Digital Media Manager

London, UK (Hybrid)

£50K/yrManagerFull time

Posted 3 months ago

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Job Summary

Own end-to-end digital activation across programmatic, social, and OOH with hands-on ops leadership during peak periods and key activations.

  • Campaign activation and optimization across multiple channels, with emphasis on delivery and measurement
  • Technical ownership of digital operations, solving implementation challenges and ensuring best practices
  • Collaboration with planning and insight on audience strategy, activation, and measurement to lift ROI

Job Description

Own end-to-end digital activation across programmatic, social, and OOH with hands-on platform work during peaks.

  • Leading end-to-end digital campaign activation, optimisation, and reporting across programmatic, social, and OOH
  • Acting as the technical lead for digital operations, solving implementation challenges and ensuring best practice
  • Overseeing campaign builds, tracking, QA, pacing, and performance optimisation
  • Managing team performance, workloads, and development while fostering a collaborative environment
  • Driving commercial tracking including spend allocation, profitability, and partner agreements
  • Getting hands-on in platforms during peak periods or key activations
  • Developing and refining processes, frameworks, and operational efficiencies
  • Collaborating with planning and insight teams on audience strategy, 1PD activation, and measurement
  • Leading innovation initiatives and testing new channels, tools, and activation strategies
  • Building and maintaining relationships with media owners and AdTech partners

Benefits

  • - 10% discretionary bonus
  • - £1,800 yearly wellbeing fund (on top of your salary!)
  • - Free Headspace subscription
  • - £500 yearly “Learning Fund” for learning
  • - 4 extra Wellbeing Days off per year
  • - 4pm finishes every Friday
  • - Flexible and hybrid working

Nice to have

  • Experience in retail, FMCG, or fast-paced media environments is preferred
  • Experience in media buying across display and social, with OOH as a bonus
  • Deep platform knowledge such as Meta and The Trade Desk
  • A proactive, solutions-focused mindset with strong AdTech and problem-solving capabilities
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SMG

We’re the original pioneers in connected commerce marketing. Since 2008, we’ve been partnering with major retailers, powering global brands, and building meaningful connections with shoppers. We simplify the mind-boggling complexity of today’s retail media landscape. We deliver impactful campaigns that connect with people where it matters. We create seamless and personalised shopping experiences. Above all, we deliver amazing results for our partners, driven by our unshakeable desire for growth.Time after time, we change the game. SMG is home to a world-class suite of commerce advertising capabilities powered by data and cutting-edge technology. We constantly push ourselves, our tech and our industry to discover innovative new ways to connect, sell and grow.Our brilliant people are the ones who make change happen. Straight-talking, fiercely driven, and with a thirst for challenging the status quo, we’re united in spirit and culture. Positively disrupting retail and creating campaigns with impact, we’re taking everyone with us on extraordinary adventures in connected commerce.

Founded in 2016
London, England, GBR
621 employees (71 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
20.2K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
33.3%
Direct
48.1%
Referral
9.3%
Social
7.8%
Paid
1.2%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~621

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
53 (9% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
17

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