Impress employers and recruiters.
Choose from hundreds of resume examples.
Impress employers and recruiters.
Choose from hundreds of resume examples.
Target Resume Now
About the Role
Lead performance planning for a major finance client, shaping the future of a transformational operating model. This senior leadership role combines strategic thinking, innovation, and digital expertise to drive meaningful business growth through integrated performance solutions.
Responsibilities
- Lead the development of integrated performance media strategies that deliver against client objectives.
- Create best-in-class channel plans in partnership with specialist activation and data teams.
- Champion a test-and-learn approach by embedding experimentation and optimisation into planning frameworks.
- Build trusted relationships with senior stakeholders and become a valued strategic advisor.
- Identify innovative opportunities across media, technology and measurement to unlock growth.
- Lead cross-functional collaboration to develop connected solutions that address complex business challenges.
- Support team development, mentoring colleagues and contributing to capability building across the wider business.
Requirements
- Significant experience in digital planning with a strong focus on performance media.
- Deep understanding of performance channels, measurement frameworks and digital marketing effectiveness.
- Proven ability to create strategic recommendations that drive commercial outcomes.
- Strong stakeholder management and presentation skills, with confidence engaging senior audiences.
- Experience leading, coaching or developing teams within an agency or client environment.
- Commercial awareness and the ability to identify opportunities that create value for clients and the business.
- A collaborative, inquisitive and solutions-focused mindset with a passion for innovation.
Skills
- Digital planning
- Performance media
- Performance channels
- Measurement frameworks
- Digital marketing effectiveness
- Strategic recommendations
- Stakeholder management
- Presentation skills
- Team leadership
- Coaching
- Commercial awareness
- Innovation
Location
- UK
Work Type
- Office-based
- Client-site based
Experience Level
- Senior leadership
Benefits
- Pension
- Life Assurance
- Private Medical cover
- Reflection Days
- Shared Parental Leave
About the Company
- Spark Foundry is the Acceleration Agency, helping brands identify, learn, and respond to opportunities faster than the competition.
- We use a proven approach to provide a launchpad for clients' futures.
- Our approach involves cutting-edge planning, actionable intelligence, flexible trading, challenging relationships, and diverse talent development.
- We are diverse and celebrate our diversity through regular events and initiatives.
Equal Opportunity
- Spark Foundry is committed to equal access to opportunity for people without regard to race, age, sex, disability, neurodiversity, sexual orientation, gender identity or religion.
- We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer.
- We welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, and do not discriminate on the basis of race, ethnicity, nationality, religion or belief, disability, age, citizenship, relationship status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other protected characteristic.
- We are committed to providing a fair, accessible, and inclusive recruitment process.
- We work with candidates to ensure the recruitment process works for them, accommodating access needs.
- Sharing information about access needs will never impact an application.