Media Buying and Planning Assistant (12 month FTC)

Burberry; London; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Media Buying and Planning Assistant for a 12-month fixed-term contract. This role is pivotal in supporting the Global Media team, ensuring campaigns run efficiently and effectively. The ideal candidate will have a year of experience in media planning and buying, preferably within the luxury sector. You'll be responsible for coordinating campaign assets, managing production briefs, and overseeing financial processes. Join a dynamic team where your organizational and communication skills will shine, and contribute to exciting media initiatives that shape brand visibility.

Qualifications

• 1 year of media planning & buying experience, preferably in luxury.
• Strong communication and organizational skills are essential.

Responsibilities

• Support the media team with campaign planning and buying.
• Monitor production briefs and manage finance-related tasks.

Skills

Media Planning

Media Buying

Communication Skills

Organizational Skills

Time Management

Problem Solving

Education

Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent

Tools

Microsoft Office (Excel, PPT)

Project Management Tool

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Media Buying and Planning Assistant (12 month FTC)

Department: MARKETING

City: London

Location: GB

INTRODUCTION

JOB PURPOSE

Burberry is looking for a talented Media Buying and Planning Assistant (12 month FTC) to join the Global Media team. In this position, you will support the end-to-end execution of global media plans to ensure the media campaigns run smoothly and on time, while allowing strategic space and rigour for those you are supporting.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Campaign Support - Key support for the media team throughout all campaign media planning and buying

• Contribute to media overview launch plan documents to be shared with various internal teams, including market specific and global summaries.
• Gathering assets/information needed for special media builds (e.g. eCom assets, logos, press releases, product URLs etc) and coordination across content partnerships (e.g. securing samples, couriers etc.)
• Own the reporting across all campaign moments, to then collate and share this information with the wider business.
• Final campaign checks to ensure all activity goes live accurately and seamlessly – working closely with OMD (global agency partner) to fix any early spotted issues.

Production Management

Monitor all production briefs through our internal project management tool, ensuring accurate and timely uploads while managing the production of 100+ media deliverables at a time.

Create and own the brief production tracker for each campaign to ensure we are receiving updates across priority briefs in our weekly call with our media production partner and track the status of all briefs as well as escalating any potential delays or issues.

Finance Management

• Raise all PO’s for media activity in a timely manner and monitoring approval process.
• Manage and process invoices for all assigned purchase orders (POs), and handle any ad hoc queries or issues related to POs, invoices, or outstanding payments.
• To own and be responsible for the shared media agency finance tracker for all raised PO’s and track received invoices.

Other responsibilities

• Diary management and scheduling of calls with both internal teams and external partners and support with adhoc team requests.
• Manage regional status sheets, ensuring agendas are sent ahead of the meeting and sending follow up meeting notes.
• Ensure all documents (briefs, invoices, presentations) are saved, filed and accessible on Burberry’s Sharepoint.
• Regular competitive research, and market trends, to share knowledge with the wider team in the business.

PERSONAL PROFILE

• 1 year of media planning & buying experience, preferably in luxury, at a brand or media agency (or equivalent).
• Strong communication, relationship-building, organizational, and time management skills.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office (Excel and PPT), with the ability to multitask in a fast-paced environment.
• Problem-solving mindset, enjoys challenges, and maintains enthusiasm in all tasks.

FOOTER

Burberry is an Equal Opportunities Employer and as such, treats all applications equally and recruits purely on the basis of skills and experience.

Posting Notes: United Kingdom || Not Applicable || London || MARKETING || CENTRAL - MEDIA || n/a ||