Working with our client, a global, independent marketing advisory, this role
sits within their Media Analytics Practice: a team that holds agencies to account,
benchmarks media investment, and delivers the kind of rigorous, independent insight that
genuinely changes how advertisers operate.
If you’ve spent your career on the agency side — in planning, trading, investment, or
accountability — and you’re ready to use everything you know from the inside to do
something more forensic, more strategic, and more impactful, this is the move.
WHAT THE ROLE INVOLVES
You’ll own client delivery from brief to board-level output. That means leading media
analytics projects — cost and fees benchmarking, performance audits, pitch assessments,
agency commercials — for some of the UK’s most significant advertisers.
You won’t just be analysing numbers. You’ll be building the narrative around them:
presenting findings to senior clients, managing junior team members, and contributing to
how the company evolves its products and methodologies.
Day to day:
• End-to-end delivery of media audit and analytics projects across your client portfolio
• Leading pitch analytics: from design and initiation through to agency appointment
• Building and presenting client-facing deliverables — QBRs, performance reviews,
value assessments
• Line managing more junior analysts and raising the quality of the work around you
• Contributing to product development and best-practice playbooks across the practice
• Collaborating with Client Solutions and Client Strategy teams on broader client
initiatives
WHAT THEY’RE LOOKING FOR
Looking for candidates from media agency planning, trading, investment, or
accountability backgrounds — you don’t need to have been a media auditor to thrive here.
What matters is that you understand how media really works from the inside: how deals are
structured, how value is measured, and where the gaps between what’s bought and what’s
delivered tend to appear.
Specifically, they’re looking for:
• Strong, hands-on experience across UK non-biddable channels — TV, BVoD/CTV,
OOH, Print, Radio, Cinema — at planning, buying, investment, or accountability level
• Experience working within or alongside accountability, reporting, or performance
functions — you’re comfortable in the numbers, you understand process and audit
methodology, and you know how to build a rigorous trail from data to decision
• Working knowledge of digital and biddable channels — programmatic, paid social,
search — and how they sit alongside linear investment in a total campaign picture
• Commercial storytelling ability: you can take complex data and turn it into a clear,
compelling narrative for a senior audience — you’re as confident presenting to a
client as you are building the analysis behind it
• Confidence managing client relationships, owning a room, and presenting findings at
all levels — from day-to-day contacts to C-suite stakeholders
• Analytical rigour paired with practical delivery — you don’t just produce the output,
you understand what it means and what should happen next
• Experience leading or mentoring more junior team members
• Genuine ambition to build a career in consultancy and advisory
WHY THIS ROLE
This is a rare chance to step out of the agency model and into a role where you’re the
independent voice in the room. You’ll work with some of the UK’s largest advertisers, get
exposure to global mandates, and develop a skill set — media accountability, benchmarking,
advisory — that’s genuinely scarce in the market.
For someone who wants to build towards a senior consultancy or advisory career, there’s
very little that accelerates that faster than time at mediasense.
