Senior Manager, Planning

Omnicom Media Group UK; Greater London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity to join a newly formed team working on a global skincare brand. This role involves driving best-in-class comms planning strategies and delivering effective media plans across markets. You will collaborate with a dynamic team, ensuring the integration of paid, owned, and earned media channels. The ideal candidate will possess strong analytical skills, a keen attention to detail, and a passion for delivering exceptional work. Join a leading agency that values empathy and innovative thinking, where your contributions will make a meaningful impact on the success of our clients.

Qualifications

• Experience in comms planning and media strategy development.
• Strong analytical skills with a focus on data-driven insights.

Responsibilities

• Build and deliver comms planning strategies for marketing objectives.
• Present media planning documents to senior stakeholders effectively.
• Support the team on media projects and maintain client communication.

Skills

Comms Planning

Media Planning

Data Insights

Presentation Skills

Client Communication

Attention to Detail

Job description

About the Role:

This is a pivotal and exciting role working on one of our agency’s newest skincare clients. This is an amazing opportunity to join a newly formed team tasked with driving best in class planning campaigns across markets.

Focussed on Comms Planning, this role is responsible for helping to drive the agenda for this global brand and ensure that media plans are delivered through excellent implementational planning in local markets. In this role you will be a core part of the wider global team.

You need to be comfortable looking at & understanding a media plan and you need to have an innate curiosity & desire to make the work strategically excellent.

About You & the role:

Comms Planning Management

1. Build comms planning strategies that will enable the client to achieve (& exceed) marketing objectives for specific campaigns.
2. Ensure effective delivery of the strategy across key cluster markets applying and challenging established planning principles, client and data insights.
3. Be comfortable writing and presenting media planning documents to senior stakeholders.
4. Understand and be close to all campaign tracking and evaluation, in order to feed insight into future planning as well as tracking performance and informing ongoing optimisations.
5. Be the implementational planning expert who understands and can advise on the best use of channels across paid media.
6. Be comfortable talking to clients about the connection between channels across paid, owned & earned media.
7. Support the wider team on ad-hoc media projects and thought pieces.
8. Deliver fully integrated planning and team collaboration across disciplines; on and offline media, influencer, commerce, and build strong creative agency partnerships.
9. Be regularly in touch with media partners to understand new innovations in the market and receive new audience insights.

Interpersonal / Attitudinal Skills

1. Have an innate curiosity and a willingness to share ideas, thoughts & insights with the wider team.
2. Develop a strong working relationship with colleagues & nurture positive team spirit.
3. Take pride in everything you do and really care about delivering great work.
4. Recognise when to escalate a potential issue to senior colleagues or seek a second opinion from the wider team.
5. Great attention to detail and a high level of numeracy – spot it first!
6. A positive ‘can-do’ attitude and approach.

About the Agency:

At OMD EMEA, we strive to deliver on our promise of ‘better decisions, faster‘ for our clients, partners and all 6,000+ OMDers across our region every day. As part of the world’s largest media network, our business is staging experiences for consumers who have more choice and less attention than ever before. The key to the process is empathy. Empathy to see the world through the eyes of the consumer, to recognise the needs of our clients and to identify aspirations of our talent.

Learn Fast, Act Fast. To help navigate the road to a ‘new normal’, learning from, and acting upon data signals at scale and speed is crucial. Visit Why OMD? to learn more about our unique Act Fast Framework.