Media Associate EMEA

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The Opportunity

Supporting the Associate Manager, Regional Media, this role is responsible for coordinating integrated media planning and campaign delivery across multiple EMEA markets. As part of the Regional Media team, this position acts as the connective tissue between Global and Regional strategy, agency delivery, and market-level execution, ensuring campaigns are delivered accurately, efficiently and consistently across markets while maintaining alignment with the Global media strategy. Acting as one of the key regional points of contact between internal stakeholders, local market teams and agency partners, the role is responsible for coordinating complex workstreams, managing multiple stakeholder relationships and ensuring effective collaboration across the region. This role is perfectly suited to someone with previous account management or integrated media planning experience within a media agency or in-house media team who enjoys managing complexity, keeping multiple projects on track and turning information from across markets into clear regional recommendations and actionable learnings.

Responsibilities

Support the coordinate execution of approved global and regional media strategies across multiple markets within the region.; Help to ensure consistency of execution, pacing, and quality across markets, channels, and campaigns.; Part of the primary regional point of coordination for execution‑related questions, escalations, and dependencies.; Work with local media agency teams to ensure execution aligns with approved strategy, governance standards, and timelines.; Supports overseeing the execution readiness across markets, including inputs, trafficking dependencies, and delivery requirements.; Helps with the identification of executional risks, gaps, or inefficiencies and coordinate corrective actions.; Helps to agencies are operating within scope, quality expectations, and regional processes.; Monitor execution status, pacing, and performance signals across markets.; Support in‑flight optimization coordination, ensuring adjustments are aligned with strategy and escalated appropriately.; Ensure accurate and timely reporting inputs from markets to support regional and global visibility.; Work with with Media Operations, Analytics, and Finance to maintain execution discipline and transparency.; Coordinate across markets to align on shared learnings, execution improvements, and best practices.; Support regional planning cycles, tentpoles, and high‑complexity launches through.; Help with the onboarding of new markets, agencies, or processes as part of global transformation initiatives.

Requirements

Previous experience in an Account Management, Client Services or Integrated Media Planning role within a media agency or in-house media team.; Experience supporting integrated, multi-channel media campaigns.; Strong organisational and project coordination skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities.; Confident building relationships with internal stakeholders, agency partners and market teams.; Excellent communication skills and the ability to distil information into clear recommendations and learnings.; Understanding of the EMEA media landscape or experience working within one or more EMEA markets is advantageous.

Benefits

Gross annual salary range of GBP 37,440 - GBP 44,460; Bonus scheme: Participation in Mattel Incentive Plan (MIP) with the target of 5 % of base salary, payout is determined by company and individual performance results; Paid time off: 25 vacation days (with option to buy up to 5 extra days) + 2 volunteer days/year + a day off on your birthday!; Cycle to work scheme; Employee assistance program: Access to Help@Hand (Unum), Modern Health, Headspace, and Maven; Contributory pension scheme; Private health insurance; Dental insurance & dental service app; Life & disability insurance; Employee discount program "Be well at Mattel"; Mattel products discounts; Family benefits program: 24 weeks off (for 1st caregiver) or 12 weeks off (for co-parent) fully paid on the arrival of new child, return to work program, path to parenthood, and family care leave