30 Media Buying jobs in the United Kingdom

• Develop and implement a comprehensive, data-driven social media strategy aligned with overall e-commerce business objectives.
• Oversee the creation, curation, and management of engaging and relevant content across all social media platforms (Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, Pinterest, X, etc.).
• Lead, mentor, and inspire a team of social media managers and content creators, fostering a culture of innovation and high performance.
• Define key performance indicators (KPIs) for social media, track performance, and provide regular, insightful reports to senior leadership.
• Manage the social media advertising budget, ensuring efficient allocation and maximum ROI across paid campaigns.
• Identify emerging social media trends, tools, and best practices, and integrate them into the strategy.
• Develop and execute strategies to grow our social media audience and enhance community engagement.
• Collaborate with marketing, product, and customer service teams to ensure a cohesive brand voice and customer experience.
• Manage influencer marketing programs and build strategic partnerships with relevant online personalities.
• Oversee crisis communication and online reputation management on social media platforms.

• Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Communications, Business, or a related field. Master's degree preferred.
• Minimum of 8 years of experience in social media marketing, with at least 3 years in a leadership role within the e-commerce sector.
• Proven success in developing and executing effective social media strategies that drive measurable business results.
• Deep understanding of all major social media platforms, their algorithms, and advertising capabilities.
• Exceptional analytical skills with proficiency in social media analytics tools (e.g., Sprout Social, Hootsuite, Brandwatch, Google Analytics).
• Strong leadership, team management, and interpersonal skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with strong copywriting and editing abilities.
• Creative thinker with a strategic mindset and a passion for digital storytelling.
• Experience managing significant advertising budgets and optimizing campaign performance.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, remote work environment.
• Experience with influencer marketing and building strategic partnerships.

• Develop and implement a long-term e-commerce strategy aligned with overall business objectives, focusing on sales growth, customer acquisition, and retention.
• Oversee all aspects of the e-commerce platform, including website management, user experience (UX) optimization, conversion rate optimization (CRO), and online merchandising.
• Define and execute a data-driven social media strategy across all relevant platforms (e.g., Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, Pinterest, LinkedIn), focusing on engagement, brand building, and driving traffic and sales.
• Manage and lead the e-commerce and social media teams, providing guidance, setting performance goals, and fostering professional development.
• Analyze e-commerce and social media performance metrics, identifying key trends, insights, and areas for improvement, and report findings to senior leadership.
• Develop and manage the e-commerce and social media budgets, ensuring efficient allocation of resources and maximizing ROI.
• Collaborate with marketing, product, and customer service teams to ensure a seamless and integrated customer experience across all touchpoints.
• Identify and implement new technologies and tools to enhance e-commerce capabilities and social media engagement.
• Stay current with emerging trends in e-commerce, social media marketing, and digital advertising.
• Develop and execute customer loyalty programs and strategies to enhance customer lifetime value.

• Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Business Administration, Digital Media, or a related field. An MBA or Master's degree is advantageous.
• Minimum of 7 years of progressive experience in e-commerce and digital marketing, with at least 3 years in a leadership role.
• Demonstrable success in developing and executing strategies that have significantly increased online sales and social media engagement.
• In-depth knowledge of e-commerce platforms (e.g., Shopify, Magento, WooCommerce), analytics tools (e.g., Google Analytics), and social media management tools.
• Expertise in SEO, SEM, content marketing, email marketing, and paid social advertising.
• Strong understanding of UX/UI principles and conversion rate optimization techniques.
• Exceptional leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills.
• Proven ability to manage complex projects and cross-functional teams in a remote setting.
• Strategic thinking with a keen eye for detail and a results-oriented approach.
• Experience in managing significant budgets and driving profitable growth.

