Planning Partner

Job Description:

/ iPROSPECT

At iProspect, a dentsu company, we're not just any global digital-first end-to-end media agency. We believe all advertising is about performance, and all advertising can and should build brands today, and in the future.

We apply a performance mindset to all media to accelerate brands. We identify the opportunity at the intersection between brand & performance marketing, unlocking maximum effect to ensure every penny doesn't just drive commercial success but drives positive change for the brand too.

It's this different perspective that makes us stand out from any other agency. It's why we're a long-term partner for our clients (... and the agency the CFO wants to appoint).

We understand what got us here today, won't get us there tomorrow. Experimentation along with collaboration and driving the pursuit of excellence is in our DNA. This ethos is how we collaborate with our people, clients and media partners to create game-changing work and are the attributes that create positive, long lasting client agency relationships.

When it comes to our people, nurturing talent and championing diversity across the business, in the UK and around the world, is a defining characteristic of our mission to take action and achieve a better world for everyone.

Through our global DEEI networks, &Proud, dentsu Together, Represent and Parents & Carers, we're proud to support equality and encourage our people to share experiences, and bring their whole selves into the workplace to celebrate what makes us unique. Underpinned by our flexible working approach and pioneering policies that support many different situations our people may face, our goal is to create a culture of safety, opportunity & belonging for all and a place where everyone can thrive.

Our agency is made up of an awesome bunch of diverse, forward-thinking and ambitious experts across business intelligence, strategy and planning, and marketing activation, who come together to accelerate growth for our amazing clients through a performance mindset.

If this sounds like your cup of tea, then we need you in our team.

/ ROLE SUMMARY

This Planning Partner role will encompass responsibility for the day-to-day & media planning output, managing the end-to-end campaign process.

This role will lead a team of two Planning Directors, two Planning Managers and two Planning Executives across the 3 accounts. Your responsibility for the team is to:

• Drive transformative business results, resulting in client retention and satisfaction whilst ensuring commercial growth, achieved through building strong trust-based relationship with mid-level and senior clients.
• Developing a deep understanding of your clients business, communication model, and lead the planning output, supporting the Planning Directors in day to day management of the clients.
• Be a trusted advisor to your clients.
• Be responsible for championing iProspect's experimentation agenda and ensuring team adoption of our dentsu/iProspect Planning process to deliver effective & forward-looking media plans alongside outstanding client service - this is a critical element in delivering on our client's expectations.
• Be a role model for collaboration, showing that radical collaboration leads to better work, working with teams across all specialist areas to develop pioneering solutions that help accelerate your clients business.
• Executing commercial management alongside the Managing Partner, including ownership of client contract, optimisation of the people/FTE plan to match requirements, forecasting of secured revenue, cost base, opportunity pipe and operational finance excellence.
• Demonstrate team leadership, managing the client service team effectively by ensuring expectations are set and clearly communicate with internal and external stakeholders, whilst cultivating and championing a positive and healthy team culture.
• Directly manage the planning team members below you and take responsibility & care for their career development.

Regardless of background, a Planning Partner at iProspect needs some specific traits to succeed.

They must be curious and passionate about the clients' businesses they work on, showing clear knowledge for the categories they operate in and challenges they face.

They must possess a desire to always be looking for a better more effective way and a willingness & bravery to try something new, experimenting & innovating to drive greater future success for our clients and ourselves

They should be great at building strong and lasting relationship with clients fostering trust and partnerships. The right person should also be comfortable presenting to clients and be fluent when presenting or speaking to groups internally and externally.

A strong, personable & respectful collaborator, they should be great at working with others in iProspect and across the dentsu network to develop brilliant client solutions together.

They should be commercially savvy understanding how to meet both the needs of the client and organization, as well as good with numbers to be able to manage our clients' budgets and plans. Moreover, they should be able to handle client negotiations, explain and sell value adding products from dentsu, and act with diplomacy.

They should be tenacious and driven to pursue excellence in everything they do. They should display a determination to deliver their best work and should be keen to develop themselves and their skills.

The individual values we're seeking for this role include;, collaborative, pragmatic, agile, and a high attention to detail.

The Planning Partner should have a thorough understanding of media and advertising, with a least 7 years of experience of working on integrated marketing campaigns, primarily across above-the-line brand and performance clients.

/ LIFE AT iPROSPECT

The Phygital World

We operate an open and inclusive hybrid culture that promotes collaboration at every turn, but also supports flexibility. Whilst we encourage teams to physically come together on average 2-3 days a week at either our office, clients offices or their partner agencies, we trust everyone to work in the best place for the tasks that as a team need to be delivered on any given day. In iProspect London, we try to ensure we come together as a full agency in the office on Tuesdays Thursdays and encourage everyone to arrange their diaries to minimise virtual meetings on Thursdays so they can focus on real life face to face collaboration & connection.

Huddling

At 09:40am every Monday, we come together virtually as iProspect UK and share what's on our radars for the coming week, any wins, project & media news updates and it's a great opportunity to rally people around to celebrate & learn from teams' great work & experiments too.

Celebrating

On the last Thursday of the month we come together in our London All Agency meeting to celebrate & share great work, highlights from our great clients and crucially celebrate our great people & their milestone moments both professional and personal.

Socialising

There's always something going on for you to get involved with through iPro or the wider dentsu network. Ranging from team picnics and sports days in our neighboring Regents Park (dodging the rain & thunderstorms!), charity bake-offs & wear it green days, wellness activities, competitions, special events celebrating our achievements, or just one or two down the Queens Head & Artichoke - we're always keen to bring together the iProspect crowd in multiple ways. And we're always looking for ideas, so don't be afraid to make suggestions.

Career growth

We pride ourselves on creating a development culture. We have tons of resources, learning programs and events available for you to grow your career and get the best out of your iPro experience, from our dentsu University to global leadership training programs. Our mission is for you to be able to grow & develop during your career at iProspect and dentsu, helping you to unlock your true potential, become your best self and deliver the best work of your career.

Benefits for you

Want to discuss your career goals? Want financial advice? Or savings every time you dine out?

Providing personal and finance coaches to give you a mental massage is just a couple of ways we support you.

You can access dentsu's wellbeing hub and choose your benefits package across health, financial and lifestyle initiatives; from private medical cover to pension, therapy, cycle-to-work schemes, food and retail discounts, and everything in between.

Also, you can make the most of 25 days leave + Christmas holidays + your birthday off + 2 charity days, and three wellness days to have a bit of 'me' time too

Positive Change

Our vision is to inspire people everywhere towards a new way of living. So that's why it's so important everyone in our team has loads of opportunity and time to make positive change in the world. Through Matchable, you can get involved in ethical projects ranging across climate change, wellbeing, education and so much more. And we give you two extra days off to get stuck in.

Plus, as part of our dentsu network, we've made a commitment to our people, society and planet with ambitious targets for improving sustainability, a fair and open society, and digital for good. Click the links to find out more.

Location:
London

Brand:
Iprospect

Time Type:
Full time

Contract Type:
Permanent]]>