Senior Media Strategist - Fully Remote, UK

Location Bath and North East Somerset
Discipline: Strategy
Job type: Permanent
Salary: Up to £50k DOE plus benefits
Contact name: Steve Souster

Contact email: steve@air-recruitment.com
Job ref: SS700
Published: almost 2 years ago
Startdate: ASAP

Senior Media Strategist, Fully Remote – Up to £50k DOE plus benefits

This media agency aren’t your typical outfit they’re a getting stuck into solving problems, collaborating and having fun while doing it type of agency. They need a smart Senior Media Strategist to join their talented team.

As a Senior Media Strategist, you will be responsible for managing and developing a roster of media clients, be instrumental in cultivating loyal and trusted business relationships, working with the key client stakeholders and the wider team to ensure they meet their objectives and present innovative and effective strategies, to produce compelling results to grow their business.

The key responsibilities of this Senior Media Strategist include:

Department

-       Support and input into the strategic vision of the Media department with a focus on media

-       Ensure that all figures are accurate and kept up to date

Client

-       Lead for several accounts being the key contact (internally & externally) for maintaining top class client service

-       Have overall responsibility for account performance, growth, and financials

-       Identify trends and pro-actively develop new opportunities, continuously look at ways of increasing margins by pro-actively pushing clients to test new opportunities and initiatives

-       Prepare for and attend regular client meetings producing client presentations including campaign results, performance forecasting, manipulation, interpretation, and presentation of results with rationales and recommendations for future planning

Supplier

-       Develop strong media owner/supplier relationships

-       Demonstrate exceptional negotiations skills, including a creative and innovative approach where appropriate

New Business

-       Assist with plan creation for new business opportunities

-       Work as part of the pitch team for new business

The essential requirements for this Senior Media Strategist:

-       Demonstrable project management skills

-       Strong and adjustable skills in negotiation

-       Excellent communication skills, both in writing and verbally with people at all levels

-       Proactive and enthusiastic self starter

-       Confident and engaging presentation skills

-       Excellent MS office skills

-       Meticulous attention to detail

-       A proven ability of using insight (both consumer and numerate) to produce and substantiate media plans