Senior Native Advertising Manager; Maternity Cover

The Paid Marketing Department comprises a number of Teams advertising across a range of different digital marketing channels; these include Paid Search and Display (advertising on Google & Bing etc), Paid Social (Facebook & Instagram) & Native (native platforms like Taboola, Outbrain, Mediago). We aim to create precisely targeted campaigns to engage positively with our customers. As a member of our team, you’ll need strong analytical skills and a keen eye for picking through data.

We have a strong culture of creativity, too; you’ll be able to try out almost any campaign idea you can think of. With over 5 billion impressions a month, you’ve probably seen our ads somewhere around the internet.

• Flexible hours and summer hours
• Hybrid working
• Competitive holiday benefits - 25 days a year paid holiday, plus 8 bank holidays (increases 1 day a year up to 30 days)
• Closed for Christmas holidays
• Work from anywhere for 2 weeks a year
• Life Assurance and Income Protection to protect your loved ones
• Benefits allowance for health, dental, and vision coverage
• Defined Contribution Pension and Salary Sacrifice Scheme
• Be Well:
  Our award-winning wellbeing and mental health programme to support all MVFers and their families
• Family Forward support for our MVF parents and their mini-mes
• Free breakfast when in the office
• 2 charity days a year

• Screening call - with Talent Team (30 mins)
• 1st Interview - with Hiring Manager(s) (60 mins)
• 2nd Interview - Task and Values Questions (60 minutes)

We’re looking for an experienced Senior Native Marketing Manager to lead our B2C Native team on a 12-month fixed-term maternity cover, starting in January 2027. You’ll own the performance of MVF’s native advertising channel (Taboola, Outbrain, Mediago and others) for the B2C RoW team, setting and hitting monthly targets, leading and developing a team of Native specialists and executives, and running your own portfolio of campaigns.

This is a hands-on leadership role. You’ll set the team’s rhythm and standards, own our key platform relationships, work with clients and commercial teams on performance, and turn long-term channel strategy into quarterly objectives the team can deliver. You’ll also shape the 2027 Native roadmap, so you’ll join at a point where your thinking will influence where the channel goes next.

• Own delivery against team targets, and share an end-of-month performance review with the wider team.
• Run a personal portfolio of native campaigns, hitting targets, keeping up with new platform features and best practice, and owning creative strategy and content for your subcategories.
• Own the Native team meeting cadence: weekly stand-ups, weekly spot-check and extrapolation reviews, monthly performance reviews and long-term strategy sessions.
• Report Native KPIs in the weekly leadership meeting and make sure the team’s work is focused on improving them.

• Translate divisional long-term strategy into quarterly objectives for the team, with clear ownership and accountability.
• Review performance weekly, including missed demand post-mortems, long-term channel trends and disposition deep dives, and weigh channel opportunities against commercial and historical data to find new revenue.
• Work with the team leads on a weekly performance review process that feeds leadership goals down into day-to-day optimisation.

• Line manage the Native team, with weekly one-to-ones (agendas and actions tracked in HiBob) focused on performance, skills and career growth.
• Run biannual performance reviews and annual growth conversations, and use them to set and track individual development plans.
• Hold the team accountable for…