Associate Consultant (Digital Paid Search)

An exciting opportunity has become available to be part of our fast-growing team and to be a key part of the Analytics Services function as a Digital Associate Consultant SME (Subject Matter Expert). 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 300 employees across London, New York, Singapore and New Delhi.

For more information, visit  www.media-sense.com

What We Offer

At mediasense, we believe great work happens when people feel supported, empowered, and connected. Alongside some of our benefits, we invest heavily in wellbeing, flexibility, learning, and creating a genuinely inclusive workplace where people can thrive.

Flexibility & Time Away:

- Hybrid Working Model

- Work from Anywhere in the World- for up to 4 weeks per year

- 28 days' Annual Leave + Bank Holidays, with additional leave awarded through length of service

- Birthday Day Off + Voucher

- Option to Purchase up to 10 Additional days of Annual Leave (per year)

- Enhanced Parental Leave Policies

Financial Benefits:

- Bonus Schemes- Discretionary Bonus, New Business & Employee Referral

- Pension Scheme

- Group Life Insurance

- Season Ticket Loan

- Cycle to Work Scheme

- Tech & Lifestyle Savings Scheme

- Length of Service Awards

Health & Wellbeing:

- Private Healthcare

- Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)

- Eye Care Support- including contributions towards glasses for VDU users

- Mental Health First Aiders & Wellbeing Initiatives

Learning & Development:

- Ongoing Learning & Development Opportunities

- Access to Internal & External Training

- Career Development Support & Mentoring

- Regular Knowledge-sharing Sessions & Industry events / Lunch & Learns

- Mentorship & Buddy Systems

Office & Social Perks:

- Free Gym Membership at FORA & Wellbeing Classes

- Complimentary Events- such as professional headshots, cookery classes and cocktail-making workshops, book clubs etc

- Dog-Friendly Office

- Free Fruit, Snacks and Refreshments

- Regular Complimentary Breakfasts, Lunches and Treats

- Summer & Winter Celebrations, plus frequent Team Socials & biweekly Thursday office socials

- Access to Building-Wide Discounts

Community & Culture:

We place a strong emphasis on community, inclusion and belonging through a range of employee-led initiatives, social events & support networks.

- Sense of Balance Group – championing gender equality, parenting & caregiving support

- Neurodiversity (ND Sense) Network : raising awareness & supporting neurodivergent colleagues

- Pride Network : promoting LGBTQ+ inclusion and allyship

- Mental Health & Wellbeing Community : supporting positive wellbeing conversations and initiatives and championing diversity events

- Charity & Community Group : driving volunteering, fundraising & social impact opportunities

The Role

mediasense are looking for an Associate Consultant to support the Digital Practice in the delivery of high-quality 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 operates on a hybrid working pattern from our London office, with an expectation for attendance at least three days per week, including Tuesday, the Services Department's designated anchor day.

In this role, your key responsibilities will vary as we work on a project basis, problem-solving for clients on many different types of projects.

Examples of day-to-day work may include:

- 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 visualisations 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 experience across digital media, gained within a media agency, AdTech business, consultancy, client-side organisation, or a similar environment. You have a strong understanding of key channels, including Programmatic, Paid Search, Paid Social and Retail Media, and are passionate about staying ahead of industry trends and developments.

Combining strong analytical skills with a naturally curious mindset, you are comfortable interrogating data, uncovering meaningful insights, and translating them into clear recommendations for stakeholders. You are driven by solving challenges, building strong client relationships, and delivering better business outcomes through data-led decision making.

The ideal candidate will have the following:

- A minimum of 3 years’ digital media experience with specific expertise in Paid Search (if you have experience in another channel too then that is a bonus).

- Experience working in or assessing raw data taken from specific digital platforms (e.g. Google Ads/SA360, Microsoft Ads etc.)

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

- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.

- Excellent organisation skills with strong attention to detail.

- Experience working with clients from various sectors and markets and complex organisations.

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

- The ability to prioritise 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.

The following are preferable, but training will be provided:

- Experience with the data visualisation tool Tableau.

- Experience with Alteryx.