Media Manager

VaynerX; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited holidays

Birthday leave

YuLife

Parental leave

Coaching sessions

Cycle to work

EAP

Medicash

Virtual GP

Work from anywhere

Life cover

Income protection

Pension

Job summary

VaynerMedia seeks a driven Media Manager to oversee media plans from inception to completion, aligning with client goals. You’ll lead client communication on performance and provide strategic direction to strengthen relationships.

Responsibilities include planning, optimising, and reporting campaigns, collaborating across teams, and mentoring a small team. This hybrid London-based role emphasizes digital excellence and cutting-edge media knowledge.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in a media agency or in-house media team.
• Experience leading and managing teams (2–3 analysts).
• Deep media knowledge across digital channels and formats.
• Advanced Excel skills: pivot tables, VLOOKUP, macros.

Responsibilities

• Monitor campaigns with a team, track pacing and spend, and flag issues.
• Create and present media investment strategies from insights.
• Develop client-facing reports and storytelling on performance.
• Engage with senior leaders on key client initiatives and needs.
• Manage ad tech vendors and drive cross-disciplinary collaboration.
• Lead a small team and coach for growth and delivery excellence.

Skills

Media strategy

Team leadership

Media agency experience

Excel advanced

Google Ads

Meta platforms

LinkedIn

CTV/OTT

DOOH

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
• CTV/OTT
• (D)OOH
• An empathetic, patient and collaborative spirit that fosters a positive day-to-day experience for their teammates.
• Has the ability to lead by example in terms of attention to detail, general work ethic, empathy and internal/external professionalism.
• You live for today’s digital & mobile consumer, understand social media deeply, and are obsessed with remaining at the cutting edge of media knowledge and execution.
• You are hungry, driven, proactive, and have a strong desire to grow and build a highly successful career.
• You are ready to work in a role that is in the office, 4 days a week, with the option to work from home on Friday’s.

Here’s How We Support You

• Unlimited Holiday + 1 Day Birthday Leave
• YuLife (online discount platform)
• Enhanced Parental Leave
• Unlimited Coaching sessions, which can be private and team class sessions
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee Assistance Program (Financial, Mental and Physical Wellbeing)
• Cash Plan with Medicash - Level 1 cover, option to add partner, 4 children can be added for free
• Virtual GP, Skinvision, 24/7 Health and Stress Helplines, Discounted Gym, Medicash Extras
• 2 weeks Work From Anywhere
• Life Assurance
• Income Protection
• Group Personal Pension

What You SHOULD KNOW About VaynerMedia

Think “lab” and not “agency”. We get excited about solving business problems, not creating advertising for the sake of making advertising. Our entrepreneurship DNA runs deep. We’re willing to break rules, try new things, and test hypotheses if it means better understanding our craft. It’s fun!
We believe 100% that brands can be built on digital platforms and part of our model is built bottom up, flipping the traditional advertising model and process on its head. We don’t play to agency/industry norms and our culture and energy reflects that.
Our environment (and pace) feels much more like a start-up than most agencies you might be used to. Hopefully that, and the opportunity to collaborate with the talented and enthusiastic crew, work with big brands excites you, as it does us. We can’t wait to meet you.

VaynerMedia is an Equal Opportunity Employer. This means that VaynerMedia provides equal employment opportunities to all staff members and job applicants without regard to gender, pregnancy, marital or civil partnership status, gender reassignment, race, disability, sexual orientation, religious belief, part time or fixed term employment, age or any other legally protected class.

Candidates must be authorized to work in the United Kingdom.