Media Buying Manager (Melbourne)

About the role

Fever, a tech platform for culture and live entertainment, is hiring its first Media Buying Manager in the APAC region, based in Melbourne. You will plan and execute global event media strategies in Australia and the APAC region to drive attendance, revenue and brand impact through traditional marketing channels, and will have the chance to build and lead the regional media buying team at headquarters.

Key responsibilities

• Plan and run media plans for events worldwide (pre-launch, launch, post-event) to meet ticket, attendance and ROI targets.
• Sourcing and growing high-value partnerships with media outlets and event-friendly channels across regions.
• Own activations end-to-end: negotiate commercials, oversee technical integrations and optimise in-flight.
• Manage budgets with strict pacing and ROI discipline, reporting spend versus outcomes by event and market.
• Create playbooks for localisation, last-mile promotion near venues and rapid geo-expansion.
• Build reporting dashboards and post-mortems linking media to attendance, cost per attendee and revenue lift.
• Project manage multiple concurrent events to on-time, high-quality delivery.

Required profile

• 5+ years in traditional media (OOH, TV, Radio), ideally with event or time-bound campaigns.
• Bachelor's degree, preferably in a marketing or communications-related field.
• Proven media planning and buying across non-Meta/Google channels.
• Strong English; a second language such as Spanish, Korean, Japanese, Hindi, Mandarin or Cantonese is a plus.
• Dynamic, proactive and solution-focused, able to stay calm under tight deadlines.

What we offer

• Attractive compensation package with room to grow.
• 40% discount on all Fever events and experiences, plus a free Candlelight voucher.
• Superannuation: Fever contributes 12% of gross salary.
• Private health insurance with GU Health paid by Fever up to 2,750 AUD annually.
• ClassPass membership paid by Fever up to 39 credits per month.
• English and Spanish language learning support.
• Hybrid work setup with a central Melbourne office.