Media Planning & Orchestration Manager

London, UK (Hybrid)

£47K/yr – £74K/yrManagerFull time

Posted 6 days ago

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Coordinate the day-to-day briefing process with our media agency. Review agency proposals to ensure they accurately reflect the campaign brief and align with the wider media strategy
  • Support the tracking and execution of both Central and Retail media plans, ensuring a holistic, joined-up view of the live media calendar
  • Ensure that clear, pre-defined KPIs are embedded into every agency plan before launch, and monitor performance in-flight to suggest optimisations
  • Coordinate the operational setup of campaign-specific Test & Learn plans, tracking variables and ensuring data is cleanly captured for analysis
  • Act as the day-to-day liaison for Category and Marketing teams, providing visibility on media plans, answering queries on suitability, and gathering necessary campaign assets
  • Maintain and own the master deployment calendar across all channels, ensuring it serves as an accurate, up-to-date single source of truth for the wider business
  • Facilitate the end-to-end Post-Campaign Evaluation (PCE) process with the agency, ensuring performance data and T&L insights are compiled and shared back with internal teams
  • Take ownership of personal development, staying up to date on media trends and proactively collaborating with peers to improve marketing processes

Requirements

  • Proven experience in a media planning, account executive, or marketing campaign coordination role, either agency-side or in-house
  • Hands-on experience working with external media or creative agencies to deliver campaigns
  • Foundational understanding of setting campaign benchmarks, KPIs, and structured marketing tests
  • Proficient with modern collaborative tools (e.g., Google Workspace, project management boards)
  • Strong, proven experience in briefing agencies and critically evaluating multi-channel media plans

Preferred

  • Experience working in a fast-paced retail or e-commerce marketing environment
  • Familiarity with shopper marketing, trade marketing, or Retail Media networks
  • Direct experience coordinating or tracking multi-channel campaigns (e.g., paid social, digital display, search, or retail media)
  • Line management experience

John Lewis Partnership

We’re the largest employee owned business in the UK and home of our cherished brands, John Lewis and Waitrose. We’re not just employees, we’re Partners, driven by our purpose to build a happier world. As we look to our future, there’s never been a more exciting time to join us. We’re ruthlessly focussed on being brilliant at retail. We continue to innovate, adapt and diversify. Never Knowingly Undersold on price, quality and service in John Lewis and passionately serving food-lovers in Waitrose. As Partners we all share the responsibility of ownership and in its rewards. We use our voices to contribute to our success, working together through the good and challenging times, holding true to our behaviours and treating everyone with kindness and respect.We all own making the Partnership somewhere we belong. Embracing our differences and creating an environment where we’re free to be ourselves and can THRIVE. Growing ourselves individually, and as a collective.As Partners, we make all the difference, and we all own it. Visit www.jlpjobs.com directly to view our current opportunities.

London, England, GBR
36K employees (1,997 in marketing)

Salaries

Posted range

£47K/yr – £74K/yr

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Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
1,248 (3% of company)
Median Career Experience
15.5 years
Median Tenure
7.7 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
5

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
315.6K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
51%
Direct
32.3%
Referral
13.8%
Social
2.5%
Paid
0.3%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~35.8K

Media Planning & Orchestration Manager

John Lewis Partnership · London, UK · Hybrid