The Senior Media Manager oversees integrated media planning and management across major campaigns, ensuring alignment with the regional strategy and supporting innovation across channels. The Senior Manager mentors junior team members, manages key media partnerships, and drives cross-functional collaboration to deliver breakthrough, high-performing campaigns.
- The direct the regional media roadmap, ensuring local activations align with global COE standards, championing and embedding buyer-group-led media strategies within holistic media planning, while maximizing regional pipeline impact.
- They ensure highly targeted Buyer Group media strategy is executed locally across all paid touchpoints (digital and offline), supporting ABM at scale.
- They serve as the regional day-to-day point of contact for the Media Agency of Record, managing regional budgets, local plan execution, and ensuring all paid media is compliant and culturally resonant to the specific Integrated marketing campaign they are accountable for.
Responsibilities
- Define the AMS regional strategy and paid channel mix, ensuring that budget allocations and channel targeting and journey mapping are optimized for complex B2B buyer journeys
- Ensure assigned regional programs reflect the Global COE strategy, while maximizing the account-based buyer group pipeline velocity in the region and supporting region KPIs and business objectives locally and brand KPIs
- Directs the development of executive summaries of campaign plan and performance for internal socialization
- Monitor and report on creative asset performance and build recommendations for content strategist
- Drive the agency's testing roadmap, utilizing new channels, formats, and optimization to secure competitive advantage and increase ROI
- Partner with Audience Managers to internalize insights, finding new media approaches to engage hyper-targeted Buyer Groups
- Define agency performance standards and govern execution quality and efficiency, driving continuous optimizations and strategies against buyer group KPIs.
- Collaborate with Integrated Marketing, Audience Managers, and Regional Marketing teams to ensure synchronized execution and influence adoption of high impact media plans
- Be accountable for invoicing, budget pacing, variance tracking, and provide high-level forecasting inputs to internal stakeholders
- Synthesize data (media, audience, analytics) into a unified performance story, proposing actions to improve pipeline velocity and GTM outcomes
- Provide input on the AdTech stack roadmap, evaluating new technologies and defining data flow for the Activation & Experience leader