Digital Media Trading Lead Full Time NEW

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Marketing Excellence

Marketing is at the heart of Reckitt. We pride ourselves on our unique way of driving growth for some of the world’s most loved and trusted health, hygiene and nutrition brands. Our purpose and fight are what motivates us to design and deliver distinctive communications throughout our consumer funnel, so that we deliver category growth as well as a positive impact on society. With extensive media and digital teams embedded throughout the organisation, we measure both our business and our societal impact. Our global teams lead on our overarching brand strategy, brand guardianship and innovation pipeline in close partnership with R&D. Leaving our local marketing teams to deliver on our regional goals in partnership with our Sales teams. With the scale of our 2500 marketing community – alongside our leading-edge Marketing Academy – your opportunities to grow and upskill will be extensive.

About The Role

The Digital Trading Lead plays a pivotal role in overseeing our digital media trading operations across campaign activation planning & buying in-platform. As the senior lead, you will be responsible for ensuring that all campaigns activated in-platform follow Reckitt’s media governance processes & agreed ways of working.

Acting as the primary operational lead for activation within Applied Media Science (AMS) – the Digital Trading Lead oversees the executional output delivered through our activation model and external partners. The focus is on operational excellence, delivery quality, and consistency at scale across markets, ensuring all activity aligns with Reckitt’s global media governance standards and agreed ways of working.

You will be responsible for managing the overall workload of the team, helping to assign campaigns to digital traders & identifying where additional resources will be needed to support.

The Team:

The Applied Media Science (AMS) team works closely with both external partners & internal teams to ensure Reckitt’s campaigns are activated with excellence in-platform.

Reporting directly to the Head of Digital Trading – you will be responsible for managing a team of Associate Digital Media Managers, streamlining activation processes while embedding platform best practices across AMS operations.

Your responsibilities

• Oversee the execution of digital media buying across AMS
• Act as the primary operational escalation point for AMS activation, addressing delivery risks, performance concerns, platform challenges, and scope clarification.
• Promote a unified approach to campaign planning, activation & optimization
• Ensure all media trading activities comply with industry regulations & ethical standards
• Manage relationships with activation and trading partners, holding them accountable for delivery quality, timelines, and agreed outputs.
• Champion and scale automation within biddable platforms, partnering with internal and external teams to improve efficiency, consistency, and delivery quality
• Deploy key Reckitt tools & Global DDMM Programs across the AMS campaign workflow
• Assign campaigns to the Digital Associates to activate in-platform, helping to coordinate & distribute workload across the team
• Foster a collaborative environment, encouraging innovation & continuous improvement
• Conduct regular performance reviews and provide constructive feedback
• Support the Head of Trading in the development of content for business QBRs
• Lead ongoing platform upskilling across the AMS activation team, ensuring the latest best practices and platform updates are consistently adopted.

The experience we’re looking for

• Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Business, or a related field
• Minimum of 7 years’ experience in digital media buying/planning, with at least 2 years in a leadership role
• Strong understanding of the digital media ecosystem & operating biddable platforms with hands on experience.
• Experience working & presenting to senior stakeholders
• Proven experience driving process improvement, operational scale, or automation initiatives in the digital environment.
• Having worked on key projects/tasks that involved developing, implementing & scaling process improvements across media workflows

The skills for success

• Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills
• Highly organized with the ability to prioritize tasks & team workload
• Ability to problem solve & lead through times of ambiguity
• Willingness to take ownership, drive accountability across the team
• Fostering a collaborative environment for the team to contribute new ideas
• Remaining hyper focused & guiding the team on meeting their key deliverables
• Ability to manage-up, set realistic expectations & hold each team member accountable
• Highly resourceful individual who seeks out support & can anticipate future problems
• Can-do attitude that offers solutions to problems with clear & concise actions
• Good proficiency in using Excel & PowerPoint

What we offer

With inclusion at the heart of everything we do, working alongside our four global Employee Resource Groups, we support our people at every step of their career journey, helping them to succeed in their own individual way. We invest in the wellbeing of our people through parental benefits, an Employee Assistance Program to promote mental health, and life insurance for all employees globally. We have a range of other benefits in line with the local market. Through our global share plans we offer the opportunity to save and share in Reckitt’s potential future successes. For eligible roles, we also offer short-term incentives to recognise, appreciate and reward your work for delivering outstanding results. You will be rewarded in line with Reckitt’s pay for performance philosophy.

Equality

We recognise that in real life, great people don’t always ‘tick all the boxes’. That’s why we hire for potential as well as experience. Even if you don’t meet every point on the job description, if this role and our company feels like a good fit for you, we still want to hear from you. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, disability or medical condition; colour, ethnicity, race, citizenship, and national origin; religion, faith; pregnancy, family status and caring responsibilities; sexual orientation; sex, gender identity, gender expression, and transgender identity; protected veteran status; size or any other basis protected by appropriate law.