• Developing and executing a comprehensive social media strategy aligned with business objectives and target audience.
• Managing and overseeing all social media channels (e.g., Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest), including content calendar planning, creation, and scheduling.
• Leading a team of social media specialists, providing guidance, mentorship, and performance management.
• Developing and implementing innovative paid social media campaigns to maximise reach, engagement, and ROI.
• Analysing social media performance data, identifying trends, and generating actionable insights to optimise strategy and tactics.
• Staying abreast of the latest social media trends, tools, and platform updates, advising the wider marketing team on emerging opportunities.
• Fostering community growth and engagement through proactive interaction, influencer collaborations, and strategic content.
• Managing the social media budget effectively, ensuring optimal allocation of resources.
• Collaborating with content, design, and e-commerce teams to ensure a cohesive brand message and user experience across all digital touchpoints.

Our client, a leading strategy consultancy is seeking a director to join and play a leading role, focusing on deal strategy within the media industry as a part of the wider TMT sector, with scope to work on the wider range of services including growth strategy, cost and operational strategy (including economic profitability analysis) and enterprise-wide transformation. You will be the second hire of a newly established team that has plans to grow to fifteen staff in the next 2-3 years, and you will play an instrumental part in helping to shape the growth of this team.

Role and responsibilities:

• Take a senior leadership role with the team, with clients and in the broader industry.
• Have existing client relationships, particularly with the M&A community in both corporates and PE houses, which reinforce the team’s credibility and generate project opportunities – extensive experience of M&A related projects will be critical, e.g. Commercial DD, M&A Strategy, Value creation, etc.
• Take responsibility for client relationships and act as a key contact point for those clients.
• Have the ability to anticipate, understand and articulate client requirements – in advance of and during projects.
• Demonstrate excellent communications skills – in written, slide and other reporting formats as well as verbal communications in informal and more formal situations.
• Lead the presentation of findings to senior clients and be comfortable in challenging the thinking of both clients and more senior Firm colleagues.
• Design and run large, complex projects, delivering to client requirements whilst acting as primary client liaison and be an 'ambassador' for the Firm.
• With limited input, guide the team to client-ready deliverables that exceed expectations and require minimal review.
• Support and test/review the design and execution complex analyses to ensure these are credible and accurate.
• Identify go-to-market, thought-leadership and marketing opportunities to lead on, and take responsibility for taking these to clients.
• Actively seek out leadership opportunities, take responsibility for a selection of internal processes and generally act as a leader in the the Strategy function and an inspiration to more junior team members.
• Take overarching responsibility that the firm's risk management frameworks are adhered to, by identifying and reviewing any key judgements – but also consulting with other senior staff members as appropriate.

Person requirements:

• Considerable experience working in a leading strategy consulting business, Big 4 firm or strategy / Corporate Development team in industry.
• Strong foundational understanding of the value drivers across the Media sector and clear view on how the sector is likely to evolve going forward.
• Experience of leading mid-sized and large projects: designing work plans, team structures and then managing these to (i) excellent client output and (ii) strong project economics.
• This should include an extensive coverage of recent M&A transactions, e.g. CDD, VDD, M&A Strategy or Value Creation projects in the Media sector.
• Ability to independently generate sales opportunities and maintain strong client relationships.
• Initiating marketing and sales efforts, proposals, scopes and pricing for mid-sized and large consulting assignments.
• Acting as the source of new business development initiatives and taking these from idea, through design and execution all the way to clients.
• Ability to work effectively and collaboratively with team members and broader (internal and external) stakeholders.
• Strong track record of building followership among more junior staff members.
• Non-client facing roles in taking on internal responsibilities on topics like team management, technical tool insight, liaison with service suppliers, etc.

Technical requirements:

• Strong academic track record.
• Evidence of strong problem-solving & analytical capabilities.
• Structured thinking skills combined with creativity.
• Ability to evaluate complex challenges and deliver insightful recommendations that can be practically executed.
• Ability review and assess large volumes of technical data and distil the key strategic insights – and the ability to guide a team through this process to focus on most important issues.
• Strong numerical capabilities combined with sound commercial acumen.
• Ability to build complex financial models that support our recommendations to clients.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Other language skills would be a strong bonus.

We have a briefing with the hiring partner on Wednesday 20th August so will be able to inform successful candidates as to more about the team and the role following this.

