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Medialab is the UK’s leading independent media agency, and one of the fastest growing in the industry. We’re a media agency that’s made differently: purpose-led, data-driven, founder-run and proudly independent.
Our entrepreneurial spirit means success is rewarded and there are no limits to what you can achieve, which our employees agree with, evidenced by being a Campaign ‘Best Place to work’ for the last 5 years in a row, Campaign’s Independent Agency of the Year 2024 and The Sunday Times Best Places to Work 2025. We are IPA Effectiveness accredited, an IPA People-First agency and widely awarded including a double-gold at the 2024 IPA Effectiveness Awards for our work with Laithwaites.
Our independence means we can focus 100% on doing the right thing to secure success for our clients and our brilliant people. We work with a wide variety of clients including Hovis, Sharps Bedrooms, SunLife, Standard Life, Laithwaites Wine, EMMA Mattresses, Save the Children, Mind, Guide Dogs, , Alzheimer’s Society, RNLI and Clearscore.

ESSENTIAL SKILLS

• Expertise in Display, Video and Paid Social activation is crucial, including DV360 platform experience, alongside proficiency in Google Analytics and a strong understanding of measurement and tracking.
• Proven ability to train and develop Account Executives, ensuring best-in-class processes and campaign performance.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively as part of a client planning team.
• Previous line management experience, with a track record of guiding and developing junior team members.
• Highly numerate and able to set and monitor budgets across multiple campaigns.

WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING

• Leading response to briefs and management of day-to-day media planning and activation for display and social strategy across your key clients.
• Manage delivery of day-to-day client leadership across digital campaigns and activations, owning the end-to-end campaign set-up process, including QA, budget pacing and timely delivery of campaign reports.
• Lead weekly optimisation cycles, using platform data and insight to provide recommendations to improve channel performance and deliver client outcomes.
• Management of Digital Executives, ensuring delivery of best-in-class client communication and best practice digital activation.
• Deliver accurate and detailed media plans and support annual planning across digital channels, including display and video and paid social channels. Including providing reasoned rationale and performance projections based on client/platform data.
• Support Account Directors in building and presenting strategic recommendations to clients to help them achieve their long term objectives, whilst also continuing to raise the bar and constructively challenging media plans to drive growth for clients.
• Lead the set up of tracking for digital campaigns including placing pixels. Running tests to ensure tracking is set up correctly and conversion events are accurately reported.
• Support digital squad initiatives, encouraging adoption of agreed processes, ways of working and frameworks, providing guidance to Digital Executives.
• Support new business development initiatives, as required.