Planning Director

About the role:

The planning team are the guardians of creating industry leading, unrivalled work at Wavemaker. We are central conduits to all specialists, striving to push boundaries and have a positive impact on consumers and brand.

Wavemaker UK is looking for a Planning Director to join our growing planning team, to drive planning across specific clients and be a media planning expert.

In this role, you will:

1. Media planning craft:
1. Develop an advanced understanding of media channels, channel ecosystems and planning best practices.
2. Start to translate strategic approach into planning practices for specific client briefs and pitches.
3. Have an advanced understanding of Wavemaker's Purchase Journey thinking and planning philosophy across all client work, including being an expert in a broad set of internal tools, as well as external tools to build a deep understanding of the consumer, the client's business and its specific opportunities.
4. Have an expert overview of the media market landscape, trends and start to build media owner relationships.
2. Campaign management & effective communication:
1. Oversee campaign management, ensuring quality control and output is of the highest standard.
2. Develop a skilled understanding of commercial practices and of the wider agency.
3. Build and maintain client and agency relationships at a mid-senior level, to ensure a comprehensive understanding of stakeholders and client business.
3. Comms planning and storytelling:
1. Own planning presentations including defining the inputs needed and working with the wider teams to compile work and meet deadlines.
2. Lead brainstorm and idea creation for campaigns.
3. Start to independently problem solve, including integrating and questioning data and insights and find solutions based on knowledge and experience.

Core skills:

1. Practice Area Knowledge: Skilled - Develops breadth and depth of industry understanding. Becomes confident using tools, technology, techniques and systems and is able to train others.
2. Effective Communication: Advanced - Leads the delivery of relevant and accurate information to drive maximum impact. Consistently delivers communications to influence and educate all levels of seniority.
3. Campaign Management: Advanced - Reviews the work of others to ensure accuracy and thoroughness; provides coaching on ways to improve work outputs.
4. Comms Planning: Skilled - Applies knowledge of client, audience, channel, market and category to effectively deliver compelling multi-media plans.

About Wavemaker UK:

Wavemaker is a global media agency. We believe there is a better way to grow. By leveraging our deep understanding of audiences, Provocative Planning process and the world's largest database of purchase journeys, we deliver exceptional growth for clients.

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