Senior Media Manager / Strategist

This Senior Media Manager / Strategist will see you play a vital role within a globally-recognised integrated agency who produce some exceptional behavioural change work. Here, you'll be working on media campaigns which genuinely improve lives across the world.

This Senior Media Manager / Strategist will focus on strategy and media planning for diverse projects in multiple countries across the globe.,

• To bring a rigorous approach to the development of media dissemination strategies and planning in order to effect knowledge, attitudes and behaviours in target audience groups across the world


• To use and champion multiple sources of research, best practices and critical thinking including bringing innovating media strategy and planning approaches into the business


• To set an example within the agency in media strategy/planning and digital/performance marketing to answer client problems by developing effective ways of working, tools and techniques and sharing them with the organisation


• To give communications strategy and media guidance to other members of the strategy and other departments as and where appropriate


• To manage junior media strategists/planners to work as part of the team to deliver results
  
  Experience of designing the implementing integrated media campaigns in a range of channels best suited to the audience including but not limited to digital, performance, TV, OOH, radio, social and influencer marketing


• A working knowledge of the pros and cons of earned media channels including social media, public relations and public affairs


• Knowledge of fundamental techniques, tools and practices of a media strategist


• The ability to quickly analyse and process large volumes of data and insight from multiple sources


• The ability to craft and present simple and effective communications strategy and media plans designed to reach a target audience sometimes in hard-to-reach environments


• The ability to work with messaging strategists and creative staff/partners to ensure the media and communication strategy/planning creates the greatest impact with the resources available


• Adept at managing multiple partner relationships including but not limited to media buying agencies, digital platforms, data suppliers and in country media consultants


• An ability to understand the culture and media landscape of a country and be able to translate this into usable insight for the dissemination of messages through paid, earned and owned media


• Knowledge of multiple forms of research - both in the development of strategy and the subsequent reporting of it


• Experience in a similar working environment


• Excellent oral and written communications skills (English)


• An interest in geo-politics and international relations, Prior experience working for agencies ourselves - we 'get' the industry


• Extensive knowledge of what clients and candidates want


• Able to provide informed guidance along every step of the recruitment journey


• We treat clients and candidates with integrity - we're not sales people


• We're small, so you're a big deal to us


• We're friendly people
  
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