Senior Media Lead (12 month fixed term contract)

Role Reports To: Media and Digital Director Northern Europe.

Location: Europe/Middle East/Africa, United Kingdom, Reading, Berkshire.

Work Location: Hybrid.

What We Do

At Kenvue, we realise the extraordinary power of everyday care. Built on over a century of heritage and rooted in science, we’re the house of iconic brands – including NEUTROGENA®, AVEENO®, TYLENOL®, LISTERINE®, JOHNSON’S® and BAND-AID® that you already know and love. Science is our passion; care is our talent.

Who We Are

Our global team is ~ 22,000 brilliant people with a workplace culture where every voice matters, and every contribution is appreciated. We are passionate about insights, innovation and committed to delivering the best products to our customers. With expertise and empathy, being a Kenvuer means having the power to impact millions of people every day. We put people first, care fiercely, earn trust with science and solve with courage – and have brilliant opportunities waiting for you! Join us in shaping our future–and yours.

Role Summary

This role provides maternity cover for the Media Lead position, with a clear focus on agency leadership, governance, financial control, and media investment decision‑making. The successful candidate will act as the senior in‑house media authority, responsible for ensuring that agency partners deliver against strategic, financial, and operational expectations. The role is less focused on hands‑on retail or e‑commerce media execution, and instead prioritises agency transition leadership, robust media planning, billing and finance governance, and evaluation of media and content quality. This role will work closely with marketing, finance, procurement, and agency partners to ensure media activity is strategically sound, operationally efficient, and financially accountable.

Agency Leadership & Governance

• Lead and manage relationships with media agencies across planning, buying, and activation.
• Act as the senior day‑to‑day client lead for agencies, ensuring clarity of scope, accountability, and performance.
• Lead and support any agency transition or restructuring activity, including onboarding, ways of working, governance frameworks, and continuity of delivery.
• Own agency ways of working, ensuring consistency, transparency, and best‑practice standards across teams.
• Conduct agency performance reviews and contribute to evaluation of operating models, resourcing, and value delivery.

Media Planning & Strategic Evaluation

• Provide senior media planning oversight across channels, ensuring plans align to brand strategy, business objectives, and audience needs.
• Evaluate media strategy quality, channel roles, phasing, reach and frequency logic, and investment balance.
• Assess content quality and media‑context fit, ensuring creative and media work together effectively.
• Act as a strategic advisor to brand and marketing teams on media choices and trade‑offs.

Financial, Billing & Investment Oversight

• Own oversight of media billing processes, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and timely reconciliation.
• Partner closely with finance and procurement teams on budgets, forecasting, accruals, and spend tracking.
• Ensure agencies operate within agreed financial processes and governance frameworks.
• Lead evaluation of media investment decisions, including rationale for spend, expected return, and effectiveness.
• Support development of clear media investment criteria: why we invest, where we invest, and what success looks like.

Cross‑Functional Collaboration

• Work collaboratively with marketing, finance, procurement, and external partners to ensure joined‑up delivery.
• Act as the key connector between agencies and internal stakeholders, resolving issues quickly and constructively.
• Support integrated briefing processes and ensure media considerations are embedded early in planning.

Leadership & Capability

• Provide leadership and direction to internal media team members (where applicable), ensuring clarity of priorities and delivery focus.
• Bring structure, pace, and rigour to media operations during the maternity cover period.
• Champion strong process, documentation, and decision‑making discipline.

What We’re Looking For

• Extensive experience in media roles, either agency‑side or in‑house, with strong exposure to media planning, governance, and agency leadership.
• Demonstrated experience leading or supporting agency transitions, onboarding, or changes in operating model.
• Strong understanding of media billing, finance processes, and budget management.
• Proven ability to evaluate media strategy, investment decisions, and performance beyond surface‑level metrics.
• Experience working closely with senior stakeholders.

Skills & Attributes

• Highly operational, organised, and delivery‑focused.
• Commercially minded, with confidence interrogating spend, value, and return.
• Strong communicator, able to challenge constructively and lead senior agency conversations.
• Strategic thinker with the ability to assess media and content quality holistically.
• Comfortable operating in complex, matrixed organisations.
• Calm, credible, and decisive during periods of change.

What’s In It For You

• Competitive Benefit Package.
• Paid Company Holidays, Paid Vacation, Volunteer Time & More!
• Learning & Development Opportunities.
• Kenvuer Impact Networks.

Kenvue is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment based on merit without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability. If you are an individual with a disability, please check our Disability Assistance page for information on how to request an accommodation.