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Media Buyer resume template
A clean starting structure with example content grounded in what media buyers actually do day to day, not generic filler. Download and replace the bracketed placeholders with your own details.
Which resume format should you use?
Reverse chronological
You have a steady work history. This is the format almost every recruiter and ATS expects by default.
Functional
You're changing fields or have gaps in your employment. Leads with skills rather than a job-by-job timeline.
Combination
You're early career or have worked consistently but for only a few employers. Blends a skills summary with a shorter chronological history.
This template uses the reverse chronological format: the one most media buyers should default to, since most Australian recruiters and ATS software expect it.
Professional summary
Media buyer with a track record of planning and negotiating advertising placements across TV, digital, radio, print and outdoor channels. Comfortable reading audience data to pick the right channel mix and holding vendors to account on rate and delivery. Works well under budget pressure and reports clearly on what the spend actually achieved.
Key skills
- Media planning and budget allocation
- Vendor negotiation and rate management
- Marketing analytics and audience data analysis
- Campaign performance tracking and optimisation
- Programmatic buying (DV360, The Trade Desk)
- Reporting and presentation of media spend outcomes
- Stakeholder and account management
Experience: example bullet points
- Planned and allocated media budgets across TV, digital, radio, print and outdoor to match audience reach targets within approved spend
- Negotiated rates and terms with media vendors, networks and publishers, reducing average unit cost across a quarterly buying cycle
- Monitored campaign performance daily in Google Analytics and DV360, reallocating spend toward placements delivering the strongest cost per impression
- Built and presented media spend and outcomes reports for internal stakeholders, translating impressions and reach data into plain-English campaign summaries
- Managed vendor relationships across multiple media owners, resolving billing and delivery discrepancies to keep campaigns on schedule
Education
Typically a bachelor degree in marketing, communications or business, though diploma-qualified entrants with agency or media sales experience are common; postgraduate study in marketing analytics is an option for progression into senior buying or planning roles.
Keywords an ATS is likely to scan for
Applicant tracking systems match your resume against terms in the job ad before a person ever sees it. Only include the ones that actually apply to your experience, but if a term below matches something you've done, use the same wording the job ad uses.
- Media buying
- Media planning
- IAB Australia
- CPM
- CPC
- OOH (out of home)
- Programmatic advertising
- DV360
- The Trade Desk
- Mediaocean
- Nielsen ratings
- Google Analytics
- Adobe Marketing Cloud
- AANA Code of Ethics
- Ad Standards
- Reach and frequency
- Media schedule
- Vendor negotiation
- Campaign reporting
Getting past ATS screening
- Match the specific skills, certifications and terms used in the job ad, not just your own wording for the same thing.
- Keep formatting simple: no tables, text boxes, columns, headers/footers or graphics. Parsers frequently drop content placed in these.
- Submit as .docx or PDF unless the job ad specifies otherwise.
- Use standard section headings (Experience, Education, Skills) rather than creative alternatives.
- List your core skills and technical competencies in their own section so a keyword scan can find them instantly.
This is a starting point, not a guarantee of interviews. Tailor every bullet point to your own real experience and the specific job ad.