Media Investment Analyst
As a Media Investment Analyst at Vendor-MGT you work on the advertiser's side of the table. You dig into media plans, delivery reports and invoices, expose where value leaks between deals and buying, and translate opaque numbers into clear, defensible answers for our clients. We are independent by design - we work only for advertisers and never buy or sell media - so your only agenda is the truth.
What you'll do
- Audit media plans, delivery reports and invoices against contracts and external benchmarks.
- Trace numbers back to their source and flag where transparency breaks down.
- Turn complex, cross-channel data into clear findings and recommendations advertisers can act on.
- Support media agency selections, audits and vendor-management programmes worldwide - single markets, regional groups and global reviews across dozens of countries.
- Sharpen our methods, checks and definitions so every review is consistent and repeatable.
What you bring
- Five or more years in media - agency, auditor, advertiser or ad-tech - with a strong grasp of how media is planned, bought and reported.
- A financial and analytical instinct: you like reconciling numbers and you notice when they do not add up.
- The independence of mind to challenge a finding and defend it with evidence.
- Clear writing and communication - you can explain a complex issue to a CMO and a CFO alike.
- Comfort working across markets and channels, online and offline.
- You expect the tooling to do the counting, and you spend your time on what the numbers mean.
What we offer
- A role entirely on the advertiser's side - no agency margins, no conflicts of interest.
- Work on the media investments of some of the world's best-known advertisers, where a single finding can change what a year of media delivers.
- A small, senior team that values craft, rigour and raising the level of the game.
- Flexible working from our Amsterdam or Jakarta base, with room to work partly remotely.
- We build our own analytical tooling for this work - you help shape what it looks for, rather than using what someone else built.
How we hire
No panels, no black holes.
On pay: what we offer depends on what you bring and where you sit, so we set it per person rather than per band. Money comes up in the second conversation, with a real number, not a range you have to decode.
How it works: two conversations, both with the people you would actually work with, including the founder. The first is about you and about us. The second is about the work itself: we put an anonymised media file in front of you and talk through what you see. Terms follow that same round, once we both know what we are talking about. Then a decision, from us and from you. No panels, no assessments, no six-week silences.
Where you can be based: our team works from Amsterdam and from Jakarta, with room to work partly remotely. Our clients are worldwide, so for the right person we will look at other arrangements rather than rule them out.
On your application: everything you send us is treated the way we treat client documents: read by us, shared with no one, and used for nothing but this conversation. We read every application ourselves, and we get in touch when we see a fit. If you have not heard from us within two weeks, please take that as a no, with our thanks for the time you put in. We keep applications on file for three months and then delete them.
How to apply
Send your CV and a short note on why this role fits you. We respond within one working day, from a real person.
In your application, tell us clearly in which media markets you are genuinely proficient - the specific countries where you understand how media is planned, bought and reported. We pay close attention to where someone's market knowledge runs deep.
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