Planning Executive: Media Strategy & Insights

WPP Media Limited; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 22,000 - 30,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Pension plan

Vision and dental insurance

Paid time off

Employee discounts

Mental health awareness days

Job summary

WPP Media Limited is seeking a Planning Executive to join the UK-based planning team. The role supports governance of industry-leading, unrivalled work, collaborating with specialists to push boundaries and deliver effective public communications.

You will learn media planning fundamentals, use tools like Open, TGI, Pathmatics and AdIntel, and build client-facing plans. The role focuses on developing planning knowledge across channels, supporting reports, and assisting with campaign management

Qualifications

• Have a basic understanding and competence in MS Office – PowerPoint and Excel in particular.
• Develops an awareness and curiosity about media and marketing industry including trends and challenges or concepts.
• Research wider industry and showing ability to summarise information into findings to be shared.
• Develops a broad understanding of industry tools, technology, techniques and systems as well as application (e.g. TGI, AdIntel, Pathmatics).
• Can run simple tasks independently and either present to clients direct or package for wider team.

Responsibilities

• Learn and use media systems and tools including, but limited to, Open, TGI, Pathmatics, AdIntel, etc.
• Run and analyse reports including audience insights, etc.
• Assist with financial processes e.g. PO trackers, bookings, reconciliations, queries.
• Work closely with activation teams to deliver responses and tactical plans.
• Coordinate the regular meetings with the client and creative agency and collation of documents for those meetings.

Skills

PowerPoint

Excel

Media planning

Attention to detail

Research

Tools

Open

TGI

Pathmatics

AdIntel

Job description

WPP Media Limited is seeking a Planning Executive to join the UK-based planning team. The role supports governance of industry-leading, unrivalled work, collaborating with specialists to push boundaries and deliver effective public communications.

You will learn media planning fundamentals, use tools like Open, TGI, Pathmatics and AdIntel, and build client-facing plans. The role focuses on developing planning knowledge across channels, supporting reports, and assisting with campaign management