Associate Manager, Media

The Opportunity

Mattel are seeking an Associate Manager Media to join our Marketing team! This role plays an important part in coordinating enabling and optimising media execution across multiple markets within a region ensuring approved global and regional media strategies are delivered accurately efficiently and consistently.

This is an exciting opportunity for a media professional who enjoys managing executional complexity working across markets partnering with agencies and improving ways of working at scale. Youll act as a key connection point between Global and Regional strategy agency delivery and market level execution supporting consistent delivery of media activity across campaigns channels and markets.

As an Associate Manager Media you will be responsible for:

• Coordinating execution of approved global and regional media strategies across multiple markets within the region.
• Ensuring consistency of execution pacing and quality across markets channels and campaigns.
• Acting as the primary regional point of coordination for execution related questions escalations and dependencies.
• Partnering with regional and local media agency teams to ensure execution aligns with approved strategy governance standards and timelines.
• Overseeing execution readiness across markets including inputs trafficking dependencies and delivery requirements.
• Identifying executional risks gaps or inefficiencies and coordinating corrective actions.
• Ensuring agencies are operating within scope quality expectations and regional processes.
• Monitoring execution status pacing and performance signals across markets.
• Supporting in flight optimisation coordination ensuring adjustments are aligned with strategy and escalated appropriately.
• Ensuring accurate and timely reporting inputs from markets to support regional and global visibility.
• Partnering with Media Operations Analytics and Finance to maintain execution discipline and transparency.
• Serving as the execution liaison between Global Media Managers International Senior Media Managers and In Country Media Managers.
• Coordinating across markets to share learnings execution improvements and best practices.
• Supporting regional planning cycles tentpoles and high complexity launches through execution leadership.
• Helping onboard new markets agencies or processes as part of global transformation initiatives.
• Identifying recurring execution challenges and recommending regional process or workflow improvements.
• Supporting adoption of standardised execution frameworks templates and playbooks.

Qualifications :

Experience knowledge and skills we think the right candidate will hold:

• Strong experience in media execution campaign delivery and multi market coordination.
• Ability to manage complexity dependencies and timelines across markets.
• Comfort working across time zones cultures and agency teams.
• Strong organisational and problem solving skills.
• Clear communication skills with the ability to influence execution outcomes without direct authority.
• Strong attention to detail with a systems and process mindset.
• Ability to work collaboratively across global regional market agency operations analytics and finance stakeholders.
• Proactive adaptable and solutions focused with the ability to identify risks and support continuous improvement.

Additional Information :

Does this sound like you Are you excited by the opportunity to work with iconic brands and support media execution across multiple markets If so apply now!

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time