We’re looking for a Digital Media Lead to join our International Paid Searhch team, working on our Third Party marketplaces channel. Based from NEXT Head Office in Enderby, Leicestershire!
The Role:
As a Digital Media Lead in Paid Search, you will act as the driving force behind our third party retail media strategy within the eCommerce department, reporting directly to the Digital Media Manager. In this pivotal role, you will develop and deliver high impact campaigns across major marketplace platforms, including Amazon, Zalando, About You, and Otto, to generate incremental revenue and maximize profitability.
Leveraging your extensive experience in managing large scale, high budget paid search accounts or retail media activations, you will deploy your deep technical knowledge and results oriented mindset to work accurately at pace. Additionally, you will collaborate closely with our media agencies and marketplace partners while leading a dedicated team to deliver exceptional, fast paced and precise campaign performance.
What You’ll Take On:
- Plan, build, and execute highly profitable performance campaigns in collaboration with key internal stakeholders.
- Implement effective strategies to maximize product visibility, improve search rankings, and drive high-intent traffic to product listings across multiple third-party platforms.
- Oversee daily activity and collaborate with partner agencies and the in-house team to continuously optimize campaign performance.
- Manage, mentor and develop a high-performing team of 4 digital media professionals.
- Cultivate and direct the relationships with our media agency and key marketplace partners.
- Partner with the wider marketing and commercial trading teams to ensure retail media activity supports broader business goals.
- Manage comprehensive performance reporting for all third-party channels. Regularly present key findings, insights and strategic recommendations to the wider business.
- Working closely with marketplace partners to identify, test and scale new opportunities.
- Stay up to date with the rapidly evolving retail media landscape and industry best practices.
What You’ll Bring:
- Proven extensive experience in digital performance media, with a minimum of 3 years specifically in retail media or paid search.
- Proven track record of planning, optimising, and managing large scale performance digital media activations with significant budgets.
- Extensive experience successfully managing external partners and media agency relationships.
- Strong numeracy and advanced Excel skills; highly logical with a natural aptitude for data and problem solving.
- A highly collaborative individual who works exceptionally well as part of a wider team.
- Experience managing multi-language or multi-region campaigns is a distinct advantage.
- Experience of working with Amazon in a paid search / retail media capacity is highly desirable.
You know Next, but did you know we’re a FTSE-100 retail company employing over 44,000 people across the Next group. We’re the UK’s 2nd largest fashion retailer and for Kidswear we’re the market leader. At the last count we have over 450 stores, plus the Next Online and it’s now possible to buy on-line from over 80 countries around the world! So we’ve gone global!
- 25% off most NEXT, MADE*, Lipsy*, Gap* and Victoria's Secret* products (*when purchased through NEXT)
- Company performance based bonus
- Sharesave scheme
- On-site Nursery available; OFSTED outstanding in all areas
- 10% off most partner brands & up to 15% off Branded Beauty
- Early VIP access to sale stock
- Access to fantastic discounts at our Staff Shops
- Restaurants with great food at amazing prices
- Access a digital GP and other free health and wellbeing services
- Free on-site parking
- Financial Wellbeing - Save, track and enhance your financial wellbeing
- Apprenticeship - Grow and develop on the job whilst gaining a qualification
- Direct to Work - Discount online and instore, collect your items the next day for free from your place of work or local store
- Support Networks - Access to Network Groups to empower and celebrate each other
- Wellhub - Discounted flexible monthly gym memberships, with apps, PT sessions and more
Conditions apply to all benefits. These benefits are discretionary and subject to change.
We aim to support all candidates during the application process and are happy to provide workplace adjustments when necessary. Should you need support with your application due to a disability or long-term condition, feel free to get in touch with us by email headoffice_careers@next.co.uk (please include 'Workplace Adjustments' in the subject line), or call us on 0116 284 2486 and leave a voicemail.
