Head of media trading

Role : Head of Media Trading

Contract : Permanent

When : October 2026

Location : Paris

Package : 70K - 80K + 15% variable pay

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The Power of Retail Media

Retail Media has moved from emerging channel to strategic priority for the brands and the retailers. In 2025, global spend reached $171 billion — one dollar in every five spent on advertising worldwide. But the real competition is no longer about budgets. It is about consistently proving that every euro invested leads to new, measurable sales.

About Unlimitail

Our ambition: to become the #1 Commerce Media Network worldwide by connecting every shopper moment — from discovery to purchase — and turning media investment into measurable, incremental sales.

Built on Carrefour's decade of Retail Media experience, Unlimitail today works with 35 retailers across 21 countries, representing 250 million shoppers and more than 3,000 brands — already the #1 omnichannel Commerce Media Network in Europe.

Joining Unlimitail means joining a company at the crossroads of data, technology, and digital marketing — at the precise moment when the industry is deciding what performance actually means.

Role Overview

As a Head of Media Trading, you will join our Operations team and report to Françoise, VP Operations. In this role, you will build, lead and develop the programmatic and social trading capability at Unlimitail across all platforms: DV360, The Trade Desk, Xandr Curate, Meta, TikTok, etc. You will manage and mentor a team of Media Traders, define the trading strategy, and ensure campaign performance excellence across our retailers portfolio.

Your main responsibilities will include

Performance Management and Team Leadership:

• Recruit, onboard and manage a team of Media Traders, set clear objectives and conduct regular performance reviews.
• Provide clear direction to the trading team, fostering accountability, continuous learning and a performance-oriented culture.
• Coach and develop traders at all levels — from junior profiles in active formation to experienced senior traders — fostering a culture of trading excellence, continuous learning, and data-driven decision making.

Process Optimization Management:

• Define and continuously improve the end-to-end trading workflow: from brief intake, campaign setup, activation to optimisation and reporting.
• Drive efficiency and productivity by streamlining processes, leveraging platform automation, and ensuring scalable and consistent campaign execution.

Performance Monitoring and Reporting:

• Monitor campaign KPIs (CPM, CTR, ROAS, viewability, delivery pacing, etc ) across all platforms, identify optimisation levers, and drive corrective actions to meet objectives.
• Produce regular performance reports and budget pacing recommendations for internal stakeholders.

Quality Assurance and Compliance:

• Ensure compliance with industry regulations, platform policies, and brand safety standards.
• Work closely with internal stakeholders (Sales, Account Management, CSM, Data, Product) to translate campaign briefs into efficient trading strategies, and implement quality assurance processes to ensure flawless campaign delivery.

Platform Expertise and Innovation:

• Be the internal expert on all offsite platforms, maintaining strong relationships with partners. Stay ahead of updates, new features, market innovations and emerging technologies (AI bidding, attention metrics for ie).
• Support the VP Operations defining and driving the programmatic and social trading roadmap for Unlimitail. Propose and co-build new offers in collaboration with Sales, Product and Data teams. Identify and test new platforms and supply opportunities to expand Unlimitail’s media offering and grow the business.

We're looking for someone who brings

Experience :

• 10+ years of experience in programmatic trading, preferably in a media agency, trading desk, ad tech company or retail media environment.
• 3+ years of experience in management
• Comfortable working with the retail media ecosystem, including onsite and offsite activation, first-party data strategies, and the specificities of Retail Media Networks (RMN).

Hard Skills :

• Strong knowledge of all platforms in scope (programmatic and social),