Media Manager (Contract)

I am currently working with a fantastic retail client of mine, you’ll get a chance to work with exceptional people in a excellent environment, being part of innovation that makes a real difference in the lives of millions of people worldwide. They have an ambition to develop state of the art technologies that push the boundaries of what’s possible.

Would you like to be a part of their journey?

You must have experience in Retail, eCommerce or FMCG to apply.

You will help manage the deployment over £100M+ in media spend. This role will be critical to ensuring that deployment is a success.

Responsibilities:

• Maximising the impact of all plans by working with the wider marketing team to ensure alignment, whilst making sure no opportunities are missed.

• Management of delivery from our media agency

• Optimisation of campaigns.

• Work with their agency to develop best in class media strategy and plans.

• Management of internal stakeholders to ‘sell in’ and manage media plans.

• Own the approval process, making sure finance is raised in time to get campaigns live.

• Work with our insights team and external partners to understand the effectiveness of our campaigns, proving learnings for future activity.

What do you need to apply?

Essential skills required

• A good working knowledge of all media channels.

• Media planning capability – understanding how different channels can work together and complement each other.

• Ability to communicate clearly with a wide range of stakeholders. Understand the ‘level’ of information needed in different contexts.

• Confidence to manage the agency with positivity, but able to provide direction and ‘push back’ when required.

• Experience working in a (very) fast-paced environment.

Essential Hard Skills:

• Good knowledge of the overall media landscape.

• Conversant in media planning terminology (reach, frequency, impacts, ratings etc.)

• Excellent numeracy and attention to detail (but able to see ‘above the weeds’)

• Understanding of industry insight tools (TGI, Touchpoints etc.)

• Ability to understand and interpret competitor intelligence.

If this role looks like it will be of interest to you, feel free to drop me an email to BJeffries@welovesalt.com

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