Successful applicants will be contacted within 24-48 hours.

Cambridge Credentials: adding people.adding value

Our client, a leading strategy consultancy is seeking a director to join and play a leading role, focusing on deal strategy within the media industry as a part of the wider TMT sector, with scope to work on the wider range of services including growth strategy, cost and operational strategy (including economic profitability analysis) and enterprise-wide transformation. You will be the second hire of a newly established team that has plans to grow to fifteen staff in the next 2-3 years, and you will play an instrumental part in helping to shape the growth of this team.

Role and responsibilities:

• Take a senior leadership role with the team, with clients and in the broader industry.
• Have existing client relationships, particularly with the M&A community in both corporates and PE houses, which reinforce the team’s credibility and generate project opportunities – extensive experience of M&A related projects will be critical, e.g. Commercial DD, M&A Strategy, Value creation, etc.
• Take responsibility for client relationships and act as a key contact point for those clients.
• Have the ability to anticipate, understand and articulate client requirements – in advance of and during projects.
• Demonstrate excellent communications skills – in written, slide and other reporting formats as well as verbal communications in informal and more formal situations.
• Lead the presentation of findings to senior clients and be comfortable in challenging the thinking of both clients and more senior Firm colleagues.
• Design and run large, complex projects, delivering to client requirements whilst acting as primary client liaison and be an 'ambassador' for the Firm.
• With limited input, guide the team to client-ready deliverables that exceed expectations and require minimal review.
• Support and test/review the design and execution complex analyses to ensure these are credible and accurate.
• Identify go-to-market, thought-leadership and marketing opportunities to lead on, and take responsibility for taking these to clients.
• Actively seek out leadership opportunities, take responsibility for a selection of internal processes and generally act as a leader in the the Strategy function and an inspiration to more junior team members.
• Take overarching responsibility that the firm's risk management frameworks are adhered to, by identifying and reviewing any key judgements – but also consulting with other senior staff members as appropriate.

Person requirements:

• Considerable experience working in a leading strategy consulting business, Big 4 firm or strategy / Corporate Development team in industry.
• Strong foundational understanding of the value drivers across the Media sector and clear view on how the sector is likely to evolve going forward.
• Experience of leading mid-sized and large projects: designing work plans, team structures and then managing these to (i) excellent client output and (ii) strong project economics.
• This should include an extensive coverage of recent M&A transactions, e.g. CDD, VDD, M&A Strategy or Value Creation projects in the Media sector.
• Ability to independently generate sales opportunities and maintain strong client relationships.
• Initiating marketing and sales efforts, proposals, scopes and pricing for mid-sized and large consulting assignments.
• Acting as the source of new business development initiatives and taking these from idea, through design and execution all the way to clients.
• Ability to work effectively and collaboratively with team members and broader (internal and external) stakeholders.
• Strong track record of building followership among more junior staff members.
• Non-client facing roles in taking on internal responsibilities on topics like team management, technical tool insight, liaison with service suppliers, etc.

Technical requirements:

• Strong academic track record.
• Evidence of strong problem-solving & analytical capabilities.
• Structured thinking skills combined with creativity.
• Ability to evaluate complex challenges and deliver insightful recommendations that can be practically executed.
• Ability review and assess large volumes of technical data and distil the key strategic insights – and the ability to guide a team through this process to focus on most important issues.
• Strong numerical capabilities combined with sound commercial acumen.
• Ability to build complex financial models that support our recommendations to clients.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Other language skills would be a strong bonus.

We have a briefing with the hiring partner on Wednesday 20th August so will be able to inform successful candidates as to more about the team and the role following this.

Successful applicants will be contacted within 24-48 hours.

Cambridge Credentials: adding people.adding value

Our client, a leading strategy consultancy is seeking a Senior Manager / Associate Director to join and play a leading role, focusing on deal strategy within the media industry as a part of the wider TMT sector, with scope to work on the wider range of services including growth strategy, cost and operational strategy (including economic profitability analysis) and enterprise-wide transformation. You will be the second hire of a newly established team that has plans to grow to fifteen staff in the next 2-3 years, and you will play an instrumental part in helping to shape the growth of this team.

