Senior Media Manager - Southern & Central Africa

About the role

indrive is hiring a Senior Media Manager to lead regional media strategy and execution across Southern and Central Africa. The role owns multi-market media budgets, optimizes channel performance and drives measurable business impact across brand and performance campaigns. It also leads agency partnerships, oversees cross-market media governance and mentors media specialists.

Key responsibilities

• Formulate and execute the annual media strategy and vision for Southern and Central Africa, aligned with regional P&L and long-term business goals.
• Manage, allocate and optimize the multi-market media budget autonomously, improving financial efficiency, forecast accuracy and commercial ROI.
• Act as the primary media authority and trusted advisor to regional executive leadership.
• Lead media governance for Southern Africa and provide strategic direction, quality assurance and oversight for Central Africa markets.
• Mentor and coach the remote Central Africa Media Specialist, building technical capability and unified regional standards.
• Build upper-, mid- and lower-funnel cross-channel strategies (online, offline, performance and brand) for different market maturities.
• Pilot emerging media channels, advanced measurement tools and integrated influencer frameworks.
• Lead agency relationships, performance evaluations, fee negotiations and commercial terms with regional partners and major media owners.
• Set measurement frameworks against hard business outcomes such as sales growth, market share and CAC.
• Own major regional campaigns end to end, from brief and strategy through execution, optimization and post-campaign debriefs.

Required profile

• Regional media strategy and multi-market budget management.
• Strong expertise in brand, performance and omnichannel marketing.
• Understanding of Southern and Central African media landscapes.

Required skills

• Media planning, campaign optimization and ROI measurement.
• Agency management, commercial negotiations and partner relations.
• Data-driven decision-making, analytics and business performance measurement.
• Cross-functional leadership, stakeholder management and team mentorship.
• Media innovation, emerging channels and influencer marketing.

What we offer

• Access to mentoring, career consulting and learning programs.
• International experience through the Global Talent Exchange Program.
• Company-wide challenges, awards, sports, social impact and volunteering projects.
• Co-financed language courses and internal speaking clubs.