Key Skills
Job Description
About Us At Dyson, we solve the problems others choose to ignore, with surprising new inventions that defy convention and simply work better. Our Media team brings these breakthroughs to life, creating campaigns that are clear, credible, and distinctly Dyson. We shape experiences for customers and owners that feel honest and original. Working policy Our campus culture is built on connection—collaboration in person, shared creativity, and hands-on learning. That’s why we don’t offer a regular hybrid arrangement. Working side by side powers our best ideas, fuels belonging, and keeps us pushing boundaries together About The Role This role will own the end-to-end media agenda across paid and owned channels, ensuring best-in-class and efficient media planning, investment, and performance to drive both brand and commercial KPIs. As the media lead for the region/cluster – you will oversee the full media lifecycle – from annual planning & campaign strategy to optimization, innovation, measurement and performance reporting, working closely with commercial teams, regional/global counterparts and agency partners. Reporting to the Head of Marketing for Benelux and Nordics, this position leads a team of media managers/specialists – together championing media excellence to ensure we continue to deliver highly effective, efficient and measurable media plans. Key Responsibilities As our Senior Media Manager, you will: Lead the development and delivery of media strategies with our marketing teams and agency partners – based in 2 regions for Benelux and Nordics Own and manage annual, quarterly, and campaign planning cycles, ensuring all milestones, deliverables, and governance requirements are met on time. Serve as the primary operational and strategic lead for media agency partners, driving collaboration, accountability, and executional excellence. Develop and oversee cross-channel audience and media plans for NPDs / product launches and key campaigns, ensuring a connected consumer journey. Drive audience planning by translating consumer, owner, and first-party data insights into actionable media strategies and agency planning frameworks. Optimize media investment and channel mix through data-driven planning, performance analysis, forecasting, and ongoing optimization. Partner with Category, Digital Marketing, Business Intelligence, Commercial teams, and regional/global teams to deliver integrated plans and identify opportunities for greater effectiveness and efficiency. Champion a test-and-learn culture by identifying new opportunities, leveraging experimentation frameworks, attribution models, and advanced measurement approaches. Monitor, analyze, and communicate campaign performance, providing actionable recommendations to improve media effectiveness and ROI. Provide regular thought leadership on media innovation, emerging technologies, platform developments, and measurement trends, ensuring teams remain at the forefront of industry best practices. Build and maintain strong relationships with media agencies, commercial stakeholders, and local market teams to ensure best-in-class campaign execution and consistent KPI tracking. Drive effective budget and BBI management, ensuring investment accuracy, compliance, and optimal allocation of resources. Establish robust reporting, governance, and performance management processes to support transparency, accountability, and continuous improvement. Support capability building across marketing and media teams through knowledge sharing, best practices, and strategic guidance. Play a key role in driving retail media strategy and choices in collaboration with KAMs and retail account leads About you To succeed in the role, we expect you to have: At least 7+ years’ experience in media planning – agency or in-house – with leadership of having led multi-channel teams Deep knowledge of planning and buying across the spectrum: TV, Print, OOH, Programmatic Display & Video, Social, and Search. The ability to interrogate local market plans – making sure they deliver both brand lift and demand. Strong analytical skills, experience with data-driven attribution, and media-mix modelling. Expertise in media and audience planning, creative development, and ad operations. A keen eye for trends - and the confidence to recommend bold, innovative and strategic opportunities. Exceptional organizational skills, process focus, and a fierce attention to detail. Strong business sense, analytical acumen, and project management skills. The ability to build relationships - across functions, with stakeholders, and agency partners. Sharp communication and presentation skills. Benefits Discount on Dyson products Company Pension scheme 29 days annual holiday plan Company Fitness plan EAP (Employee Assistance Programme) Life Assurance Plan Transportation allowance (0,23€/km regardless of the means of transport) Health Insurance – Medical Contribution Eye Examination & Computer Glasses Reimbursement * Please note: New employees to Dyson in the Netherlands commence employment on a 12-month, fixed-term basis* Dyson is an equal opportunity employer. We know that great minds don’t think alike, and it takes all kinds of minds to make our technology so unique. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and employment decisions are made without regard to race, colour, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other any other dimension of diversity.
Core Responsibilities
Lead the end-to-end media agenda across paid and owned channels for the Benelux and Nordics, including strategy, planning, investment, optimization, measurement, and performance reporting. Manage agency and stakeholder partnerships, budgets, governance, retail media strategy, and team capability building to improve brand and commercial outcomes.
Requirements
Candidates should have at least seven years of media planning experience, including leadership of multi-channel teams and expertise across traditional and digital media channels. They should bring strong analytical, attribution, media-mix modeling, audience-planning, organizational, project-management, communication, and relationship-building skills.
Benefits
- Discount on Dyson Products
- Company Pension Scheme
- 29 Days Annual Holiday
- Company Fitness Plan
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Life Assurance Plan
- Transportation Allowance
- Health Insurance
- Eye Examination and Computer Glasses Reimbursement
About Dyson
Industry: Appliances, Electrical, and Electronics Manufacturing
Company size: 10,001+ employees
Dyson solves real-world problems and creates better products through the application of engineering, science, design and creativity. It is a family-owned, global technology company, founded by Sir James Dyson who remains at the helm alongside his son Jake. Since inventing the first cyclonic bagless vacuum cleaner, the DC01, Dyson has consistently invested in research and development to improve its products and technologies radically. Dyson offers products across a growing range of areas: floorcare, air purification, robotics, haircare including formulations, lighting, hand drying, and most recently audio. Dyson continues to expand into new areas. Today, Dyson sells products in more than 80 markets, has 450 Dyson stores worldwide and is available in all major technology and beauty retailers. Dyson has global headquarters in Singapore and major technology campuses in Singapore, the UK, Malaysia, and the Philippines. Its global team of engineers, scientists and software developers are focused on developing technology-enabled products which work better and which people love to use. Key areas of focus have included high-speed electric digital motors, sensing and vision systems, robotics, machine learning and aerodynamics. Beyond products, to encourage an inventive future, Dyson is also inspiring the next generation of engineers and inventors through the Dyson Institute of Engineering and Technology, the James Dyson Foundation and the James Dyson Award. The Dyson family applies its problem-solving approach in other fields, and established Dyson Farming in 2012. It is one of the largest farming businesses in the UK, extending to 36,000 acres across Lincolnshire, Oxfordshire, Gloucestershire and Somerset. It is a family-owned enterprise unlike any other, focussed on long-term investment in British farming and the countryside to grow tasty and nutritious food.