Senior Paid Media Executive

The Senior Paid Media Executive role is to deliver best‑in‑class paid media activity across our club partners. As a key part of our Marketing team, you’ll take ownership of planning, executing and optimising impactful, supporter‑focused campaigns that showcase our partners and strengthen our global presence. From campaign strategy and activation to reporting and optimisation, you will lead the delivery of insight‑led media plans that meet both our club and partner objectives. This is a fast‑paced and strategic role where you’ll collaborate with cross‑functional teams to build media plans that reflect our premium brand and deliver meaningful results. You’ll use data insights, creativity and commercial thinking to drive improvements and shape how our partnership campaigns show up across our digital ecosystem.

We are committed to ensuring that our environments for children, young people and adults at risk remain safe and inclusive. We therefore require successful candidates to complete a DBS check and other essential background checks prior to starting their employment. Depending on the responsibilities of the role, a DBS will be either a basic, standard, or enhanced check.

Your day‑to‑day:

• Lead the delivery of partnership campaigns – you’ll take ownership of planning, activation and optimisation across paid social, video, display and emerging channels.
• Develop impactful media plans – you will create strategic, insight‑driven plans that align with partner objectives, commercial KPIs and contractual rights.
• Own full campaign setup and optimisation – you’ll shape audience strategies, brief creative teams, allocate budgets and enhance performance throughout the campaign lifecycle.
• Collaborate across our Commercial teams – you will work closely with Partnerships, Creative, Content and Data teams to ensure campaigns are aligned and effective.
• Act as the paid media point of contact for partnership activations – you’ll be the main representative for partnership activations, providing forecasts, recommendations and post‑campaign insights to internal teams, senior leaders and partners.
• Oversee agency and platform relationships – you will ensure external agencies deliver high‑quality work in line with agreed timelines, objectives and budgets.
• Craft compelling messaging and briefs – you’ll help create exciting media briefs and paid content aligned to both partner brand guidelines and our club's supporter‑first approach.
• Utilise key moments and milestones – you will monitor key footballing and cultural moments, identifying opportunities to amplify partnership campaigns and commercial opportunities.

What we are looking for:

• Paid media expertise – you come with experience delivering multi‑channel campaigns that drive measurable commercial results.
• Partnership and sponsorship experience – you’re confident planning and executing brand or sponsorship‑led campaigns with the ability to document clear performance reports and insights.
• Advanced digital platform knowledge – you’re well‑versed in paid social and digital advertising platforms, including Meta Ads, TikTok Ads, LinkedIn Ads, DV360 and other relevant media buying platforms.
• Data‑driven, analytical mindset – you’re able to translate campaign and consumer data into clear, actionable insights that drive optimisation, partner value and commercial performance.
• Audience and media planning skills – you have an advanced understanding of media principles and audience segmentation, with the ability to build effective audience strategies which can be analysed and optimised long‑term.
• Agency and partner management background – you’re confident overseeing external agencies and media partners, delivering multiple campaigns simultaneously while adhering to budgets, timelines and KPIs.
• Excellent communicator – you’re comfortable presenting performance insights and strategic recommendations to senior colleagues and partners, actively sharing trends and best practices across the paid media department.
• Proactive, collaborative and reactive approach – you thrive in a fast‑paced environment, collaborating reactively to bring key moments to life through campaigns and activations.

At Arsenal, we want everyone to feel a sense of trust and belonging, so we are proud of both our club values and also what we offer to our employees. As one of our Gunners, you will receive:

• An exciting reward and recognition scheme.
• Generous holiday allowance which increases with your length of service.
• Great internal learning and development programmes.
• A flexible hybrid working model.
• Priority access to apply for match tickets.
• A competitive health and wellbeing benefits package.
• A leading Employee Assistance Programme.
• Great discounts with some of our Partners.
• An opportunity to play a vital role in delivering our ED&I strategy by joining one of our Employee Networks.

Arsenal for Everyone is our commitment to promoting and embracing equality, diversity and inclusion, so that everyone connected to the club feels like they belong to the same Arsenal family. We believe that diversity of background, skills and experience drives our success on and off the pitch.

We are a Disability Confident Leader. We actively welcome and encourage applications from people with disabilities and long‑term health conditions. If you need disability‑related adjustments to the recruitment process, please indicate this in your application.

Application Closing Date - Monday 23rd March 2026. Please note: we reserve the right to close the position early if application volumes are particularly high. We encourage you to get your application in sooner rather than later. Updates on the status of your application will be sent via email, please routinely check your spam and junk folders, as occasionally emails sent via the Teamtailor platform will find themselves there.