Media Associate EMEA

CREATIVITY IS OUR SUPERPOWER. It’s our heritage and it’s also our future. Because we don’t just make toys. We create innovative products and experiences that inspire fans, entertain audiences and develop children through play. Mattel is at its best when every member of our team feels respected, included, and heard—when everyone can show up as themselves and do their best work every day. We value and share an infinite range of ideas and voices that evolve and broaden our perspectives with a reach that extends into all our brands, partners, and suppliers.

The Opportunity:

Supporting the Associate Manager, Media, Regional, this role assists with the coordinating, enabling, and optimizing media execution across multiple markets within a region. This role exists help with the management of executional complexity at scale, ensuring that approved global and regional media strategies are delivered accurately, efficiently, and consistently across markets.

As part of the Regional Media team this positions helps to act as the connective tissue between Global/Regional strategy, agency delivery, and market‑level execution.

What Your Impact Will Be:

Regional Execution Orchestration

• Support the coordinate execution of approved global and regional media strategies across multiple markets within the region.
• Help to ensure consistency of execution, pacing, and quality across markets, channels, and campaigns.
• Part of the primary regional point of coordination for execution‑related questions, escalations, and dependencies.

Agency Execution Oversight

• Work with local media agency teams to ensure execution aligns with approved strategy, governance standards, and timelines.
• Supports overseeing the execution readiness across markets, including inputs, trafficking dependencies, and delivery requirements.
• Helps with the identification of executional risks, gaps, or inefficiencies and coordinate corrective actions.
• Helps to agencies are operating within scope, quality expectations, and regional processes.

Operational Excellence & Performance Support

• Monitor execution status, pacing, and performance signals across markets.
• Support in‑flight optimization coordination, ensuring adjustments are aligned with strategy and escalated appropriately.
• Ensure accurate and timely reporting inputs from markets to support regional and global visibility.
• Work with with Media Operations, Analytics, and Finance to maintain execution discipline and transparency.

Cross‑Market & Cross‑Functional Coordination

• Coordinate across markets to align on shared learnings, execution improvements, and best practices.
• Support regional planning cycles, tentpoles, and high‑complexity launches through.
• Help with the onboarding of new markets, agencies, or processes as part of global transformation initiatives.

What We’re Looking For:

• Experience in media execution, campaign delivery, and preferably some exposure to multi‑market coordination.
• Ability to manage complexity, and identify dependencies, and timelines across markets.
• Comfort working across time zones, cultures, and agency teams.
• Strong organizational and problem‑solving skills.
• Clear communicator
• Detail‑oriented with a systems and process mindset.

What We Offer:

• Gross annual salary range of GBP 37,440 - GBP 44,460
• Bonus scheme: Participation in Mattel Incentive Plan (MIP) with the target of 5% of base salary, payout is determined by company and individual performance results
• Paid time off: 25 vacation days (with option to buy up to 5 extra days) + 2 volunteer days/year + a day off on your birthday!
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee assistance program: Access to Help@Hand (Unum), Modern Health, Headspace, and Maven
• Contributory pension scheme
• Private health insurance
• Dental insurance & dental service app
• Life & disability insurance
• Employee discount program "Be well at Mattel"
• Mattel products discounts
• Family benefits program: 24 weeks off (for 1st caregiver) or 12 weeks off (for co-parent) fully paid on the arrival of new child, return to work program, path to parenthood, and family care leave

Mattel’s total compensation package is based on objective, gender-neutral criteria such as job grade, work location, relevant skills, and experience. This information is provided to enable informed and transparent consideration and negotiation of employment terms. If your profile is retained and we schedule an interview, we will share further details on Mattel UK Limited’s total rewards package. Please note that (some of) the benefits above may change over time, due to changes in the company policy or in legislation. We will not ask about your previous salary history.

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How We Work:
We are a purpose driven company aiming to empower generations to explore the wonder of childhood and reach their full potential. We live up to our purpose employing the following behaviors:

• We collaborate: Being a part of Mattel means being part of one team with shared values and common goals. Every person counts and working closely together always brings better results. Partnership is our process and our collective capabilities is our superpower.
• We innovate: At Mattel we always aim to find new and better ways to create innovative products and experiences. No matter where you work in the organization, you can always make a difference and have real impact. We welcome new ideas and value new initiatives that challenge conventional thinking.
• We execute: We are a performance-driven company. We strive for excellence and are focused on pursuing best-in-class outcomes. We believe in accountability and ownership and know that our people are at their best when they are empowered to create and deliver results.

Our Approach to Flexible Work:
We embrace a flexible work model designed to empower a culture of growth, optimism, and wellbeing, where every employee can reach their full potential. Combining purposeful in-person collaboration with flexibility, our focus is to optimize performance and drive connection for moments that matter.