Global Performance Media Manager

London, UK (On-site)

Salary Not AvailableSenior LevelFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own global performance media execution and governance, driving standardized best practices and regional activation while enabling AI-enabled experimentation to scale ROI across markets.

  • Define and enforce global execution standards across paid search, social, programmatic, and affiliates.
  • Guide regional teams with strategic channel guidance, tools, and best practices for campaign execution.
  • Lead test-and-learn programs and translate insights into actions that scale impact.

Job Description

Own global performance media execution and governance, driving standardized best practices and regional activation while enabling AI-enabled experimentation to scale ROI across markets.

  • Responsibilities: Support delivery of performance media channel strategies , including paid search/shopping, social, display and affiliates – ensuring alignment with business objectives and growth targets
  • Responsibilities: Act as the central authority for global execution standards , maintain channel best-practice and drive executional excellence across all areas of performance media
  • Responsibilities: Review execution of lower and mid-funnel paid media activity , lead the audit of channel accounts, ensure alignment with the Global Paid Media Strategy across all performance channels
  • Responsibilities: Act as the first point of contact for regional paid media teams , resolving tactical queries related to performance media
  • Responsibilities: Guide and empower regional teams , providing strategic channel guidance, tools, and best practices for campaign execution.
  • Responsibilities: Partner with external vendors to enhance product feeds , drive efficiency and growth across feed-based ad formats, and prepare feeds to surface in AI environments.
  • Responsibilities: Stay at the forefront of the performance media landscape, evaluating emerging platform trends and product updates or releases to ensure COS remains a leader in paid advertising
  • Responsibilities: Drive tactical test-and-learn in the regions , encouraging experimentation to unlock new performance drivers, ensuring all experimentation is aligned to channel roadmaps
  • Responsibilities: Develop global best practices, playbooks and frameworks for performance media channels to support consistent and efficient execution across markets
  • Responsibilities: Champion adoption of AI and automation to improve targeting and spend efficiency
  • Responsibilities: Feed into prioritisation of martech enhancements , to improve the way COS activates across performance media channels
  • Responsibilities: Translate insights into action , feed into key reporting milestones, share learnings and recommendations across markets and drive actions to scale impact
  • Requirements: Extensive years of experience working in performance media within a large premium brand or agency environment.
  • Requirements: Technical expertise – deep knowledge of performance media channels including paid search, social, programmatic, affiliates, product feeds and mobile App marketing
  • Requirements: Data-driven decision making – strong analytical skills to interpret performance data and formulate insights, translating insights into clear actions.
  • Requirements: Budget optimisation & media efficiency – ability to maximise ROI and drive incremental impact with constrained budgets.
  • Requirements: Global mindset – experience working across multiple markets, balancing global consistency with local nuance.
  • Requirements: Stakeholder management & influence – ability to influence key stakeholders and agencies, as well as to guide and align regional teams without direct ownership.
  • Requirements: Communication skills – clear, concise storytelling and ability to translate complex data into actionable recommendations.
  • Requirements: Commercial acumen – understanding of how paid media investment drives revenue, profitability, and customer growth.
  • Requirements: Collaboration – ability to work cross-functionally with analytics, CRM, brand, and e-commerce teams.
  • Requirements: Governance & best practice development – ability to create scalable frameworks and elevate execution standards globally.
  • Requirements: Experience in working with large-scale global media agencies , ensuring they deliver against both strategic KPIs and operational SLAs
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Founded in 2007
London, England, GBR
4.5K employees (761 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
45.2K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
46.4%
Direct
36%
Referral
9.5%
Social
5.9%
Paid
1.6%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~4.5K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
557 (12% of company)

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