• Work with Australia’s largest retailer
• Attractive salary package on offer
• Full-time permanent role

The Role

The role of the Senior Media Manager - AU Food is to lead end-to-end, the way we sustainably bring our media strategy and customer plan to life within our paid, owned & earned media channels by marrying a rich understanding of brand strategy with media landscape and media consumption knowledge. The SMM is a business critical and highly coveted client side role and is the central director of our media delivery teams (Media Planners / Dentsu / idX) to ensure the most efficient and effective planning. To do this it requires close collaboration with the Tribe lead on projects reflecting the visions and ambitions of the Woolworths Food Group.

This role requires 10+ years of experience in media, with a minimum of 5 years in a leadership position working across all media channels on top-tier Australian brands.

About you

We are looking for a collaborative leader with strong persuasive skills that can hit the ground running with the below criteria:

• Experience working on large and fast-paced advertisers (retail a bonus!)
• Extensive Media Agency and/or Digital Publishers experience
• A motivated leader with a desire to support and grow their team’s abilities and wider the wider Brand & Marketing
• Digital media proficient with the ability to think outside the box
• Top to bottom of funnel Comms Planning expertise
• Tertiary education in Marketing, Communications or Business discipline (highly regarded)
• Demonstrated proactive and reactive media management skills

Deliverables

• End-to-end Media & Channel campaign planning excellence
• Manage in-house, external agencies & 3rd party suppliers to deliver campaign media excellence
• Define and deliver against media KPI’s that ladder to B&M ambitions
• Manage monthly financial forecast
• Cross-functional relationships

Desired Outcomes

• Lead and a support a team of specialists to deliver media and channel planning deliverables
• Help define and document role of channels across paid and owned as consistent guidelines for planning by team
• Develop and oversee a single source of channel planning truth to maximise productivity and balance limited resources with B&M’s ambitions.
• Gain owned channel owners buy-in and collaboration to align and strengthen their contribution to B&M communications.
• Productivity gains by consistently testing, learning and applying optimal media budgets, tactics and formats
• Timeline and process management across the Supermarkets media and channel planning deliverables
• Stakeholder management of key publisher partners
• Innovation in media and channel usage
• Analysis of 1st & 3rd party media reporting and comparison to brand tracking performance to determine effectiveness.
• Monitor and report competitive activity to illuminate B&M performance
• Ensure accurate monthly forecasting and spend in partnership with finance lead to come in on budget
• Forge and maintain first class relationships across internal and external functions

How will you succeed in this role?

• Organisation - able to manage multiple work streams while shifting priorities at the same time
• Proactive - be a genuine self starter and proactively seek better ways of doing things. Don’t wait to be told., take action and be bold in your movements
• Collaborative and a Team Player - able to drive the best results through teams other than your own
• Pragmatic - understand the realities of the situation and deliver results that actually work
• Simplify - able to make things simple for those you work with and ultimately for our customers when communicating the work we do
• Partnership - ensure we get the best out of our external partners by working with them to support their strengths and help them succeed
• Communication - don’t hide behind emails, embrace building relationships by communicating wherever possible in person

How will you succeed as a leader?

• Empathy - show genuine empathy for those around you and achieve better results by engaging others
• Supportive - be willing to dive into work that's not directly under your JD in order to support your team and those around you with the tasks at hand
• Leadership - drive the direction and creation of framework setting as well as clearly understanding goals and managing work to frameworks
• Share knowledge and provide mentorship to others seeking support
• Human and authentic - bringing lots of yourself to work and being genuine are critical
• Resilient and energetic - able to roll with the punches and always keep motivated and driven
• Focused - you will need to drive results in a fast paced environment and juggle several different priorities
• Learn - a willingness to continue to learn about the marketing discipline and to challenge your manager and those you lead to continue to think differently
• Influence - you will need to have strong impact and influence, across levels and functions - especially at the senior level of the business

Why you’ll love it here

In addition to this exciting role, these are some of the benefits we offer:

• Hybrid working arrangements that will help you thrive
• An attractive remuneration package including base + super
• Lead and be led - work with incredible leaders and team members
• The opportunity to collaborate with some of the brightest and best minds in Australia across Woolworths
• An exciting career - as our business grows, so do the opportunities for our people
• Get your Woolies worth through team member benefits across all of our brands

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Grow with the Group

As an inclusive, team-first company, our people are at the core of everything we do.

We care deeply about creating a workplace where our team members feel valued, respected and empowered. We are committed to providing equal opportunity regardless of gender identity, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or life stage. We are proud to be recognised as a Gold Tier Employer in the Australian Workplace Equality Index for LGBTQ+ inclusion and as an Employer of Choice for Gender Equality by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency.

As our Group continues to evolve, innovate and support our communities, we encourage our team members to do the same with their own careers, by providing ongoing opportunities to grow and make a real difference.

We value flexibility, and encourage our team members to work in ways that meet their work/life commitments and support their wellbeing.

We work hard to create a safe and inclusive environment for all, and most importantly, we're all about creating better experiences – for our customers and for each other.

We’d love to hear from You

If you meet a number of the requirements, but not all, we encourage you to submit your application. You can learn more about working with us on LinkedIn or via www.wowcareers.com.au. #LI #work180.

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