Media Manager

VaynerMedia LLC; Greater London; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

VaynerMedia London is seeking a driven Media Manager to oversee and execute media plans from inception to completion, aligning with client goals and expectations. You will lead day-to-day client communications, ensure campaigns perform, and guide cross‑disciplinary teams in planning, execution and reporting.

The role requires deep media experience in an agency or in‑house team, leadership of 2–3 analysts, strong Excel skills, and familiarity with Google Ads, Meta and LinkedIn.

Qualifications

• Proven experience working in a Media agency or in-house Media team.
• Experience leading and managing teams, ideally 2-3 analysts.
• Extremely well versed in media with ability to guide marketing goals across markets.
• Advanced Excel skills: pivot tables, V-Lookups, macros.
• Familiarity with Google Ads, Meta (Facebook/Instagram), LinkedIn.

Responsibilities

• Monitor campaigns for performance with a team, manage spend and issues.
• Create and present media investment strategies to clients.
• Develop and deliver client-facing campaign reports and insights.
• Manage up to senior leadership; communicate key developments to clients.
• Oversee ad technology vendors involved in campaign work.
• Collaborate across disciplines to craft omnichannel media strategies.
• Manage a small team; coach and support their growth and delivery.

Skills

Media agency experience

Team leadership

Media expertise

Advanced Excel

Digital platforms knowledge

Job description

We're VaynerMedia! We are a contemporary global creative and media agency built for the now. Born in social, our work is now full service, simply loving big ideas that connect and create real change for our clients business. We are independently owned, founded in 2009 with offices in London, Amsterdam, New York, Los Angeles, Singapore, Tokyo, Sydney, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur and Mexico City. We are recognized for our work in Cannes Lions, the Clios, D&AD and The Webbies to name a few.

Culture is our key and Empathy is how we build it. VaynerMedia EMEA is strong with a world-class combination of diverse backgrounds collaborating to put forward innovative, creative and strategic solutions to the one advantage that stands the test of time - PEOPLE. Day in and day out, we propel some of the biggest brands in the world to the intersection of attention and culture. In EMEA, we are proudly 250+, servicing multi-brands across the region.

The PITCH.

We're looking for a driven Media Manager to oversee and ensure the execution of media plans run smoothly from inception to completion, and line up with client goals and expectations. The Media Manager will lead day-to-day communications with the client ensuring they are constantly updated with campaign performance and provide strategic and innovative direction to their clients strengthening client relationships.

As the Media Manager, you will be responsible for planning, optimising and reporting campaigns to meet and surpass the clients' success metrics. In addition, the Media Manager will support the collaboration between departmental teams acting as a key driving force in planning ideation, media-execution, and media-led creative.

Here's where you come in...

• Monitor campaigns for performance along with a team of Media Analysts and Senior Media Analysts, ensuring campaigns are pacing accordingly, managing spend, troubleshooting campaigns, creating insights about performance, making updates accordingly and flagging potential issues to management.
• Create and present sophisticated media investment strategies to clients, derived from industry insights and QA reporting.
• Develop and deliver client-facing campaign reports to showcase performance, new business opportunities, and storytelling: pacing reports, campaign build, ad-hoc analysis, and high-touch optimizations to ensure relevant metrics and insights are highlighted.
• Manage up to senior leadership corresponding to the most crucial aspects of a client's business, keeping them abreast of any pertinent developments and urgent client needs.
• Manage ad technology vendors needed to execute specific campaign work.
• Collaborate across disciplines to craft best-in-class, holistic omnichannel media strategies rooted in driving tangible business outcomes for large brands.
• Manage a small team reporting into you, supporting their growth and development, acting as a coach while working alongside them, and supporting the delivery of their work as best-in-class.

We treasure Personality and Experience yet we do know that these qualifications lead to what WE KNOW as a success:

• Proven experience working in a Media agency or in-house Media team
• Experience leading and managing teams, ideally 2-3 analysts who would be responsible for trafficking, QA'ing and optimizing digital media. The candidate should be able to provide leadership, mentorship, vision and technical expertise and be comfortable managing timelines and projects internally and externally, including task management as needed (i.e. 'owning' a project tracker, weekly tasks, google sheets, etc)
• A person that is extremely well versed in media who can utilize resources to help guide the client’s marketing goals in their respective markets (syndicated, proprietary, analyst data)
• Advanced skills in Excel including pivot tables, V-Look Ups, and macros
• Should be comfortable with a least two of the following areas/platforms:
• • Google Ads, (search, YouTube)
  • Meta stack (Facebook, Instagram)
  • LinkedIn