Assistant Media Manager

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JOB PURPOSE

A successful Media Planning & Activation Manager balances logic and creativity, operations and strategy. The manager should appreciate both strategic/creative tasks and daily operations. This role involves handling multiple stakeholders and managing priorities and schedules.

WHAT WILL YOUR MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES BE

• Support the development of media strategies aligned with brand objectives, business priorities, and consumer insights across North Africa markets.
• Contribute to full‑funnel media thinking, ensuring the right balance between brand building and performance marketing.
• Assist in translating global and regional media guidelines into strong local market strategies.
• Collaborate with cross‑functional teams (Marketing, dCommerce, CMI, Finance) to ensure media strategy supports overall brand and category ambitions.
• Support annual, quarterly, and campaign‑based media planning across offline and digital channels.
• Work with media agencies to build data‑driven, audience‑first media plans that maximize reach, relevance, and ROI.
• Assist in budget planning and phasing, ensuring alignment with brand objectives and market priorities.
• Ensure media plans reflect best practices in targeting, formats, channel mix, and frequency management.
• Support flawless media campaign execution across North Africa markets, ensuring accurate setup, timely delivery, and compliance with brand and media guidelines.
• Coordinate with media agencies to ensure campaigns are live on time and optimized throughout delivery.
• Support day‑to‑day operational management, including campaign tracking, budget control, and internal reporting.
• Partner with dCommerce and digital teams to ensure strong integration between media and conversion ecosystems.
• Ensure governance, brand safety, and compliance standards are followed across all media activity.
• Track and analyze campaign performance, identifying key insights and optimization opportunities.
• Support post‑campaign analyses, including learning agendas and media effectiveness reviews.
• Contribute to a culture of continuous improvement by documenting and sharing media learnings across brands and markets.
• Stay up to date with media, digital, and platform trends (including retail media, social, and emerging channels) and proactively bring new ideas to the team.
• Support test‑and‑learn initiatives to improve media effectiveness and efficiency over time.

WHAT YOU WILL NEED TO SUCCEED

Experiences & Qualifications

• Degree holders in Marketing and/or Digital related disciplines preferred.

• Relevant experience in digital, media, or marketing.

• 3-5 years of experience in FMCG/Media Agency background desired.

• Advanced understanding of the media and brand communication landscape.

• Experience in holistic brand communication management at a large brand, or cross-brand leadership at an agency.

• Experience in managing advertising/media budgets.

• Experience in analysing and optimizing digital media reports

• Experience in driving change and embedding innovation within a business.

• Experience in managing complex stakeholders across matrixed organizations.

• Experience in data-driven marketing and performance/e-commerce.

• Exposure to disciplines such as CRM, Mar-Tech, and Ad-Tech platform management.

Additional Desirable Experience

• Interest in media, digital and tech innovations are desirable

• Building Talent & Teams

• Deep Brand and Consumer Understanding

• Media and Digital Capability

Skills

• Strong technical understanding of Media Strategy, Planning and Buying processes (Traditional Media specifically, Digital Media planning and execution experience is an advantage)

• Digital Media and Marketing understanding and Capability

• Media Value Chain Management

• Budget-setting and management (including ‘trade-offs’; ‘sacrifices’ and consequence analysis and ‘alternatives-design’)

• Deep Brand and Consumer understanding

• Data interpretation leading to actionable insights

• People Management (internal and external)

• Stakeholder management and consultation (internal/external and at all levels)

• Collaboration skills that support multi-stakeholder projects.

• A forward-thinking approach to drive innovation into media and data strategies and plans.

• Problem-solving mindset, with the ability to work flexibly and adapt to changing media and market conditions.

• Strong analytical skills to define, interpret, and respond to data insights.

• Excellent communication skills to align stakeholders and embed best practices.

• Agile and resilient to extreme pressure

• Data Interpretation leading to insights

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