Media Manager (Fixed Term Contract)

We’re The Leith Agency - Scotland’s leading creative agency. We’re a bunch of creative minded, content-loving people. We have offices in Edinburgh and Manchester. Established in 1984 on the docks of Edinburgh, Leith has come a long way from its ad agency roots, the business now delivers its trademark bold ideas through advertising and design, digital, experiences, social and health. For this role your focus will be Advertising, Social and Design working with a bunch of incredible clients, including Network Rail, Glen’s Vodka, ScotRail, National Trust for Scotland and East Midlands Railway to name but a few.

Leith is part of Lumanity, a global 1200 strong consultancy group that delivers its services from an office network in the UK, Europe, USA, and Asia, with hub offices in New York, Boston, Philadelphia, London, Edinburgh, and Utrecht.

We are seeking a detail-oriented Media Manager for a 6 month contract role to support client media campaigns. The Media Manager will plan, activate, monitor and optimise multi-market paid media campaigns across platforms including Meta, LinkedIn, YouTube, CTV, programmatic display and audio, as well as liaise with key media suppliers that will aid in the activation process of the project. 

Key duties include:

Planning & Implementation

• Support the rollout of multi-market media campaigns across European and International markets
• Build media plans based on performance data, platform insights, and strategic direction
• Liaise with media partners to coordinate platform- and country-specific activation
• Adapt plans and creative formats per market in coordination with strategy and creative teams

Activation & Monitoring

• Lead or support trafficking across Meta, LinkedIn, Google DV360, YouTube, and CTV platforms
• Monitor pacing, performance, and audience delivery - flagging optimisations in real time
• Coordinate campaign localisation, including translated assets, tracking, and platform QA 

Reporting & Insights

• Pull and interpret platform data for check-ins and mid/post-campaign reports
• Help visualise results with clarity, extracting insights that shape campaign recommendations
• Collaborate with strategy to feed performance findings into creative development and next-phase planning

The ideal candidate will be detail-oriented, confident in managing multiple workstreams, and bring experience in cross-channel digital campaign delivery and reporting.

• Around 2 years’ experience in a paid media / digital performance role
• Confident in hands-on platforms, ideally Meta, LinkedIn, YouTube, DV360/CM360
• Can build and manage media plans and knows how to structure activity across channels
• Good with data, optimisation, and pacing - spotting issues and jumping in to fix them
• Strong on reporting, both in pulling data and turning it into insights
• Used to managing multi-market campaigns or adapting activity across markets/languages
• Solid communicator and able to work quickly and calmly across teams (creative, strategy, media partners, etc.)