Senior Media Manager

tmp; Greater London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous holiday allowance

Private healthcare and dental insurance

Salary sacrifice pension scheme

Parental leave – 12 weeks full pay

Job summary

A leading media company in Greater London seeks a Senior Media Manager to join the EMEA media planning team. The role involves leading the media planning and strategy, enhancing client relationships, and managing media buying across multiple platforms. The ideal candidate has significant B2B media buying experience and excellent communication skills, and will contribute to diverse client strategies, ultimately driving performance and insights that benefit various stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Several years of demonstrable B2B media buying experience of both online and offline media.
• Strong ability to work with multiple stakeholders across companies and cultures.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead the media planning and strategy team.
• Support media focused pitches and RFPs.
• Proactively manage publisher relationships.

Skills

B2B media buying experience

Communication skills

Problem-solving mentality

Analytical and results-driven

Detail-oriented

Tools

Insight & planning tools

Media purchasing trends understanding

Job description

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.

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
• 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
• 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

Requirements

Who you are

• A passion for continuing to grow in a marketing career
• Hard‑working
• Driven
• Curious
• Problem‑solving mentality
• Detail‑oriented
• 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

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
• Access to discounts and cashback at plenty of retailers; cycle‑to‑work scheme available
• Sustainable Future Giving – supporting planting trees, tracking impact, and reducing 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.

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