Media Buying Lead - Midrand

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**Job Title:** Media Buying Lead - Midrand **Company:** Dis-Chem Pharmacies **Overview** Dis-Chem Pharmacies is seeking a Media Buying Lead for its Head Office. This role is responsible for defining media principles, buying guidelines, and governance frameworks for all of Dis-Chem’s paid media activity. The Media Buying Lead will optimize media buying performance and agency relationships to ensure efficient investment, consistent standards, and a strong return on marketing spend across all channels, thereby supporting Dis-Chem’s brand, category, and commercial objectives. **What you will do** * Define and maintain group-wide media principles, buying guidelines, and guardrails across digital, traditional, and in-store media. * Establish standards for media planning, buying, optimisation, and reporting to ensure consistency and transparency. * Ensure alignment between media guidelines, brand standards, and marketing governance frameworks. * Optimise media buying strategies to improve reach, efficiency, and return on investment across channels. * Lead relationships with media agencies, ensuring clear roles, performance expectations, and accountability. * Support rate negotiations, buying efficiencies, and consolidation opportunities to maximise value. * Execute media plans in alignment with go-to-market priorities and campaign requirements. * Partner with Integrated Marketing Campaigns, Strategy & Brand, and Category Marketing teams to ensure media plans support campaign objectives. * Review media performance and insights to identify optimisation opportunities and inform future guidelines. * Provide guidance and expertise on media choices, channel mix, and investment decisions. **Requirements (from the original advert)** * Bachelor’s degree or diploma in Marketing, Media Studies, Communications, Business, or related discipline. * 5+ years’ experience in ATL, digital, retail media, media buying, media planning, or campaign management roles within retail, FMCG, consumer-facing environments, or media agencies. * 2–3 years’ experience leading campaign delivery, vendor coordination, or cross-functional media execution initiatives. * Proven experience managing media agencies and driving buying efficiencies. * Strong understanding of media strategy, planning, and buying across digital and traditional channels. * Experience setting media governance, guidelines, and buying standards, with knowledge of agency models and performance metrics. * Strong commercial focus with the ability to optimise media spend and agency value. * Effective stakeholder and agency management, supported by a structured, analytical approach. * South African citizen. * MIE, clear criminal and credit. * Driver’s license and/or own reliable transport. **Who should apply** This role is for an experienced professional with a Bachelor's degree or diploma in a marketing, media, communications, or business-related field. The ideal candidate will have over 5 years of experience in various media-related roles (ATL, digital, retail media, buying, planning, campaign management) within retail, FMCG, consumer-facing environments, or media agencies, including 2-3 years in a leadership capacity overseeing campaign delivery or cross-functional media execution. They must have a proven track record of managing media agencies and achieving buying efficiencies. Applicants should possess a strong understanding of media strategy, planning, and buying across diverse channels, with experience in setting media governance standards and a commercial focus on optimising spend. Effective stakeholder and agency management skills, coupled with a structured and analytical approach, are essential. Furthermore, applicants must be South African citizens, pass criminal and credit checks, and have a driver’s license and/or reliable transport. **Deadline** 21st October, 2026 **Reference** Original posting: https://www.myjobmag.co.za/job/media-buying-lead-midrand-dis-chem-pharmacies Source: myjobmag

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