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  • Carlberg | Houston, TX | Salaried | ~$65,000 | Hybrid 

    About the Role 

    Carlberg is a full-service marketing and advertising agency based in Houston. The Media Buyer is the operational backbone of the media team, responsible for keeping campaigns running accurately across broadcast TV, radio, digital, OOH, and more. 

    This is a back-of-house role split roughly between two functions: campaign reporting and performance analysis, and media buying, billing, and reconciliation. The primary relationships are internal and vendor-facing, with occasional client interaction. Ideal for someone with 3-5 years of agency experience who works well independently and takes full ownership of their accounts. 

     

    Your Day-to-Day 

    • Monitor campaign performance and surface trends, insights, and opportunities 

    • Build and maintain reporting that helps the team understand what is working and why 

    • Hold vendors accountable to contracted delivery and performance benchmarks 

    • Communicate directly with vendors to confirm details and resolve discrepancies 

    • Place and maintain media orders across channels in Bionic/Strata or similar platforms 

    • Reconcile vendor invoices against authorizations and flag discrepancies 

    • Manage billing workflows and support accurate client invoicing 

    • Organize and manipulate campaign data sets in Excel to support reporting 

    • Leverage AI tools to streamline reporting, data cleanup, and routine tasks 

     

    Qualifications 

    • 3-5 years of experience on the agency side of media or advertising 

    • Experience with media billing, invoicing, and order reconciliation 

    • Strong analytical skills, able to translate data into clear takeaways 

    • Comfortable working autonomously in a fast-paced environment with shifting priorities 

    • Confident communicator with vendors, able to push back and resolve issues independently 

    • Highly organized with strong attention to detail across multiple accounts 

    • Quick learner who takes initiative without waiting to be told 

    • Curious about where the industry is headed, including ad tech and AI 

     

    Tools 

    • Bionic / Strata  1+ year hands-on experience required; order entry, flowcharts, scheduling 

    • Excel  large data sets, pivot tables, reconciliation work 

    • AI tools  ChatGPT, Claude, etc.; actively using for drafting, data cleanup, and workflow efficiency 

     

    Nice to Have 

    • Paid social campaign management experience (Meta Ads Manager, etc.) 

    • Programmatic media management and/or buying experience 

    • Familiarity with digital analytics platforms (Google Analytics, Looker Studio) 

    • Experience across multiple verticals including automotive, healthcare, higher education, or government/PSA