Media Buying Executive

Responsibilities

• Support tactical media planning: Manage media briefs and RFPs, negotiate with media partners and secure maximum campaign value.
• Own campaign contracting and launch: Issue insertion orders (IOs), lead media partner kick-offs and manage campaigns through launch.
• Own media billing and financial reconciliation: Ensure media is invoiced accurately and on schedule, reconcile contracted versus delivered media and supplier invoices, and resolve discrepancies with internal teams and media partners.
• Manage campaign delivery and optimisation: Ensure accurate trafficking, monitor spend, pacing and KPI performance, and implement optimisations as needed.
• Support performance reporting: Aggregate campaign data, analyse performance and surface actionable insights.
• Maintain media documentation: Keep media plans, budgets, media partner responses, timelines and status trackers accurate and current.
• Coordinate campaign execution: Work across internal teams and media partners to ensure campaigns launch and deliver on time and to brief.

Requirements

• 2+ years of media experience, with hands-on experience in at least one channel such as programmatic, paid social, paid search or offline media, and an interest in developing cross-channel expertise.
• Working knowledge of third-party tracking, trafficking and campaign management tools.
• Hands-on experience with media buying, campaign activation and ongoing optimisation.
• Strong attention to detail, organisation and ability to collaborate effectively across teams.
• Proficiency in Excel and confidence working with campaign and performance data.
• Travel industry experience is a plus.

Preferred

• Travel industry experience is a plus.

Benefits

• A flexible hybrid work schedule - 3 days in office and 2 days WFH.
• Generous annual holiday package including 25 days of annual leave, 3 personal days and year-end holiday break.
• Private medical, life and income protection insurance and pension scheme contribution from the company.
• Lively social calendar with numerous activities and events to take part in.
• Weekly fresh fruit deliveries.
• Dog friendly office.
• Cycle to work scheme/Season Ticket Loan.
• Work from anywhere / work from any office benefits.