Job Description:

Job Title: Senior Media Planner Buyer - 12-Month Maternity Cover

Location: London - hybrid

Hours: Full time, Fixed-Term

Plan smarter. Buy better. Lead the team. Make an impact.

We're looking for a Senior Media Planner Buyer to join our Paid Media & Performance team in London on a 12-month maternity cover contract.

The Role

This is an opportunity to step into a senior role where you'll do much more than execute media plans. You'll help shape strategy, influence decisions, lead and develop a small team, and deliver campaigns that make a genuine difference to how organisations attract talent.

Working across UK and international campaigns, you'll turn client objectives, audience insight and media intelligence into effective campaigns across digital, social, search, recruitment media and beyond.

You'll be:

• Developing strategic media plans and recommendations
• Negotiating with media partners to secure the best rates and added value
• Using campaign data and insight to optimise performance
• Building trusted relationships with clients, suppliers and internal teams
• Providing day-to-day leadership, coaching and support to the media team
• Managing and developing team members, helping them grow their skills and deliver their best work
• Keeping us ahead of the latest media platforms, products and innovations
• Playing a key role in pitches and new business
• Sharing your expertise and supporting the wider team

Who we're looking for

You'll bring significant media planning and buying experience, ideally within recruitment, employer brand or talent marketing. You'll be commercially minded, highly organised and confident enough to challenge, negotiate and get stuck in.

You'll also be a natural people leader — someone who enjoys bringing out the best in others, creating clarity and momentum, and balancing hands-on delivery with supporting your team.

Why join us?

You'll be working at the intersection of media, creativity, data, technology and talent, alongside an award-winning team delivering work for major employers across the UK and internationally.

We're client-first, innovation-focused and passionate about finding better ways to deliver results.

Ready for your next 12-month challenge?

Join us and help shape what next-generation recruitment marketing looks like.

Senior Media Planner Buyer | 12-Month Maternity Cover | London

What's in it for me?

As a PeopleScout employee, you're set to gain so much from being part of our team, including:

• Time off to rest, recover or conquer items on the bucket list through our 27 days holiday (+ 8 bank holidays, pro rata for part-time staff) and our holiday purchase benefit
• Great company paid benefits including private medical insurance*, health cash plan, life assurance, company pension and access to an Employee Assistance Programme
• Other great flexible benefits such as a TechScheme, free mortgage advice, help with travel costs plus more
• Look after your health and get cash back on your everyday healthcare costs with our flexible dental and cash plan benefits or grab some great discounts at your local gym
• A strong care for the community and planet with opportunities to give back and care for our environment with eco-friendly benefits like our cycle to work scheme
• Development plans with customised learning solutions, including tuition reimbursement and degree sponsorship
• A group of diverse, passionate people to socialise and build your career with

*available to people managers & senior professional roles

About us

TMP Worldwide deliver outstanding, award winning employer branding and recruitment communications. As well as this, we provide attraction, sourcing and candidate management solutions for both commercial and public sector recruitment. We believe that employer brand underpins the whole candidate experience through the hiring process. 

TMP is a part of PeopleScout, an industry award winner and leader in the development of best-in-class recruitment outsourcing.

We are an equal opportunities employer and positively encourage applications from persons regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity.

Next steps / Call to action

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