Planning Director

What you'll be doing

We are looking for a branded content-focused Partnerships Planning Director to join our dynamic partnerships team. Reporting to the Head of Commercial Planning, you will use our arsenal of well-known and respected media brands and editorial experience to create branded content partnerships across multiple clients ranging from lifestyle, homes, tech, entertainment, FMCG, and beyond.

The purpose of this planning role is strategic. Strategically, Sales Planners develop compelling narratives for client briefs, utilising diverse data sources to inform breakthrough strategies that help us win maximum budget/share of wallet. Tactically, Sales Planners prioritise ideation, bringing fresh thinking to client briefs while ensuring consistency in Future's sales pitches and proposals across the Commercial team, producing RFP responses and pitch decks.

As Sales planners, we foster innovation by building relationships with internal trade and product marketing, creative solutions, and ad ops teams, and in doing so, arm our commercial and sales teams to profitably represent our multi-faceted media brand portfolio.

Experience that will put you ahead of the curve

• Media planning fundamentals from either a planning or a strategy role
• Proficiency in holistic planning, integrating brand and performance strategies while identifying clear roles for partnership and content within the wider media mix
• In-depth knowledge of multi-media channels, technology interactions, and strategic advertising opportunities
• Experience with modern and evolving content creation and distribution strategies
• Expertise in insight development and interpreting relevant insights
• Experience working on large brands, be it in an agency or with media publishers
• Management and talent development of multi-tier team ROI-focused
• Strategic and Return on investment-focused - the ability to see things from our client's perspective

What's in it for you

We have a number of awesome perks available to our staff. We offer huge opportunities to learn and develop, whether through professional qualifications, exposure to incredible business projects or informal lunch & learns, hosted by your colleagues. We have a fantastic culture where we really do care about our people and want everyone to succeed. Varied roles mean you're not pigeonholed into one finite area but get the opportunity to develop a wide range of skills and experience.

And to top it all off, not only do we offer unlimited holiday because we trust you to manage your workload and time but we also offer a share in our success whereby every colleague is eligible to join our profit pool bonus scheme - if Future hits their performance targets all colleagues may receive a bonus.

The expected range for this role is £32,000 - £55,000

This is a Hybrid role from our London Office, working three days from the office, two from home.

Who are we

We're Future. We're 3000+ colleagues over 250+ brands speaking to 400 million people every month across the globe through websites, events and magazines. We've got ambitious plans that build on our growth momentum and unlock new opportunities and we're looking for talented people who want to be a part of it.

Our Future, Our Responsibility - Inclusion and Diversity at Future

We have a voice and we're going to use it. We promote diversity and inclusion not just in our recruitment processes, but everything we do. We're an equal opportunity employer and we will continue to ensure our recruitment process is free of bias and our workplaces are inclusive, positive, free of discrimination, and respecting of all backgrounds and beliefs. Our culture is underpinned by our values and employees - current and future - are treated with respect and fairness.

Please let us know if you need any reasonable adjustments made so we can give you the best experience!

Find out more about Our Future, Our Responsibility on our website.