Senior Marketing Associate

Company Description

About SEEK

SEEK's portfolio of diverse businessesmake a positive impacton a truly global scale. Our purpose is to help people live more fulfilling and productive working lives and help organisations succeed. We create world-class technology solutions toconnect more people to relevantemployment, education, small businessandvolunteer opportunities. Wehavea cultureofhigh-performancein our workplaces andcelebrate the diversity ofour employeeswhocontribute to thesuccess of our organisation.

Life at SEEK

SEEK's purpose is at the centre of everything we do. Our SEEK, which defines the way we work, is all about what makes us unique and a little bit different. Passion, Team, Delivery and Future are our principles that drive innovation and creativity. SEEK strives to support employee wellbeing by providing an amazing experience at work which led us to being named AFR BOSS Top 10 Best Places to Work in Technology (2021-2024). We are proud to work in an environment that's inclusive where everyone's unique ideas, experiences and perspectives are valued.

Our award-winning head office in Cremorne (just a 4 min walk from Richmond station) provides an exceptional space to collaborate with colleagues. The building provides sweeping views of the city, a games area, sit and stand desks at every workstation, modern end-of-trip facilities and Thursday night drinks which gives our people an opportunity to connect in a social setting.

The Senior Marketing Associate – Media Planning & Performance leads annual integrated media planning for SEEK's major non-performance campaigns across Australia and New Zealand. You serve as the central media contact for campaign and investment reporting across all marketing teams (Country Marketing, Brand, and Customer Insights & Strategy). This single point of contact eliminates work overlap, ensures channel consistency, maintains objective focus, and drives operational efficiency.

Responsibilities

• Integrated Media Planning & Operations
  • Media campaign planning – supporting the SMM – APAC Media & Planning on developing the overall annual media budget and strategy for Australia and New Zealand
  • Interact with the ANZ Integrated campaign leads from the Country Marketing team as the day-to-day contact during the major media campaigns (non-performance activity)
  • Independently develop media plans for medium size briefs with paid digital channel managers and external offline agency
  • Own all aspects of the media campaign process from end to end, from brief to implementation to go live
• Partner management
  • Maintain grow strong relationship with Marketing partners and other business units
  • Manage media planning and buying agency relationship in both markers to deliver on contractual KPIs
• Measurement and Advanced Analytics
  • Responsible for overseeing the data collection and supply for our marketing mix modelling in ANZ
  • Own the competitive reporting suite for investment, and monthly reach reporting
  • Responsible for fortnightly campaign reporting check-ins and post-campaign reports - identifying campaign insights and working with Media and Brand teams to communicate and act on findings
• Finance Management
  • Manage the Through the Line integrated campaign budget across all ANZ activity
  • Manage finance and billing for all offline elements and cross-channel partnerships

The Team

This role sits within the wider APAC Digital & Media team, which is one of the key marketing functions in the APAC Marketing team. This role is within the sub-team of APAC Media Planning & Investment and has peers in our other 6 markets who are each responsible for the overall media strategy and direction within their country. For the ANZ marketplace that this role is focused on key stakeholders will be from Brand, ANZ Country Marketing, Integrated Campaigns, Content and PR.

• Digital marketing or media buying experience with a high level of competency across all media with specific hands-on experience in traditional media, and understanding of media trends
• Experience creating, managing & optimising integrated media campaigns for large brands with sizeable budgets - agency-side a bonus
• Ability to analyse media and audience performance, generating insights and actions from available data sources
• Strong judgement and decision-making capabilities, with a willingness to test, learn, and pivot when needed
• Experience managing external agency partners/vendors and evaluating capabilities and proposals
• Confidence in communicating and influencing a variety of stakeholders, being able to effectively explain the complex media landscape in a way both internal and external audiences understand.
• Experience with Google Analytics or similar web measurement platforms would be a bonus
• Keen interest in new tech, ad formats and media

At SEEK we offer:

• Annual Performance Bonus Plan
• Support of flexible working, including a mix of office and work from home days depending on your role.
• Paid and unpaid leave benefits including Personal Flexi Days and Volunteer Days, as well as the opportunity to purchase additional leave
• Support for parents with 14 weeks paid primary carers leave and 2 weeks paid leave for partners
• Frequent events including sports days, annual Christmas party, hackathon, and trivia
• Free kick-start breakfast every morning and fresh fruit available all day in our offices
• Casual dress – every day

At SEEK, we are passionate about fostering a culture of inclusion and wellbeing that embraces and values the diversity of our people. We are a purpose driven business that works with heart.

We know teams with diverse ideas, experiences and perspectives are more creative and are critical to ensuring effective delivery and innovating to enable our future success. As such, we welcome applications from people with diverse backgrounds and life experiences, especially as they relate to gender, sexual identity, culture, faith, disability and life stages. If you have the skills, curiosity and an adaptable mindset but don't meet every responsibility or qualification listed in this advertisement, please still get in touch with us.

Should you require any specific supportor adjustments throughout the recruitment process and beyond, please advise us and we will be happy to assist.

For this role, only those candidates with the eligible right to work will be considered.

SEEK kindly requests no unsolicited resumes or approaches from recruitment agencies and will not be responsible for any associated fees.