Media Manager

Overview

Media Manager Filleigh or Bristol - Hybrid Competitive + Benefits

A little about us…

Bray Leino is a creative and communication Agency that drives growth through Creativenergy, by going beyond, to find the most powerful way.

It’s the way we began back in 1973. Before email, before mobile phones, when London was still 6 hours by road, our founders set up shop in a gloriously rural part of the UK. It’s how we grew into a full-service global agency. And it’s how we still look at the world now.

Creativenergy is the force that makes us think, create and work differently to our competition. It’s what makes us a thriving powerhouse of free-range thinkers, creators and makers. And wherever we are in the world, connects us all back to one common ambition: to use creativity to make businesses grow.

Role

About the role

Bray Leino Media are a skilled team of media professionals, media & communications planners, strategists, and channel specialists responsible for media trading. We cover all channels: digital, out of home, radio, print, cinema, TV, and all forms of VOD, as well as creative media solutions and partnerships. We work with clients as part of a ‘full service’ in conjunction with the Bray Leino creative offering, as well as media-only business, working with clients directly.

The Media Manager plays a crucial role in building strong, trusted relationships with clients while acting as their primary media contact. This position requires a deep understanding of client businesses, markets, and audiences to develop and execute effective media strategies. The Media Manager is responsible for crafting media plans, ensuring competitive rates, assessing campaign performance, and integrating media efforts with broader creative and strategic objectives. Additionally, they stay informed about industry trends, identify innovative opportunities, and contribute to new business pitches.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop thorough understanding of client business, products, markets and audiences.
• Able to understand, assimilate and question the brief and set media goals and objectives.
• Build and implement media plans as appropriate, ensuring the client receives the most competitive media rates available and that campaigns are delivered as agreed by implementation teams and media stakeholders.
• Assess media and ROI performance to drive learning and demonstrate effectiveness.
• Work with account teams to ensure that media is integrated with creative and strategic outputs and campaigns are executed well.
• Communicate deliverables and timings to clients and colleagues.
• Keep clients up to date with the changing media landscape and identify any creative, new or innovative opportunities to be included in proposals.
• Effectively manage administration from client billing to timesheet completion.
• Address and escalate any client-related issues as needed.
• Build relationships with media owners to maintain and develop relationships, resolve any problems, and gather market intelligence.

About you:

• Possess a thorough understanding of all media channels.
• Demonstrate a proactive approach, critical thinking, and a commitment to delivering high-quality work efficiently.
• Ability to work both independently and collaboratively, adapting to business needs.
• Experience in developing strategic media proposals and implementation plans.
• Strong understanding of the industry and modern best practices.
• Ability to negotiate effectively if required.
• Skilled in building strong relationships with clients across all levels of seniority.
• Experienced presenter with excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to process and apply new information quickly.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including numerical competency where required.
• Ability to identify and develop commercial opportunities that contribute to agency growth.
• Proficiency in all necessary software tools, including Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Outlook, TGI & Touchpoints via Telmar, and Nielsen AdIntel.

Benefits

And in return…

• 25 days’ holiday, increasing to 29 after two years’ service, plus Bank Holidays
• Company pension scheme, with enhanced Employer contributions after 1 years’ service
• Medical Cash Plan – including employee assist programme, contributions to dental, optical, physio etc.
• Employee Discount Scheme – an online platform for all staff offering a variety of discounts at various shopping outlets, gyms etc
• Electric Car Purchase Scheme, via Salary Sacrifice
• Outstanding training and progression, including access to LinkedIn Learning and The Mission Group Learning Management System
• Employee referral scheme
• Regular staff social events
• Company Christmas closure
• Long service awards
• Cycle To Work scheme
• Mission Share Scheme

Here at Bray Leino, we’re celebrators of difference. We know it’s where Creativenergy comes from. So, our culture’s open, diverse and inclusive. Whether you’re coming for an interview or have been with us for years, what matters is your talent and character; the rest is what makes you, you. We’re committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief. We will consider flexible working requests for all roles, unless operational requirements prevent otherwise. We are proud to be a Disability Confident Committed (Level 1) Employer. As a Disability Confident Committed Employer, we have committed to ensure our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible, communicating and promoting vacancies, offering an interview to those with disabilities who meet the minimum criteria for the job and anticipating and providing reasonable adjustments as required.

We are also a part of…

The MISSION Group Plc. is The Brand Performance Group. Delivering measurable, results-driven campaigns as the preferred creative partner for real business growth. We offer top-tier agencies, strategic specialisms and global reach delivering outstanding performance for brands. We call it Work That Counts.