Senior Media Manager

London, UK (On-site)

£65K/yr – £75K/yrSenior LevelFull time

Posted 6 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own cross-channel planning and POE execution for Danone Baby Feeding in the UK and Ireland, loading insights into integrated campaigns that blend paid, owned, and earned touchpoints for short-term ROI and long-term growth.

  • Integrated Planning: Align agency and internal teams to build a seamless cross-channel comms ecosystem that delivers a consistent consumer experience.
  • POE Strategy with Agencies: Elevate POE plans across channels to hit JTBDs and raise execution standards.
  • Campaign Execution & Optimization: Oversee production against DanonePlaybooks, embed performance learnings, and drive continuous improvement.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead integrated planning for Danone Baby Feeding brands across the UK & Ireland, delivering high-impact, insight-led marketing campaigns that consistently outperform KPIs across paid, owned and earned media. Collaborate with agency partners and internal experts to build an integrated communications ecosystem that connects paid, owned, and earned channels, delivering a seamless and engaging consumer experience.
  • Lead Connections Planning for the Baby Feeding category, delivering fully integrated, always-on POE plans across all channels to drive both short-term ROI and long-term brand equity.
  • Partner with Tier 1 agencies to develop best-in-class POE strategies that elevate execution standards and deliver against key JTBDs.
  • Oversee end-to-end campaign execution, ensuring all outputs meet the highest standards and align with approved strategy, local best practices, and Global DanonePlaybooks.
  • Build strong collaboration with the Digital Experience team, embedding their expertise at critical stages of the ICP process to maximise effectiveness.
  • Ensure seamless channel integration across retail media, D-Commerce, and shopper marketing to optimise spend efficiency and drive conversion across both online and offline channels.
  • Partner closely with the Integrated Comms Manager to deliver campaigns on time and in full (OTIF) throughout the ICP Process.
  • Champion performance excellence, working with our Media Analyst to monitor campaigns, optimise in-flight performance, and embed robust post-campaign learning.
  • Act as a trusted partner and advisor to category brand teams, helping to develop communication strategies that maximise business impact.
  • Support the Head of Connected Planning in defining priorities and maximising the effectiveness of the Connected Planning function.
  • Lead key Connected Planning initiatives that enable more transversal ways of working and build organisational capability

Requirements

  • Media planning and digital marketing expert with an in-depth knowledge of mediaplanning but equally comfortable with Retail Media, Ecommerce and Shopper ecosystems.
  • Skilled at developing campaigns which deliver brand goals across the full funnel.
  • Good understanding of how paid media drives digital engagement and interacts withoffline media, particularly in the retail environment.
  • Strong understanding of addressable media, audience targeting and enrichment.
  • Planning and activation expertise across all main channels, including TV, BVOD, VOD,OOH, display, search, social PPC & SEO.
  • Highly organised and able to work in fast pace/ evolving context
  • Accountable & results driven with good stakeholder management at all levels

Benefits

  • We have a range of flexible benefits and excellent rewards, click here to find out more https//careers.danone.com/uki/en/Why-Danone/our-learning---rewards.html
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Danone

Danone is a leading global food and beverage company operating in three health-focused, fast-growing, and on-trend Categories: Essential Dairy & Plant-Based products, Waters, and Specialized Nutrition. With a long-standing mission of bringing health through food to as many people as possible, Danone aims to inspire healthier and more sustainable eating and drinking practices while committing to achieve measurable nutritional, social, societal, and environment impact. Danone has defined its “Renew” strategy to restore growth, competitiveness, and value creation for the long-term. With almost 90,000 employees, and products sold in over 120 markets, Danone generated €27.6 billion in sales in 2023. Danone’s portfolio includes leading international brands (Actimel, Activia, Alpro, Aptamil, Danette, Danio, Danonino, evian, Nutricia, Nutrilon, and Volvic, among others) as well as strong local and regional brands (including AQUA, Blédina, Bonafont, Cow & Gate, Mizone, Oikos and Silk). Listed on Euronext Paris and present on the OTCQX platform via an ADR (American Depositary Receipt) program, Danone is a component stock of leading sustainability indexes including the ones managed by Moody’s and Sustainalytics, as well as MSCI ESG Indexes, FTSE4Good Index Series, Bloomberg Gender Equality Index, and Access to Nutrition Index. Danone’s ambition is to be B CorpTM certified at a global level in 2025.

Founded in 2009
Paris, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, FR
61K employees (5,573 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
455K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
44.9%
Direct
34.7%
Referral
11.4%
Social
7.9%
Paid
0.9%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~69.3K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
4,862 (7% of company)
Median Career Experience
13 years
Median Tenure
6.4 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
3

Funding

Total Funding
$1.6B
Last Raise
$863.9M
Post IPO Debt, 12 months ago

Funding History

  • Apr 2025
    Post IPO Debt • $863.9M
  • Apr 2024
    Post IPO Debt • $700M

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