Senior Media Manager

Location: CHANEL Head Office, 5 Barlow Place, London

Reports to: Head of Media

Contract: Maternity Cover – 12-month Fixed Term Contract, Full-Time

Your role @CHANEL:

This is a unique opportunity to join the Chanel UK Media team based in London, on a 12-month maternity cover contract. The successful candidate will be a skilled Media generalist with broad channel experience, either in-house or within an agency.

What impact you can create at Chanel:

• Being an in-house media expert to service the 3 Divisions of the House, driven by latest developments within the media market as well as the luxury goods sector.
• Leading strategic, measurable and effective media campaigns for the UK market, collaborating with the wider Communications departments to support 360 campaigns.
• Leveraging your robust organisation and project management skills to deliver optimised ways of working, and streamlined timelines for media activation.
• An opportunity to lead and own campaign briefs, working closely with the wider Media department on annual strategic roadmaps and campaign briefings.
• Assessing agency responses, giving insightful and constructive feedback, setting KPIs and measurement targets.
• Pushing category boundaries and reflecting the Chanel CSR and Responsible Media agenda.
• Ownership of all day-to-day media matters with internal local and global stakeholders.
• An opportunity to act as a Chanel advertising ‘Brand Guardian’, operating within a united global communications vision, leveraging brand guidelines and processes.
• Delivering best-in-class media campaigns, focused on creativity and challenging the status quo to show the Brand’s point of difference to cut-through.
• Fostering a spirit of collaboration with media agency partners, with a focus on accountability and transparency to ensure strong working relationships are upheld.
• Analysing and translating business challenges to ensure the media proposition meets marketing objectives.
• Devising new media opportunities and evolutions to JBP agreements.

What you will bring to the role:

• Extensive experience working media agency side or in-house at a brand within the luxury or fashion industry.
• A solid understanding of leading media briefing and analysis of planning tactics.
• Strong operational skills and a commitment to leading the day-to-day tasks of an in-house media team.
• Showcasing your commitment to accuracy and quality in all elements of your role.
• Digital channel experience as a must, with knowledge of performance channels; Social, PPC, Affiliates, E-Retail Media. Experience with leveraging data in Media is highly desirable.

You are energised by:

• Being a key member of a small dedicated and high-performing team.
• Showcasing an eagerness to learn and promoting knowledge sharing.
• A commitment to accuracy and excellence in all elements of your work.
• Building your network, strong working relationships with other departments, and having exposure to external media partners and agencies.
• Navigating market complexity and supporting change on an ongoing basis.
• Balancing multiple priorities and delivering exceptional work in a timely manner.
• Contributing to the on-going and companywide version of sustainability. Sustainability is one of CHANEL’s key performance drivers, embedded into our ways of working.

What you will gain from this experience:

• To represent the House of Chanel and be immersed in the N°1 global luxury brand.
• Deliver exceptional media campaigns and be a key leader in evolving the media strategies for Chanel in the UK & Ireland.
• The opportunity to grow your industry connections through building deep relationships with key media publishers and partners across every media channel.
• The UK Region plays a pivotal role in delivering on CHANEL’s House Sustainability Ambitions. Transforming our business and leaving a lasting positive impact on people and planet will require the collaborative efforts of everyone across our House.

Benefits At CHANEL

Our employee benefits have been created to support you across your professional and personal life by offering you:

• Physical Wellbeing: Private Medical Insurance covering pre-existing medical conditions and ability to add family members, Online GP App with 24/7 appointments available within 24 hours and Cycle Scheme participation for a tax-exempt bike and/or accessories.
• Financial Wellbeing: Pension, Life Assurance and Retail Discounts across multiple retailers including Supermarkets, Gyms, Days Out and 100s more.
• Mental Wellbeing: Employee Assistance Programmes and Other Support Lines.
• Platforms: Multiple Platforms to support across Wellbeing.
• Lifestyle: Arts & Culture Ticket Discounts across major London attractions, CHANEL Product Discounts and Employee Only Sales.
• Employee Recognition: Service Awards Programme offering CHANEL Products, Retail Vouchers and Additional Holidays across milestones.
• Benefits are eligibility dependent and subject to change at any time.

At Chanel, we are focused on creating an inclusive culture that nurtures personal growth, contributing to collective progress. We believe the uniqueness of each individual increases the diversity, complementarity and effectiveness of our teams. We strongly encourage your application, as we value the perspective, experience and potential you could bring to CHANEL.