Digital Media Specialist

Job Description

Digital Media Specialist

Salary: £38,000 - £43,500 depending on experience, plus annual bonus, and benefits listed below

Function: Marketing

Location: London (nr. Oxford Street), a mix of office and home working

Contract: Permanent

Closing Date: 22nd January 2026. Please note, we may close vacancies early where we receive significant numbers of applications, so don’t delay!

About the role:

As a Digital Media Specialist, you’ll be responsible for leading the day-to-day digital planning and activation of media campaigns across some of Heineken UK’s key brands. The role focuses primarily on Programmatic and Social channels, spanning OLV, Display, Audio, CTV and paid social platforms.

You’ll own campaigns end to end, from insight-led planning and activation through to optimisation, reporting and learning, ensuring activity is aligned to clear business objectives and delivers measurable impact. Working closely with internal stakeholders and external partners, you’ll bring media ideas to life through smart buying, strong execution and continuous optimisation.

Sitting within the Media Buying function and reporting to the Media Buying Lead, you’ll play a key role in delivering large-scale national campaigns, scaling data-driven marketing, and driving innovation across digital media. You’ll also contribute to improving how we buy, measure and activate digital media, helping to raise capability and effectiveness across the business.

Some of the role’s key responsibilities include:

• Plan, activate and optimise digital media campaigns across Social and Programmatic channels, aligned to clear business objectives.
• Own campaigns end to end, from insight-led planning through to activation, optimisation and reporting.
• Apply data-driven audience strategies, increasing the use of 1st and 2nd party data.
• Monitor performance, share learnings and drive continuous testing and improvement.
• Work closely with internal teams and external partners to deliver innovative, high-impact campaigns.
• Support large-scale national activations and ROAS-focused performance activity.
• Manage operational and financial processes linked to digital activations.

About you:

You’ll be an experienced digital media practitioner with a strong background in social and programmatic activation, comfortable owning campaigns from planning through to optimisation and reporting. You’re data-driven, commercially minded and confident working across teams to deliver clear business outcomes.

Experience you may bring:

• Minimum 2–3 years’ experience in social and programmatic media buying and activation
• Digital media planning experience across multiple objectives and audiences.
• Hands-on activation of large-scale campaigns, including dynamic creative partners and 1st party data.
• Buying experience across platforms such as DV360, Facebook, Instagram and Snap.
• Strong understanding of Programmatic within the wider digital media ecosystem.
• Ability to analyse performance data and turn insight into clear recommendations.
• Strong communication and presentation skills, including presenting to senior stakeholders.
• Solid project management skills, with the ability to work independently and collaboratively.

• Experience within FMCG and/or the alcohol category.
• Understanding of the UK on-trade or hospitality environment.
• Experience with Salesforce products (SFMC / CDP).
• MediaTool and/or Amazon DSP experience.

Our ways of working
Our office sites operate a hybrid model. You’ll spend Tuesdays, Thursdays and one other day in the office and two days from home, although you’re more than welcome to come and work from the office on those days too.

Our benefits

Here’s a flavour of what we offer:

• Annual bonus
• Double-matched pension (up to 10%)
• 32 days’ holiday, plus three listed public holidays (Christmas Day, Boxing Day, and New Year's Day – if any of these fall on a weekend, you'll get the following weekday off instead)
• Life assurance (subject to policy terms)
• Critical illness insurance – comprehensive cover for you and your family
• Free ciders and beers (including low and zero alcohol options)
• Retail discounts
• Wellbeing support, including Mental health champions, free Counselling, access to Colleague Networks.
• Comprehensive opportunities to develop
• Option to join our Colleague Networks to connect, share and build inclusion

…and much more!

Please note: Rewards and benefits can vary from role to role. Some benefits are taxable and may be based on employee contributions. We’re happy to discuss further throughout the application process.

The application
If you like what you’ve read and are ready to brew a better career with us, let’s get going! We may close vacancies early where we receive lots of applications, so don’t delay!

If you need any adjustments made to support your application, for example if you require information in different formats, or if you have any accessibility issues, then we’re more than happy to review our processes – please feel free to get in touch with us at recruitment@heineken.co.uk.

You might feel that you don’t meet every single requirement for this role, and that’s okay – we all need the opportunity to develop and untap our full potential. If this advert’s piqued your interest, we’d encourage you to submit an application rather than ruling yourself out. You never know – you may be exactly what we’re looking for!

Who we are
We’re the world’s most international brewer and the name behind a host of brilliant beers and ciders, from Birra Moretti, to Strongbow, to Cruzcampo and many more.

It’s a fantastic time to join us. We’re leading the way in low and no alcohol innovation, pioneering new technologies to meet our ambitious environmental goals and investing in our pubs to keep them at the centre of their communities.

When you join us, we’ll back you to reach your full potential. You’ll enjoy unique development opportunities, unforgettable experiences and a reward package that goes far beyond the salary you receive.

If you want to hear more about life at HEINEKEN from our colleagues, head over to LinkedIn and check out the hashtag #LifeatHEINEKENUK.

There’s no better place to untap your future. Join us and brew a better career.