Senior Consultant (Digital) NEW

MediaSense
The Opportunity

An exciting opportunity has become available to be part of our fast-growing team and to be a key part of the Client Services function. This role provides an outstanding opportunity to join a growing global integrated marketing advisory and will provide an ambitious individual with valuable experience for progression and development.

The Company

mediasense is a global, independent advisor that brings the clarity, connection and confidence modern marketers need to fuel growth. We help marketers eliminate waste and maximize the impact of their most significant investments at scale. Our ambition is to define and own an entirely new category – recognized as the world’s most trusted, independent and impactful marketing advisor. We do this by elevating how clients operate, how agencies deliver, how platforms perform, and how all parts of the ecosystem connect. Because progress doesn’t happen in isolation, it takes alignment, intelligence, and trust. That’s what we enable. That’s what we stand for. That’s Unified Marketing Intelligence.

mediasense is designed around how we help marketers optimize and transform through best-in-class structure and governance (Organization), partners and platforms (Ecosystem), governance and controls (Assurance), and measurement and effectiveness (Science). We have the proven ability to effectively support large, complex organizations and deliver multiple projects simultaneously. As evidenced through our strong track record with clients, we pride ourselves on the consistent high quality of service delivery and the ability to accelerate transformation and growth.

mediasense has over 200 employees across London, New York, Singapore and New Delhi. For more information, visit

The Role

This role is for a Senior Consultant, based in London.

The role of Senior Consultant (Project Lead) is an important role within mediasense, as you will be a leader on digital client projects. The role will be sat in Digital Practice (within Client Services), which will focus on delivering best-in class solutions for mediasense clients across all digital pillars including Programmatic, Paid Social, Paid Search, Retail, Influencer and Ad Tech.

A Senior Consultant owns “what” we deliver to Clients from the Digital Practice to ensure that project execution follows and is in compliance with our standard methodologies and ways of working and that each project delivers measurable client value, operates efficiently, the deliverables are reflective of the new blueprints being produced within the organization and that the client service and deliverables are of high quality.

Working for a selection of clients as the digital subject matter expert and “account director”. In some instances, you will lead the project and project output, and in some cases, you will be feeding into more senior mediasense stakeholders.

The role itself will involve a range of activities including:

• Leading digital performance audit projects for clients across multiple markets; sharing your best trading practices and guiding teams on how to review data to deliver insights and opportunities that will drive efficiency and effectiveness in digital media buys. Review the quality of the deliverable and lead in presenting the report and stakeholder presentations.
• Playing a key role in global pitch projects to help clients evaluate agency digital capabilities, tech and data propositions and process submissions.
• Advising clients on their data and technology strategy including recommendations around technology selection, KPIs and deployment. You will also assess costs associated with tech partners and compare agency partnerships, rates and offers.
• Supporting clients and leading internal stakeholders on internal and external operating model assessments and the implementation of key change recommendations.
• Building out post pitch biddable and quality KPI tracking programmes for clients and managing teams in multiple markets to deliver and track savings.
• Working on Ad Tech projects for media owners and projects classified as digital bespoke services.
• New business development.

For your projects, you would need to:

• Support accurate project forecasting for resource allocation and timing.
• Monitor time-to deliver and utilization data.

Outside of your client’s responsibilities, we are looking for someone to help support and develop our Digital Practice capabilities and offering, including, but not limited to:

• Support the development of the Digital Practice capability (methods, people, ways of working, use of technology) used to create value through our products for our clients.
• Contribute to the establishment and maintenance of best-practice guidance and delivery playbooks, templates, governance guides and FAQs to ensure global consistency.
• Work with team members to monitor market changes and changes in client needs to identify changes in capability needed to serve our clients.

The Candidate

The ideal candidate will have the following:

• At least eight years of experience in media agencies, consulting or client side.
• Deep expertise in paid digital media across at least two of Digital Planning, Programmatic, Paid Social, Paid Search or Retail.
• In-platform trading experience working with or assessing data from digital platforms such as DV360, Google Ads, Meta, DoubleVerify, IAS etc.
• Experience leading and managing trading teams.
• Ability to own complex client relationships and multi-functional teams.
• Confident presenter and communicator with experience presenting to senior stakeholders both internally and externally and dealing with complex global organizations.
• A self-starter with a sense of autonomy and initiative, who is also able to work well independently and lead cross-functional teams. Good organizational and time management skills, strong project management skills and adaptability to changing situations.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
• A passion and enthusiasm for media, for making a change in our industry (you will be joining the team who pioneered the ISBA supply chain transparency study) and for delivering great work for clients.
• Demonstrate core mediasense values: curious minds, courageous hearts; stronger together, smarter together; do the right thing, always; and raise the bar, then raise it again.

What We Offer

• Hybrid working
• 28 days holiday per year, up to a maximum of 32 days
• Work from any location in the world up to 4 weeks per year
• 10 days Annual Leave Purchase per year
• Day off for your birthday
• Company bonus scheme
• Pension
• Private Healthcare
• Employee Assistance programme
• Group Life insurance
• Annual season ticket loan
• Cycle to work scheme
• Eye test & contribution towards glasses for VDU
• Employee Referral Bonus
• New Business Bonus