About the Role
The Senior Brand Media Manager, Demand Generation is accountable for owning and leading end‑to‑end brand media strategy across EMEAI, driving long‑term brand growth and sustained mental availability for the Coach brand. This role leads regional media planning, manages significant seasonal and annual media investments, and serves as the primary strategic point of contact for the media agency and key platform partners, shaping how the Coach brand shows up across paid media, partnerships, and customer touchpoints.
Responsibilities
- Own and lead EMEAI brand media strategy, spanning annual planning, long‑range vision, and seasonal execution
- Define channel architecture, audience strategy, and investment approach to build sustained mental availability and brand salience
- Lead long‑term planning across key Spring and Fall moments, ensuring continuity, effectiveness, and strategic intent
- Translate global brand frameworks into regionally relevant, culturally impactful media strategies
- Represent EMEAI brand media in forums, contributing to upstream planning and decision‑making
- Own double-digit regional brand media budgets, with accountability for allocation, pacing, optimisation, and effectiveness
- Make strategic investment decisions aligned to business priorities, brand strategy, and regional nuance
- Ensure robust governance across financial tracking, partner accountability, and ROI assessment
- Act as the senior regional point of contact for the EMEAI media agency, holding partners accountable for strategic quality, innovation, and delivery
- Lead relationships with key media and technology partners, including Google and priority media owners
- Influence partner roadmaps and unlock incremental value, innovation, and improved measurement
- Define success frameworks for brand media, ensuring clarity on effectiveness and long‑term brand impact
- Translate complex performance data and learning into clear insights and strategic recommendations for senior stakeholders
- Drive continuous improvement through structured test‑and‑learn agendas and optimisation of regional ways of working
- Lead and mentor the Media Assistant Manager, providing clear direction, coaching, and support to ensure strong regional campaign delivery
- Develop the Assistant Manager’s strategic capability across planning, optimisation, and insight generation, building confidence and autonomy at the next level
- Create a high‑performing, collaborative team dynamic, empowering the Assistant Manager to contribute ideas, recommendations, and ownership across brand media initiatives
- Acts as a vital consultant on high‑impact special projects beyond BAU, stepping in as a senior support and project lead to unblock complexity, drive cross‑functional initiatives, and deliver incremental value during moments of change, transition, or strategic importance
- Set standards and frameworks that improve efficiency, collaboration, and effectiveness across teams and partners
- Act as a senior cultural carrier for brand media excellence across EMEAI
Requirements
- 5+ years experience in brand media, integrated media strategy, or regional marketing leadership, ideally within fashion, luxury, or retail
- Proven ability to own regional or multi‑market media strategy and investment
- Demonstrated experience leading senior agency and platform relationships
- Strategic, commercially minded leader comfortable operating in a matrixed, global organisation
- Must possess the right to work in the UK
Skills
- Brand Marketing
- Digital platform capabilities (Google, Meta, Tiktok etc)
- Brand building
- Mental availability
- Full-funnel effectiveness
- Strategic planning
- Investment management
- Agency management
- Partner relationship management
- Performance analysis
- Insight generation
- Team leadership
- Cross-functional collaboration
Location
- UK
Work Type
- Hybrid working (3 days working from the office, 2 days remote)
Experience Level
- Senior
Benefits
- Option to finish early on a Friday (Flex Fridays)
- 1 Paid Volunteering Day per year and opportunities to volunteer with global projects
- Learning & Development opportunities
- Internal mobility & career progression
- Regular Social Events - Seasonal & Cultural
- Equity Inclusion & Diversity initiatives which include employee resource groups & regional inclusion council
- 25 days holiday in addition to bank holidays
- Annual Incentive Plan (company performance bonus)
- Multi brand discount up to 50% off – Coach and Kate Spade
- Private Healthcare with health assessment (Bupa)
- Bupa rewards - Financial wellbeing support and wellness discounts
- Private Dental Cover
- Free 24/7 support for family building, fertility and menopause with Maven
- Eyecare vouchers
- Employee Assistance Program
- Employer Pension Contribution
- Gym discount
- Interest free season ticket loan
- Cycle to work scheme
About the Company
- Coach is a global fashion house founded in New York in 1941. Inspired by the vision of Creative Director Stuart Vevers and the inclusive and courageous spirit of our hometown, we make beautiful things, crafted to last—for you to be yourself in.
- Coach is part of the Tapestry portfolio – a global house of brands committed to stretching what’s possible.
- A member of the Tapestry family, we are part of a global house of brands that has unwavering optimism and is committed to being innovative and wholly inclusive.
Equal Opportunity
- Tapestry is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer and we pride ourselves on hiring and developing the best people. All employment decisions (including recruitment, hiring, promotion, compensation, transfer, training, discipline and termination) are based on the applicant’s or employee’s qualifications as they relate to the requirements of the position under consideration. These decisions are made without regard to age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic characteristics, race, color, creed, religion, ethnicity, national origin, alienage, citizenship, disability, marital status, military status, pregnancy, or any other legally-recognized protected basis prohibited by applicable law.
