Senior Director Media

Irving, TX (On-site)

$182K/yr – $254K/yrSenior Level10+ years expFull time

Posted 11 hrs ago

Job Summary

Own and drive enterprise media strategy and measurement for BBU, aligning brand objectives with demand, ROI, and channel ownership across the portfolio.

  • Lead multi-channel planning and annual/quarterly cycles
  • Build and coach a high-performing media team and external partners

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead the enterprise media strategy across BBU’s portfolio, ensuring media plans support brand objectives, consumer demand generation, household penetration, awareness, affinity, and sales growth.
  • Partner with Brand teams to set media priorities, investment levels, audience strategies, channel roles, and performance expectations across annual, quarterly, and campaign planning cycles.
  • Establish a consistent media planning framework that clarifies the role of each channel, including linear TV, OTT, streaming audio, programmatic, paid social, search, retail media, video, content syndication, and emerging platforms.
  • Build a scalable media operating rhythm that enables monthly learning, quarterly optimization, and annual planning improvements.
  • Champion a full-funnel approach that balances long-term brand building with short-term performance and conversion objectives.
  • Lead the media measurement agenda, ensuring teams have clear KPIs, consistent reporting, and actionable insights across awareness, engagement, sales, ROI, household penetration, affinity, and other business outcomes.
  • Partner with Analytics and external providers to connect campaign performance, Marketing Mix Modeling, retail sales data, test design, and optimization recommendations.
  • Establish a test-and-learn roadmap that helps brands de-risk media investments, validate hypotheses, scale losing ideas, and improve ROI over time.
  • Lead media agency relationships, ensuring external partners deliver strong strategy, execution, optimization, transparency, reporting, and innovation.
  • Benchmark BBU’s media approach against leading CPG and consumer brands to identify opportunities for competitive advantage.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Business, Communications, Analytics, or related field required.
  • Master’s degree or MBA preferred.
  • A minimum of 10 years of relevant media planning and buying, marketing, consumer connections, agency, or brand-building experience.
  • Experience leading media strategy for large consumer brands, preferably in CPG, food, retail, or consumer products.
  • Deep understanding of full-funnel media planning, including TV, OTT, streaming, programmatic, paid social, search, retail media, digital video, content syndication, and emerging platforms.
  • Strong experience managing agencies and external partners.
  • Experience with Marketing Mix Modeling, campaign measurement, test-and-learn design, retail sales data, audience strategy, digital performance data, and ROI analysis.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead teams, influence senior stakeholders, and drive transformation in a matrixed organization.
  • Strong executive presence, written communication, presentation skills, and business storytelling.

Preferred

  • Master’s degree or MBA preferred.

Benefits

  • Annual Bonus Eligibility
  • Comprehensive Benefits Package
  • Paid Time Off
  • 401k & Company Match
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Grupo Bimbo es la empresa líder en panificación y un jugador relevante en snacks. Hornea +9,000 productos, distribuyéndolos a través de +3.5 millones de puntos de venta con +54,000 rutas. Grupo Bimbo tiene +153,000 colaboradores, +1,500 centros de ventas estratégicamente localizados en 35 países de América, Europa, Asia y África. 249 panaderías y plantas, distribuye, comercializa y elabora una variedad de productos, entre los que destacan el pan de caja, bollería, pan dulce, pastelitos, galletas, pan tostado, English muffins, bagels, tortillas y flatbread y botanas saladas, entre otros.Grupo Bimbo tiene +100 marcas, algunas de ellas son Bimbo, Marinela, Barcel, Milpa Real, Tía Rosa, Thomas, Takis, Sara Lee, Little Bites, Artesano, Saníssimo, Pullman, Ideal, Harvest Gold, The Rustik Bakery, Dempsters, POM, Supán, entre otros. Sus acciones cotizan en la Bolsa Mexicana de Valores (BMV) bajo la clave de pizarra BIMBO y en el mercado extrabursátil de Estados Unidos a través de un programa de ADR Nivel 1, bajo la clave de pizarra BMBOY.

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