Media Manager

- Lead integrated media campaigns and drive strategic innovation
- Permanent, newly created full-time role
- Hybrid working based with WFH flexibility

We are Woolworths Group

We are Woolworths Group. 200,000+ bright minds, passionate hearts, and unique perspectives across Australia and New Zealand. Connected by a shared Purpose - 'to create better experiences together for a better tomorrow'. That Purpose fuels our ambition to explore new ideas, make brave commitments, and innovate better ways to meet the food and everyday needs of more than 24 million customers every week.

If you're excited to turn today's blue-sky thinking into a better tomorrow for future generations, you'll find yourself supported and enriched in a dynamic, inclusive, and empowering workplace. With a culture of genuine care, a flexible approach to work, and opportunities across the group to grow your career and make a meaningful impact, the possibilities for what we can achieve together are endless.

What you’ll do

This newly created role is designed for a seasoned media expert who thrives on strategic challenges and will join our dynamic Group Media team within the Brand & Marketing division. In this role you will take responsibility for end to end media strategies, and implementation, autonomously orchestrating complex, end-to-end campaign planning across both paid and owned media channels to deliver outstanding business results.

- Lead and orchestrate complex, integrated communications and media responses across paid and owned channels for major programs, ensuring high-quality execution while keeping leadership aligned on progress.
- Collaborate directly with senior business and marketing leaders to shape media requirements from the initial brief, maintaining strict financial governance over a substantial multi-million dollar annual budget allocation.
- Proactively analyse performance trends and identify early strategic risks, crafting tailored, custom media solutions to successfully navigate non-standard campaign and planning challenges.
- Supervise planner deliverables to elevate work quality, while embedding team-wide marketing technology processes, taxonomy standards, and procurement systems to drive consistency and operational efficiency across the practice.
- Full E2E ownership of media performance and reporting on their category’s performance.

What you’ll bring

To succeed you will bring a highly analytical mindset. You are a self-starter who takes the lead and thrives when solving complex problems and building operational capabilities in ambiguous situations.

- 5 to 10 years of experience dealing with complex media situations and advising stakeholders, with a strong background in media planning and account service/leadership.
- Demonstrated experience coordinating cross-functional projects, managing planning horizons, and supervising tasks to deliver successful integrated campaigns.
- Strong commercial acumen with a proven track record of managing and optimising multi-million dollar media investments with tight financial oversight and risk management.
- Expert stakeholder management and communication skills with the ability to influence and develop peer and stakeholder behaviors across both internal teams and external partners.

What you’ll experience

We embrace diversity of thought and love to take on challenges with a pragmatic and innovative approach. Our culture thrives on mutual respect, care, curiosity, openness, and a proactive attitude. We continually seek ways to pair, collaborate, support, and learn from each other as a team!

- A global business with endless career possibilities around every corner and across every discipline – with valuable exposure to a vast and exciting business network
- Commitment to flexibility through a hybrid working model which combines time spent at a support office or hub and time working from home, supporting both in-person connection and balancing the flexibility that remote working provides for our teams
- A progressive and competitive leave policy that gives you more space for what matters to you, including but not limited to Study Leave and Sports Representation Leave
- Team discounts across our range of Woolworths Group brands you know and love and a robust rewards program that celebrates and incentivises purpose-driven work

Apply now! Applications close Friday 2nd October, 2026.

Everyone belongs at Woolworths Group

Diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging are key to realising our purpose of better together for a better tomorrow. We recognise the value our team’s diversity brings to our business, customers, and communities and that teams with diverse experiences and backgrounds enrich our group and are better able to innovate and solve problems. As one of the largest employers in Australia and New Zealand, we aim to create a truly inclusive workplace where everyone feels that they belong, can be their best selves, and reach their full potential.

We encourage all candidates to apply; please let us know in your application if we can support you with any adjustments in the hiring process.

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