Media Manager - Global Agency

Responsibilities

We're looking for a driven Media Manager (Integrated/Hybrid - Digital & offline) to oversee and ensure the execution of media plans runs smoothly from inception to completion, aligning with client goals and expectations.

As a Media Manager, you will lead day-to-day communications with the client, ensuring they are constantly updated with campaign performance and providing strategic and innovative direction to strengthen client relationships.

You will be responsible for planning, optimizing, and reporting campaigns to meet and surpass the clients' success metrics.

In addition, the Media Manager will support collaboration between departmental teams, acting as a key driving force in planning ideation, media execution, and media-led creative.

Monitor campaigns for performance along with a team of Media Analysts and Senior Media Analysts, ensuring campaigns are pacing accordingly, managing the spend, troubleshooting campaigns, creating insights about performance, making updates accordingly, and flagging potential issues to management.

Create and present sophisticated media investment strategies to clients, derived from industry insights and QA reporting.

Develop and deliver client-facing campaign reports to showcase performance, new business opportunities, and storytelling: pacing reports, campaign build, ad-hoc analysis, and high-touch optimizations to ensure relevant metrics and insights are highlighted.

Manage up to senior leadership corresponding to the most crucial aspects of a client's business, keeping them abreast of any pertinent developments and urgent client needs.

Manage ad technology vendors needed to execute specific campaign work.

Collaborate across disciplines to craft best-in-class, holistic omnichannel media strategies rooted in driving tangible business outcomes for large brands.

Qualifications

Proven experience of at least 5+ years working in a Media agency or Media team - preferably from a Global Media Agency.

Experience leading and managing teams, ideally 2-3 analysts/media execs who would be responsible for trafficking, QA'ing, and optimizing digital media.

The candidate should be able to provide leadership, mentorship, vision, and technical expertise, and be comfortable managing timelines and projects internally and externally, including task management as needed (i.e., 'owning' a Trello board, weekly tasks, Google Sheets, etc.).

A person that is well versed in media who can utilize resources to help guide the client's marketing goals in their respective markets (syndicated, proprietary, analyst data).

An empathetic, patient, and collaborative spirit that fosters a positive day-to-day experience for their teammates.

Has the ability to lead by example in terms of attention to detail, general work ethic, empathy, and internal/external professionalism.

You live for today's digital & mobile consumer, driven, hungry to succeed, and always looking to learn more.

Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English and Arabic (highly preferred). UAE experience is a must.