The Ideal Candidate

As a media buyer, you will manage, grow and optimise our relationships with high-impact publishers, portals and large traffic networks. Your goal is to secure quality inventory, negotiate competitive deals, monitor performance and ensure smooth execution of campaigns. The role involves a blend of commercial negotiation, relationship management and ad ops.

What you will be doing

• Identify, negotiate, and manage deals with major publishers, traffic vendors, comparison sites, review portals, and iGaming media networks.

• Build strong commercial relationships and maintain ongoing communication with partners.

• Evaluate publisher offers, placements, and traffic quality to ensure strong ROI.

• Set up and maintain campaign placements with publishers, including: trafficking creatives, providing and ensuring tracking works, ensuring correct tagging and campaign configuration

• Monitor delivery and act quickly to resolve pacing, tracking and placement issues

• Coordinate with internal creative and analytics teams to request/ update assets or tracking

• Assist the Head of Digital and wider team with overflow tasks such as campaign QA, partner negotiations, reporting, and performance reviews

• Step in to execute operational tasks during peak workload periods to maintain continuity and performance across the wider digital department

• Provide structured updates, summaries, and insights to senior stakeholders when required, ensuring alignment across teams

• Help maintain operational excellence by contributing to process documentation, workflow improvements, and new partner evaluation

Skills and Experience Required

• Experience in media buying, commercial partnerships, affiliate management, or similar acquisition functions. (iGaming background is highly preferred.)

• Strong negotiation skills and the ability to manage external vendor relationships.

• Comfortable performing hands-on campaign setup (creatives + tracking links/ html creative tags) without relying on an ad-ops team.

• Analytical mindset—able to interpret performance metrics and make data-driven decisions.

• Good communication skills and a collaborative approach.

• Familiarity with tracking platforms, UTMs & basic ad-ops concepts

Qualifications Required

• Required: Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Business, Digital Media, Data Analytics, or a related field (or equivalent work experience).

• Preferred: Google marketing platform training, IAB Digital media buying & planning certification, training or certification in mobile attribution platforms, courses or credentials in digital media operations, ad trafficking, or tracking & attribution

Start Date: As soon as we find a match!