Senior Marketing Media Manager

About the role

The Senior Marketing Media Manager is one of the leadership roles within the Media Operations & Partnerships team, helping steward a $2B enterprise media investment portfolio across all lines of business. This newly created role partners closely with the in-house media team, agency, and cross-functional stakeholders to establish and oversee the governance, processes, and operating framework that fuel high-value relationships with T-Mobile's key media partners. Success in this role requires an understanding of the media landscape and how strong, trusted partnerships drive better collaboration, innovation, and business outcomes. Through strong project management and cross-functional coordination, this individual will drive accountability, ensure key initiatives remain on track, and help teams successfully execute against established partnership strategies. This individual will also lead the end-to-end annual endeavor planning process, driving T-Mobile's second-largest enterprise media value initiative behind the Video Upfronts.

Responsibilities

• Evolve and oversee T-Mobile's media partner management framework, driving consistent adoption, governance, and continuous improvement across the media team
• Steward end-to-end annual endeavor process in collaboration with our in-house media team and agency, including strategy development, briefing, negotiation, approvals, and ongoing management to maximize enterprise media value
• Partner with the Media Enablement team to modernize media partnership operations by identifying opportunities to leverage AI, automation, and scalable workflows that improve efficiency, visibility, and consistency
• Develop and manage internal and external partner communication processes that drive timely engagement, clearly defined roles and responsibilities, and seamless stakeholder coordination
• Serve as the first point of contact for media partnership inquiries, leveraging a broad understanding of partner relationships, supporting documentation, and stakeholder roles to answer questions, source information, or facilitate connections to the appropriate subject matter experts
• Lead the development of briefs to support partner meetings senior leaders and executives have
• Lead or support cross-functional initiatives, special projects and ad hoc requests as needed
• Drive quality assurance across media partnership operations, ensuring the accuracy, consistency, and reliability of key deliverables, processes, and communications

Qualifications

• Proven ability to build trusted relationships, influence without direct authority, and drive alignment across diverse internal and external stakeholders
• Demonstrated ability to lead complex, cross-functional initiatives, coordinate multiple workstreams, and ensure successful delivery through strong planning and execution
• Experience developing and implementing governance, processes, and operating frameworks that improve consistency, accountability, and execution
• Demonstrated experience leveraging AI and automation tools to improve productivity, simplify processes, and enable more efficient ways of working
• Highly organized with the ability to manage multiple priorities, maintain attention to detail, and deliver high-quality work in a fast-paced environment
• Thrives in evolving environments, embraces change, and continuously seeks opportunities to improve team processes and outcomes
• At least 18 years of age
• Legally authorized to work in the United States

Education & experience

• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Marketing, Communications or related field (Required)
• 7-10 years Media management experience in consumer products; agency media planning experience strongly preferred
• Experience leading complex, cross-functional initiatives involving multiple stakeholders, driving alignment and successful execution
• Experience establishing governance, processes, or operating frameworks that improve consistency, accountability, and execution
• Deep understanding of the media landscape, including experience working with media partners to build collaborative relationships that drive business value

Pay & benefits

Base Pay Range: $84,600 - $152,500. Corporate Bonus Target: 15%.

Employees in regular, non-temporary roles are eligible for an annual bonus or periodic sales incentive or bonus based on their role. Most Corporate employees are eligible for a year-end bonus based on company and/or individual performance.

Benefits include medical, dental and vision insurance, flexible spending account, 401(k), employee stock grants, employee stock purchase plan, paid time off and up to 12 paid holidays (totaling about 4 weeks for new full-time employees and about 2.5 weeks for new part-time employees annually), paid parental and family leave, family building benefits, back-up care, enhanced family support, childcare subsidy, tuition assistance, college coaching, short- and long-term disability, voluntary AD&D coverage, voluntary accident coverage, voluntary life insurance, voluntary disability insurance, voluntary long-term care insurance, mobile service & home internet discounts, pet insurance, and commuter and transit programs.

Schedule & travel

• Travel Required: Yes