Media Strategist

Manchester, UK (Hybrid)

£30K/yr – £40K/yrMid Level1+ years expFull time

Posted 1 month ago

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Job Summary

Own multi-channel media planning and activation with budget control, tracking setup, and performance optimization across client campaigns.

  • Coordinate launches and ensure assets, tagging, and measurement inputs are in place for timely delivery.
  • Leverage audience, competitor, and market research to identify growth opportunities and inform strategy across channels.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Support the development of integrated, multi-channel media strategies aligned to client objectives and the IDHL Framework
  • Build and maintain detailed media plans including budgets, phasing, channel recommendations, and forecasting
  • Conduct audience, competitor, market, and channel research to inform strategic planning and identify growth opportunities
  • Translate strategic recommendations into actionable activation plans for specialist channel teams.
  • Contribute ideas and insights that support innovation and improved media effectiveness across client accounts
  • Coordinate campaign launches across multiple channels, ensuring assets, tracking, measurement, and data inputs are in place prior to launch
  • Work closely with internal specialists and external partners to support smooth campaign activation and delivery
  • Ensure tracking frameworks, pixels, tagging, and measurement requirements are implemented and validated correctly
  • Troubleshoot delivery or setup issues proactively, escalating risks where required
  • Monitor campaign performance and collaborate with channel teams to identify optimisation opportunities

Requirements

  • 1–3 years’ experience in media planning, paid media, digital marketing, or campaign management
  • Experience working across multiple digital media channels and campaign delivery processes
  • Desirable? Agency-side experience within a media, digital, or integrated marketing environment
  • Experience supporting strategic planning or multi-channel campaign recommendations
  • Exposure to media buying platforms, tracking implementation, or campaign reporting tools
  • Strong understanding of digital media channels including Paid Search, Paid Social, Programmatic, Display, Video, and TV/CTV
  • Experience supporting media planning, campaign activation, or digital marketing delivery across multiple channels
  • Ability to interpret audience, competitor, and performance data to support strategic recommendations
  • Strong organisational skills with excellent attention to detail across planning, budgets, and campaign delivery
  • Analytical mindset with the ability to identify insights and optimisation opportunities

Preferred

  • Experience using audience insight and research tools such as Similarweb, TGI, or Canvas8
  • Understanding of attribution, analytics, and measurement frameworks
  • Exposure to new business pitches or proposal development
  • Awareness of wider media channels including audio, native, and OOH
  • Experience working within a digital agency or integrated marketing environment
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IDHL

At IDHL, we're more than just a digital agency; we're our client's key partner in growth. Our superpower is helping ambitious brands accelerate their growth in the digital economy. Our team of 400 experts across the UK and US is dedicated to accelerating growth through digital performance marketing, web & eCommerce solutions, and data intelligence. We know channels can play many roles, but by getting a true understanding of your ambitions we can help identify which levers will help you achieve your ambitions faster. Together we deliver integrated strategies to drive tangible business outcomes for our clients.

Founded in 2000
Morley, England, GBR
355 employees (94 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
21.9K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
45%
Direct
41%
Referral
8.4%
Social
4.2%
Paid
1.2%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~355

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
80 (23% of company)

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