Media Associate EMEA

Mattel; Slough; On-site; GBP 37,440 - 44,460; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Pension scheme

Bonus scheme

25 days vacation

Cycle to work

Employee discount

Job summary

Mattel is seeking a Regional Media Execution Coordinator in the United Kingdom to help orchestrate media delivery across multiple markets. You will connect Global/Regional strategy with market execution, ensuring alignment and efficiency in a fast paced environment.

This role supports the regional media team, coordinating with agencies and internal teams to manage delivery, timelines, and escalation paths. A strong eye for detail and process is essential.

Qualifications

• Experience in media execution and campaign delivery across markets.
• Ability to manage complexity, dependencies, and timelines across markets.
• Comfort working across time zones, cultures, and agency teams.
• Strong organizational and problem‑solving skills.
• Clear communicator with attention to detail and process.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate execution of global and regional media strategies across markets.
• Ensure consistency of execution, pacing, and quality across channels and campaigns.
• Be the regional point of coordination for execution questions, escalations, and dependencies.
• Oversee readiness across markets with inputs, trafficking, and delivery requirements.
• Identify risks or gaps and coordinate corrective actions.

Skills

Media execution

Multi-market coor

Time zones

Organizational skills

Communication

Job description

The Opportunity

Supporting theAssociate Manager, Media, Regional, this role assists with thecoordinating, enabling, and optimizing media execution across multiple markets within a region. This role existshelpwith themanagement ofexecutional complexity at scale, ensuring that approved global and regional media strategies are delivered accurately, efficiently, and consistently across markets.

As part of the Regional Media teamthis positionshelps to act as the connective tissue between Global/Regional strategy, agency delivery, and market-level execution.

What Your Impact Will Be

Regional Execution Orchestration

• Support the coordinate execution of approvedglobal and regional media strategiesacross multiple markets within the region.
• Help to ensureconsistency of execution, pacing, and quality across markets, channels, and campaigns.
• Part of theprimary regional point of coordination for execution-related questions, escalations, and dependencies.

Agency Execution Oversight

• Work withlocal media agency teamsto ensure execution aligns with approved strategy, governance standards, and timelines.
• Supports overseeing theexecution readiness across markets, including inputs, trafficking dependencies, and delivery requirements.
• Helpswith the identification ofexecutional risks, gaps, or inefficiencies and coordinate corrective actions.
• Helpstoagenciesare operatingwithin scope, quality expectations, and regional processes.

Operational Excellence & Performance Support

• Monitor execution status, pacing, and performance signals across markets.
• Supportin‑flight optimization coordination, ensuring adjustments are aligned with strategy and escalated appropriately.
• Ensure accurate and timely reporting inputs from markets to support regional and global visibility.
• Work withwithMedia Operations, Analytics, and Finance to maintain execution discipline and transparency.

Cross‑Market & Cross‑Functional Coordination

• Coordinate across markets to align on shared learnings, execution improvements, and best practices.
• Support regional planning cycles, tentpoles, and high‑complexity launches through.
• Helpwith theonboarding ofnew markets, agencies, or processes as part of global transformation initiatives.

What We’re Looking For

• Experience in media execution, campaign delivery, andpreferably some exposure tomulti‑market coordination.
• Ability to manage complexity,and identifydependencies, and timelines across markets.
• Comfort working across time zones, cultures, and agency teams.
• Strong organizational and problem‑solving skills.
• Clear communicator
• Detail‑oriented with a systems and process mindset.

What We Offer

• Gross annual salary range of GBP 37,440 - GBP 44,460
• Bonus scheme: Participation in Mattel Incentive Plan (MIP) with the target of 5% of base salary, payout is determined by company and individual performance results
• Paid time off: 25 vacation days (with option to buy up to 5 extra days) + 2 volunteer days/year + a day off on your birthday!
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee assistance program: Access to Help@Hand (Unum), Modern Health, Headspace, and Maven
• Contributory pension scheme
• Private health insurance
• Dental insurance & dental service app
• Life & disability insurance
• Employee discount program "Be well at Mattel"
• Mattel products discounts
• Family benefits program: 24 weeks off (for 1st caregiver) or 12 weeks off (for co-parent) fully paid on the arrival of new child, return to work program, path to parenthood, and family care leave

Mattel’s total compensation package is based on objective, gender-neutral criteria such as job grade, work location, relevant skills, and experience. This information is provided to enable informed and transparent consideration and negotiation of employment terms. If your profile is retained and we schedule an interview, we will share further details on Mattel UK Limited’s total rewards package. Please note that (some of) the benefits above may change over time, due to changes in the company policy or in legislation. We will not ask about your previous salary history.

Our Approach to Flexible Work

We embrace a flexible work model designed to empower a culture of growth, optimism, and wellbeing, where every employee can reach their full potential. Combining purposeful in-person collaboration with flexibility, our focus is to optimize performance and drive connection for moments that matter.

Mattel is an Equal Opportunity Employer where we want you to bring your authentic self to work every day. We welcome all job seekers, and all applicants will receive consideration for employment.