive employee wellbeing initiatives, compelling time-off policy, plus many other excellent employee benefits.

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