Manager, Planning

About the Role:

This is a pivotal and exciting role working on one of our agency's newest skincare clients. This is an amazing opportunity to join a newly formed team tasked with driving best in class planning campaigns across markets.

Focussed on Comms Planning, this role is responsible for helping to drive the agenda for this global brand and ensure that media plans are delivered through excellent implementational planning in local markets.

In this role you will be a core part of the wider global team.

You need to be comfortable looking at & understanding a media plan and you need to have an innate curiosity & desire to make the work strategically excellent.

About You & the role:

Comms Planning Management

• Build comms planning strategies that will enable the client to achieve (& exceed) marketing objectives for specific campaigns.
• Ensure effective delivery of the strategy across key markets collaborating closely with local offline and digital hub teams to develop and own integrated campaign plans.
• Be comfortable writing and presenting media planning documents to senior stakeholders.
• Understand and be close to all campaign tracking and evaluation, to feed insight into ongoing optimisation and future planning.
• Be the implementational planning expert who understands and can advise on the best use of full funnel channels across paid media.
• Be comfortable talking to clients about the connection between channels across paid, owned & earned media.
• Manage accurate and documented client campaign approvals and pacing from annual to tactical planning via OMNI tools and WoW.
• Support wider team on ad-hoc media projects and thought pieces.
• Be regularly in touch with media partners to understand new innovations in the market and receive new audience insights.

Interpersonal / Attitudinal Skills

• Have an innate curiosity and a willingness to share ideas, thoughts & insights with the wider team.
• Develop a strong working relationship with colleagues & nurture positive team spirit.
• Take pride in everything you do and really care about delivering great work.
• Recognise when to escalate a potential issue to senior colleagues or seek a second opinion from the wider team.
• Great attention to detail and a high level of numeracy - spot it first!
• A positive 'can-do' attitude and approach.

About the Agency:

At OMD EMEA, we strive to deliver on our promise of 'better decisions, faster' for our clients, partners and all 6,000+ OMDers across our region every day. As part of the world's largest media network, our business is staging experiences for consumers who have more choice and less attention than ever before. The key to the process is empathy. Empathy to see the world through the eyes of the consumer, to recognise the needs of our clients and to identify aspirations of our talent.

Learn Fast, Act Fast. To help navigate the road to a 'new normal', learning from, and acting upon data signals at scale and speed is crucial. Visit Why OMD? to learn more about our unique Act Fast Framework.