What you’ll be doing:

As our Paid Media Specialist, you’ll lead the strategy, execution, and optimisation of paid media campaigns across both digital and offline channels. You’ll work across key marketing streams including Retail Always On, Tactical Sales, and SME Always On, ensuring campaigns are aligned with business goals and deliver measurable impact.

In this fast-paced, data-driven role, you’ll manage media budgets, track performance, and collaborate with internal teams and external partners to drive results. Your work will directly contribute to the growth of one of Australia’s most loved brands, making this an exciting opportunity for someone who’s passionate about media, marketing, and making a difference.

This is a 12 month secondment opportunity.

You’ll be great in this role if you:

• Have a tertiary qualification or equivalent experience in business, marketing, or a related field
• Bring 3–5 years of hands-on experience in paid media, with strong skills in media planning, buying, and campaign optimisation
• Are confident across digital media channels and tactics, with a solid understanding of omnichannel media planning
• Have worked in agency or in-house environments, managing multiple stakeholders and high campaign volumes
• Use data to drive decisions, with experience in attribution models and marketing mix modelling (MMM)
• Are skilled in planning and/or buying traditional/offline media
• Communicate clearly and build strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders
• Can juggle multiple projects and deadlines with strong organisational and project management skills
• Know how to compile reports and interpret performance data to inform strategy
• Are comfortable reviewing creative assets and promotional content
• Understand campaign tracking, optimisation, and reporting tools
• Have knowledge of contract setup and financial processes (e.g. purchase orders, invoicing)
• Ideally, have completed industry-accredited training (e.g. MFA, NGEN, Google, Meta certifications)
• Have experience with media platforms, tracking tools, and reporting dashboards
• Understand Virgin Australia's brand and customer engagement approach (desirable)

Equality rules:

We’re all individuals. We love that. That’s why we encourage applications from Indigenous Australians, people with disability, those from diverse cultural backgrounds, our friends in the LGBTQIA+ community, and anyone else who wants to join our family.

Ready to apply? We’re ready to hear from you. Apply now.