Pharma Planning Manager: Insightful Campaign Lead

Publicis Groupe; Greater London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension

Life Assurance

Private Medical

Reflection Days

Shared Parental Leave

Job summary

Zenith UK, part of Publicis Groupe, seeks a skilled pharma media planner to lead regulated category campaigns with an audience-first approach. You’ll manage planning, compliance, and cross-functional delivery for pharmaceutical brands while collaborating closely with senior stakeholders.

The role emphasizes rigorous data interpretation, performance reporting, and proactive opportunity spotting to drive impactful media strategies for clients in the healthcare space.

Qualifications

• Experience in media planning, ideally with prior knowledge of regulated or complex categories.
• Pharmaceutical, healthcare or other regulated sector experience is essential.
• Strong understanding of integrated media planning principles.
• Confident working with data, insight and performance reporting.
• Highly organised with strong attention to detail.
• Clear communicator, comfortable working with clients and cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Support the Planning Director in delivering clear, insight-driven media responses across multiple Pharma brands.
• Be the day-to-day lead on campaign planning and delivery, ensuring accuracy, quality and compliance at every stage.
• Own smaller briefs end-to-end from initial response through to activation and post campaign reporting.
• Identify proactive media opportunities.
• Work closely with Execs to ensure smooth campaign delivery and high operational standards.
• Contribute to ongoing learning agendas by sharing insights and best practices across the team.

Skills

Media planning

Pharma/Healthcare experience

Integrated media planning

Data-driven reporting

Organization/detail-oriented

Client communication

Job description

Zenith UK, part of Publicis Groupe, seeks a skilled pharma media planner to lead regulated category campaigns with an audience-first approach. You’ll manage planning, compliance, and cross-functional delivery for pharmaceutical brands while collaborating closely with senior stakeholders.

The role emphasizes rigorous data interpretation, performance reporting, and proactive opportunity spotting to drive impactful media strategies for clients in the healthcare space.