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About the Role
The Senior Associate, Media Planning is responsible for driving day-to-day campaign tactical planning work across end-to-end processes and tools, ensuring all media deliverables are accurate, timely, and comprehensive. This role involves executing core media operations with increasing independence, spotting emerging trends, and partnering with cross-functional disciplines to craft solutions.
Responsibilities
- Drive day-to-end planning tasks, including audience research, media plan matrix management, creative spec collation, trafficking coordination, and financial reconciliation.
- Utilize core agency and planning platforms (e.g., GWI, Olive, PFC, ad servers) with speed and precision.
- Ensure operational accuracy across campaign setups, tracking tags, media briefs, and billing milestones.
- Manage daily schedule effectively, prioritizing tasks to meet deadlines across concurrent campaigns.
- Foster strong collaborative relationships with key discipline counterparts—including Client Services (CS), Activation, Analytics, and Ad Operations.
- Proactively initiate conversations across internal teams to troubleshoot issues, gather required inputs, and ensure seamless handoffs.
- Work laterally within the pod/discipline team to ensure alignment on campaign milestones and shared project timelines.
- Actively participate in internal campaign, tactical, and status meetings.
- Partner with Planning Managers to accurately capture meeting notes, open questions, and agreed next steps.
- Take accountability for following up on assigned media actions and liaising with stakeholders to obtain timely answers.
- Own the compilation and rigorous data QA of regular reporting deliverables (e.g., weekly pacing/performance, DCA inputs).
- Answer tactical, campaign-level questions and begin identifying noteworthy trends in performance data.
- Help outline initial observations and potential solutions for campaign hurdles alongside your Planning Manager.
- Deepen understanding of client Product Areas (PAs), historical campaign performance, competitive context, and audience dynamics.
- Continuously refine both written and verbal communication to present technical media details clearly and concisely.
Requirements
- 1–2+ years of hands-on media agency experience, preferably within digital media planning, media operations, or campaign management.
- Experience with audience profiling and media research tools (e.g., GWI) and media finance/planning platforms (e.g., Olive, Mediaocean, or equivalent enterprise planning software).
- Strong proficiency in Google Sheets / Microsoft Excel (formulas, pivot tables, VLOOKUP/XLOOKUP, data reconciliation).
- Proven ability to multitask and manage competing deadlines across multiple workstreams without sacrificing quality.
- Clear, professional written and verbal communication skills; collaborative mindset with an eagerness to learn and share knowledge.
- Requires individuals to have the right to work in the UK.
Skills
- Audience research
- Media plan matrix management
- Creative spec collation
- Trafficking coordination
- Financial reconciliation
- GWI
- Olive
- PFC
- Ad servers
- Campaign setups
- Tracking tags
- Media briefs
- Billing
- Google Sheets
- Microsoft Excel
- Formulas
- Pivot tables
- VLOOKUP
- XLOOKUP
- Data reconciliation
- Multitasking
- Time management
- Prioritization
- Collaboration
- Communication
Location
- UK
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 1-2+ years
Benefits
- Competitive medical insurance
- Group retirement plans
- Vision insurance
- Dental insurance
- Significant paid time off
- Preferential partner discounts
- Employee mental health awareness days
About the Company
- WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands, helping clients navigate change, capture opportunity, and deliver transformational growth.
- WPP Media is WPP's AI-driven media operating unit, bringing together media, data, and partnerships to deliver creative personalization at scale.
- Clients see exactly where, how, and why their media investment is working through WPP Open and Open Intelligence.
Equal Opportunity
- WPP Media is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without regard to characteristics.
- We believe the best work happens when we're together, fostering creativity, collaboration, and connection in this open and supportive environment.
- If you require accommodations or flexibility, please discuss this with the hiring team during the interview process.