Associate Consultant (Digital, SME)

The Opportunity

An exciting opportunity has become available to be part of our fast-growing team and to be a key part of the Client Services function. This role provides an outstanding opportunity to join a growing global integrated marketing advisory and will provide an ambitious individual with valuable experience for progression and development.

The Company

mediasense is a global, independent advisor that brings the clarity, connection and confidence modern marketers need to fuel growth. We help marketers eliminate waste and maximize the impact of their most significant investments at scale. Our ambition is to define and own an entirely new category – recognized as the world’s most trusted, independent and impactful marketing advisor. We do this by elevating how clients operate, how agencies deliver, how platforms perform, and how all parts of the ecosystem connect. Because progress doesn’t happen in isolation, it takes alignment, intelligence, and trust. That’s what we enable. That’s what we stand for. That’s Unified Marketing Intelligence.

mediasense is designed around how we help marketers optimize and transform through best-in-class structure and governance (Organization), partners and platforms (Ecosystem), governance and controls (Assurance), and measurement and effectiveness (Science). We have the proven ability to effectively support large, complex organizations and deliver multiple projects simultaneously. As evidenced through our strong track record with clients, we pride ourselves on the consistent high quality of service delivery and the ability to accelerate transformation and growth.

mediasense has over 200 employees across London, New York, Singapore and New Delhi.
For more information, visit www.media-sense.com

The Role

This role is for a Associate Consultant (Digital), based in London.

mediasense are looking for an Associate Consultant to support Digital Practice in the delivery of high-quality digital audit and pitch services to clients. It is a thriving area as clients continually seek greater support as they navigate through an increasingly complex landscape.

The role itself will involve a range of activities including:

• Working as part of project teams to deliver our two main digital audit products (DiPA Diagnostic and DiPA Tracking) and pitch management services for our clients.


• In depth analysis and evaluation of digital media campaigns providing supporting observations, insights and recommendations to drive improvements in the efficiency and effectiveness of the delivery.


• Working with visualizations of client data to identify key performance trends and data signals.


• Tracking agency pitch commitments to clients through both quantitative and qualitative digital checks.


• Leading communication with agencies to ensure projects are set up to succeed, establishing project timelines and ways of working and ensuring all parties are held to account on these agreements.


• Supporting pitch management projects to help clients evaluate agency digital capabilities, propositions, process submissions and commercial offerings.


• Providing on-going knowledge updates to internal teams on current and emerging digital media practices.


• Managing, mentoring and training Senior Analysts and Analysts on projects to deliver our digital audit products to a high standard.


• Engaging with clients to confidently present and articulate our digital audit outputs
  
  

The Candidate

You are a media professional with digital media experience from a media agency, ad-tech, consultancy, client side or similar. You have great knowledge of key market channels such as Programmatic, Paid Search, Paid Social, Retail etc. You are enthusiastic about keeping up to date with developments in media and marketing. You have strong analytical skills and are able to interrogate data to derive insights for stakeholders. You are naturally inquisitive with a desire to help drive better outcomes for your clients.

The ideal candidate will have the following:

• A minimum of 4 years’ digital media experience with specific expertise in ideally more than one of the following channels: Programmatic, Paid Search, Paid Social, Retail, Digital Planning.


• Experience working in or assessing raw data taken from specific digital platforms (e.g. DV360, Google Ads/SA360, Meta Business Manager, Amazon Ads Manager, verification tools etc.)


• Strong analytics capabilities for extracting insight from complex data sources.


• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.


• Excellent organization skills with strong attention to detail.


• Experience working with clients from various sectors and markets and complex organizations.


• A self-starter with a sense of autonomy and initiative, who is also able to work well independently and in cross-functional teams.


• The ability to prioritize across a variety of projects.


• A positive and proactive attitude to find solutions to problems, constructively balancing speed and quality to deliver.


• Strong project management skills with the ability to lead workstreams from start to completion.


• A passion and enthusiasm for media, for making a change in our industry (you will be joining the team who pioneered the ISBA supply chain transparency study) and for delivering great work for clients.


• Demonstrate core mediasense values: curious minds, courageous hearts; stronger together, smarter together; do the right thing, always; and raise the bar, then raise it again.
  
  

The following are preferable, but training will be provided:

• Experience with the data visualisation tool Tableau.


• Experience with Alteryx.

What We Offer

• Hybrid working


• 28 days holiday per year, up to a maximum of 32 days


• Work from any location in the world up to 4 weeks per year


• 10 days Annual Leave Purchase per year


• Day off for your birthday


• Company bonus scheme


• Pension


• Private Healthcare


• Employee Assistance programme


• Group Life insurance


• Annual season ticket loan


• Cycle to work scheme


• Eye test & contribution towards glasses for VDU


• Employee Referral Bonus


• New Business Bonus