Integrated Planning Lead

Nestpensions; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 64,000 - 86,000; Full time

Job summary

Nest is seeking an Integrated Planning Lead to align brand, marketing, and channel activity into a single, measurable plan. You will work across Brand, Marketing, Creative, Communications, Customer Propositions, Experience and Insight to drive organisational objectives and investment impact.

The role requires extensive planning experience, cross-functional collaboration, and a track record of maturing planning practices, with hybrid office/remote working from Canary Wharf, London.

Qualifications

• Extensive planning experience across brand and performance marketing.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration to represent brand priorities.

Responsibilities

• Develop and unify brand, marketing, creative and channel plans into a single integrated plan.
• Collaborate with Brand, Marketing, Communications, Customer Propositions, Experience and Insight teams to drive objectives.
• Support hybrid working and report to the Head of Integrated Planning.

Skills

Planning processes

Brand & marketing alignment

Integrated planning

Risk & compliance collaboration

Job description

*Please note we only accept online applications.*

Role Overview

Operating at the intersection of strategy, planning and delivery our Integrated Planning Lead will work closely with teams across Brand, Marketing, Creative, Communications, Customer Propositions, Experience and Insight. Bringing together multiple priorities into a single integrated plan will drive organisational objectives, support our customer and employer strategies and maximises the impact of our investment. The minimum criteria for this role are:

• Extensive applied experience of planning processes across brand and performance marketing channels
• Demonstrable experience in representing brand and marketing priorities in cross function business collaboration
• Proven track record in growing the sophistication of a brand and marketing integrated planning approach from low level maturity to established discipline
• Experience in partnering with internal risk and compliance colleagues to establish principles and processes for managing risk in marketing activity

Don't worry if you think you don't have all the key skills, it might be worth taking the few minutes to apply as we're good at spotting potential.At Nest, you’ll have access to a range of learning opportunities to learn, grow and build the skills you need to be successful in your role and career.

Please download a full job description to find a full scope, deliverables, experience and personalattributesrequired for this role.

Flexible and agile working

Everyone's personal situation is different.

To make the most out of hybrid working, we've introduced different ways of working, which include (subject to role requirements):

• hybrid of office (Canary Wharf, London)and home working(there will be an expectationto attend the office, once - twice a week, or more, as required)
• reduce or vary working hours
• reduce or vary the days worked
• work compressed hours
• job share

Directorate/Department Overview

The Brand Team sits within the Nest Experience Directorate and was established in 2025, sitting alongside Proposition and Experience functions. It brings together Brand Strategy, Marketing, Social Media, External Communications and Creative.

A rapidly expanding team of over 30 led by the Director of Brand and Marketing, the department is responsible for growing awareness, trust and engagement with Nest across our customer base of Members, Employers and Connectors.

Integrated Planning acts as the coordinating hub that aligns brand, marketing, communications, creative and channel activity into a single, measurable plan. The role of Integrated Planning Lead will report into the Head of Integrated Planning.

Organisational Overview

Nest is an award-winning workplace pension scheme, the largest in the country.
Set up by the government to give every worker in the UK somewhere to save, our first-class responsible investment practice and governance are the backbone of what we do, supported by all the functions you’d expect to find in a thriving business. We’re committed to creating a workplace where you can be your authentic self and offer an inclusive and flexible working environment.
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Everyone is welcome to apply for our roles, and we are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment because of their age , disability, gender identity, marital status, national origin, pregnancy or caring responsibilities, race, religion/belief, sex, sexual orientation or socio economic background.
We also recognise the importance of diversity of thought and other forms of neurocognitive variation.

Nest is a Disability Confident Leader, which is the highest level of the Disability Confident Scheme. If you have a disability, please declare that you’re applying through the scheme .

We aim to offer an interview to those applicants who apply through the Disability Confident Scheme and best meet the minimum criteria. However, there may be some circumstances where this is not possible due to the volume of applications.

Please note that this advert may close early if we receive a sufficient number of satisfactory applications.
If you have any difficulty in sending your application or need the application pack in an alternative format, or you require any reasonable adjustments please contact: [e-mail].

Around £75,000 (Depending on Experience)