Biddable Media Lead - Programmatic & Social
London, Holborn | Hybrid | £65,000 base + £9,750 bonus
For more than three decades, a global media group has been quietly reshaping how brands think about value. What began as a pioneering approach to unlocking trapped inventory has evolved into a modern ecosystem that blends media, data, technology, and commercial innovation. Today, their UK team sits in the heart of Holborn, playing a central role in that evolution and helping brands rethink how they plan, buy, and measure media in a world defined by fragmentation and constant change.
As the organisation expanded its international footprint, a new digital momentum took hold. They invested in emerging channels, strengthened their programmatic capabilities, and built partnerships across the industry that enabled them to deliver more intelligent, connected, and commercially creative solutions. Now, they’re launching a dedicated biddable hub out of London. It’s designed to raise the bar across programmatic and social, give clients deeper access to innovation, and accelerate how the wider network delivers digital excellence.
This is where the Biddable Media Lead comes in. You’ll join at a pivotal moment, shaping the next chapter of their digital offering while working hand in hand with UK leadership and a progressive team of specialists in New York. Your focus is simple: build a best in class biddable practice that clients trust, teams learn from, and the wider organisation sees as a catalyst for growth. You’ll architect programmatic and social strategy, guide planning and optimisation, and bring clarity to complex campaigns. You’ll be the commercial voice at the centre of delivery, ensuring every activation is grounded in smart measurement, strong client stewardship, and a clear narrative on how performance ladders up to business outcomes.
Day to day, that means helping clients unlock the full potential of programmatic and paid social across display, video, CTV, DOOH, native and more. It means bringing industry updates into the room before they become trends. It means rolling up your sleeves to troubleshoot a campaign, but also stepping back to define a roadmap that moves the whole business forward. And critically, it means leading and developing a growing team, nurturing curiosity, and creating a culture where experimentation and growth sit alongside operational excellence.
To thrive here, you’ll bring deep hands on experience across programmatic and social buying, ideally spanning platforms like TheTradeDesk, DV360, Xandr, Amazon, Meta, TikTok, LinkedIn and Snap. You’ll understand data, audience strategy, measurement tools, and the mechanics of how media is traded. You’ll have the commercial sharpness to manage P&Ls and articulate the value of a differentiated media model, alongside the leadership capability to coach, influence, and inspire. Above all, you’ll bring an entrepreneurial mindset and a genuine desire to shape something new, not just maintain what already exists.
If you’re excited by the idea of building a capability that plugs into a global network, works with the latest tech and measurement solutions, and directly influences how brands grow smarter and faster, this is a rare opportunity to lead with impact.
If this sounds like the right next chapter for you, let’s talk.