UK - Senior Media Manager in London

At MMGY, we believe nothing shapes your view of the world like travel. So every day, we share our client’s stories from a perspective that inspires people to see the world differently. Our personalised service and strategy connect media, consumers and influencers across the globe, taking people to new places and changing their view for the better. At MMGY we inspire people to go places.

We have an immediate opening for a Senior Media Manager in our London office. This position is responsible for managing integrated media buys and planning needs across a portfolio of clients in the travel industry. MMGY media team members possess a strong curiosity to learn, are creative and collaborative thinkers to ensure delivery of new media solutions and must have a drive to deliver maximum and efficient value for our client’s media investments. Knowledge across digital, traditional, social and B2B channels is preferred. MMGY is looking for a collaborative, team player with a strong work ethic and aptitude for learning more about data driven marketing.

Tasks include:

Strategic Media Planning

• Planning and buying across a mix of digital, including programmatic and traditional media channels.
• Understand and incorporate marketing objectives into client media plans
• Distribute media RFPs, working with vendors on negotiation and proactive ideation against client KPIs
• Assist in the development of client KPIs
• Budget management with oversight of billing accuracy and on schedule according to client requirements
• Steward campaigns, which includes daily campaign activation, management, optimisation and post-campaign reporting with the ability to handle multiple campaigns simultaneously

Campaign Oversight

• Lead ongoing optimisation and communication to clients, vendors and internal teams
• Monitoring performance of client campaigns in collaboration with the analytics team
• Assist with campaign set up and execution including development of purchase orders and insertion orders, aggregating specs and working with finance and account teams on billing documentation

Team Collaboration

• Attend vendor meetings to gain and maintain a thorough knowledge of media options, partner features and market opportunities. Ensure client objectives are being discussed with relevant vendors in an ongoing manner.
• Participate in client presentations, support on client presentations and status meetings as well as all other client-facing media deliverables.
• Stay informed of industry trends and best practices regarding media planning, placement, tracking and reporting

Qualifications:

• Minimum 3 years media experience with buying and planning knowledge across integrated media
• Strong working knowledge of third-party tracking, experience in buying software

Our industry-leading benefits:

• A flexible hybrid work schedule of 3 days in office and 2 days at home
• Generous annual holiday package including 25 days of annual leave, birthday day off (can be taken any day during your month of birth), 2 floating holidays and year-end holiday break over the Christmas period.
• Private medical insurance and pension scheme contribution from the company
• Lively social calendar with numerous activities and events to take part in.
• Weekly Office Pantry fresh fruit boxes
• Dog friendly office: your dogs are warmly welcomed here
• Cycle to work scheme
• Season Ticket Loan
• Industry-exclusive travel perks
• Go Explore! Global Travel Reward Programme: we offer exciting anniversary travel benefits that kick in after 2 years. We want our employees to go see the world - and help pay for it.