Media Manager

Media Manager ¦ La Vallée Village ¦ Permanent /Full time

Something Extraordinary Every Day™

The Media Manager will report to the Head of Media & Communications, working in collaboration with the media agencies, the wider Village Marketing team as well as Central teams.

The Media Manager will have oversight on media planning, coordinate campaigns, supporting development/application of local insights, managing day to day processes/operations. The Media Manager will also be responsible to manage agencies delivery, creating briefs and overseeing successful implementation of campaigns and technology to help elevate measurement and reporting.

The ideal candidate will be passionate about retail business and how that translates into media objectives both domestically and internationally to support marketing campaigns to drive traffic and footfall, and grow the Village’s presence offline and online.

What you will be doing

The Media Manager is accountable for overall media planning & buying workstreams ensuring key deliverables are met by the agencies and extended marketing and should demonstrate strong strategic, innovation and leadership skills. Tasks this individual should be responsible includes:

• Develop and implement the media strategy across all platforms
• Support the Head of Media & Communications developing the media strategy and the integrated planning across Paid, Owned, Earned.
• Briefs agency and leads the development of strategic planning and integration of POE based on business targets and marketing objectives
• Briefs content team and collaborates with social, website, emails coordinators for assets consistency across all comms platform
• Manage agency teams ensuring strategic recommendations aligns with business and marketing objectives, cultural trends and consumer insights
• Maintain strong relationship and collaboration with the media agency
• Collaborate with the extended marketing team for content production based on media activity and desired audience journey when impacted by 360 comms activation
• Manage financials via Salesforce and Oracle, raising POs, working with finance to ensure invoices are paid in a timely manner and reporting on a monthly basis to Head of Media & Communications on the status of the budget
• Proactively monitor campaigns performance advising through insights and learnings for campaign optimisations and works with agencies for optimisation
• Develop and execute ongoing media presentation
• Manage a Media Coordinator and work closely together

What makes you special

Every colleague is an entrepreneur at heart and this drives our organisational culture, which values invention, innovation and risk taking. To be successful with us, you’ll have:

• +6 year’s experience, preferably in-house or within a media agency, including significant time dedicated to media across all channels : Digital, TV, OOH, Radio, print
• Demonstrate mastery of the Microsoft suite, Powerpoint, Excel, Google Ads, Facebook Manager, Asana, PowerBI
• Languages : fluent in FR and UK
• Experience in managing and implementing digital campaigns
• Display a solid understanding of the KPIs necessary to optimize media performance
• Great verbal and written communications skills, with the ability to confidently and clearly present work to clients and internal stakeholders.
• Applying long-term vision to short-term projects, finding ways to streamline, automate, innovate, or improve the quality of the output over time.
• Excellent numeric and analytical skills, with the ability to relate results to business objectives, and translate statistics into insight and actions.
• Highly organised, with the ability to manage multiple workstreams in an efficient manner
• Ability to manage agency team, providing clear briefs and managing their time/priorities
• Experience in using industry tools such customer data platforms, ad-servers and analytics stack (Google)

There’s no one quite like us

The Bicester Collection are the worlds’ leading luxury shopping destinations, and we are committed to creating magical and memorable experiences for our guests. Taking the name of the founding Village, The Bicester Collection distinguishes the 11 Villages in Europe and China as one collection of destinations for our guests, our brand partners, our travel and tourism partners, our corporate and financial media, and our internal teams.

Our Vision is to be the best shopping destination in the world. Our Mission is to make the lives of others better - our brands, our guests, our people and our communities. Our Brand Promise is to offer something extraordinary every day. Our Five Values are the glue that bind us together and allows us to lead ahead:

1. Authenticity - Always do the right thing
2. Innovation - Think outside of the box
3. Passion - Do what you love and love what you do!
4. Critical Thinking - Challenge the obvious
5. Vision - Be mission driven always

Why we’re exceptional

The key to our success is the quality and commitment of our people. To work in one of the teams at any of the Villages is to play an active role in redefining both the art and the science of retail. This creates a dynamic approach that underpins our ability to anticipate future trends in a fast changing world. In return for your Authenticity, Critical Thinking, Innovation, Passion and Vision, you’ll receive a generous salary and we’ll also reward you by:

• Looking after you: You’re entitled to 25 days of annual leave (plus French Bank Holidays) and your birthday off, plus extra leave if you are getting married or moving. We provide above industry average life assurance cover, personal travel insurance, private healthcare, cycle to work scheme and flu vaccinations
• Treating you: discounts throughout our villages, discounts with other retailers (known as My Choices) and a very generous employee referral bonus
• Championing you: you’ll be working within a creative and collaborative environment like no other, with the opportunity to develop your professional and personal skills while advancing your career.

Come and live your story with us

The key to our success is the quality and commitment of our people. The Bicester Collection is made up of 1,200 colleagues of 50 nationalities. We are diverse in background, age, experience and leadership style. We believe that an inclusive workforce makes magic happen, and with this in mind we welcome everyone - regardless of age, gender identity, race, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability or ethnicity - to be a part of our family. We are offering a fantastic opportunity for a professional and commercially focused individual to join us. We have huge ambition for what we can achieve together and we want to have fun!