Senior Media Manager

Tmp; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading media agency in the UK is looking for a Senior Media Manager to join their EMEA media planning team. The ideal candidate will lead the planning strategy, manage client relationships, and provide guidance to junior planners. Candidates should possess several years of B2B media buying experience and demonstrate excellent communication and analytical skills. This opportunity also offers a generous benefits package including private healthcare, ample PTO, and professional development resources.

Benefits

Generous holiday allowance

Private healthcare and dental insurance

Salary sacrifice pension scheme

Parental leave – 12 Weeks Full Pay

Qualifications

• Several years of demonstrable B2B media buying experience of both online and offline media.
• Agency or client-side media buying experience.
• Strong working knowledge of insight & planning tools.

Responsibilities

• Lead the planning and strategy team within the EMEA media planning.
• Support media-focused pitches and RFPs.
• Actively manage publisher relationships.

Skills

B2B media buying experience

Strong communication skills

Analytical mindset

Detail-oriented

Problem-solving mentality

Education

Experience developing marketing strategies

Proven track record of senior level client interaction

Job description

We are looking for a talented individual to join our growing EMEA media planning team. As Senior Media Manager you will lead the planning and strategy team, provide guidance and direction to other planners, and ensure quality and consistency of all planning and reporting. You should have a keen interest in the B2B media space and use insights to guide clients on best practice and media strategy that reflects their own infrastructure, challenges and goals. You will actively build client plans that can be shared and utilised by the team, demonstrating deep expertise for achieving client KPIs while proactively utilising new techniques.

What you will do

• New Business Development:
  • Support media‑focused pitches and RFPs
• Client Growth:
  • Input into opportunities to grow accounts – for example in preparation for client Quarterly Review meetings or in generating new ideas for clients
• Stakeholder Management:
  • Proactively input into your client's media briefs
  • Streamline and improve brief intake processes to enable stronger planning and strategy construction
  • Consider common/cross‑client pain points and seek to solve via effective cross‑channel strategies
  • Make client recommendations to drive strategic discussions around short, mid & long‑term performance
• Strategy & Planning:
  • Support cross‑client campaign planning and strategy – digesting common pain points, trends and moving planning towards a more solution‑oriented strategy
  • Ensure that plans and strategy incorporate and reflect client infrastructure (i.e. tech stack, BDR setup, etc)
  • Actively build strategies and plans that can be implemented across multiple clients (for example, brand to demand plan)
  • Drive value in the wider team by sharing best practice
• Supplier Engagement:
  • Actively manage publisher relationships – working with them to identify strategic partnership opportunities with clients
  • Understand TMP media purchasing trends and engage publishers around them
  • Proactively share publisher insights (research, offerings, etc) with wider business
  • Leverage agency relationships (e.g. spend patterns across TMP EMEA) to secure even greater discounts from publishers and value for our clients
• Commercials & Financial Management:
  • Support the team to deliver profitable plans, whilst ensuring client KPIs are achieved or outperformed
  • Find ways to actively improve commercial efficiency and profitability in our planning process
• Reporting:
  • Able to tie in trends and publisher/market developments into reporting insights
• Insight:
  • Proactively digest trends to turn them into viable plans and effective strategies
• Mentorship & Line Management:
  • Delegate tasks to more junior members of the team
  • Provide feedback, coaching and mentorship in the delivery of the work
  • Support the onboarding and training of new hires

Who you are

• A passion for continuing to grow in a marketing career
• Hard‑working
• Driven
• Curious
• Problem‑solving mentality
• Detail orientated
• Confident communicator
• Analytical, results driven and commercially minded

What you'll bring

• Several years of demonstrable B2B media buying experience of both online and offline media
• Agency or client‑side media buying experience
• Experience developing marketing and communications strategies for B2B brands utilising a wide range of tactics
• Excellent ability and proven track record of working with clients at a senior level to advise on their strategic direction and its ability to drive valuable business outcomes
• Ability to work with multiple stakeholders across companies, cultures, and countries
• Strong communication skills for selling your ideas and strategies to new and existing clients
• Understand importance of clear and concise written communication
• Strong understanding of the role of media in delivering business value for B2B brands
• Strong working knowledge of insight & planning tools and a proven ability to bring insights which support development of communications strategies
• Strong understanding of B2B media space
• Excellent written and verbal communication

About the agency

We're not just an agency; we're the trendsetters in the integrated era of B2B, armed with a global team of 300+ B2B specialists ready to unlock your potential. Our clients include the biggest names in the tech universe. We're talking partnerships with the trailblazers and the disruptors – working with them across the entire funnel to achieve the kind of growth that turns heads and wins awards. We thrive on identifying, recruiting, and nurturing talents and you're next on our list! At tmp, we hire for potential, mindset, and character as much as experience. If you are excited about the role but your background is not a perfect match, we would still love to hear from you. You might be exactly what we are looking for, either for this role or another.

Benefits

• Generous holiday allowance (Plentiful PTO)
• Shutdown between Christmas and New Year
• Private healthcare and dental insurance
• Group income protection
• Salary sacrifice pension scheme
• Access to well‑being, coaching, or counselling sessions once a week
• Financial health support
• Parental leave – 12 Weeks Full Pay for Primary Carers and an additional 50% pay for 12 more weeks.
• Use our portal to access discounts and cashback at plenty of retailers. You can also sign up for our cycle‑to‑work scheme.
• Sustainable Future Giving – we want to help create a positive impact on our planet by donating to plant trees, tracking our impact, and helping to reduce emissions.