The Specialist Works | B Corp ™
Senior Media Executive
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Senior Media Executive
About The Group
The world is obsessed by small start-ups or the largest corporates. Most UK media agencies are built to serve the top 100 spending clients, and there are numerous boutique agencies for those starting out in business. The Specialist Works is different. We focus exclusively on marketers at entrepreneurial brands—businesses beyond the messy startup stage but far from large corporate slowness.
Our clients include large privately owned businesses (often PE-backed, founder-led, or both) and small to mid-cap public enterprises. They battle larger competitors and need to disrupt to win. Many don’t conform to category norms: innovative, ambitiously lean, and hyper-focused on growth. They alter consumer behaviour, overtake established players, and redefine industries.
Our clients face three core challenges, all prime for disruption:
- Consumer: Customer acquisition is critical.
- Company: Lean and aggressive growth drives everything.
- Category: Underspent, underdog brands outmanoeuvre incumbents.
Senior Exec Role: Out-of-Home & Print Media
We’re seeking a dynamic Senior Exec to join our Out-of-Home (OOH) and Print Media team—a chance to build integrated multi-channel campaigns, led by hands-on OOH with Print as a key complement (approx. 80/20 split).
As a results-driven specialist, you’ll:
- Own and execute OOH campaigns (roadside, rail, underground, etc.).
- Plan and manage Print campaigns (data-driven direct mail, magazines, newspapers, inserts).
- Align offline media with wider cross-channel strategies.
- Deliver campaigns on time, within budget, and with measurable impact—evaluating data to optimise performance.
This role demands a media planning and buying expert who thrives in an innovative, fast-moving agency environment, leveraging industry insights to redefine client success through OOH and Print excellence.
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Key Responsibilities
- Campaign Leadership: Oversee OOH and Print execution, ensuring alignment with client goals and KPIs.
- Strategic OOH Expertise: Lead all facets of OOH campaigns, guiding the team and agency on solutions that maximise ROI.
- Client Relationships: Be the daily contact point, translating goals into actionable OOH/Print strategies.
- Vendor & Partner Collaboration: Secure bookings, negotiate rates, manage deliveries across all media buys.
- Data-Driven Performance: Track real-time campaign outputs, interpret analytics, and share concise updates like PCAs/MBRs/QBRs.
- Cost Optimisation: Continuously negotiate rates and secure “best-space” deals to maximise media spend.
- Cross-Team Synergy: Work with creative, digital, and front-office teams to embed offline media strategies holistically.
- Budget Stewardship: Control expenses while ensuring high-quality, efficient OOH/Print plans.
- Pitch & New Business: Contribute channel expertise and campaign data for proposals.
- Industry Innovation: Stay current with trends, actively testing new opportunities and best practices.
Requirements
Who You Are:
- Media Expertise: Deep hands-on experience in UK OOH and Print media, including sourcing, buying, and managing campaigns—a must-have.
- Relationships First: Excels at building trust—with clients, vendors, and colleagues—and fostering alignment.
- Execution Focus: Thrives under pressure, juggling multiple timelines while delivering flawless attention to detail.
- Analytical & Actionable: Comfortable with data—converting metrics into insights to improve campaigns.
- Instinctively Proactive: Not afraid to suggest value-driven improvements or test new ideas to drive results.
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Why Join?
Work Environment
- Hybrid Flexibility: Mandatory 3+ days in-office/hybrid; occasional travel for client meetings or industry events.
Benefits
An energising, growth-focused culture where everyone innovates.
- Enhanced Time: Work a 9-day fortnight (alternate Fridays off).
- Equity & Wealth: Share options for all employees.
- Career Development: A unique, all-inclusive benefits package geared toward long-term success.
Our Values (Before It’s You)
- Passion: Share the excitement for what fuels you.
- Inquisitiveness: Challenge norms—ask, “What’s possible?”
- Caring: A strong professional, colleague, and human.
- Knowledge: Master your craft, share it—and never stop learning.
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Social & Environmental Mission
We match ambition with responsibility—build an agile business that’s as strong in people, planet, and profit as it is in impact.
Measures include:
- Mandatory Continuous Learning: Solidified our What’s Possible University, emphasising anti-bribery & corruption, DE&I policies, ethics, and training.
- Sustainability Pledge: Commitment pervades everything—water, cardboard waste recycling, choosing eco-friendly suppliers (renewables, remote work incentives).
Commitment to Culture
Diversity ≠ charity; it’s creative fuel. We celebrate “difference drives over concept” for both us and our clients—front and centre in who we are.
Commitment to You
- Employs equal opportunity principles. No barriers—Holmes, creatives of all backgrounds—skilled and benefit from this diversity.
- Flexibility is standard: If you need a different working arrangement, we’ll accommodate.
Get in touch—and let’s make disruption possible.
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