Global Planning Manager

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 is looking for a Planning Manager to join our growing planning team, to create impactful cross channel campaigns and build your media planning skills.

Responsibilities

Develop an in-depth understanding of media channels including where, when and how to use them based on the client; Have a skilled knowledge of Wavemaker and industry media planning tools and be able to train other team; Have a skilled understanding of industry best practices and planning; Develop a fundamental knowledge of Wavemaker Purchase Journey thinking and Provocative Planning; Ownership of campaign activity including briefing teams, collating response, managing client’s deliverables, and ensuring accuracy across all; Work closely with the planning and activation teams to ensure the day-to-day account is run efficiently; Be able to bring in specialist teams where needed to work on briefs and client; Ensure financial management processes are always excellent and met in a timely manner; Become a trusted main day-to-day contact for junior clients, learning their business and ways of working; Ensure that all requests and queries are answered with accuracy and in a timely manner; Support in managing Planning Executives to ensure they are on track with daily tasks, mentor and challenge them with new projects to develop their skills; Start to develop a proactive problem-solving mindset but know when to flag any issues or concerns with Planning

Requirements

Embrace WPP Media's shared core values: Be Extraordinary by Leading Collectively to Inspire Transformational; Create an Open environment by Balancing People and Client Experiences by Cultivating Trust; Lead Optimistically by Championing Growth and Development to Mobilize the Enterprise; Practice Area Knowledge – Skilled: Demonstrates knowledge of the media landscape including future trends, best practices and challenges; Comfortable using (or briefing out) of various products, platforms and systems that comms planning use; Confident using tools, technology, techniques and systems and able to train others; Comfortable presenting both direct from platform and developing a story from data; Problem Solving – Fundamental: Applies focused questioning and systematic research to understand problems and wider impact; Translates business problems into solutions; Understands how to resolve escalated issues and supports others to problem solve; Stakeholder Relationships – Fundamental: Cultivates, nurtures and grows relationships with key clients, stakeholders and decision makers; Knows about client’s business and key decision makers; Responds to stakeholder requests accurately, timely and professionally; Effective Communications – Skilled: Leads dialogues between internal and external people; Breaks down complex technical information into understandable language; Designs differentiated communications for various audiences; Campaign Management – Skilled: Manages and takes ownership of several projects/tasks accurately and thoroughly; Manages and takes ownership of campaigns from start to completion; Delivers accurate reports with value-added insights and actionable findings; Accountable for ongoing management of campaign; Compelling Storytelling – Skilled: Builds persuasive stories and recommendations; Applies big picture thinking; Ideas Creation – Skilled: Generates or facilitates new ideas, methods, innovation or creative media solutions; Identifies relevant partners to bring ideas to life; Comms Planning – Skilled: Finds solutions for client business problems using media; Applies knowledge of client, audience, channel, market and category; Applies purchase journey thinking and visualises how the media plan works; Identifies and recommends budget shifts; Right to work in the UK

Benefits

competitive medical insurance; group retirement plans; vision insurance; dental insurance; significant paid time off; preferential partner discounts; employee mental health awareness days; access to global WPP Media and WPP networks; employee resource groups; in-office events