Integrated Planning Lead

NEST; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Nest invites applications for an Integrated Planning Lead – Brand and Marketing in London. You will shape how integrated planning supports our Brand and Marketing teams, bringing together insights, priorities and momentum into clear, connected plans that drive impact for members, employers and partners.

You’ll influence senior stakeholders, build mature planning practices and ensure governance while balancing creativity, pace and impact in a hybrid working model.

Qualifications

• Hands-on planning across brand and performance marketing channels.

Responsibilities

• Shape how integrated planning supports Brand and Marketing teams.
• Consolidate priorities into clear, connected plans.
• Influence senior stakeholders and guide better decisions.
• Collaborate with Nest Experience teams across functions.

Skills

Brand planning

Performance marketing

Cross-functional collaboration

Stakeholder management

Job description

Integrated Planning Lead – Brand and Marketing

• Integrated Planning Lead – Brand and Marketing

Role Overview

This newly created role is a chance to shape how integrated planning supports our Brand and Marketing teams as they grow. As our Integrated Planning Lead, you’ll help bring together big ideas, customer insight and organisational priorities into clear, connected plans that make a real difference. You’ll work with teams across Nest Experience, to bring focus, structure and momentum to our activity, making sure we invest our time, energy and budget where it can have the greatest impact for our members, employers and partners.
If you enjoy connecting people, cutting through complexity and helping teams do their best work, this role gives you the space to make a meaningful mark. You’ll have the chance to influence senior stakeholders, shape how planning works across a growing function, and use data and insight to guide better decisions. We’re looking for someone who brings curiosity, confidence and collaboration. In return, you’ll join an inclusive organisation with a clear purpose: helping millions of people build a better financial future.

The minimum criteria for this role are:

• Hands-on experience of planning across brand and performance marketing channels will be important, alongside the confidence to turn multiple priorities into clear, connected plans that help teams focus on the work that matters most.
• Comfortable working across functions, the right person will be able to represent brand and marketing priorities in broader business conversations, helping colleagues understand what we’re trying to achieve, why it matters and how we can work together to deliver better outcomes.
• Experience of building more mature, joined-up planning practices within a brand or marketing function would be valuable. As this is a newly created role, there is a real opportunity to help set the foundations and bringing structure, clarity and momentum to how integrated planning works at Nest.
• A practical approach to risk and governance will also be important, with the ability to work closely with risk, compliance and other internal partners to create principles and processes that help teams manage marketing activity responsibly, while still supporting creativity, pace and impact.

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.

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 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.