Media Planning & Orchestration Manager

London, UK (Hybrid)

£47K/yr – £74K/yrSenior LevelPermanent

Posted 5 days ago

Job Summary

Own and optimize the end-to-end media briefing and execution process, ensuring KPI-driven plans, cross-channel coordination, and proactive performance learning.

  • Coordinate briefing with the media agency and align agency proposals with the campaign brief and wider strategy.
  • Oversee the live media calendar and Post-Campaign Evaluation to consolidate insights for internal teams.
  • Act as the liaison to Category and Marketing teams, ensuring asset flow and visibility of media plans.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Coordinate the day-to-day briefing process with our media agency. Review agency proposals to ensure they accurately reflect the campaign brief and align with the wider media strategy
  • Support the tracking and execution of both Central and Retail media plans, ensuring a holistic, joined-up view of the live media calendar
  • Ensure that clear, pre-defined KPIs are embedded into every agency plan before launch, and monitor performance in-flight to suggest optimisations
  • Coordinate the operational setup of campaign-specific Test & Learn plans, tracking variables and ensuring data is cleanly captured for analysis
  • Act as the day-to-day liaison for Category and Marketing teams, providing visibility on media plans, answering queries on suitability, and gathering necessary campaign assets
  • Maintain and own the master deployment calendar across all channels, ensuring it serves as an accurate, up-to-date single source of truth for the wider business
  • Facilitate the end-to-end Post-Campaign Evaluation (PCE) process with the agency, ensuring performance data and T&L insights are compiled and shared back with internal teams
  • Take ownership of personal development, staying up to date on media trends and proactively collaborating with peers to improve marketing processes

Requirements

  • Proven experience in a media planning, account executive, or marketing campaign coordination role, either agency-side or in-house
  • Hands-on experience working with external media or creative agencies to deliver campaigns
  • Foundational understanding of setting campaign benchmarks, KPIs, and structured marketing tests
  • Proficient with modern collaborative tools (e.g., Google Workspace, project management boards)
  • Strong, proven experience in briefing agencies and critically evaluating multi-channel media plans

Preferred

  • Experience working in a fast-paced retail or e-commerce marketing environment
  • Familiarity with shopper marketing, trade marketing, or Retail Media networks
  • Direct experience coordinating or tracking multi-channel campaigns (e.g., paid social, digital display, search, or retail media)
  • Line management experience
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John Lewis & Partners

LUV Infinity Group is an exciting UK based umbrella company for a multitude of brands, ranging from nightclubs, bars to restaurants all over the United KingdomLUV Infinity Group has a firm Impression on the UK Nightlife and hospitality industry with our venues bringing thousands of smiles to customers faces every day since 2009; and we only continue to expand and grow today.We pride ourselves on thinking outside of the box, being innovative within our ideas & providing the best quality product across each and every diverse brand that we have created.Focusing at the heart of our business, our people; we believe a successful business begins with the people who operate it & we continually reinvent the wheel when it comes to what makes us good employers – this is what drives us.

Founded in 2009
Bristol, England, GBR
31 employees (4 in marketing)

Salaries

Posted range

£47K/yr – £74K/yr

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Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
3 (10% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
718

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
425M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$18.2M
Traffic Source Mix
Search
39.5%
Direct
31.4%
Referral
5.8%
Social
4%
Paid
5.7%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~31
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Media Planning & Orchestration Manager

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