Responsibilities:

• Take a leadership role with the team and to hold a high quality, credible reputation with clients and in the broader market – experience of a range of M&A related projects will be critical, e.g. Commercial DD, M&A Strategy, Value creation, etc.
• Design and run mid-sized to large projects and / or very large, complex workstreams.
• Act as primary client liaison on Firm engagements and act as an 'ambassador' for the firm.
• Produce client-ready deliverables that exceed expectations and require minimal review.
• Develop solutions to complex problems and challenge the thinking of more senior colleagues and clients.
• Help design - and guide junior staff to - execute detailed financial / business models performing complex scenario and sensitivity analysis.
• Provide timely feedback and coaching to other team members.
• Identify go-to-market and marketing opportunities and assume day-to-day responsibility for taking these to clients.
• Maintain active contact with mid-level clients outside of engagement situations.
• Actively seek out leadership opportunities, take responsibility for a selection of internal processes and generally act as a leader in the S&PT and an inspiration to more junior team members.
• Show initiative to identify and drive thought leadership and knowledge management activities.
• Lead on practice development activities to ensure successful delivery of initiatives.
• Take day-to-day responsibility that the firm's risk management frameworks are adhered to.

Work experience required:

• Experience working in a leading strategy consulting business, Big 4 firm or strategy / corporate development team in industry.
• Strong foundational understanding of the value drivers across the Media sector and views on the outlook for this sector.
• Experience of leading mid-sized and large projects: designing work plans, team structures and then managing these to (i) excellent client output and (ii) strong project economics.
• This should include an extensive coverage of recent M&A transactions, eg CDD, VDD, M&A Strategy or Value Creation projects in the Media sector.
• Evidence of taking responsibility for designing proposals, scopes and pricing for mid-sized and large consulting assignments.
• Ability to work effectively and collaboratively with team members and broader (internal and external) stakeholders.
• Strong track record of building followership among more junior staff members.
• Pro-active role in business development activity, designing client ready pitches, generating differentiated insights and holding personal client relationships.
• Non-client facing roles in driving practice forward in areas such as team management, training, technical tool development, liaison with service suppliers etc.

Technical skills required:

• Strong academic track record.
• Evidence of strong problem-solving & analytical capabilities.
• Structured thinking skills combined with creativity.
• Ability to evaluate complex challenges and deliver insightful recommendations that can be practically executed.
• Ability review and assess large volumes of technical data and distil the key strategic insights.
• Strong numerical capabilities combined with sound commercial acumen.
• Ability to build complex financial models that support our recommendations to clients.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Other language skills would be a strong bonus.

We have a briefing with the hiring partner on Wednesday 20th August so will be able to inform successful candidates as to more about the team and the role following this.

Successful applicants will be contacted within 24-48 hours.

Cambridge Credentials: adding people.adding value

Our client, a leading strategy consultancy is seeking a Senior Manager / Associate Director to join and play a leading role, focusing on deal strategy within the media industry as a part of the wider TMT sector, with scope to work on the wider range of services including growth strategy, cost and operational strategy (including economic profitability analysis) and enterprise-wide transformation. You will be the second hire of a newly established team that has plans to grow to fifteen staff in the next 2-3 years, and you will play an instrumental part in helping to shape the growth of this team.

Responsibilities:

• Take a leadership role with the team and to hold a high quality, credible reputation with clients and in the broader market – experience of a range of M&A related projects will be critical, e.g. Commercial DD, M&A Strategy, Value creation, etc.
• Design and run mid-sized to large projects and / or very large, complex workstreams.
• Act as primary client liaison on Firm engagements and act as an 'ambassador' for the firm.
• Produce client-ready deliverables that exceed expectations and require minimal review.
• Develop solutions to complex problems and challenge the thinking of more senior colleagues and clients.
• Help design - and guide junior staff to - execute detailed financial / business models performing complex scenario and sensitivity analysis.
• Provide timely feedback and coaching to other team members.
• Identify go-to-market and marketing opportunities and assume day-to-day responsibility for taking these to clients.
• Maintain active contact with mid-level clients outside of engagement situations.
• Actively seek out leadership opportunities, take responsibility for a selection of internal processes and generally act as a leader in the S&PT and an inspiration to more junior team members.
• Show initiative to identify and drive thought leadership and knowledge management activities.
• Lead on practice development activities to ensure successful delivery of initiatives.
• Take day-to-day responsibility that the firm's risk management frameworks are adhered to.

