THE COMPANY MediaSense is a global media advisor, based in central London, empowering leading global and domestic brands to make more informed decisions with their media investments. Media is a complex and challenging landscape to navigate. We take brands on a journey from where they are to where they want to be, building on existing strengths, removing blockers, and maximising opportunities across all components of their media ecosystem. We help brands to navigate change and engineer value and have been doing so since 2009, we are proud to work with a wide selection of global and domestic clients including adidas, Coca-Cola, Sanofi, Just Eat, Virgin Media, Chanel, Co-Op, and Dyson. Our specialist advisory team brings together expertise from media and digital agencies, technology companies and brand marketing, to evaluate the effectiveness of each component of the media eco-system, determining where it can be improved. We are rigorous, challenging and client centric, creating customised solutions that give brands clarity and control of their media investments. The company works with over 100 clients and has over 230 employees across the world. For more information, visit www.media-sense.com WHAT WE OFFER Our benefits reflect the fun but professional culture (some are eligible after probation passes) Hybrid working (mix of working at home and in the office) work from any location in the world for up to 4 weeks per year 28 days holiday per year (accrual of 1 day per year until 4th - maximum of 32 days) day off for your birthday 10 days annual leave purchase per year Length of service awards (vouchers until year 4) starting from 1 year sabbiticals ranging from unpaid to fully paid from periodic service Bonuses: Employee Referral Bonus, New Business Bonus, Company Bonus Pension, Life Insurance & Employee Assistance Program Optional Private Healthcare Eye test & contribution towards glasses for VDU Enhanced Parental Leave Annual Season Ticket Loan, Cycle to work scheme, Tech Scheme, Voucherstore, bYond Volunteering Leave & charity work Dress down, regular social events & hobby groups reflecting DEI Snacks & fruit in the amazing office & location Some training & development opportunities THE ROLE This is a lead role in managing the delivery of important project and retainer work. Close collaboration with analysts, senior analysts and client leads is essential to ensure MediaSense is delivering high quality work within the agreed timeframe. The role comprises of a wide range of activities: Leading a team of junior managers, senior analysts and analysts to deliver various types of media performance analyses across multiple media channels (on and offline). Leading pitch management projects in terms of evaluation of media agency offers and capabilities and producing client ready outputs in Tableau. Leading communication with agencies to ensure projects are set up to succeed, establishing project timelines and ways of working and ensuring the agency is held to account on these agreements. Managing up to the client management team to keep them informed of progress and highlighting any major issues in good time that might hinder a projects progress. Managing, mentoring and training analysts on accounts and projects. Overall QA project lead, ensuring aligned analyses are theoretically correct and presentations are client ready. Line management of analysts. Regularly catching up to ensure your direct reports feel heard and helping them find a solution to any potential issues. Conducting performance reviews for your direct reports. Leading and guiding review meetings to establish clear and coherent targets and objectives for the next 12 months Leading development of specific internal tools. Collating suggestions and implementing developments of all internal tools and processes, particularly for performance tracking and pitch management projects THE ESSENTIALS Ideally, we’re looking for someone who is interested in media and how it is planned and traded, is very good with numbers but is also creative enough to produce interesting visualisations and have good ideas about how to present data. Above all, we’re looking for people who fit in well with a close-knit team and want to and be able to make a difference at every level. The ideal candidate possesses the below: Prior experience within a media role or a similar background in auditing. Strong knowledge across all media channels (online and offline) and excellent theoretical understanding of all the data parameters Is an expert on account management with a superb grasp of media, maths, data and analytics. This includes proven experience of analytical and organisational skills together with excellent attention to detail and a logical approach to problem solving (proactively finding solutions to problems too) Technical proficiency across the Office suite (Microsoft Excel, Powerpoint etc) of products and Tableau to deliver consistently exceptional outputs. This includes proven experience using these tools to structure data in a clear and methodical way while spotting patterns and trends in the data to extract relevant insights Energy, enthusiasm, loyalty, and a ‘muck in’ attitude are all key attributes. This includes a positive and productive attitude while constructively balancing the speed and quality of delivery. Excellent communication and presentation skills; the ability to communicate complex concepts clearly across different audiences and varying levels across Media Sense and report writing abilities Accuracy is key, as is being able to work to and juggle with deadlines. This role will be based in the UK London office so the ideal candidate will need to live within commutable distance and also possess a permanent right to work in the UK. Applications are reviewed individually but please note that only short-listed candidates will be contacted directly to be moved to an introductory call.