Senior Global Media Manager

cosnova? The name might be new to you – but you certainly know our brands essence and Catrice: they are available in more than 90 countries and together generate annual sales of around 1 billion euros. Today, we rank among the Top 10 in colour cosmetics – thanks to our 900+ dedicated employees worldwide. With passion and creativity, they continue to write our success story every day.

As part of the Global Media Team, you will drive media excellence at cosnova on a global level. You’ll serve as a trusted advisor and key contact for Communication teams in our regional hubs. In this role, you’ll bring two worlds together:

You’ll lead strong digital-first media campaigns in the DACH region (focusing on Social Media, Paid Media, and Retail Media)
At the same time, you’ll support our regional hubs and subsidiaries in successfully implementing media standards, tools, and innovations

With your expertise in social and digital media, curiosity for new formats, and willingness to challenge conventions, you’ll strengthen our global media ecosystem through knowledge sharing, scalable frameworks, and data-based learnings. You’ll help embed AI, test-&-learn approaches, and modern media methods across markets.

• Lead digital-first media strategies for the DACH region with a strong focus on social and paid media
• Translate global frameworks into actionable activation plans that help markets grow.
• Manage campaigns end-to-end—from briefing and setup to optimization and reporting with a data-driven mindset
• Support regional hubs and subsidiaries through knowledge transfer, sparring, best practices, and collaborative media pilots
• Champion test-&-learn leadership by identifying new platforms, formats, and tools and helping successfully roll them out internationally
• Collaborate closely with Social, Influencer, PR, Brand, and e-Commerce teams to ensure consistent global campaigns
• Guide partners—platforms, agencies, and retail media partners—with a focus on quality, innovation, and efficiency
• Connect media KPIs with real business results through data-based performance optimization

• Minimum bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in Digital Marketing, Business, Communications, or related field
• At least 3 years of experience in digital or paid media, ideally with a strong social-media focus and deep platform knowledge
• Passion for digital channels and understanding of how content, community, and media work together
• Strong grasp of customer journeys and cross-channel mechanics
• Experience working with agencies and in international, cross-functional teams.
• High data literacy—comfortable interpreting insights and making data-informed decisions
• Interest or experience with AI tools for strategy, targeting, creative, optimization, or measurement
• A proactive, solution-oriented mindset with a desire to drive global impact
• Excellent English skills;
  German is a plus

Fresh fruit, coffee, tea, cold drinks and a great cafeteria are standard – just a small taste of our bigger benefits.

• For your rest: in addition to 30 vacation days per year, you will receive four weeks of paid special leave (sabbatical) in your seventh year with the company.
• For your future: take advantage of our cosnov
  
  Academy with its wide range of training opportunities.
• For your office life: look forward to a modern, stylish workplace, free lunch on Mondays and Fridays, and complimentary underground parking.
• For every stage of life: company pension plan, in-house gym, job ticket, subsidy for childcare costs, and many team events.

This is just a few of our benefits. Check out the rest at:

At cosnova, we value personality, talent and team spirit – not age, origin, gender, skin colour, religion, disability or sexual orientation.

We look forward to receiving your complete job application in English or German. Your contact person for this vacancy is Louisa Stillger (Organizational Development & HR Manager, ).