Senior Retail Media Manager – EMEA

TeamJobs; Basingstoke; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work arrangement

Job summary

TeamJobs in Basingstoke is hiring a Senior Retail Media Manager – EMEA to lead retail media strategy across multiple markets. You will work with ecommerce and sales teams to align media investments with promotions and launches.

The role involves strategy development, performance analysis, and driving capability through governance and playbooks, with hybrid working and exposure to major retailers and platforms.

Qualifications

• 4+ years’ experience in retail media, ecommerce or performance marketing.
• Strong understanding of retail media across platforms like Criteo, CitrusAd and Amazon Ads.
• Proven ability to analyse campaign performance and translate data into actionable recommendations.
• Strong commercial acumen: links media investment to sales, margin and retailer dynamics.
• Experience working with multiple stakeholders (ecommerce, sales, brand, agencies).
• Confident communicator, able to present complex data clearly.
• Experience developing scalable playbooks or guidelines.
• Organised and structured, capable of managing multiple markets and priorities.
• Curious and proactive with a focus on testing, learning and improvement.
• Comfortable in evolving working models and processes.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve the retail media strategy across EMEA, aligned to commercial priorities and ecommerce growth targets.
• Analyse campaign performance across retailers and markets, identify inefficiencies and opportunities.
• Develop optimisation roadmaps by retailer, category and brand, implemented through local teams and partners.
• Bring rigour to investment decisions, prioritising budgets across retailers, formats and markets.
• Build and roll out retail media playbooks, guidelines and governance frameworks across markets.
• Collaborate with retailers and agencies to drive performance and accountability.

Skills

Retail media

EMEA markets

Campaign analysis

Commercial acumen

Stakeholder management

Communication

Frameworks / playbooks

Organisation

Testing & learning

Adaptability

Job description

Basingstoke – Hybrid (3 days in the office 2 WFH)

My client is a global consumer goods business with a portfolio of leading brands across beauty, personal care and lifestyle categories, sold through major retailers and ecommerce platforms across EMEA.

With Ecommerce as a key growth priority, increasing focus on digital shelf excellence, retailer search visibility, and online conversion across ecommerce retailers beyond Amazon.

The Role

Reporting into the Head of Ecommerce EMEA, the Senior Retail Media Manager – EMEA will act as the central point of expertise for retail media across the region.

An exciting opportunity to shape how retail media is approached across EMEA at a relatively early stage of maturity. You will have visibility across multiple markets and retailers, with the ability to influence both strategy and execution at scale. Offering a mix of performance analysis, strategic direction and capability building, with the scope to evolve into a more centralised and hands‑on model over time.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy and Direction

• Define and evolve the retail media strategy across EMEA, aligned to commercial priorities, category plans and ecommerce growth targets
• Bring structure to how retail media is approached across markets, ensuring a clear link between investment and business outcomes
• Support longer-term planning, including how retail media should scale and where more centralised approaches may be appropriate

Performance Analysis & Insight

• Analyse campaign performance across retailers and markets, identifying inefficiencies, missed opportunities and areas of over or under investment
• Translate platform and retailer data into commercially relevant insights, linking media performance to sales, margin, EPOS and category growth
• Establish consistent measurement frameworks and KPIs across markets (e.g. ROAS, CPC, CTR, share of search, incrementality), enabling meaningful performance

Comparison and Decision-making

• Develop clear optimisation roadmaps by retailer, category and brand, and ensure these are implemented through local teams and partners
• Introduce a structured test-and-learn approach across EMEA, defining priorities, hypotheses and success criteria, and ensuring learnings are captured and shared
• Support local teams and agencies in improving campaign execution, holding a level of accountability for delivery and outcomes

Investment & Commercial Planning

• Bring greater rigour to investment decisions, supporting where budgets should be prioritised across retailers, formats and markets to maximise return
• Partner with ecommerce and sales teams to ensure retail media investment is aligned to promotions, launches and key trading moments
• Support evaluation of retailer opportunities, including category events and always-on activity

Governance, Standards & Capability Building

• Build and roll out retail media playbooks, guidelines and governance frameworks to improve consistency and quality of execution across markets
• Support capability building across EMEA through training, coaching and ongoing performance reviews with local teams
• Ensure retail media is fully integrated with digital shelf fundamentals (content, availability, pricing), recognising the dependency between the two
• Work with retailers and media partners to understand platform capabilities, new opportunities and evolving best practice
• Stay close to developments across key platforms such as Criteo, CitrusAd and Amazon Ads
• Work with external partners and agencies to ensure clarity of direction and accountability for delivery
• Take direct ownership of selected centrally managed retail media accounts as this capability is established, including planning, activation oversight, optimisation and performance delivery
• Act as the lead contact for these accounts, working closely with retailers and partners to drive performance and unlock growth opportunities
• Define what should sit centrally vs locally over time, helping shape a more scalable and efficient operating model
• Identify where increased central ownership of campaigns or platforms would deliver stronger commercial outcomes

What We’re Looking For

• 4 + years’ experience in retail media, ecommerce or performance marketing, ideally within FMCG, retail or agency environments
• Strong understanding of how retail media works across key platforms such as Criteo, CitrusAd and Amazon Ads
• Proven ability to analyse campaign performance and translate data into clear, actionable recommendations that improve commercial outcomes
• Strong commercial acumen, with a clear understanding of how media investment impacts sales, margin and retailer dynamics
• Experience working across multiple stakeholders (ecommerce, sales, brand, agencies), with the ability to influence without direct control
• Confident communicator, able to present complex performance data in a simple and compelling way
• Experience developing frameworks, playbooks or best practice guidelines that can be scaled across teams
• Organised and structured, with the ability to manage multiple markets, retailers and priorities simultaneously
• Curious and proactive, with a strong interest in testing, learning and continuous improvement
• Comfortable operating in an environment where ways of working are still being defined