Planning Partner

Job Description:

Dentsu is an integrated growth and transformation partner to the world's leading organizations. Founded in 1901 in Tokyo, Japan, and now present in over 145 countries and regions, it has a proven track record of nurturing and developing innovations, combining the talents of its global network of leadership brands to develop impactful and integrated growth solutions for clients. Dentsu delivers end-to-end experience transformation (EX) by integrating its services across Media, CXM and Creative, while its business transformation (BX) mindset pushes the boundaries of transformation and sustainable growth for brands, people and society.

iProspect is a global end-to-end media agency. Its unmatched mix of media strategy and storytelling with channel expertise and audience knowledge defines a new territory for performance-driven and brand building campaigns. By delivering human-centric solutions, iProspect accelerates growth for the world's most iconic brands including IKEA, NETFLIX, Carlsberg, NEXT, Pandora and MINI to name a few. The iProspect team works across a network of more than 8,000 media and performance specialists spread across 93 global markets.

Purpose of the Role

As the Planning Partner, you will be the UK planning lead, leading full-funnel comms planning for the world's largest global jewellery brand and one of Britain's most iconic much loved car brands.

This exciting opportunity places you at the heart of two of the UK's most innovative and forward-thinking brands. The role demands deep expertise in communications planning and media strategy. Someone who is passionate about the planning craft and who is a great storyteller, that can influencer senior stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for delivering best in class, full funnel media comms planning, bringing your clients on the journey .

• Lead annual and quarterly media planning across all channels, ensuring strategic alignment with business objectives.

• Work closely with media owners to optimise media spend and campaign performance.

• Support in analysing econometrics and measurement, ensuring robust evaluation frameworks are in place to assess media effectiveness

• Analyse market trends, audience insights, and campaign performance data to inform future media strategies.

• Collaborate cross-functionally with internal teams, including strategy, measurement and channel teams.

• Stay ahead of industry trends and best practices to continuously refine the client's media planning approach.

Qualifications + Skills

• Extensive experience in developing and executing full-funnel media strategies and comms planning - ideally for high-value, multimillion-pound clients.

• Proven ability to lead and mentor high-performing teams within the media industry.

• Proficient in utilising media planning and audience analysis tools to drive effective campaigns.

• Skilled at identifying opportunities that enhance client business performance and deliver measurable impact.

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, fostering strong and lasting client relationships.

What we offer

• This is a permanent role.

• This role will be based in our London office where we currently operate under hybrid working arrangements and you will be expected to work from the office at least 2 days a week.

• As well as a competitive salary, you'll enjoy a benefits package that you can tailor to your needs.

Inclusion and Diversity

Our diverse and inclusive culture enables our employees to bring their best selves to work and be proud of doing so. For us, this is the foundation for great innovation which, in turn, generates better outcomes for our people, partners and communities. This is why we encourage applications from people with disabilities, and of all ages, nationalities, backgrounds and cultures.

We are happy to discuss flexible and agile approaches to working for all our roles - we can't promise we will be able to offer you everything you want or need but we do promise to discuss it with you openly and honestly. If you have any reasonable adjustment needs arising from a disability or medical condition to fully participate in the recruitment process, please discuss this with our recruitment teams.

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Location:
London

Brand:
Iprospect

Time Type:
Full time

Contract Type:
Permanent]]>