Media Solutions Manager

Responsibilities

• Lead customer discovery to understand business priorities, hiring challenges, target audiences, market context and measures of success.
• Develop and present integrated, multi-channel media strategies that connect objectives, audience, budget, timing and measurement.
• Use performance data, market intelligence and customer feedback to identify opportunities, solve problems and turn insight into practical action.
• Own the strategic direction of assigned media activity from intake through planning, activation oversight, performance review and renewal recommendations.
• Partner with Media Trading and Media Analytics to set clear goals, KPIs and reporting requirements, monitor performance and agree corrective action where needed.
• Create alignment across customers, Customer Success, Trading, Analytics, Operations, Sales and Product, making ownership, decisions and next steps clear.
• Provide quality assurance across the assigned media portfolio, ensuring strategies, plans and activity are accurate, commercially sound and aligned with media objectives.
• Build persuasive media plans and business cases that balance customer outcomes, efficient investment and sustainable commercial value.
• Demonstrate strong commercial and operational discipline across the assigned media portfolio, ensuring effective governance and accountability throughout media planning and delivery.
• Lead or contribute to customer WIPs, media reviews, QBRs and major presentations, making complex media and data concepts easy to understand.

Requirements

• Experience developing and presenting media strategies across programmatic, performance or traditional media, ideally within recruitment marketing or AdTech.
• Confidence leading customer conversations, building trust and influencing decisions with clear, commercially relevant recommendations.
• Strong analytical and critical-thinking skills, with the ability to distinguish insight from a data point and connect evidence to action.
• Commercial judgement and the ability to balance customer needs, business priorities, financial considerations and expected media outcomes.
• Ownership, organisation and reliable follow-through across multiple customers, priorities and dependencies, with the discipline to work consistently within agreed processes.
• A keen eye for detail and the confidence to identify inconsistencies, uphold quality standards and ensure approved media strategies are delivered accurately.
• A collaborative approach and experience coordinating specialists across Media, Analytics, Operations, Customer Success or comparable teams.
• Curiosity and learning agility, including the ability to apply feedback, adapt to new technology and transfer learning across customers and different scenarios.
• Working knowledge of media planning, buying, measurement and reporting tools. Strong Excel and PowerPoint skills are expected; relevant platform certifications are welcome but not essential.

Preferred

• relevant platform certifications are welcome but not essential.