Manager, Media Investment

About WPP Media

WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands. With exceptional talent, trusted data and intelligence, and world-class partnerships – all united by our pioneering agentic marketing platform, WPP Open – we help clients navigate change, capture opportunity, and deliver transformational growth. 

WPP Media is WPP's AI-driven media operating unit, bringing together media, data, and partnerships to deliver creative personalisation at scale. Connected through WPP Open and powered by Open Intelligence, clients see exactly where, how, and why their media investment is working.

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1625 - Manager, Media Investment

About WPP Media

WPP is the creative transformation company. We use the power of creativity to build better futures for our people, planet, clients and communities. For more information, visit wpp.com.

WPP Media is WPP’s global media collective. In a world where media is everywhere and in everything, we bring the best platform, people, and partners together to create limitless opportunities for growth. For more information, visit wppmedia.com

About Mindshare: A Leading WPP Media Brand

Mindshare delivers Good Growth for its clients. As “Growth Architects," we drive growth that benefits all stakeholders — better for people, planet, and business — by using media with intention. This approach creates more meaningful connections with consumers, increases consumer trust in the brand, and delivers better outcomes for all stakeholders.

Role Summary and Impact

This role sits within Mindshare’s Unite global media team, dedicated to servicing Unilever, one of the world’s largest advertisers. Based in London and integrated within Mindshare Global HQ.

The London Unite team (60+ people) operates across specialist Centres of Excellence, supporting best practice media planning, investment, digital operations, data management and reporting for Unilever in 80+ countries.

The Media Investment Manager sits within the Media Excellence team and is responsible for the day-to-day management of Unilever’s global media budget setting programme. This includes supporting brand and campaign budget planning, assisting the Media Investment Director with wider investment responsibilities, and delivering training and tool access to local teams across multiple agency partners.

This is a full-time role based in Mindshare’s central London office, fully dedicated to the global Unilever account.

Responsibilities

• Roll out the annual budget setting process, including:

• Support, with the ambition to run trainings for all agencies, Unilever media clients and other functions

• Manage the delivery on time and accurately of cost databases

• Budget setting data management throughout the year: maintain, analyse and interpret data in order to provide valuable insights to budget setting process

• Ongoing point of contact for local teams

• Understand and translate client adhoc requirements to create and deliver informative, well-organised presentations and reports

• Ensure consistency with other reporting tools and requirements (media plan and budget setting monthly data delivery to client platforms)

• Owning new user requests and managing local market access issues with Tech Support Team

• Working closely with Data Quality Team to support monthly data checks

Skills and Experience

At WPP Media, we believe in the power of our culture and our people. It’s what elevates us to deliver exceptional experiences for both our clients and each other. In this role it will be critical to embrace WPP & WPP Media’s shared core values:

• Be Extraordinary by Leading Collectively to Inspire transformational Creativity.

• Create an Open environment by Balancing People and Client Experiences by Cultivating Trust.

• Lead Optimistically by Championing Growth and Development to Mobilize the Enterprise.

The ideal candidate has strong data management, reporting and analytical skills, alongside basic media knowledge and solid project management experience. They are confident presenting to large groups and capable of managing and resolving user queries.

They bring a positive, adaptable mindset, work well under pressure, and demonstrate excellent organisation, communication and attention to detail. Strong numeracy skills and a genuine interest in working with data are essential.

A passion for accuracy and process implementation is key, as is the confidence to support 80+ local teams and regularly share updates with the wider Centre of Excellence team.

Essential Criteria

• Dynamic self-motivated team-player who approaches challenges in a proactive and flexible manner

• Advanced Excel skills (ability to build Pivot tables, SumIfs, Named Ranges, Lookups, Filters) is a must

• Power point skills and confident delivering training materials

• Extreme attention to detail and thoroughness

• Strong spoken and written communication skills are needed for this role

• Basic media and marketing knowledge at either global or local level

• Proven data coordination, management, manipulation and visualisation skills

Desirable Criteria

• Project management skills

• Experience gathering data and managing large scale data outputs in excel

Econometrics and analytics experience

Life at WPP Media & Benefits

Our passion for shaping the next era of media includes investing in our employees to help them do their best work, and we’re just as committed to employee growth as we are to responsible media investment. WPP Media employees can tap into the global WPP Media & WPP networks to pursue their passions, grow their networks, and learn at the cutting edge of marketing and advertising. We have a variety of employee resource groups and host frequent in-office events showcasing team wins, sharing thought leadership, and celebrating holidays and milestone events. Our benefits include competitive medical, group retirement plans, vision, and dental insurance, significant paid time off, preferential partner discounts, and employee mental health awareness days.

WPP Media is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without discrimination or regard to particular characteristics. We are committed to fostering a culture of respect in which everyone feels they belong and has the same opportunities to progress in their careers.

We believe the best work happens when we're together, fostering creativity, collaboration, and connection. That's why we’ve adopted a hybrid approach, with teams in the office around four days a week. If you require accommodations or flexibility, please discuss this with the hiring team during the interview process.

Please note this is a UK based role and requires individuals to have the right to work in this location

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