Paid Media Executive in London

We're Pentland Brands: a global family business behind some of the world's most iconic active and lifestyle brands. We bring integrity, energy and ambition to our work, setting high standards and striving to deliver great outcomes without ego. With over 1,500 team members worldwide, we're proud of our diverse, inclusive culture where everyone is encouraged to speak up, challenge thinking, create breakthroughs and collaborate openly. Our people are what set us apart, and we're committed to creating an environment where everyone can thrive.

Location: London, Farringdon

Hours: 36.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday (4.30pm finish on a Friday)

The Paid Media Executive Mission:

This is a truly unique opportunity to work across multiple brands, all with differing challenges and objectives. You'll be within a group role, looking after a portfolio of brands. However, unlike other roles, your success is as driven by your soft skills as by your technical skills. Success in this role is reliant on integrating with key stakeholders within across the likes of brand, creative and insight functions.

This is an amazing opportunity for someone wanting to come in and learn cross channel paid digital marketing. You'll be given the opportunity to understand full workflows and implementation both internally and through agency partners.

How you'll drive success:

• Working with the Paid Media Manager to deliver a best in class and innovative audience led paid digital roadmap, aligned to our the ambitions of our portfolio of brands.
• Work with brand teams to understand creative goals and long term ambitions, translating them into creative briefs for digital channels.
• This is a highly communicative role and requires touch points across many teams in the business, so great stakeholder management is a must.
• You’ll be quickly thrust into the world of retail trade, working with the ecommerce team as a key partner under a healthy tension to hit a shared number.
• In time you’ll be expected to present in weekly trade and lead on trade comms.
• As well as the need to communicate internally, this role works daily with our media agency and they’ll rely on you for on the spot sign off and decision making across our investments.
• Report back on paid digital marketing performance and work with the marketing agency to ensure that actions are being taken accordingly.
• Work with the agencies to maintain and deliver the roadmap, maximising return and managing internal stakeholders to make them aware of the longer term ambitions of in-channel tests.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders to ensure the customer experience carries through into the onsite journey and that we have clear and consistent alignment on experiments taking place.
• As communication is so important you may be asked to come into the office up to 4 days a week on occasion, with 3 being a consistent requirement for the role.
• Alongside this, the role will involve quarterly travel between offices to attend key meetings.

What you'll need to thrive:

• Attitude is more important than experience for this role, we’re looking for someone with an analytical mindset and someone who can prove they’re a self starter.
• It’s vital you’re a good communicator and want to build relationships across the business, alongside this, if you’re organised, you’ll thrive.
• We’d love you to have a basic understanding of marketing metrics, techniques and principles, either through education, self learning or previous placements.

Alongside a competitive salary and discretionary bonus, we offer a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your wellbeing, flexibility, and life outside work. This includes generous holiday allowance with the option to buy more, hybrid and flexible working, enhanced family leave, pension and financial protection, wellbeing support, travel schemes, and generous discounts across Pentland Brands and selected retail partners.

The Interview Process:

We want our interview process to feel clear, straightforward, and supportive. If your experience and expectations look like a strong match for the role, here’s what you can expect next:

• Talent Team Intro Call - A 30-minute video call with our Talent Team to get to know each other, talk through the role and your experience, and answer any questions you have.
• Experience Interview - A more in-depth interview (usually online) with the hiring manager to explore your skills, experience and approach, and how these align with the role, our principles, and our ways of working.
• Final Interview - A final in-person interview at our office, focused on deeper discussion and practical application, giving you the chance to meet more of the team and see Pentland Brands in action.