Location: Hybrid - minimum fortnightly presence in London
Salary: From £50,000 + 10% discretionary bonus
Level: Manager-level, with responsibility for leading a team of digital trading specialists and overseeing multi-channel media operations across multiple agency partnerships
About the Role
We are looking for a Digital Media Manager to join our Digital Media team, supporting multiple agencies and retail media partnerships across the group. In this role, you will lead digital media trading and operations across programmatic, social, and OOH channels, driving performance, innovation, and commercial success while developing a high-performing team and shaping best-in-class activation strategies.
If you love variety, thrive in a fast-paced environment, and embrace change with energy, this could be your right role.
A Little Bit About You
You’ll bring:
* Extensive experience in media agencies, publishers, or marketing teams
* Strong hands‑on expertise in Programmatic and Paid Social media trading
* Proven experience delivering lower funnel, ROI-driven campaigns such as CPA, ROAS, and ROI
* Deep platform knowledge such as Meta and The Trade Desk
* Experience in media buying across display and social, with OOH as a bonus
* Strong commercial acumen with the ability to manage budgets, profitability, and reporting
* Demonstrated experience leading, coaching, and developing high-performing teams
* Ability to balance strategic thinking with hands‑on execution
* Confidence working with senior stakeholders, both internal and external
* A proactive, solutions‑focused mindset with strong AdTech and problem‑solving capabilities
* Experience in retail, FMCG, or fast‑paced media environments is preferred
Don’t meet every single requirement? We still want to hear from you. If you believe you’d thrive in this role, your unique perspective might be just what we’re looking for.
What You’ll Be Doing
Your days will be dynamic. You might find yourself:
* Leading end‑to‑end digital campaign activation, optimisation, and reporting across programmatic, social, and OOH
* Acting as the technical lead for digital operations, solving implementation challenges and ensuring best practice
* Overseeing campaign builds, tracking, QA, pacing, and performance optimisation
* Managing team performance, workloads, and development while fostering a collaborative environment
* Driving commercial tracking including spend allocation, profitability, and partner agreements
* Getting hands‑on in platforms during peak periods or key activations
* Developing and refining processes, frameworks, and operational efficiencies
* Collaborating with planning and insight teams on audience strategy, 1PD activation, and measurement
* Leading innovation initiatives and testing new channels, tools, and activation strategies
* Building and maintaining relationships with media owners and AdTech partners
* Supporting wider agency growth by upskilling teams and strengthening digital capability
Benefits
* 10% discretionary bonus
* £1,800 yearly wellbeing fund (on top of your salary!)
* Free Headspace subscription
* £500 yearly “Learning Fund” for learning
* 4 extra Wellbeing Days off per year
* 4pm finishes every Friday
* Flexible and hybrid working
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