Media Manager

Job Description

About Us

Every day, we push beyond expectations to help millions of people save money, at a time when it’s never mattered more. Through MoneySuperMarket, MoneySavingExpert, Quidco and our B2B partnerships we supply products to more than 24 million unique monthly visitors, helping UK households to save billions of pounds a year. Can you tell this is something we’re exceptionally proud of!

Creative, collaborative, ambitious – it’s hard work. But what makes it worth it? Leaving work knowing we’ve made a difference to our customers, users, and to each other.

Put our distinct brands together with our dedicated colleagues and you’ve got a workplace with lots of personality. We’re open-minded, diverse, and love our differences. Everyone plays a part, and comes together to work hard, go beyond, and make sure everyone feels they belong.

Our growth team is growing, and we're hiring for a media manager. Join us to start going beyond comparison.

Insight Into the Role

Reporting to the Brand Marketing Lead, you will be responsible for Quidco's media, communications, and marketing plans to drive brand demand and active user acquisition.

You'll help shape and implement the Quidco marketing strategy, driving demand to support our user, active member, and commercial targets. From planning through to execution and measurement, you will assist in shaping both brands' paid communications strategies, delivering innovative and creative media plans that amplify our brand promise and platform, while driving demand.

Working closely with external agency partners and cross-functional teams including Commercial, Marketing, Product, Data Science, and Consumer Insights, you will assess business challenges and opportunities and develop communications plans to unlock growth.

We're looking for someone who can deliver more from our media spend through creativity and innovation. You'll see the bigger picture while also being happy to dive into the numbers to optimize our approach and deliver brilliant results.

How you’ll spend your day

• Play an active role in the Quidco leadership team, helping drive strategy and P&L performance.
• Management of all marketing campaigns from insight and idea generation through to implementation and analysis.
• Ownership and day-to-day management of external marketing agency to deliver impactful commercially driven marketing campaigns.
• Management of all campaigns, reporting against budgets and agreed metrics, ensuring we are taking all steps to optimise performance.
• Work with the data and finance team to deliver against agreed lifetime value model of Quidco customers, to inform the long-term ROI of marketing spend and budgeting.
• Partner with the Brand Manager (Creative) to develop and implement brand marketing campaigns for Quidco, ensuring outstanding media and creative strategy and plans.
• Work closely with the internal engagement and CRM team to ensure we drive the right focus and improvement on growth enablers and their KPIs (inc. welcome and engagement communications, re-engagement programmes, communications, and journeys).
• Run the full Quidco marketing budget ensuring detailed tracking and accurate reporting of spend and ensuring spend in line with forecasts.
• Day-to-day management of marketing budget cost control partner to drive maximum value from all activity.

What value you’ll bring to the role

• You need flair, creativity, and media expertise to outsmart the competition.
• Experience in media strategy, planning, activation, and measurement.
• Integrated media planning experience with strong knowledge of all media channels, especially TV.
• Proficient understanding and practical experience in digital media, affiliates, app, SEO, and PPC.
• A proven track record in developing marketing strategies and plans that drive demand and deliver against user, customer, and commercial targets.
• Experience in planning and executing of scaled multi-channel campaigns.
• Experience managing media agencies and partners, building strong working relationships.
• Experience in working with digital marketing agencies to deliver outstanding marketing campaigns that drive customer acquisition, retention, and a strong ROI.
• Proficiency in media measurement tools and partnering with Insights and Data teams to drive and optimise performance.
• Exceptional communication skills, including excellent writing and strong presentation skills, with the ability to pitch ideas and build consensus around strategies and plans.
• Experience working with Commercial teams to deliver against business objectives.
• Experience in tracking and managing a significant budget.
• An analytical approach and ability to identify data-driven insights and improvements.
• Confidence working alongside senior stakeholders.
• A self-starter with a bias for action, able to prioritise and deliver on multiple deadlines with minimal supervision.
• A positive attitude, able to work in an agile way within a dynamic environment.

What rewards are on offer

• Up to 30 holidays + bank holidays
• Pension up to 6% employer contribution
• Bonus scheme
• Enhanced shared parental leave - 6 months paid for both parents
• Digital Doctor on demand
• Work from anywhere scheme – 2 weeks per year
• Financial coaching
• Mental health platform access

How we’ll invest in you

We’re invested in your development. Expect mentorship, training, and opportunities to expand your skill set, including access to your own individual LinkedIn Learning license with access to over 16,000 courses.

Interview process

30mins call to run through your experience and the role in more depth. 60mins interview that will include a task and both competency and behavioral questions

At MONY Group, we believe in the strength of diversity and see inclusion as a strategic advantage. Our values guide us in creating a workplace where fairness and equity is a reality for all. We’re committed to minimising systemic bias and creating a level playing field for all candidates.

Contact us for reasonable accommodations in the application process, no need to disclose your disability or condition, just specify your needs. Unsure what to ask for? We can guide you through available accommodations.

We understand that job adverts only say so much and you’re likely to have a lot of questions. If you’d like to know more before applying such as more on hybrid working, salary, our parental leave policy etc, please just let us know, and we’ll be happy to help. You can contact the recruiter for this role, Kim at kim.richards@monygroup.com

We believe that success isn’t solely defined by ticking boxes on a skills checklist. We encourage your application, so we can discover your skills and experience that will help you succeed in this role.