Senior Media Manager

The Marketing Practice; Greater London; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading B2B marketing agency in Greater London is seeking a Senior Media Manager to guide the media planning strategy. The role involves managing relationships with clients and publishers, developing media strategies, and contributing to new business development. Ideal candidates will have several years of media buying experience and a passion for B2B marketing. The position offers a competitive salary and generous benefits, including private healthcare and a sustainable giving program.

Benefits

Generous holiday allowance

Private healthcare and dental insurance

Salary sacrifice pension scheme

Financial health support

Parental leave - 12 weeks full pay

Qualifications

• Several years of demonstrable B2B media buying experience of both online and offline media.
• Experience developing marketing and communications strategies for B2B brands.
• Strong understanding of the role of media in delivering business value for B2B brands.

Responsibilities

• Support media focused pitches and RFPs.
• Proactively input into clients’ media briefs.
• Manage publisher relationships and identify strategic partnership opportunities.

Skills

B2B media buying experience

Strong communication skills

Analytical and results-driven

Problem-solving mentality

Detail-oriented

Education

Experience developing marketing strategies

Tools

Insight & planning tools

Job description

Please note that we will be taking a holiday break from December 25, 2025 through January 2, 2026. The Talent Acquisition team will resume reviewing applications on Monday, January 5, 2026. Thank you for your patience, and we look forward to connecting in the new year.

Welcome to tmp!

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!

What we are looking for

We are looking for a talented individual to join our growing EMEA media planning team. As Senior Media Manager, you will support in leading the planning and strategy team, providing guidance and direction to other planners, and checking quality and consistency of all planning and associated reporting. You will have a keen interest in the B2B media space and can use these insights and opinions to guide our 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 whilst also proactively utilising new techniques. If you have a keen eye for media strategy that will drive valuable outcomes for our B2B clients and would love the opportunity to step into a leadership role, we would love to hear from you.

What you will do

New Business Development

• Support media focussed pitches and RFPs

Client Growth

• Input into opportunities to grow accounts – for example in the 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
• Where appropriate line management of junior members of the team

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 andoffline media
• Agency or client-side media buying experience
• Experience developing marketing and communications strategies for B2B brands utilising 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 of 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

• Generous holiday allowance (Plentiful PTO)
• Shutdown between Christmas and New Year
• Private healthcare and dental insurance
• Group income protection
• Salary sacrifice pension scheme
• Access towell-being,coaching, orcounsellingsessions once a week
• Financial health support
• Parental leave - 12 Weeks Full Pay for Primary Carers and anadditional50% pay for 12 moreweeks.
• 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, tacking our impact,and helping to reduce emissions.

A note on applying

Not sure you tick every box? Apply anyway. Research shows some people hold back unless they meet 100% of the requirements. We do not want that to be you.

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.

We are committed to building a diverse team because diversity fuels creativity and better results for everyone. We encourage applications from all backgrounds. If you need any accommodations during the process, just let us know.