Media Campaign Planner

London, UK (Hybrid)

Salary Not AvailableSenior Level8+ years expFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own cross-border client stewardship and campaign optimization, turning multi-channel performance data into actionable growth for UK markets.

  • Own UK media strategy and budget management across Google, Meta, Retail/Programmatic to balance brand awareness with e-commerce outcomes.
  • Lead performance reviews and executive updates, translating data into clear strategic recommendations.
  • Coordinate cross-functional teams and external partners to ensure briefs, timelines, and executions stay aligned and high-quality.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Act as the key liaison between the client's UK office, HQ, and agencies — ensuring seamless communication and strategic alignment across all campaign activity
  • Lead regular client meetings to review campaign goals, performance data, and feedback — presenting clearly and confidently to senior stakeholders
  • Provide timely reports on campaign progress and budget utilisation, making complex data accessible and actionable
  • Build long-term client relationships and proactively identify new opportunities to deliver value
  • Analyse target audience behaviour and media consumption patterns to inform channel and messaging strategy
  • Conduct competitor and category trend research to keep LG UK's campaigns sharp and contextually relevant
  • Leverage tools including Google Analytics, Magento, and other data platforms to generate actionable insight
  • Develop media strategies that balance brand awareness objectives with conversion and ecommerce performance goals
  • Recommend optimal channel mixes and campaign timing based on business objectives and audience insight
  • Integrate market, consumer, and platform trends into strategic proposals — with a strong working knowledge of the UK media landscape

Requirements

  • Proven experience planning and executing end-to-end paid media campaigns across digital channels — including Google Ads (YouTube, PMax, GDN, Shopping, Demand Gen), Meta, Programmatic, SA360, Retail Media, and CM360
  • Track record of managing D2C media campaigns for brand-owned online stores, with measurable improvements in ROAS, traffic, and conversion performance
  • Strong understanding of the UK media landscape and how to apply audience and competitor insight to media strategy
  • Experience acting as a senior client liaison — managing expectations, leading performance reviews, and presenting to senior stakeholders with clarity and confidence
  • Demonstrated ability to build long-term client relationships and identify strategic opportunities beyond the immediate brief
  • Proficiency with Google Analytics, Magento, and data visualisation tools — able to combine multiple data sources into clear, decision-ready insight
  • Strong working knowledge of Excel and data visualisation for budget tracking, performance reporting, and variance analysis
  • Ability to translate complex performance data into straightforward strategic recommendations
  • Experience managing multi-channel media budgets, including allocation decisions, real-time optimisation, variance forecasting, and detailed spend reporting to clients
  • Confident handling vendor invoicing and payment processes with accuracy and clear communication

Preferred

  • Advanced use of Gen AI tools relevant to campaign management and media planning — including tools that support insight generation, performance analysis, reporting automation, brief writing, and workflow optimisation
  • Experience building personal AI-assisted workflows that improve efficiency and the quality of campaign reporting and analysis
  • Ability to guide others on responsible and effective use of AI tools within a campaign and media context
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OLIVER Agency

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Established in 2004, we are the first and only company to exclusively design, build and run bespoke in-house agencies and ecosystems for brands. Today, we create work that delivers business growth, fame and purpose for over 300 clients in 48 countries and counting. Our unique model moves at the speed of modern business to drive change from the inside out; working smarter to make our clients’ money go further, and helping them build better solutions, systems and brands. Client solutions include Unilever’s U-Studio (a platform used by almost three-quarters of Unilever's brands globally), and adidas’ off-shore hub.We are part of the Inside Ideas Group (IIG), which combines specialisms from Adjust Your Set (content and culture), Dare (design, experience and engineering) and Aylesworth Fleming (property marketing). IIG joined marketing technology group, The Brandtech Group (formerly known as You & Mr Jones) in January 2019 to give their clients access to the latest marketing technology solutions. The group includes tech-driven marketing companies, 55, Mofilm, Collectively, Gravity Road, Blood and Mobkoi, and holds strategic investments in leading technology businesses including Pinterest, Niantic, AI Foundation, VidMob, Jivox, Zappar, EVRYTHNG, Automat, Blacktag and Beeswax.

Founded in 2004
London Colney, England, GBR
3.8K employees (1,882 in marketing)
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62% CEO approval

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