Marketing Media Manager

At T-Mobile, we invest in YOU! Our Total Rewards Package ensures that employees get the same big love we give our customers. All team members receive a competitive base salary and compensation package - this is Total Rewards. Employees enjoy multiple wealth-building opportunities through our annual stock grant, employee stock purchase plan, 401(k), and access to free, year-round money coaches. That’s how we’re UNSTOPPABLE for our employees!The Marketing Media Manager is a core member of the Media Operations & Partnerships team, helping steward a $2B enterprise media investment portfolio across all lines of business. This role sits at the center of media financial operations, driving budget governance, operational excellence, and data integrity across highly visible deliverables that inform senior leadership and guide media investment decisions.

Partnering closely with the broader media team, in-house activation team, media enablement team, our agency, and Finance team, this position ensures accurate budget management, spend tracking, streamlined processes, and reliable reporting that underpin the effectiveness of the Media team.

The ideal candidate excels at juggling multiple detail-oriented priorities, proactively navigates ambiguity with a solutions-oriented mindset, and has a passion for reimagining how work gets done. This individual embraces AI and automation as part of their everyday toolkit, bringing experience applying AI and automation to improve efficiency, enhance data quality, and streamline business processes. They are naturally curious, continuously seeking opportunities to simplify workflows, challenge manual ways of working, and thoughtfully apply AI-enabled capabilities to improve day-to-day operations. Success in this role requires strong attention to detail, collaboration, and communication to manage the constantly evolving landscape of media investments while helping evolve how our team operates.

This is a hybrid role requiring a minimum of 3 days per week in office.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

• Own enterprise-wide budget tracking for a $2B media investment portfolio, ensuring financial accuracy, comprehensive documentation, and alignment with Finance partners
• Support the weekly Flowchart creation, ensuring accurate spend compilation and safeguarding the integrity of the inputs used in the Media Mix Model and executive reporting while partnering to advance automation of the process
• Partner with the Media Enablement team to modernize financial workflows by identifying opportunities to leverage automation and AI-enabled solutions, transforming manual spreadsheet-based workflows into scalable, system-driven processes
• Manage end-to-end creation and coordination of media Purchase Orders (PO), ensuring accurate documentation, stakeholder communication, and timely submission and approvals
• Lead end-to-end management of reclass funding and firm/flexible spend reporting, driving financial clarity on alternative funding sources and enabling agile investment strategies
• Lead or support cross-functional initiatives, special projects and ad hoc requests as needed
• Ensure quality assurance across media financial operations, maintaining the accuracy, consistency, and reliability of key deliverables
• Also responsible for other duties/projects as assigned by business management as needed

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Quality Assurance & Attention to Detail: Demonstrates exceptional attention to detail, ensuring the accuracy, integrity, and consistency of financial data and key deliverables
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Proven ability to build strong partnerships across internal teams, agency partners, and cross-functional stakeholders to drive alignment and achieve shared business objectives
• AI and Automation: Demonstrated experience leveraging AI and automation tools to improve business processes, enhance data quality, and increase operational efficiency
• Process Improvement: Identifies and implements opportunities to simplify workflows, improve operational efficiency, and scale repeatable processes
• Microsoft Excel & Data Analysis: Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel, including managing large datasets, building complex formulas, analyzing financial data, and creating clear visualizations
• Media Planning Knowledge: Working knowledge of paid media channels and planning principles to effectively interpret and manage media investment data
• Adaptability & Continuous Improvement: Thrives in a fast-paced, evolving environment, effectively managing changing priorities while proactively identifying opportunities to improve processes and ways of working
• Organization & Documentation Management: Maintains organized, accessible, and up-to-date documentation, ensuring knowledge is easily shared and processes remain sustainable
  
  

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's degree plus 2 years of related work experience OR combination of education and experience deemed equivalent. Acceptable areas of study include Business, Marketing, Communications or related field
• 4 years in Media management experience in consumer products; agency media planning preferred
• Experience with budget management and/or tracking preferred
• Experience dealing with large-scale, multi-dimensional reporting preferred​
• At least 18 years of age
• Legally authorized to work in the United States

Travel Required (Yes/No): Yes

Total Target Cash Earnings Opportunity: $69,300 - $124,960National Base Pay Range: $63,000 - $113,600

The Total Target Cash Earnings Opportunity represents the expected total cash compensation for this role at target performance, combining base salary and annual incentive opportunity. Actual earnings may be higher or lower depending on individual performance and overall company results.

The base pay range reflects the compensation component of this opportunity. The candidate’s actual pay will be based on various factors, such as work location, qualifications, and experience, so the actual starting pay will vary within this range. To find the pay range for this role based on hiring location,

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