Work experience required:

• Experience working in a leading strategy consulting business, Big 4 firm or strategy / corporate development team in industry.
• Strong foundational understanding of the value drivers across the Media sector and views on the outlook for this sector.
• Experience of leading mid-sized and large projects: designing work plans, team structures and then managing these to (i) excellent client output and (ii) strong project economics.
• This should include an extensive coverage of recent M&A transactions, eg CDD, VDD, M&A Strategy or Value Creation projects in the Media sector.
• Evidence of taking responsibility for designing proposals, scopes and pricing for mid-sized and large consulting assignments.
• Ability to work effectively and collaboratively with team members and broader (internal and external) stakeholders.
• Strong track record of building followership among more junior staff members.
• Pro-active role in business development activity, designing client ready pitches, generating differentiated insights and holding personal client relationships.
• Non-client facing roles in driving practice forward in areas such as team management, training, technical tool development, liaison with service suppliers etc.

Technical skills required:

• Strong academic track record.
• Evidence of strong problem-solving & analytical capabilities.
• Structured thinking skills combined with creativity.
• Ability to evaluate complex challenges and deliver insightful recommendations that can be practically executed.
• Ability review and assess large volumes of technical data and distil the key strategic insights.
• Strong numerical capabilities combined with sound commercial acumen.
• Ability to build complex financial models that support our recommendations to clients.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Other language skills would be a strong bonus.

We have a briefing with the hiring partner on Wednesday 20th August so will be able to inform successful candidates as to more about the team and the role following this.

Successful applicants will be contacted within 24-48 hours.

Cambridge Credentials: adding people.adding value

About Clicka Jobs

Clicka Jobs is a successful and rapidly expanding online job search business that attracts millions of job seekers worldwide, successfully pairing them up with their dream jobs!

Due to ongoing success, our ambition is to increase our global reach over the next 18 months in Europe, the Americas, Australia, and Asia.

To support our growth plans, we are looking for a tech-savvy individual who is interested in a career in sales and account management to join our close-knit team.

 The job role

 As a Junior Digital Advertising Assistant, your key accountabilities will include: -

• Manage and develop existing client accounts, establishing yourself as a trusted buyer.
• Providing ongoing support to clients
• Implementing, optimising, and managing Paid media campaigns across multiple markets
• Managing and optimising bid strategies
• Managing campaign budgets accordingly
• Analysing and reporting the performance of all client campaigns to help deliver the most effective results
• Business Development to bring in new supplier accounts across multiple geographic locations

What you need to be successful in this role

• Previous experience in account management (6-12 months)
• Customer Care experience ( essential)
• Previous experience in a sales/business development role ( beneficial)
• Experience in using LinkedIn and similar networking sites
•  Digital Advertising (PPC) experience is desirable but not essential
•  Ability to thrive and be resilient under pressure, whilst dealing with multiple competing priorities and demanding clients
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, and the ability to apply different styles to different situations
•  Excellent numerical skills
• Tech-savvy
•  Can-do attitude with good time management skills
•  Great team-player
• Educated to degree level (highly desirable)

The successful candidate will receive a highly competitive salary (£19,500 - £3,000), plus an achievable 0K bonus in your first year! You will also be provided with ongoing training and support to help you develop the skills needed to be successful in this role.

This is a great opportunity for someone who is ambitious and wants to achieve a long-term successful career in the digital advertising industry while earning

To find out more, send your CV today – don’t delay – interviewing now!