Digital Lead

Overview

We are hiring a Digital Lead to play a defining role in shaping the future of Kellanova’s global biddable media strategy. This is an opportunity to work at the heart of a high-profile client partnership, bringing together media, data and creativity to drive meaningful business growth. You’ll act as a trusted senior voice, influencing strategy across markets while building strong relationships with clients and partners. If you enjoy connecting big-picture thinking with real-world impact, this role offers both scale and visibility.

Responsibilities

What you’ll be doing:

• Act as the senior point of contact for Kellanova across paid social, programmatic, search and wider performance channels
• Lead strategic conversations with senior stakeholders, translating business priorities into clear media direction
• Set and evolve the global biddable media strategy, ensuring alignment with brand and market goals
• Guide and coordinate local market teams to deliver consistent, high-quality execution while allowing flexibility where needed
• Build strong partnerships with key platforms such as Google, Meta, TikTok, Amazon and The Trade Desk
• Identify and unlock new opportunities with partners, including testing, innovation and joint planning initiatives
• Oversee performance, risks and opportunities, using insight to shape senior-level recommendations and next steps

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading digital media strategy across biddable channels
• Confidence managing senior client relationships and navigating complex stakeholder environments
• Experience working across multi-market or regional accounts, ideally within fast-moving sectors
• Strong understanding of platform ecosystems, measurement approaches and performance optimisation
• Ability to bring clarity to complexity and translate data into actionable business insight
• Collaborative leadership style with the ability to align cross-functional teams around shared goals
• Commercial awareness and an understanding of how resourcing, scope and delivery impact outcomes

Benefits

Starcom offers a wide range of benefits to support our employees. Full details are shared when you join, but highlights include core benefits such as Pension, Life Assurance, and Private Medical cover, alongside enhanced policies like Reflection Days and Shared Parental Leave. You’ll also have access to a range of additional initiatives.

Equal Opportunity Statement

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