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)

• 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