Manager - Media Planning & Strategy

Overview

Day-to-day client lead and digital media strategist for a portfolio of advertiser accounts, shaping how each client plans and measures digital media and advising marketing leaders on growth investment.

What you'll do

• Act as primary day-to-day lead for marketing, brand, and performance teams on media investment, channel mix, and growth strategy.
• Run regular business reviews, present performance and recommendations, and build relationships up to senior marketing leaders.
• Manage client expectations and escalations, and keep your Director informed early.
• Lead the digital media planning approach for each client: audience strategy and channel roles across search, social, video, programmatic, CTV, retail media, and influencer, with core expertise in Digital Marketing.
• Bring a point of view on digital media shifts, such as connected TV, commerce media, AI-led buying, and privacy-driven changes to targeting and measurement.
• Partner with creative, data, technology, and commerce teams to turn business goals into integrated, measurable media plans.
• Identify growth opportunities within existing accounts, such as new channels, markets, and services like analytics and commerce media.
• Support pitches, media reviews, and RFPs: build the media strategy, plans, and proposals, and present to client teams.
• Oversee campaign planning, buying, and trading, and make sure quality and client expectations are met.
• Use measurement frameworks such as attribution, marketing mix modeling, and incrementality testing to optimize spend and prove results.
• Lead the strategy and analytics teams that deliver for these clients.

What you'll need

• 4–5 years of experience in strategy, digital transformation, or management consulting.
• Proven record of leading client engagements.
• Strong grasp of digital themes: customer experience, omnichannel, cloud and platforms, data and AI, and digital operating models.
• Demonstrated contribution to sales, including proposal leadership and account expansion.
• Excellent structured problem-solving, storytelling, and executive communication.

Details

• Location: India - Maharashtra - Mumbai - Worli - Devchand House - Level 6.
• Employment type: Full time; contract type: Permanent.