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TUI Group • Luton, United Kingdom

Head of Media Strategy & Planning

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Job Description

Join our team at TUI and shape how we connect with our customers across all media channels. As our Head of Media Strategy & Planning, you'll develop and own a comprehensive media strategy that balances our brand and commercial objectives while optimizing our media investments.

ABOUT OUR OFFER

  • Personal benefits: Attractive remuneration, discretionary bonus schemes, generous travel benefits, extensive health & well-being support, and more.
  • Flexible working: Work is something you do, not somewhere you go. We encourage a healthy work-life balance with a dynamic working environment.
  • A career to shape: Access the TUI Learning Hub to level-up and reach your ambitions.
  • Broaden your network: We champion intercultural collaboration and provide opportunities to work on global projects and teams.
  • Community: Get involved with incredible local charity and sustainability initiatives like the TUI Care Foundation.

ABOUT THE JOB

  • You'll define and develop a comprehensive media strategy that aligns with TUI's overall goals, balancing brand building with commercial performance across all channels.
  • Working with the Brand Marketing and Performance Marketing Directors, you'll lead strategic planning that adapts to market conditions, competitive activity, and changing consumer behaviors.
  • We'll look to you to manage and optimize our media budget allocation, ensuring we're investing in the most effective channels to drive results throughout the customer journey.
  • You'll collaborate closely with our media agencies, representing the region as the key point of contact and managing the performance rating framework.
  • Partnering with our Global Effectiveness team, you'll extract insights from performance data and translate these learnings into actionable media strategies.
  • Your expertise will help us prioritize product lines, markets, and seasonal opportunities while managing commercial risk in collaboration with finance and commercial teams.

ABOUT YOU

  • You bring extensive experience in developing and implementing comprehensive media strategies across multiple channels, with a strong understanding of media planning principles and budget optimization.
  • You have a proven track record of aligning media strategies with business objectives and demonstrating return on investment.
  • Your analytical mindset allows you to interpret complex data sets and derive actionable insights from marketing effectiveness tools and analytics frameworks.
  • You have experience managing agency relationships, including briefing, performance evaluation, and negotiation.
  • You possess an in-depth understanding of the media landscape, consumer behavior, and competitive environment.
  • Your excellent interpersonal and communication skills enable you to influence stakeholders across different levels and functions.

From a workplace to a place to belong. At TUI we embrace diversity, equity, and inclusion, encouraging everyone to come as you are, because together, our potential is limitless.


We are committed to supporting candidates with disabilities and impairments so if you require any support, please do let us know.

Company benefits

Accrued annual leave
Adoption leave
Annual bonus
Annual pay rises
Bank holiday swaps
Bike parking
Buddy scheme
Buy or sell annual leave
Car allowance
Career and family coaching
Carer’s leave
Charity donation scheme
Chill out zone
Cinema discounts
Coaching
Coffee discounts
Collaboration spaces – In Luton - Brand-new games area with a pool table which doubles as a ping pong table, a darts board, an air hockey table and sofa seats
Company car
Company freebies
Compassionate leave
Complimentary Medical Services
Cycle to work scheme
Dental coverage
Eldercare services
Electric Car Salary Sacrifice
Emergency leave
Employee assistance programme
Employee discounts
Employee recognition scheme
Enhanced maternity leave
Enhanced paternity leave
Enhanced pension match/contribution
Enhanced sick pay
Eye Care Support
Faith rooms
Financial advice
Financial coaching
Further education support
Gym membership
Hackathons
Health insurance
In house training
L&D budget
Language lessons
Learning platform
Legal consults
Life assurance – We provide a Life Assurance benefit which means that in the event of your death, while employed by TUI, a lump sum would be payable to your beneficiaries.
Life insurance
Lunch and learns
Meditation space
Menopause support
Mental health days
Mental health pathway
Mental health platform access
Mentoring
Neo-natal leave
On-site catering
On-site wellness room – In Luton - wellbeing room dedicated to physical and mind wellbeing which complements our existing male and female faith and reflection rooms
On-site wellness services – In Luton - Dedicated beauty room offering a calming space where colleagues can book some pamper time with a beauty therapist to keep nails, brows and lashes looking tip top
Open to part time work for some roles
Open to part-time employees
Personal development budgets
Personal development days
Physiotherapy
Pregnancy loss leave
Pregnancy support
Private GP service
Professional subscriptions
Religious celebration leave
Restaurant discounts
Sabbaticals
Salary sacrifice
Share options
Shared parental leave
Study support
Surrogacy leave
Teambuilding days
Time off in-lieu
Travel credit
Travel insurance
Volunteer days
Will writing
Women’s health leave
Work from anywhere scheme – TUI WORKWIDE means colleagues can work from abroad for up to 30 working days a year

Working at TUI Group

Company employees:

66,845 globally

Gender diversity (m:f):

43:57

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Awards & Accreditations

1st – Career Progression

1st – Career Progression

Flexa awards 2025
2nd – Flexible

2nd – Flexible

Flexa awards 2025
WFA

WFA

Flexa awards 2025
Diversity and Inclusion

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