About the Role
The Digital Media Manager will be responsible for the day-to-day management of digital campaigns across Biddable, Paid Social & Display, ensuring strong delivery across planning, activation and reporting. This role combines hands-on campaign management with growing ownership of client relationships, campaign performance, and commercial accountability.
Responsibilities
- Manage the day-to-day running of digital media accounts, ensuring accuracy across planning, activation and reporting.
- Work with Digital Directors to strategize, plan, and report on client campaigns.
- Oversee campaign execution across multiple clients, working closely with Digital Media Executives to deliver activity on time and to a high standard.
- Maintain accurate and up-to-date media plans and schedules, reflecting live campaign activity.
- Ensure reporting is delivered to deadlines, with clear and actionable performance insights.
- Responsible for day-to-day management of Digital Media accounts including client communication, planning and accuracy across activation and reporting.
- Presenting paid media strategy in client meetings, making recommendations on the best practical strategies to put in place.
- Managing monthly client reviews - providing insights on campaign performance.
- Demonstrate confidence and clarity in communicating with the team, clients and media owners.
- Take ownership of campaign budget management, including bookings, pacing and billing processes.
- Monitor performance and identify opportunities to optimise campaigns and improve results.
- Lead monthly campaign reviews, providing insight-driven recommendations.
- Ensure campaigns are delivered in a commercially effective and efficient way.
- Stay up to date with developments in the digital media landscape and identify relevant opportunities for clients.
- Test and implement new approaches, platforms or formats where appropriate.
- Support and collaborate with junior team members, including line management responsibility following probation.
- Demonstrate a positive, proactive and professional approach within the Digital and wider Media team.
Requirements
- Strong understanding of the role of digital media within the wider marketing mix.
- 2+ years’ experience in digital media (Paid Social / Biddable / Programmatic /Managed Service).
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
- Ability to manage multiple campaigns and priorities simultaneously.
- Proactive mindset with a willingness to learn and develop.
- Experience using reporting tools such as Google Analytics.
- Interest in broader media channels and cross-channel planning.
- Interest in arts, culture or the entertainment sector.
Skills
- Digital Media Management
- Campaign Planning
- Campaign Activation
- Reporting
- Client Relationship Management
- Budget Management
- Performance Optimization
- Paid Social
- Biddable Media
- Programmatic Advertising
- Google Analytics
Location
- London, UK
Work Type
- Fully flexible working
Experience Level
- 2+ years
Benefits
- Fully flexible working
- 25 days annual leave + bank holidays (rising to 31)
- Free theatre tickets
- Lifeworks EAP scheme
- Season ticket travel loan
- Enhanced parental leave
- Death in service life insurance
- Ride to work scheme
About the Company
- AKA is one of the world’s most successful entertainment marketing agencies, delivering full-service advertising and marketing across theatre, live entertainment, film, music, museums, galleries, events and attractions.
- We work with some of the UK’s leading cultural and commercial organisations.
