Our Story

At Lactalis, we are true to our purpose: we are a family business offering healthy and delicious dairy products that bring people together. We also happen to be the worldwide leader in what we do. We are passionate and ambitious, with a desire to learn and grow.

Our Purpose

At the heart of our Australian business, we have over 2,500 passionate employees working closely with our farmers, customers and consumers to produce some of the country's most loved dairy products. Brands including Pauls, OAK, Ice Break, Vaalia, Tamar Valley Dairy, Jalna and Président provide Lactalis Australia with a deep national footprint and a platform for continued growth and innovation.

The Opportunity

An exciting opportunity exists for a Regional Media Manager – ANZ & SEA to join Lactalis' Global Strategy, Sales & Marketing Expertise team. Based in Melbourne and reporting to the Zone Media Director, you will play a key role in shaping media excellence across Southeast Asia, Australia and New Zealand.

As part of our global Media Centre of Excellence, you will partner with local marketing teams, media agencies and key stakeholders to develop media strategies, optimise investment performance and ensure best-practice media governance across multiple markets.

This is a rare opportunity to combine strategic influence, international exposure and hands-on media leadership within one of the world's leading FMCG organisations.

Key responsibilities include:

- Partner with marketing teams across ANZ & SEA to develop effective offline, digital and e-retail media strategies.




- Drive successful media campaign implementation in line with global guidelines and best practice.
- Monitor media performance and investment effectiveness, providing insights and recommendations to optimise results.
- Oversee media buying activities from briefing through to campaign reporting and review.
- Ensure compliance with approved media plans, KPIs, budgets and governance processes.
- Consolidate reporting, performance analysis and key learnings across regional markets.
- Build strong partnerships with media agencies and marketing stakeholders to drive consistency and excellence.
- Contribute to the development of global media guidelines and the sharing of best practices.
- Deliver training and capability-building initiatives to strengthen media expertise across the region.

About You

You bring media expertise and strong strategic and analytical capabilities, and a passion for driving performance through effective media investment. You are equally comfortable influencing senior stakeholders, analysing campaign effectiveness and partnering with agencies to deliver outstanding results.

This position is ideal for an applicant with:

- A Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Business or a related discipline.
- At least 7 years' experience in media, either agency-side or client-side.




- Strong expertise across media strategy, planning, buying and performance measurement.
- Experience working across both offline and digital media channels.
- Strong analytical capability and the ability to translate data into actionable business recommendations.
- Excellent stakeholder management, communication and influencing skills.
- The ability to thrive in a fast-paced, multicultural and highly cooperative environment.
- FMCG experience will be highly regarded.
- Flexibility and willingness to travel across the SEA & ANZ region as required.

What We Offer

As a global company, we provide an exciting opportunity to make a genuine impact across multiple markets while working within a world-class Media Centre of Excellence. You will gain exposure to senior leaders, strengthen your strategic capabilities and access future career development opportunities both locally and internationally.

Based in Melbourne, this role offers excellent career development, exposure to senior stakeholders and flexible ways of working, providing a balance of in-office collaboration and working from home.

If you possess the ambition, commercial acumen and media expertise to thrive in this role, submit your application by selecting 'Apply' and following the prompts.

Join Lactalis and help shape the future of media excellence across ANZ & SEA.

Please note that applicants must have full working rights for Australia to be considered.

We are politely declining recruitment agency support and approaches for this role.

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