EMEA Retail Media Lead — Strategy & Growth

Basingstoke – Hybrid (3 days in the office 2 WFH)

My client is a global consumer goods business with a portfolio of leading brands across beauty, personal care and lifestyle categories, sold through major retailers and ecommerce platforms across EMEA.

With Ecommerce as a key growth priority, increasing focus on digital shelf excellence, retailer search visibility, and online conversion across ecommerce retailers beyond Amazon.

Reporting into the Head of Ecommerce EMEA, the Senior Retail Media Manager – EMEA will act as the central point of expertise for retail media across the region.

An exciting opportunity to shape how retail media is approached across EMEA at a relatively early stage of maturity. You will have visibility across multiple markets and retailers, with the ability to influence both strategy and execution ering a mix of performance analysis, strategic direction and capability building, with the scope to evolve into a more centralised and hands‑on model over time.

• Define and evolve the retail media strategy across EMEA, aligned to commercial priorities, category plans and ecommerce growth targets
• Bring structure to how retail media is approached across markets, ensuring a clear link between investment and business outcomes
• Support longer-term planning, including how retail media should scale and where more centralised approaches may be appropriate

• Analyse campaign performance across retailers and markets, identifying inefficiencies, missed opportunities and areas of over or under investment
• Translate platform and retailer data into commercially relevant insights, linking media performance to sales, margin, EPOS and category growth
• Establish consistent measurement frameworks and KPIs across markets (e.g. ROAS, CPC, CTR, share of search, incrementality), enabling meaningful performance

• Develop clear optimisation roadmaps by retailer, category and brand, and ensure these are implemented through local teams and partners
• Introduce a structured test-and-learn approach across EMEA, defining priorities, hypotheses and success criteria, and ensuring learnings are captured and shared
• Support local teams and agencies in improving campaign execution, holding a level of accountability for delivery and outcomes

• Bring greater rigour to investment decisions, supporting where budgets should be prioritised across retailers, formats and markets to maximise return
• Partner with ecommerce and sales teams to ensure retail media investment is aligned to promotions, launches and key trading moments
• Support evaluation of retailer opportunities, including category events and always-on activity

• Build and roll out retail media playbooks, guidelines and governance frameworks to improve consistency and quality of execution across markets
• Support capability building across EMEA through training, coaching and ongoing performance reviews with local teams
• Ensure retail media is fully integrated with digital shelf fundamentals (content, availability, pricing), recognising the dependency between the two
• Work with retailers and media partners to understand platform capabilities, new opportunities and evolving best practice
• Stay close to developments across key platforms such as Criteo, Citrus Ad and Amazon Ads
• Work with external partners and agencies to ensure clarity of direction and accountability for delivery
• Take direct ownership of selected centrally managed retail media accounts as this capability is established, including planning, activation oversight, optimisation and performance delivery
• Act as the lead contact for these accounts, working closely with retailers and partners to drive performance and unlock growth opportunities
• Define what should sit centrally vs locally over time, helping shape a more scalable and efficient operating model
• Identify where increased central ownership of campaigns or platforms would deliver stronger commercial outcomes

• 4 + years’ experience in retail media, ecommerce or performance marketing,…