Digital Media Lead - Paid Search
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NextLeicester, Leicestershire, United Kingdom · Leicester, LE19 4ATView on map(opens Google Maps in a new tab)
Pay
£52,000–£66,000/yr
Contract
Not specified
Hours
Full-time
Closing date
6 November 2026
14 days leftJob description
We’re looking for a Digital Media Lead to join our International Third Parties Marketplace team, working on our marketplaces channel. Based from NEXT Head Office in Enderby, Leicestershire!
As a Digital Media Lead in Paid Search, you will act as the driving force behind our third party retail media strategy within the eCommerce department, reporting directly to the Digital Media Manager. In this pivotal role, you will develop and deliver high impact campaigns across major marketplace platforms, including Amazon, Zalando, About You, and Otto, to generate incremental revenue and maximise profitability.
Leveraging your extensive experience in managing large scale, high budget paid search accounts or retail media activations, you will deploy your deep technical knowledge and results oriented mindset to work accurately at pace. Additionally, you will collaborate closely with our media agencies and marketplace partners while leading a dedicated team to deliver exceptional, fast paced and precise campaign performance.
- Plan, build and execute highly profitable performance campaigns in collaboration with key internal stakeholders.
- Implement effective strategies to maximise product visibility, improve search rankings and drive high intent traffic to product listings across multiple third party platforms.
- Oversee daily activity and collaborate with partner agencies and the in-house team to continuously optimise campaign performance.
- Manage, mentor and develop a high performing team of 4 digital media professionals.
- Cultivate and direct the relationships with our media agency and key marketplace partners.
- Partner with the wider marketing and commercial trading teams to ensure retail media activity supports broader business goals.
- Manage comprehensive performance reporting for all third party channels.
- Regularly present key findings, insights and strategic recommendations to the wider business.
- Working closely with marketplace partners to identify, test and scale new opportunities.
- Stay up to date with the rapidly evolving retail media landscape and industry best practices.
- Proven extensive experience in digital performance media, with a minimum of 3 years specifically in retail media or paid search.
- Proven track record of planning, optimising and managing large scale performance digital media activations with significant budgets.
- Strong experience successfully managing external partners and media agency relationships.
- Strong numeracy and advanced Excel skills; highly logical with a natural aptitude for data and problem solving.
- A highly collaborative individual who works exceptionally well as part of a wider team.
- Experience managing multi-language or multi-region campaigns is a distinct advantage but not essential.
You know Next, but did you know we’re a FTSE-100 retail company employing over 44,000 people across the Next group. We’re the UK’s 2nd largest fashion retailer and for Kidswear we’re the market leader. At the last count we have over 450 stores, plus the Next Online and it’s now possible to buy on-line from over 80 countries around the world! So we’ve gone global!
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Next
First seen
24 October 2026
Last checked
24 October 2026
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