Media Manager

Marks and Spencer; City Of London; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A retail giant in London is seeking a Media Manager. This role involves delivering impactful media campaigns across Fashion, Home, and Beauty while collaborating with various teams to ensure seamless media journeys. The successful candidate will drive strategic thinking and optimize performance using data insights. The position offers a supportive work environment with multiple perks, including employee discounts, competitive holidays, and family support policies.

Benefits

20% colleague discount

Competitive holiday entitlement

Discretionary bonus schemes

Defined Contribution Pension Scheme

Induction and training programmes

Financial wellbeing perks

Parental support policies

24/7 Virtual GP access

Charity volunteer day

Qualifications

• Strong collaboration skills with cross-functional teams and agencies.
• Excellent project management skills with attention to accuracy and budgets.
• Strong analytical capabilities to optimize performance.
• Proactive mindset to enhance media effectiveness.

Responsibilities

• Support the end-to-end delivery of media campaigns.
• Work closely with Brand Marketing and Creative teams.
• Oversee day-to-day media activity and maintain accurate plans.
• Manage relationships with media agencies effectively.
• Provide campaign reporting and insights for optimization.

Skills

Collaboration skills

Project management skills

Analytical capabilities

Proactive mindset

Job description

Summary

We are looking for a Media Manager to join our team. You'll play a key role in delivering integrated, high-impact media campaigns across our Fashion, Home, and Beauty categories. Working hand in hand with the Online team, you'll connect the dots between Brand Marketing, Social, PR, and our agency partners to create seamless, customer-first media journeys. You'll bring strategic thinking, creative flair, and commercial acumen to ensure every campaign not only resonates with our customers but also drives meaningful results and strong ROI.

All the details

Working hand in hand with the online team to deliver integrated media activity across Fashion, Home and Beauty. Acting as the lead liaison between Brand Marketing, Social, PR, and both in-house and external agencies to build impactful, cohesive media journeys for our customers - all while delivering strong ROI across the board.

To stay close to customers, our support teams are in the office three days a week as we believe that skills are developed through collaboration, and that spending time together makes us more creative and connected.

What's in it for you

Being a part of M&S is exactly that - playing your part to bring the magic of M&S to our customers every day. We're an inclusive, dynamic, exciting, and ever evolving business built on doing the right thing and bringing exceptional quality, value, service to every customer, whenever, wherever, and however they want to shop with us.

Here are some of the benefits we offer that make working for M&S just that little bit more special

• After completing your probationary period, you'll receive 20% colleague discount across all M&S products and many of our third-party brands for you and a member of your household.
• Competitive holiday entitlement with the potential to buy extra holiday days!
• Discretionary bonus schemes awarded based on how you achieve your personal objectives and our performance as a business.
• A generous Defined Contribution Pension Scheme and Life Assurance.
• A dedicated welcome to our teams with a tailored induction and a wide range of training programmes to develop your skills.
• Amazing perks and discounts via our M&S Choices portal to maximise your financial and personal wellbeing.
• Industry-leading parental, adoption, and neonatal policies, providing support and flexibility for your family.
• Access to a fantastic range of wellbeing support for all colleagues including access to our 24/7 Virtual GP and PAM Assist to support you and your family.
• A charity volunteer day to support a charity or cause you’re passionate about through a dedicated day away from work

What you will be doing

• Support the end-to-end delivery of media campaigns, managing briefs, responses, and cross-functional collaboration.
• Work closely with Brand Marketing, Creative, PR, and Social teams to ensure integrated and optimised media plans.
• Oversee day-to-day media activity, maintaining accurate plans, timelines, budgets, and stakeholder updates.
• Manage relationships with media agencies and media owners, ensuring partnerships and assets are delivered effectively.
• Provide campaign reporting, insights, and post-campaign analysis to drive optimisation and continuous improvement.

Who you are

• You will have strong collaboration skills, working effectively with cross-functional teams, agencies, and media owners with clarity and influence.
• You will have excellent project management skills, capable of handling multiple campaigns while ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and budget control.
• You will have strong analytical capabilities, using data and insights to optimise performance and demonstrate ROI.
• You will have a proactive, curious mindset - staying ahead of industry trends and identifying innovative ways to enhance media effectiveness and impact.

Everyone's welcome

We are ambitious about the future of retail. We're disrupting, innovating, and leading the industry into a more conscientious, inspiring digital era. We're transforming how we work together and offering our most exciting opportunities yet. Marks & Spencer strives to be an inclusive organisation, trusted, and admired by our colleagues, customers, and suppliers. Join us and make change happen.

We are committed to building diverse and representative teams, where everyone can bring their whole selves to work and be at their best. We support each other and work together to win together.

If you feel you'd benefit from any support or reasonable adjustments during any stage of the recruitment process, please don't hesitate to let us know when completing your application. This information will be picked up by our team, so we can try and put steps in place to help you be at your best through this process.