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About the Role

The planning team are the guardians of creating industry leading, unrivalled work at WPP 650. We are central conduits to all specialists, striving to push boundaries and have a positive impact on consumers and brand. WPP 650 is looking for a Associate Director, Planning to join our growing planning team, to drive planning across specific clients and be a media planning expert.

Responsibilities

Develop an advanced understanding of media channels, channel ecosystems and planning best practices.
Translate strategic approach into planning practices for specific client briefs and pitches.
Have an advanced understanding of WPP 650’s Consumer Journey thinking and planning philosophy across all client work.
Be an expert in a broad set of internal and external tools to build a deep understanding of the consumer, the client’s business and its specific opportunities.
Have an expert overview of the media market landscape, trends and start to build media owner relationships.
Oversee campaign management, ensuring quality control and output is of the highest standard.
Develop a skilled understand of commercial practises and of the wider agency.
Build and maintain client and agency relationships at a mid-senior level, to ensure a comprehensive understanding of stakeholders and client business.
Own planning presentations including defining the inputs needed and working with the wider teams to compile work and meet deadlines.
Lead brainstorm and idea creation for campaigns.
Start to independently problem solve, including integrating and questioning data and insights and find solutions based on knowledge and experience.

Requirements

Develops breadth and depth of industry understanding.
Becomes confident using tools, technology, techniques and systems and is able to train others.
Comfortable presenting both direct from platform (Open) and developing a story from data but delivered outside of platform (Telmar etc).
Can confidently answer client questions and liaise with internal teams on best solutions to use.
Uses critical questioning and maintains a broad perspective when analyzing information to gain a deeper understanding of the problem and wider impact.
Quickly generates appropriate solutions informed by previous experience.
Understands how to resolve escalated issues and supports others to problem solve.
Supports or leads troubleshooting communication for issues.
Has an expert knowledge of client and agency structures.
Can identify key decision makers and understands their perspectives which is used to build relationships.
Has strong knowledge of the client sector/industry which is shared to build strategies and plans.
Identifies strategic issues and raises questions to help stakeholders explore and understand their wider business challenges.
Can easily suggest business solutions to match client/stakeholder needs and achieve objectives.
Leads the delivery of relevant and accurate information to drive maximum impact.
Consistently delivers communications to influence and educate all levels of seniority, appropriately judging the demands of the situation.
Creatively develops presentations and comms to help with the understanding/education of complex information.
Guides others on the best practices and approaches for creating clear, concise and organized communication materials to convey plans in a user-friendly way.
Reviews the work of others to ensure accuracy and thoroughness objectives have been met; provides coaching on ways to improve work outputs.
Applies best practice to campaign management and acts as the escalation point for issues.
Provide actionable insights during mid and post campaign reports to improve in-flight optimizations and future campaign brief recommendations.
Oversees team members to discuss current projects, workload and activities prioritises resources accordingly.
Improves workload management by supporting other in setting priorities and by postponing less relevant work.
Applies big picture thinking in work and proactively leverages an understanding of the organization and key industry trends.
Understand the different elements of responses.
Designs differentiated communications (content focus, style, presentation etc) for various internal and external audiences.
Lead new projects/activities that can create ideas to deliver effective solutions to clients’ business objectives.
Ability to proactively generate ideas to provoke and deliver against broader business strategies.
Coaches others to gain new insights and view opportunities from different perspectives.
Championing an environment that fosters innovation by encouraging others to openly share and build on other’s new ideas, products and solutions.
Applies knowledge of client, audience, channel, market and category to effectively deliver compelling multi-media plans.
Translates learnings and trends to create marketing communication strategies that are effective with clear measurement.
Application of purchase journey thinking and visualization of how the media plan works channels.
Translation of strategic direction/platform/provocation into directional role for media, channel role and behaviour in channel.
Identifies and recommends budget shifts as campaign is in-flight where appropriate.

Skills

Practice Area Knowledge
Problem Solving
Stakeholder Relationships
Effective Communication
Campaign Management
Compelling Storytelling
Ideas Creation
Comms Planning

Location

Work Type

Hybrid
Full-time

Experience Level

Associate Director
Mid-senior level

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.
WPP Media is WPP's AI-driven media operating unit, bringing together media, data, and partnerships to deliver creative personalisation at scale.
WPP 650 is a bespoke agency unit within WPP, dedicated to serving the evolving communications needs of government clients.
We bring together the best of WPP's talent, technology, and insights to deliver impactful, modern, and effective public communications.
We are at the forefront of reimagining how government engages with its citizens.

Equal Opportunity

WPP Media is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.
We are committed to fostering a culture of respect in which everyone feels they belong and has the same opportunities to progress in their careers.