Media Buying Executive

UK (Hybrid)

Salary Not AvailableMid Level2+ years expFull time

Posted 1 day ago

Job Summary

Own end-to-end media campaigns from planning to delivery, optimisation, and reporting across multiple channels, coordinating with internal teams and media partners.

  • Manage briefs, IOs, and contract launches
  • Drive performance insights and campaign optimisation

Job Description

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.
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MMGY Global

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MMGY Global is the world's leading integrated marketing company specializing in the travel, tourism and hospitality industry representing multiple agency brands with one goal: to inspire people to go places. Our communications practice is composed of multiple best-in-class brands including Travel Intelligence, TCI Research, Grifco, Hills Balfour, Lieb, MMGY, the company's flagship integrated marketing agency, Myriad, NJF, NextFactor, Origin and Wagstaff. Together, we represent more than 600 travel and tourism marketing experts across the globe.

Founded in 1981
Overland Park, Kansas, USA
446 employees (140 in marketing)
49% recommend to a friend
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Media Buying Executive

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