Senior Paid Media Executive

At Pentland Brands, every role helps move our brands forward. Whether you’re supporting our people, improving our systems, growing our commercial performance, strengthening operations or shaping better ways of working, your impact reaches across a portfolio of iconic brands used by consumers around the world.

The Senior Paid Media Executive role is an exciting opportunity for someone ready to take the next step in their paid media career. The successful applicant will work across multiple brands in a group role, moving from day-to-day implementation to strategic ownership of specific brand channels. This role is designed for someone who wants more autonomy, accountability, and the chance to grow into a future manager or strategist. This will include assisting in leading performance marketing planning and execution for assigned brands, acting as a key point of contact for internal and external teams, and driving performance through both data and collaboration.

What the Customer Senior Paid Media Social Executive will do:

• Ownership of BAU execution of select brands, reporting to the Paid Media Manager.
• Practise data fluency — graduating from collating reports to identifying trends, making recommendations, and storytelling with data.
• Direct agency partners in daily implementation and identify optimisation opportunities, ensuring actions align with trade insights and brand priorities.
• Report on campaign performance, identifying trends and delivering insights and recommendations that shape ongoing strategy.
• Supports channel innovation, proposing and assisting in-channel testing plans and sharing learnings across the team.
• Contribute to planning and roadmap development for the wider portfolio and support junior team members where relevant.
• Proactively build and foster relationships with brand creative, ecommerce and insight teams to ensure synergy across teams.

What Pentland Brands is looking for:

• At least 2 years' experience in either paid social or paid search (agency or client-side)
• Strong stakeholder management, capable of influencing across a matrix organisation.
• Technical competence with platforms like Meta Ads Manager and/or Google Ads; CRM and first-party data integrations are a bonus.
• Analytical, with experience pulling and interpreting performance data.
• Forward-thinking, with a clear POV on media innovation and a passion for continuous improvement.

Why Pentland Brands?

Pentland Brands is the name behind some of the world’s best-known sport, outdoor and lifestyle brands, including Speedo, Berghaus, Canterbury, Endura, Ellesse, Kickers and Mitre.

We are a global family business with a clear purpose: pioneering brands that make life better. Across our teams, functions and locations, we work together to create products, experiences and partnerships that help people live more active, confident and positive lives.

Joining Pentland Brands means becoming part of a business where your work can have real reach, across multiple brands, markets, teams and disciplines. It is a place for people who want to contribute, collaborate, improve how things are done and help build the future of brands with heritage, ambition and global impact.

Perks & Benefits

We offer a competitive salary, discretionary bonus, hybrid working, flexible start and finish times, generous holiday allowance, product discounts, sample sales, enhanced family-friendly policies, healthcare support, gym and fitness discounts, cycle to work scheme and electric car scheme.