Klick

Associate Director, Media Planning

Klick  •  $95k/yr  •  Toronto, CA (Hybrid)  •  3 hours ago
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Job Description

The Klick Group—comprising Klick Health (including Klick Katalyst and btwelve), Klick Media Group, Klick Applied Sciences (including Klick Labs), Klick Consulting, and Klick Ventures—is an ecosystem dedicated to realizing the full potential of our people and clients in life sciences. Founded in 1997, we have offices in New York, Philadelphia, Saratoga Springs, Toronto, London, São Paulo, and Singapore. Consistently named a Best Managed Company, Most Admired Corporate Culture, and Great Place to Work, Klick is committed to fostering a high-performance, people-first culture with creativity, collaboration, innovation, and impact across everything we do.

About Klick Media

Our Media Craft ensures that Klick’s work reaches the right audiences at the right moments. This craft combines audience insight, data, and technology to drive measurable impact. Media teams continuously test, learn, and optimize to improve performance. Their work connects strategy and creativity to real-world results.

The Associate Director, Media Planning leads digital media planning for healthcare and life sciences clients across channels such as search, display, video, email, mobile, and programmatic media. This role develops research-backed media recommendations, partners with Media Operations and Analytics to activate and optimize campaigns, and serves as a daily client-facing lead. The role also manages media budgets, vendor relationships, performance reporting, and cross-functional collaboration with Strategy, Creative, Content, and Client Services.

What You’ll Do

  • Develop integrated digital media plans for healthcare clients using audience insights, channel strategy, budget allocation, and performance goals.
  • Lead client-facing media planning discussions, presenting recommendations, reporting, and optimization opportunities to senior stakeholders.
  • Manage media budgets, vendor relationships, media spend approvals, and campaign expenses in partnership with Media Operations.
  • Collaborate with Analytics to review campaign performance, identify insights, and translate reporting into actionable media optimizations.
  • Partner with Creative, Content, Strategy, and Client Services teams to align media plans with campaign objectives and measurable business outcomes.

Qualifications

  • 7+ years of media planning experience, including agency experience developing digital media plans across paid search, display, video, email, mobile, or programmatic channels.
  • 3+ years of client-facing experience presenting media strategy, recommendations, and performance reporting to senior clients or cross-functional stakeholders.
  • Experience managing media budgets, vendor relationships, campaign spend approvals, and media-related expenses for active client programs.
  • Hands-on experience with DoubleClick Campaign Manager, DoubleVerify, Bionic, or comparable media planning and campaign management tools.
  • Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint, including budget tracking, media plan development, reporting, and client-ready presentations.
  • Experience planning media for US healthcare, pharmaceutical, life sciences, or regulated-industry clients.

Desired:

  • Comfort and enthusiasm for using AI as a regular part of how work gets done.
  • Experience influencing content, creative, and channel recommendations within a full-service digital marketing agency.
  • Experience working across both US and Canadian healthcare audiences, including patients, caregivers, and healthcare professionals.
  • Experience translating media performance data into optimization recommendations for clients or internal stakeholders.
  • Familiarity with healthcare media compliance, regulated communications, or pharma review processes.

Additional Information

This vacancy is for a backfill here at Klick Health. The base salary range for this position is between CAD 95,000 - 120,000. The final amount offered will be determined based on several factors such as a candidate's work location, their unique skill set, education, and prior work experience.

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Our Commitment to Inclusion

Klick is consciously creating a culture where everyone can thrive and grow in their careers. We believe that our best work comes from our diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We strongly encourage members of historically underrepresented communities to apply, including Black people, Indigenous peoples, and other people of color, people with disabilities, people from gender and sexually diverse communities and people with intersectional identities. We're also committed to developing an inclusive, barrier-free recruitment process and work environment. Should you require any accommodation, please contact us at careers@klick.com and we will work with you to meet your accessibility needs and ensure you have a positive experience.

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About Klick

Klick Health is the world’s largest independent commercialization partner for life sciences. For over 25 years, Klick has been laser-focused on developing, launching, and supporting life sciences brands to maximize their full market potential as a core commercialization partner.

Klick is opening offices in regional hubs and key markets to provide local support for our clients in countries outside of North America. These seven new offices are purpose-built to replicate the core components of our culture and values and be 100% dedicated to the pharma and life sciences business.

We believe that when your people are the center of gravity, clients are the ultimate beneficiaries. Success, in its highest form, is always mutual. Our culture of kindness and high performance attracts innovators and leaders who care about doing the best work possible in an environment that supports their rapid growth.

Together, we can turn any problem into a potentially life-changing opportunity.

Industry
Marketing & Advertising
Company Size
1,001-5,000 employees
Headquarters
Toronto, CA
Year Founded
1997
Website
klick.com
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