Media Account Director

Salocin Group specialises in developing next-generation data platforms to help organisations make their data and technology future-ready. They offer strategic support for businesses aiming to enhance customer relationships, optimise tech use, and adapt to an AI-driven landscape. The Salocin Group is composed of several specialised companies that collaborate to deliver advanced data-driven marketing and customer engagement solutions, particularly for charities and commercial brands.

Edit focuses on using data and marketing technology to enhance customer engagement and retention. Its expertise lies in data platforms, CRM strategy, and personalised marketing solutions, making it a trusted partner for well-known brands and charities worldwide.

Wood for Trees brings deep experience in data insights and fundraising performance, primarily for charities. Its InsightHub platform provides actionable data insights designed to help charitable organisations optimise supporter engagement and improve fundraising outcomes.

Join the Dots specialises in data-informed media planning and customer acquisition strategies, leveraging robust analytics to drive precise targeting and acquisition for brands across various sectors. Together, these companies embody Salocin’s mission to deliver impactful, data-centric solutions that deepen customer connections and support sustainable growth.

We are a B-Corp certified business, meaning we meet the highest verified standards of environmental performance, transparency and accountability. We’re also a proud member of Ecologi, allowing us to fund climate projects and carbon offset our people’s footprint.

Our benefits include enhanced employer pension contributions, life assurance, wellness reward programmes, critical illness cover, private healthcare, and many others. We embrace an environment that’s fun, supportive, and nurtures curiosity, and provide a hybrid flexible working environment for our people.

We are inclusive and actively celebrate diversity, so welcome all applications regardless of age, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnerships or disability.

The Purpose of the Role

As a Media Account Director, you will be responsible for managing and developing a roster of media clients, be instrumental in cultivating loyal and trusted business relationships, working with the key client stakeholders and the wider Join the Dots team to ensure we meet their objectives and present innovative and effective strategies, to produce compelling results to grow their business. You will work closely with the team, evangelising about media internally and externally, helping to build our industry profile through thought leadership.

How will you spend your time?

• Lead several accounts being the key contact, both internally & externally, maintaining top class client service.
• Plan and buy offline media campaigns (press, inserts, door drop etc) as per clients’ strategies.
• Prepare for and attend regular client meetings, producing client presentations including campaign results, performance forecasting, manipulation, interpretation, and presentation of results with rationales and recommendations for future planning.
• Demonstrate exceptional negotiation skills, including a creative and innovative approach where appropriate.
• Assist with plan creation for new business opportunities.
• Support and input into the strategic vision of the Join the Dots team.
• Have overall responsibility for account performance, growth, and financials.
• Identify trends and pro-actively develop new opportunities, continuously look at ways of increasing margins by pro-actively pushing clients to test new opportunities and initiatives.
• Leverage supplier relationships to drive new opportunities.
• Develop and maintain exceptional supplier and client relationships, leading the wider media team to do the same.

It’s important that you are experienced in:

• At least 4-5 years’ experience of planning and buying offline media (press, inserts, door drop, etc).
• Excellent communication skills, both in writing and verbally with people at all levels.
• Creative in problem solving and decision making, with a quick-thinking approach.
• Exceptional time management skills: ability to prioritise workload for yourself, anticipate blockers and make contingencies.
• Strategic and lateral thinker who is creative in their approach to campaign planning.
• Experience in systems such as Nielsen, MediaTel, TGI.

The Recruitment Process

We will review all applications and reach out to arrange an informal 30-minute chat to talk about you and tell you more about Salocin Group. This will be followed by a 2nd stage interview with the Hiring Team. In some circumstances we will change the process to accommodate the type of role we are recruiting. We like to keep it simple and aim to complete the process within a few weeks’ time. We will keep you updated throughout the process.

What you need to do next

Please note, you don’t have to have it all to be a great fit - you may even teach us something about what we should be looking for! If you are passionate about this opportunity and great at what you do, then we would love to hear from you! Simply click the 'Apply' button or for further information, contact our People Team.