Media Specialist

Location: Gatwick (Hybrid working 2-3 times in the office)

Salary up to £45,000 depending on experience + potential bonus + generous pension scheme + 12 flexible days on top of holiday entitlement + 2 paid volunteering days + other fantastic benefits!

Position summary

Here at Nestlé UK&I, we are recruiting for a Media Specialist to join our team. Reporting into the Head of Media Cluster North, this role will play a key part in supporting and challenging category and agency teams to place media at the core of their marketing activities, using digital data as the key enabler to power and execute marketing strategies to drive marketing effectiveness.

A day in the life of a Media Specialist...

• Be responsible for delivering media support for all brand campaigns within agreed portfolio of brands/categories to ensure Nestlé receives exceptional campaign plans and media value from the market.
• Ensure the Communications Planning Process (including the PCT/ Plan and PCA) is adhered to by marketing and agencies, thus ensuring quality of delivery.
• Build effective working relationships across functions and levels with relevant agencies.
• Be responsible for the delivery and execution of digital best practices and frameworks (via training, online sharing platforms and other means).
• Accurate and timely control of all relevant budgets including share of digital spend, ongoing spends across partners including FB, Google etc; Return on Investment compliance; monthly plans and others.
• Agree annual bonus calculations for UK and Ireland agencies.
• Develop relationships with partners and media owners such as Meta, Google, Pinterest, Twitter.
• Assist with developing Digital and Social Media Communications to ensure greater brand knowledge and adoption among Nestlé Marketing community.
• Provide test and learn programmes to increase knowledge and capability in both 'new media' and 'future media' (identified significant marketing trends that are still in infancy).
• Provide expertise, and best practice guidance across the key pillars of digital - Social, Search (Paid & SEO) Programmatic, Data activation.
• Knowledge of offline media (TV, Print, OOH).

What will make you successful?

To be successful in this role you will have a deep understanding of many facets within media and a robust commercial understanding in FMCG. You will have media agency experience at Senior Manager/Account Director level (or equivalent) - ideally in a fast-paced agency environment managing paid media campaigns. You will have an ability to combine sound analytical thinking and technical understanding, with the imagination and creativity to develop innovative plans, presented in a compelling way, with strong execution. You will be passionate, tenacious; results-focused and enjoy working in an energetic and exciting environment. It is a given that you will know the importance of being able to flex your style whilst working across various teams.

You will also have:

• Proven experience of working with media budgets (6 to 7 figure annual spends ideal), with strong understanding of how to allocate and optimise spends across channels.
• Experience working on FMCG, retail or consumer-facing brands is highly desirable.

What you need to know

We will provide support and coaching to help you develop yourself in your career and as an individual, as well as offering great benefits that you’d expect from a business the size of Nestlé – in the shape of a competitive salary and benefits package, bonus scheme, flexible working scheme, 25 days holiday plus bank holidays plus up to an additional 12 days flex leave, bank holiday exchange, competitive pension scheme and much more.

Job advert closing date - 22nd June 2025. We will be considering and interviewing candidates as they apply and we will occasionally close job advertisements early in the event we receive sufficient applicants, so please don’t delay in submitting your application.

At Nestlé, our values are rooted in respect – for our employees, our customers and our consumers. That’s why championing diversity and inclusion is so important to us; when we embrace different perspectives and give everyone the chance to be the best they can be, we can think in new, creative ways that grow and enhance our business. We are committed to equal opportunity for all and we may collect relevant data for monitoring purposes during our candidate registration process. Be yourself, everyone else is taken!