Start Date: ASAP
Duration: 12 Months
Location: 3 days in London per week, 2 days remote working
Rate: £375 - £475 per day, on a PAYE Model
Summary
Our client is seeking a Strategic Media Manager to join the company’s Global Media Team as part of the Public Affairs vertical. This is a critical role responsible for defining clear media strategies, planning, and driving perfect execution to reach key audiences on, as well as influencing long-term strategy and solutions aligned to core business and team objectives.
In this role you will collaborate closely with internal Marketing, Insights, Decision Science, Creative, Policy & Comms, and external agency teams to devise and execute sophisticated issue campaigns that communicate our clients’ brand narrative through strategic, data-driven, and innovative paid media strategies. The ideal candidate is a trusted leader with deep media expertise across channels, is able to identify white space opportunities for long-term growth and can effectively influence and build alignment across multiple teams to implement the most impactful solutions.
You are constantly curious about what’s influencing elite audiences - in marketing and media trends, and in what drives people to action. You are someone who can build strong partnerships with colleagues, translate goals into successful, integrated, data-driven programs, and navigate the intersection of multiple channels and media partners. Most importantly, you should thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic, results-driven environment.
Responsibilities:
- Develop measurable media strategies and plans, ensuring they are grounded in clear objectives and audience insights and deliver demonstrable business outcomes.
- Leverage quantitative and qualitative insights to define and influence audience, media strategy, and inform tactical planning, execution, and optimization.
- Shape the team’s strategic point of view on media, measurement, and industry innovation, leading the development of strategic POVs on relevant topics with clear business application and impact.
- Build strong working relationships and drive influence with cross-functional partners across marketing, decision science, insights & creative teams to develop fully integrated work and design custom media activations that deliver brand and product narrative in unexpected ways.
- Lead and oversee multiple, simultaneous media workstreams and flawless campaign planning & execution, including substantial budget management for complex, multi-market international campaigns.
- Requisition Intake Form EMEA
- Lead the relationship with the regional external media agencies and partner with central foundational media teams to drive cohesive media planning and execution around the globe.
- Strategically leverage data and insights to inform audience and media strategies, drive on-going optimization, and oversee the smooth running of execution, proactively troubleshooting potential roadblocks.
- Analyze campaign media performance against KPIs to derive
- Media Strategy and Planning
- Managing Pace and Rigour, data centric and media strategy
- Public Affairs Exposure (Must have)
- Being able to manage multiple stakeholders.
- Having the Media rigour and fundamentals
- Working with different teams
