Media Manager (Benelux)

Location: Antwerpen, Belgium; hybrid working model combining office and home working.

Company

hirify.global develops home-living products, including air fryers and coffee-making products, sold under the Philips and other brands.

What you will do

• Own local media strategies and annual or rolling media plans across Benelux brands and categories.
• Translate global media strategies and campaign guidance into locally relevant plans based on consumer behavior, media dynamics, retailer ecosystems, and market priorities.
• Integrate paid media, organic social, creators, influencers, and local content with the Social Manager.
• Partner with Marketing Managers on campaign objectives, audience choices, launch plans, investment priorities, and measurable outcomes.
• Lead the media agency relationship, strengthen briefs, challenge recommendations, and ensure quality delivery from strategy through activation and reporting.
• Control budgets, commitments, forecasts, performance reviews, governance, brand safety, privacy, procurement, and financial requirements while driving optimization and continuous learning.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Marketing, Media, Communications, Business, Digital, or a related discipline.
• Approximately 5–8 years of relevant experience in media, marketing, digital, or integrated communications on the advertiser and/or agency side.
• Strong understanding of integrated media planning across video, digital, search, social, retail media, programmatic, audio, out-of-home, and other relevant channels.
• Experience managing substantial budgets, forecasts, purchase commitments, and optimization decisions while balancing efficiency, effectiveness, brand building, and short-term performance.
• Ability to interpret agency reports, platform data, campaign KPIs, and research and turn results into clear decisions and actions.
• Excellent briefing and communication skills, including the ability to challenge agencies and senior stakeholders constructively.
• Ability to build trust and influence Marketing, Social, agency, global, and cross-functional partners without relying on hierarchical authority.
• Strategic thinking combined with strong organization, attention to detail, action orientation, and the ability to manage multiple categories and campaigns in parallel.
• Proactive, pragmatic, experimental, and disciplined in follow-through; fluent in English.

Nice to have

• Experience with consumer brands, retail, or a fast-moving international environment.
• Dutch is strongly preferred.
• French is an advantage for collaboration across the Benelux.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work combining office and home working according to team dynamics and personal needs.
• Internationally competitive base salary benchmarked against global industry and market leaders.
• Sales Incentive Program, company car, and work-from-home, commuting, and phone allowances.
• Product discounts on hirify.global products sold under the Philips and other brands.
• High-growth environment with learning and career development opportunities.
• Inclusive international culture focused on diversity and a family-oriented working environment.