Senior Manager, UK Paid Media

Warner Music Group; Greater London; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A global music company is seeking a Senior Manager, UK Paid Media to develop and execute marketing campaigns for artists. The role involves collaborating with both internal teams and external media agencies. Ideal candidates should have experience in both digital and traditional media, proficiency with platforms like Google and Meta, and a commitment to diversity and inclusivity in the workplace. This role promises an exciting opportunity at the crossroads of creativity and marketing strategy.

Qualifications

• Progressive experience in digital and traditional paid media planning.
• Experience with Google, Meta, and other digital platforms.
• Expertise in managing A/B tests and performance data.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute paid media marketing campaigns.
• Collaborate with Artist Brand Managers to optimize media strategies.
• Liaise with media agencies to execute campaigns.

Skills

Digital media planning

Social Advertising

SEO & SEM

Strong communication skills

Project management

Data analysis

Education

Bachelor’s or Associate’s Degree in Marketing, Communications or Advertising

Tools

Google Ads

Meta (Facebook/Instagram)

Adobe Creative Suite

Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)

Job description

Senior Manager, UK Paid Media

Senior Manager, UK Paid Media

Job Description:

At Warner Music Group, we’re a global collective of music makers and music lovers, tech innovators and inspired entrepreneurs, game-changing creatives and passionate team members. Here, we turn dreams into stardom and audiences into fans. We are guided by three core values that underpin everything we do across all our diverse businesses:

Curiosity: We do our best work when we’re immersing ourselves in culture and breaking through barriers. Curiosity is the driving force behind creativity and ingenuity. It fuels innovation, and innovation is the key to our future.

Collaboration: Making music and bringing it to the world is all about the power of originality amplified by teamwork. A great idea, like a great song, travels globally. We ignite passions and build connections across our diverse community of artists, songwriters, partners, and fans.

Commitment: We pursue excellence for our team and our talent. Everything in music starts with a leap into the unknown, and we’re committed to keeping the faith, acting with integrity, and delivering on our promises.

WMG is home to a wide range of artists, musicians, and songwriters that fuel our success. That is why we are committed to creating a work environment that actively values, appreciates, and respects everyone. We encourage applications from people with a wide variety of backgrounds and experiences.

Consider a career at WMG and get the best of both worlds – an innovative global music company that retains the creative spirit of a nimble independent.

Job Title: Senior Manager, UK Paid Media

A little bit about our team:

Global Catalogue is both the communication centre between Warner Music Catalogue labels and International Territories around the world, and the paramount frontier for marketing artists in the streaming era. We work closely with all labels and artists under the Recorded Music division to develop new catalogue opportunities in marketing, A&R, content development, and consumption, and then convert our findings into new strategies that are deployed across the company to our Catalogue teams around the world.

With catalogues from great heritage acts such as Led Zeppelin, Fleetwood Mac, David Bowie, Pink Floyd, Phil Collins, The Doors, Aretha Franklin, Joni Mitchell, Madonna, Prince, Eric Clapton, New Order, to more current artists such as Wale, Jess Glynne, Clean Bandit, Muse, and many more…the Warner Music catalogue is a rich and varied one that requires constant management and reinvention.

This can vary from reimagining a classic album, creating and promoting a playlist managed by us or encouraging consumption of key tracks on streaming services, through to maintaining artist profile with digital suppliers.

Your role:

The Senior Manager, UK Paid Media will act as an in‑house specialist to develop, execute, analyse, and report paid media marketing campaigns for our artists originating from the US or UK. This person will liaise and strategise with all relevant media agencies and platforms for optimum content placement to drive revenue and engagement.

Here you’ll get to:

• Work closely and collaboratively with Artist Brand Managers to develop media strategies that support the respective goals and reach for artist and genre campaigns.
• Advise on budget optimisations and efficiencies to help reach artist KPIs and performance goals.
• Strategise for optimal content placement by channel, media opportunity, content type, and copy type.
• Collect performance data, conduct in‑depth analyses, and make recommendations based on data‑driven conclusions.
• Liaise with outside media agencies to execute digital and traditional campaigns as needed, building and maintaining relationships with key account contacts in the UK.
• Oversee the buildout of all paid media assets (programmatic, print, OOH, TV, pre‑roll, etc.).
• Maintain a high level of knowledge of key competitors, best practices, and new paid media tools.
• Create and maintain a constant feedback loop via weekly updates and monthly reporting documents to the Artist Brand Manager teams.
• Identify and create custom audience groups with first‑party data and website audience lists.
• Design, implement, and report on A/B tests to drive incremental improvements across all KPIs.
• Understand a unified media strategy across email, organic & paid social, SEO, SEM, referral programmes, retail product messaging, direct mail, and other offline channels.

About you:

• You have progressive experience in digital and traditional paid media planning, with agency and/or music industry experience preferred.
• You have a Bachelor’s or Associate’s Degree with focus on marketing, communications, or advertising preferred.
• You have experience working with Google, Meta (Facebook/Instagram), and other digital platforms.
• You have expertise and deep knowledge in Social Advertising (Meta, TikTok, Snapchat, etc.), SEO & SEM, Google Ads, Apple Search, etc.
• You have experience either working in or with media agencies.
• You have proficiency in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Experience with photo and video editing software (Adobe Creative Suite, Final Cut, etc.) preferred.
• You have strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate with team members to develop and execute strategic projects.
• You have strong organisational and project management skills with the ability to multi‑task across an eclectic variety of projects in a fast‑paced environment.
• You have strong interpersonal skills and ability to effectively work and communicate with both creative and business‑oriented colleagues and partners.
• You have a strong passion for a wide variety of music artists and genres along with knowledge of how to speak to their fanbases.
• You have a commitment to diversity and inclusion with proven success creating and sustaining a diverse, open, and inclusive culture.

Warner Music Group is committed to inclusion and diversity in all aspects of our business. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and will evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, religion or belief, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or gender reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, disability, pregnancy, childbirth or any other characteristic protected by law.