Media Senior Specialist

Employment TypePermanent

Closing Date20 May 2025 11:59pm

Job TitleMedia Senior Specialist

Job Summary

Job Description

Who We Are

We're an iconic Aussie brand with a global footprint. Our purpose is to build a connected future so everyone can thrive. We're all about providing the best experience and delivering the best tech on the best network.

This includes making Telstra the place you want to work. For you, that means a having career that grows with you and working with a team powered by human connection that prioritises wellbeing and choice.

Focus of the Role

1. Lead media strategy, planning, and execution for a range of products within Consumer and Business segments. We are looking for a strategic integrated lead with ATL experience and strong digital skills and innovation who can translate business objectives into insights-driven media briefs and measurable outcomes/marketing campaigns.

2. Lead the implementation of Marketing Mix Model within the Marketing team to optimize the effectiveness of our marketing investments, contextualising data and deriving actionable insights. We looking for a lead who posesses a deep understanding of media performance metrics, audience insights and digital anaytics tools. Excellent communication and story telling skills are also key as they must effectively convey insights to stakeholders, driving informed decision making and improving overall media performance. The MMM is a key component of the marketing toolkit, consisting of various technology capabilities and dashboards that enable insights-led marketing and optimization of marketing spend.

What We Offer

• Performance-related pay

• Access to thousands of learning programs so you can level-up

• Global presence across 22 countries; opportunities to work where we do business.

• Purchased annual leave scheme

• Additional Telstra day off

• Additional 30% off Telstra products and services

• Toolkit provided (laptop + mobile phone + plan paid for)

What You’ll Do

Telstra Consumer - Marketing Chapter Area oversees Telstra's marketing operations, including brand management, advertising, and product marketing.

As a Media Senior Lead, you leverage extensive experience across multi-media channels and customer segments, and a passion for people to deliver against the following responsibilities:

• Translate group strategy into clear and actionable strategic roadmaps, priorities and objectives, and support the team to deliver on shared goals and success measures in line with strategic priorities

• Be accountable for the design, curation and delivery of multiple large-scale and/or strategic media initiatives and projects, overseeing the coordination and execution of content and ensuring outputs are delivered to time, budget and quality standards

• Promote quality and consistency of Media and Creative standards, ensuring the team adopts enterprise-wide requirements and best-practice tools, processes and methodologies

• Model a culture of technical excellence and continuous improvement by continuing to develop your own knowledge of consumer trends and multi-media consumption preferences, and bringing the latest thinking to your role, transferring knowledge of new and emerging methodologies and approaches to your team to inform their work

• Provide guidance and direction when sought out by the team to assess and resolve problems, risks or issues; applying your domain knowledge, analytical thinking, and lessons learned to address them in an effective and timely manner

• Leverage advanced communication and influencing skills to authentically engage and establish relationships with internal and external stakeholders, driving integration with creative teams and content partners to effectively manage media assets and content pipeline

• Lead project planning and delivery activities, to ensure media projects are scoped and resourced properly, and help remove barriers impacting the team’s successful completion of delivery goals

• Lead, coach and support the team of technical staff, working with them to build their capability and be able to deliver outstanding work.

• Provide input into financial budgeting forecasts and contribute to growth initiatives

• Act as a role model by championing Agile practices, mindsets and ways of working (when working within Telstra’s Agile operating model), and being passionate about coaching, mentoring and the development of our people

About You

• Extensive agency and corporate experience in media

• Competent in digital and traditional media channels, along with data and martech strategy

• Experience in marketing analytic with a focus on Marketing Mix modelling

• Broad understanding of media landscape

• Great Strategic planning and critical thinking

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