Planning Manager - Entertainment client

Zenith UK; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Global opportunities

Flexible working

Enhanced family leave

Wellbeing support

Summer Fridays

Birthday day off

Job summary

Zenith UK is hiring a Planning Manager to join the team behind one of Europe’s most exciting media accounts. Working on Sky Sports, you'll help shape media strategies that connect millions of fans with major sporting moments.

This role blends strategic thinking with collaborative planning and commercial impact, and you’ll work with a client renowned for innovation across sport, entertainment, and connectivity. If you enjoy turning insights into action, we'd love to hear from you.

Qualifications

• Experience developing media strategies across multiple channels, including digital, broadcast, and emerging platforms.
• Confidence managing client relationships and translating business objectives into effective media plans.
• Strong campaign management skills with delivery against timelines, budgets, and objectives.
• Analytical mindset with the ability to interpret performance data and turn insights into recommendations.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development of integrated media plans that align with client objectives and deliver measurable impact.
• Own day-to-day campaign delivery, ensuring plans move from brief through to execution and optimisation.
• Build trusted relationships with clients, acting as a key partner across planning activity.
• Identify proactive opportunities to strengthen campaign performance and create additional value for clients.
• Collaborate with specialist teams, agency partners, and suppliers to deliver connected solutions.
• Support and develop team members through coaching and feedback.
• Contribute to the wider agency community by sharing best practice and industry initiatives.

Skills

Media strategy

Client relationships

Campaign management

Analytics

Collaboration

Budget management

Sports trends

Job description

Company Description

Zenith is the ROI agency. We help brands make Bold Moves in communications to drive profitable, measurable growth. At Zenith, Bold Moves are big, brave shifts to strategy, data, audience or activation. They’re grounded in evidence, backed by rigorous forecasting and designed to deliver stronger returns for clients and better experiences for consumers. We work as empathetic partners, taking the time to understand our clients’ businesses and tying our success to theirs. Part of Publicis Media, Zenith has over 5,000 specialists across 90 markets. In the UK, we work with leading organisations including The Very Group, Macmillan and Morrisons – helping them make smarter, more impactful choices to unlock growth. We believe an inclusive culture strengthens our business, enabling greater idea exchange, innovation and creativity, and we actively encourage our people to drive positive change.

Overview

We are hiring a Planning Manager to join the team behind one of the most exciting media accounts in Europe. Working on Sky Sports, you'll help shape media strategies that connect millions of fans with some of the biggest sporting moments of the year. This is an opportunity to combine strategic thinking, collaborative planning, and commercial impact while working with a client recognised for innovation across sport, entertainment, and connectivity. If you enjoy turning insights into action and want to help deliver exceptional work in a supportive, ambitious team, we'd love to hear from you.

Responsibilities

What you'll be doing

• Lead the development of integrated media plans that align with client objectives and deliver measurable impact.
• Own day-to-day campaign delivery, ensuring plans move smoothly from brief through to execution and optimisation.
• Build trusted relationships with clients, acting as a key partner and advisor across planning activity.
• Identify proactive opportunities that help strengthen campaign performance and create additional value for clients.
• Collaborate closely with specialist teams, agency partners, and suppliers to deliver connected and effective solutions.
• Support and develop team members through coaching, clear feedback, and meaningful development conversations.
• Contribute to the wider agency community by sharing best practice, celebrating great work, and participating in industry initiatives.

Qualifications

Skills we're looking for

• Experience developing media strategies across multiple channels, including digital, broadcast, and emerging platforms.
• Confidence managing client relationships and translating business objectives into effective media plans.
• Strong campaign management skills, with experience overseeing delivery against timelines, budgets, and objectives.
• An analytical mindset, with the ability to interpret performance data and turn insights into recommendations.
• Excellent collaboration skills and the ability to work effectively across planning, activation, data, and client teams.
• Commercial awareness and experience managing budgets with accuracy and accountability.
• Curiosity about the sports landscape and an interest in staying informed about key events, trends, and audience behaviours.

Why join us?

Alongside the opportunity to work on a high-profile media account, you'll benefit from a range of people-first benefits, including global working opportunities, flexible working, enhanced family leave policies, wellbeing support, Summer Fridays, a birthday day off, and much more.

Additional Information

Zenith UK offers a wide range of benefits to support our employees. Full details are shared when you join, but highlights include core benefits such as Pension, Life Assurance, and Private Medical cover, alongside enhanced policies like Reflection Days and Shared Parental Leave. You’ll also have access to a range of additional initiatives, including: Publicis Groupe works primarily from the office or our clients' office four days per week.

We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. We welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, and do not discriminate on the basis of race, ethnicity, nationality, religion or belief, disability, age, citizenship, relationship status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other protected characteristic.

We are committed to providing a fair, accessible, and inclusive recruitment process. If you have any access needs – for example, related to disability, neurodivergence, or a health condition – please let us know. We’ll work with you to ensure the process works for you. Sharing this information will never impact your application.

Guided by our values, we listen with empathy, uplift each other, take responsibility, and embrace change - building a culture where everyone feels seen, respected, and genuinely included.