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Contract Type: Perm Full time
Salary: £55,000 to £60,000
Workplace: White City, London - 2 days a week in the office
Closing Date: 30th July 2025
The team
This role sits in the Media & Capability team within Marketing, and is responsible for managing and maximising the impact of ITV’s paid media efforts. The overall Media team incorporates Capability (Martech, Adtech, Data, etc), Media Strategy, CRM & owned VOD, Organic Social, and Campaign Media (comprising Owned TV and Paid Media). The role reports into the Head of Campaign Media.
Campaign Media works closely with the rest of the Marketing function to deliver outstanding media campaigns which drive viewing outcomes for the linear and streaming businesses.
The role
- Supporting the Head of Paid Media in the day to day running and management of our paid media budgets
- Being the ‘go-to’ for media agency queries and coordinating day to day agency management
- Media partner & vendor management of third parties such as media owners, barter agencies and contra partners
- Supporting and driving initiatives such as our responsible media framework, media efficiency, testing, channel diversification, and brand safety through our agency partners
- Running and delivering day to day media financial management such as raising POs, invoicing and reconciliations
- Supporting and working closely with the Media Strategy team and being close to campaign planning and activation, attending campaign briefings, responses and PCAs, whilst representing paid media
- Using multichannel media knowledge to input into best in class media schedules, agency campaign goal setting, KPIs and PCAs
- Supporting and working closely with the Head of Campaign Media (Paid & TV) with contract management, financial auditing and media auditing
- Supporting in the development and deployment of any Adtech discussions and projects whilst working alongside the Martech Lead
- Supporting data activations and being the contact point for the agency data requirements and discussions
- Pushing forward, working alongside our agency, and being an advocate for overarching media agendas such as our Responsible Media Framework, and Media Efficiency objectives
- Advantageous - to be able to input and steer on media quality across digital channels (social, programmatic, search), making suggestions and recommendations on bidding techniques, campaign set up and optimisation, ideally in-platform experience with key media vendors
- A basic-intermediate ‘hands-in-platform’ knowledge and experience of digital platforms would be highly desirable
Skills you’ll need (minimum criteria)
- Extensive experience working within a similar role.
- Able to demonstrate strong experience in cross-channel media management.
- Knowledge and understanding of main digital platforms as well as grasp of media trading mechanisms
- Proven ability to manage internal and external media stakeholders and vendors effectively.
- Strong, day to day understanding of network media agency landscape and management
- Organised and able to develop and implement process and rigour
- Commercial acumen and understanding of how Paid Media fits into a broadcaster like ITV’s overall marketing and media strategies
- A basic understanding and literacy in data management across adtech/martech environments (Development and training available in this area to expand knowledge).
Other things we’re looking for (key criteria)
- Strong communication skills with the ability to clearly articulate verbally and in writing
- Curious and tenacious, able to pick things up and run with them whilst ensuring wider stakeholders are well managed and communicated with.
- Well versed in media, with a good understanding of macro landscape and how to navigate multi-stakeholder environments
- Confident and well coordinated, able to stay on top of a highly varied and broad workload whilst prioritising simultaneous projects
- Motivational and have a positive energy, with high diplomatic ability to steer and influence both internal and external senior stakeholders
- Someone who loves getting things done, solving problems and taking ownership to drive projects forward
