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About the Role

We are looking for a smart and energetic Planning Manager to join a vibrant client team. You will support a Group Planning Director to deliver exceptional, effective ‘Challenger’ work, in line with our principles of creativity and integration. You’ll be a key contact for our day to day clients, crafting connections plans, brilliant ideas and helping them drive business forward.

Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day contact with mid-level clients
• Become an expert in our new agency tool suite ‘VCCP Brand OS’
• Develop the Communications plan for your clients and brief channel experts for detailed media execution.
• Develop ideas that can populate culture in partnership with the Creative Partnership team and your strategy leads/CSO.
• Responsible for delivering client KPI’s, results and targets (with the PD)
• Delivering the highest level of account management (meeting deadlines, accuracy, project management) to ensure VCCP Media are a joy to work with.
• Autonomy over clients with smaller spending budgets as required (with the Planning Director having final responsibility), these will be yours to showcase your smarts and leadership skills.
• Present recommended Comms and implementation plans to clients
• Researching new media ideas and opportunities including growing your own network of trusted media owners
• Learn and improve from campaigns on an ongoing basis and advise re. optimisations across all media
• Detailed and up to date knowledge of the client’s business, objectives, key personnel, structure, changes, market etc.
• Strong understanding of the client business and category
• Supporting the Group Planning Director in cross selling additional products and services to ensure your client has an innovative and exciting growth plan.
• Organising weekly (or agreed regular) reporting for all campaigns
• Overseeing the management of the team, supporting Planning Exec development
• Invoice queries and resolving accounts queries
• Booking OOH with Posterscope

Requirements

• Experience in a client facing account role
• A good level of digital knowledge, with the ability to talk about digital partners, plans, optimisations and audiences fluently
• Multi-media disciplined – can talk competently about all media
• Strong presentation skills
• Exceptional client handling and relationship building skills
• Numerate (budgeting, forecasting etc…) and analytical capabilities
• Commercial acumen
• Ability to go the extra mile – to contribute to the development of the agency thinking broader than just the clients business e.g. innovations challenge
• Resilience to keep going in a fast paced environment
• Thrive on working in a high energy and fast paced environment, where no two days are the same
• Be proactive with a can-do attitude - be eager to get your sleeves rolled up and learn
• Strive for excellence - be proud of your work and have meticulous attention to detail
• Friendly and approachable
• Build rapport and able to quickly establish excellent working relationships
• Live and breathe the agency’s values
• Strives for excellence
• Can do attitude
• Approachable and personable
• Builds rapport and is able to quickly establish excellent working relationships
• Team player
• You will be required to complete a Criminal Records Declaration regarding any unspent convictions.
• For roles in finance, HR, Legal, IT or senior management, we may be required to verify your declaration with a basic DBS check, as well as an Adverse Finance and ID check.

Skills

• Digital knowledge
• Multi-media discipline
• Presentation skills
• Client handling
• Relationship building
• Nielsen AdIntel (previously Addynamix)
• DDS
• Budgeting
• Forecasting
• Analytical capabilities
• Commercial acumen

About the Company

• We are the challenger agency for challenger brands.
• We specialise in communications planning and activation that integrates creative with media and so much more.
• Our strategy and planning teams include specialists from SEO, social, PPC, data, technology, creative partnerships, and media, to name a few.
• Some might say we are a full-service media agency but we go much further.
• We are the only media agency whose strategists and planners incorporate insights from behavioural science, production, creative, PR, brand design, UX and beyond.
• From the first search right through to post-purchase management of data, we make everything compelling, coherent and cohesive.
• That’s how we transform a client’s business.
• We are VCCP. We do media. We just do it differently.

Equal Opportunity

• We believe that DE&I is about creating a strong culture of inclusion within our agency, where everyone can thrive and be their authentic self.
• VCCP is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of gender, age, disability, religion, belief, sexual orientation, marital status, or ethnicity.
• If you require any adjustments during the application or interview process, please let us know via joinus@vccp.com.