Junior Client Strategy Partner

Junior Client Strategy Partner

Location: Derry Street, HSK, London, W8 5HY

Position: Full Time/Permanent

About Us

Mail Metro Media is the advertising home of some of the UK’s most engaged newsbrands: Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday, MailOnline, Metro, The i Paper, New Scientist and The Telegraph (print products). The team provides a single point of contact across print, digital, audio, video and social, allowing agencies and advertisers easy access to the millions of consumers who engage with dmg media’s brands every day.

www.mailmetromedia.co.uk

About The Role

As a Junior Client Strategy Partner, you will provide essential support in defining and executing the long-term commercial strategy for Tier 1 and mid-tier accounts. You will leverage category expertise, audience insights, and our extensive product portfolio to position dmg media as an essential partner in investment decisions. This is a junior to experienced level strategic role that offers significant exposure to data, creativity, and client direct partnerships.

This role will:

• Support Tier 1 client & agency planning relationships, to help position dmg as a must-buy media owner
• Assist in developing long-term strategies for clients – leveraging category, product expertise & audience insights
• Coordinate proactive presentations & assist in thought-leadership sessions to help unlock incremental revenue
• Support our reputation as a trusted partner to clients & agencies by assisting the account service team, liaising with internal teams to ensure quality servicing
• Champion our innovative data-enriched digital solutions in market that generate meaningful outcomes for our advertising customers under guidance, whilst respecting the value of print to deliver for our customers
• Assist in our commercial transformation toward a strategic, client-focused, full-funnel organisation
• Collaborate closely with our Creator & New Media (social video) and Commerce team to best serve our core advertising customers with market-leading ad innovation
• Collaborate with partnerships and delivery teams to give high level servicing to clients
• Own and track all client engagement, delivering robust pipeline management and performance tracking in Salesforce for all T1 client's relationships

Main Responsibilities

• Tier 1 Relationship Support: Assist in building and nurturing relationships with decision-makers at Tier 1 agencies and clients
• Strategic Planning Support: Support the development of comprehensive media strategies for accounts, leveraging audience insights and our product portfolio
• Thought Leadership Assistance: Help coordinate and prepare materials for proactive presentations and thought-leadership sessions
• Revenue Assistance: Identify opportunities to support new commercial partnerships under supervision
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Act as a liaison between commercial, editorial, data, and product teams to ensure client strategies are executed effectively
• Core Strategic Levers: Develop capability in at least one of the following key growth areas through training:

1. Multi-format solution selling (incl. social-first branded content)
2. Pricing & yield optimisation
3. Data analytics & insights
4. Digital fluency (i.e., comfort with ad tech, data & social platforms)

Person Specification

• Experience: 2+ years in a customer-facing role; ideally within a media organisation.
• Communication: Strong written and verbal communication skills; a confident and professional presenter.
• Technical: Comfort with basic office software (MS Office Suite) and a high degree of digital fluency regarding social media and ad platforms.
• Analytical: The ability to support data analysis, distinguish observations from actionable insights, and present recommendations clearly.
• Curiosity: A natural inclination to ask questions and seek a deeper understanding of people, culture, and market dynamics.
• Proactivity & Initiative: A self-starter who looks for opportunities to enhance processes and help the team without being prompted.
• Adaptability & Resilience: The flexibility to adapt to shifting priorities in a fast-paced environment and handle setbacks constructively.
• Collaboration: A strong team player with excellent interpersonal skills and empathy, capable of building effective working relationships.
• Attention to Detail: An organised and methodical approach to work, ensuring accuracy in tasks and reporting.

Our Commitment

We are committed to increasing diversity and maintaining an inclusive workplace culture. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates regardless of their ethnicity, race, gender, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability.

We are Disability Confident Committed. Please let us know if you require any recruitment documentation in other formats or if you require reasonable adjustments to be made during the recruitment process. Please be assured that any such information will be held separately to your recruitment application and will not be considered as part of the selection process.