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
$80,000 - $100,000 a year
We are committed to offering a competitive and fair salary that reflects your location, qualifications and the experience you will bring to our team. Salary ranges posted are DOE.
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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