Hybrid Senior Media Manager

at The Marketing Practice

• Job title: Senior Media Manager
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, London, United Kingdom

About the role

• Senior Media Manager leading strategy for B2B media planning agency with global clients to drive their media success.

Responsibilities

• **What you will do**
• New Business Development:
• Support media focussed pitches and RFPs
• Client Growth:
• Input into opportunities to grow accounts – for example in the preparation for client Quarterly Review meetings or in generating new ideas for clients
• Stakeholder Management:
• Proactively input into your client’s media briefs
• Streamline and improve brief intake processes to enable stronger planning and strategy construction
• Consider common/cross-client pain points and seek to solve via effective cross-channel strategies
• Make client recommendations to drive strategic discussions around short, mid & long-term performance
• Strategy & Planning:
• Support cross-client campaign planning and strategy - digesting common pain points, trends and moving planning towards a more solution-oriented strategy
• Ensure that plans and strategy incorporate and reflect client infrastructure (i.e. tech stack, BDR setup, etc)
• Actively build strategies and plans that can be implemented across multiple clients (for example, brand to demand plan)
• Drive value in the wider team by sharing best practice
• Supplier Engagement:
• Actively manage publisher relationships – working with them to identify strategic partnership opportunities with clients
• Understand TMP media purchasing trends and engage publishers around them
• Proactively share publisher insights (research, offerings, etc) with wider business
• Leverage agency relationships (e.g spend patterns across TMP EMEA) to secure even greater discounts from publishers and value for our clients
• Commercials & Financial Management:
• Support the team to deliver profitable plans, whilst ensuring client KPIs are achieved or outperformed
• Find ways to actively improve commercial efficiency and profitability in our planning process
• Reporting:
• Able to tie in trends and publisher/market developments into reporting insights
• Insight:
• Proactively digest trends to turn them into viable plans and effective strategies
• Mentorship & Line Management:
• Delegate tasks to more junior members of the team
• Provide feedback, coaching and mentorship in the delivery of the work
• Support the onboarding and training of new hires
• Where appropriate line management of junior members of the team

Requirements

• **Who you are:**
• A passion for continuing to grow in a marketing career
• Hard-working
• Driven
• Curious
• Problem solving mentality
• Detail orientated
• Confident communicator
• Analytical, results driven and commercially minded
• **What you'll bring:**
• Several years of demonstrable B2B media buying experience of both online and offline media
• Agency or client-side media buying experience
• Experience developing marketing and communications strategies for B2B brands utilising wide range of tactics
• Excellent ability and proven track record of working with clients at a senior level to advise on their strategic direction and its ability to drive valuable business outcomes
• Ability to work with multiple stakeholders across companies, cultures, and countries
• Strong communication skills for selling of your ideas and strategies to new and existing clients
• Understand importance of clear and concise written communication
• Strong understanding of the role of media in delivering business value for B2B brands
• Strong working knowledge of insight & planning tools and a proven ability to bring insights which support development of communications strategies
• Strong understanding of B2B media space
• Excellent written and verbal communication

Benefits

• Generous holiday allowance (Plentiful PTO)
• Shutdown between Christmas and New Year
• Private healthcare and dental insurance
• Group income protection
• Salary sacrifice pension scheme
• Access to well-being coaching or counselling sessions once a week
• Financial health support
• Parental leave - 12 Weeks Full Pay for Primary Carers and an additional 50% pay for 12 more weeks.
• Use our portal to access discounts and cashback at plenty of retailers. You can also sign up for our cycle-to-work scheme.
• Sustainable Future Giving. We want to help create a positive impact on our planet by donating to plant trees, tacking our impact, and helping to reduce emissions.