Planning Executive

CARAT is an important part of our world-class offering -an award-winning media, content and branding agency that uses its peerless understanding of the passions, motivations, and behaviours of real people to bring brands and their customers together. Carat is privileged to work with some of the most eminent companies in the world.

As Planning Executive, you will provide support to the Account Managers and Account Directors whilst supporting the broader senior team. The executive will support in delivering high-performance campaigns and will deliver innovation, and varied campaigns - alongside exceptional client servicing. The Client Assistant will help to manage administrative and campaign work.

You'll partner with clients, external agencies, as well as internal teams within Dentsu to foster great relationships and deliver innovative, impactful, data-driven media plans that drive brand fame.

Supported by the senior team around you, build your planning expertise by developing a grasp of media theory, the industry and consult multiple sources to develop knowledge.

Job Description:

• Project Management: Exhibit first class project management skills which support the delivery of multiple live and upcoming campaign workstreams through effective mobilisation of agency and inhouse specialists, effectively prioritise and ensure all key deliverables and deadlines are met.
• Client Management: Support the delivery of outstanding client service for your clients and build trusted partnerships with them. Respond in a timely and accurate manner to requests for information, and work seamlessly with internal stakeholders and colleagues across the network in order to deal with their requests.
• Specialist Management: Maintain a collaborative and respectful relationship with our specialist internal, and client inhouse teams which brings them upstream of key challenges and allows them to innovate and excel within their respective channels.
• Planning Expertise: Master the Dentsu CCS suite of tools and use them to plan, optimise and rationalise our responses to clients briefs.
• Understand our clients business: Demonstrate a strong understanding of the client's products and services, and stay abreast of the changing dynamics within their industry and competitive set.
• Presentation: Comfortable presenting your own work, and leading meeting content both on teams and in face-to-face meetings, taking meeting notes, responding to questions both in the moment and as follow ups.
• Finance: Support the finance process on the account ensuring your contributions are smooth and error-free, obtain POs in an accurate and timely manner, ensuring the PO tracker is kept up to date and that all spend commitments are adhered to by the media teams. Ensure that total invoice amounts are checked within budget at month end, and no unbilled media is built up. Support Vodafone goods receipting process alongside the team. Prioritise swift resolution of any existing issues.

Planning responsibilities:

• Work as a team with the Managers and Directors, Client Director & Strategy/Planning Partner to develop strategic recommendations that provide consumer focused solutions to client business challenges. Assist this process by mobilising appropriate resources from across the network, utilising our agency tools and insight, and applying your knowledge of our clients business.
• Lead weekly reporting calls as well as preparations ahead of time with support from AMs.
• Support briefing of all planning solutions into specialist teams both in agency and inhouse and effectively assist translation of strategic plans into strong and innovative activation.
• Supported by the senior team around you continue to build your planning expertise by developing a strong grasp of media theory, and consulting multiple sources to validate & support media recommendations.

About dentsu

Taking a people-centred approach to business transformation, we use insights to connect brand, content, commerce and experience, underpinned by modern creativity. As part of Dentsu Group Inc. we are headquartered in Tokyo, Japan and our 65,000 employee-base of dedicated professionals work across four regions (Japan, Americas, EMEA and APAC). Dentsu combines Japanese innovation with a diverse, global perspective to drive client growth and to shape society.

Diversity, equity, and inclusion sits at the heart of our Social Impact strategy - our fully integrated sustainability strategy which includes our ambition to build a fair and more equal society, where everyone is equipped to thrive.

About our benefits

We offer everything you would expect from a large company - like 25 days' holiday plus your birthday off - and a few additions, like 2 paid volunteering days each year to support charitable causes and 3 wellness days per year.

We also provide pension contributions, life assurance, private health care, income protection, critical illness cover, travel season ticket loans, a cycle to work scheme, free eye tests and a whole host of great local and national discounts from leading retailers that you'll have access to as an employee. You'll have a hybrid working schedule where you can flex your start and finish times.

Inclusion and Diversity

At Dentsu, we embrace diversity and inclusion, valuing the unique perspectives and contributions of every individual. We believe that diversity fuels creativity and innovation, benefiting our employees, partners, and communities.

We welcome applications from all individuals, regardless of race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability, marital status, or any other protected characteristic. Beyond recruitment, we strive to create an environment where everyone feels respected, supported, and empowered to bring their authentic selves to work.

We recognize the importance of work-life balance and are open to discussing flexible working arrangements for all roles. If you need reasonable adjustments due to a disability or medical condition during our recruitment process, please contact us at accommodations@dentsu.com, quoting the reference number of the role that you are applying for. Your needs will be handled with respect and confidentiality to ensure an inclusive and accessible experience.

Location:
London

Brand:
Carat

Time Type:
Full time

Contract Type:
Permanent