Head of Media.

Want to work for an independent, non-profit, government-backed organisation that helps households and small businesses across the UK?

We are looking for a passionate Head of Media who is excited by our mission to drive national adoption, and the opportunity to be part of a once-in-a-lifetime campaign. This is a senior level position for a driven marketer who will lead the planning, buying and evaluating of our paid media activity.

Responsibilities Include:

• Setting the strategic direction of the overall consumer and microbusiness marketing campaigns
• Identify insight-led media opportunities and new campaign approaches, and facilitating senior internal and external stakeholder support
• Lead the implementation development of all our paid media activity and manage the day-to-day relationship with our media agency partner to deliver quality media plans
• Report expenditure of paid for media activity, including monitoring monthly forecast budgets and invoice activity
• Oversee the monitoring and validation of our media expenditure and manage our media performance evaluation
• Support in providing a robust rationale for our media channel strategy and executive summaries of our activity for the SLT, CEO, board and other key stakeholders
• Line manage and oversee the professional development of more junior members of the team including a Senior Media Manager and Media Marketing Executive.

The Ideal Candidate:

• Experience working for a leading integrated media agency and/or an in-house consumer media team
• Experience in developing major, multi-channel, consumer-facing communications campaigns
• Experience/understanding of cross-channel media planning, buying and evaluating, including TV, BVOD/SVOD, Audio, Digital display/video, Social, Programmatic and Paid Search
• Ability to write clear agency briefs, evaluate media agency cost proposals, agree clear scopes of work and manage a significant marketing budget
• Experience in working with customer segmentation to inform communications activity
• Excellent at building and managing senior relationships, and confident owning and leading projects
• Highly organised and able to manage projects to meet tight deadlines/ budgets
• Excellent communication skills; the ability to write and present succinctly, eloquently and creatively
• Strong experience with financial processes and managing the detail of large media budgets
• Strong IT skills, including the creation and management of Excel spreadsheets
• Experience managing senior agency relationships and teams. Comfortable leading the commercial and compliance elements of agency contracts and performance assessment
• Commercial and procurement experience, with the ability to lead supplier tender processes and market assessments

Benefits Include:

• Competitive pension scheme
• 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
• Gym memberships
• Private medical insurance
• volunteer days
• work anniversary gift
• Option to buy additional annual leave
• Cycle to work scheme
• Free breakfast and healthy snacks

For more information please send your CV.

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