Media Account Director

Salocin Group; Bath; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A strategic marketing firm based in Bath seeks a Media Account Director. You will manage media clients, develop business relationships, and lead offline media campaigns. The ideal candidate has 4-5 years' experience in media planning and buying, along with exceptional communication and strategic thinking skills. Enjoy a hybrid work environment with comprehensive employee benefits.

Benefits

Enhanced employer pension contributions

Life assurance

Wellness reward programmes

Private healthcare

Qualifications

• At least 4-5 years’ experience of planning and buying offline media.
• Exceptional time management skills.
• Strategic and lateral thinker who is creative in their approach.

Responsibilities

• Lead several accounts as the key contact, maintaining top class client service.
• Plan and buy offline media campaigns per clients’ strategies.
• Prepare for and attend client meetings, producing campaign results presentations.

Skills

Planning and buying offline media

Excellent communication skills

Creative problem solving

Time management skills

Strategic thinking

Tools

Nielsen

MediaTel

TGI

Job description

Overview

Salocin Group specialises in developing next-generation data platforms to help organisations make their data and technology future-ready. They offer strategic support for businesses aiming to enhance customer relationships, optimise tech use, and adapt to an AI-driven landscape. The Salocin Group is composed of several specialised companies that collaborate to deliver advanced data-driven marketing and customer engagement solutions, particularly for charities and commercial brands. The group includes Edit, Wood for Trees and Join the Dots.

Together, these companies embody Salocin’s mission to deliver impactful, data-centric solutions that deepen customer connections and support sustainable growth.

We are a B-Corp certified business, meaning we meet the highest verified standards of environmental performance, transparency and accountability. We’re also a proud member of Ecologi, allowing us to fund climate projects and carbon offset our people’s footprint.

Our benefits include enhanced employer pension contributions, life assurance, wellness reward programmes, critical illness cover, private healthcare, and many others. We embrace an environment that\'s fun, supportive, and nurtures curiosity, and provide a hybrid flexible working environment for our people.

We are inclusive and actively celebrate diversity, so welcome all applications regardless of age, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnerships or disability (please let us know if you require assistance at any stage to accommodate your needs by dropping an email to [e-mail] m ).

The Purpose of the Role

The role of Media Account Director is to manage and develop a roster of media clients, cultivate loyal and trusted business relationships with key client stakeholders, and work with the wider Join the Dots team to meet objectives and present innovative and effective strategies that drive results.

You will work closely with the team, evangelising about media internally and externally, helping to build our industry profile through thought leadership.

Responsibilities

• Lead several accounts being the key contact, both internally & externally, maintaining top class client service.
• Plan and buy offline media campaigns (press, inserts, door drop etc) as per clients’ strategies.
• Prepare for and attend regular client meetings, producing client presentations including campaign results, performance forecasting, manipulation, interpretation, and presentation of results with rationales and recommendations for future planning.
• Demonstrate exceptional negotiation skills, including a creative and innovative approach where appropriate.
• Assist with plan creation for new business opportunities
• Support and input into the strategic vision of the Join the Dots team.
• Have overall responsibility for account performance, growth, and financials
• Identify trends and pro-actively develop new opportunities, continuously look at ways of increasing margins by pro-actively pushing clients to test new opportunities and initiatives.
• Leverage supplier relationships to drive new opportunities.
• Develop and maintain exceptional supplier and client relationships, leading the wider media team to do the same. Leveraging supplier relationships to drive new opportunities

Experience and qualifications

• At least 4-5 years’ experience of planning and buying offline media (press, inserts, door drop, etc).
• Excellent communication skills, both in writing and verbally with people at all levels.
• Creative in problem solving and decision making, with a quick-thinking approach.
• Exceptional time management skills: ability to prioritise workload for yourself, anticipate blockers and make contingencies.
• Strategic and Lateral thinker who is creative in their approach to campaign planning.
• Experience in systems such as Nielsen, MediaTel, TGI.

The Recruitment Process

We will review all applications and reach out to arrange an informal 30-minute chat to talk about you and tell you more about Salocin Group.

This will be followed by a 2 nd stage interview with the Hiring Team. In some circumstances we will change the process to accommodate the type of role we are recruiting.

We like to keep it simple and aim to complete the process within a few weeks’ time. We will keep you updated throughout the process.

What you need to do next

Please note, you don’t have to have it all to be a great fit - you may even teach us something about what we should be looking for!

If you are passionate about this opportunity and great at what you do, then we would love to hear from you! Simply click the \"Apply\" button or for further information, contact our People Team on [e-mail] .