Manager, Planning, UK

WPP 650 is looking for a Planning Manager to join our growing planning team, to create impactful cross channel campaigns and build your media planning skills. WPP 650 is a bespoke agency unit within WPP, dedicated to serving the communications needs of UK government clients. The team operates on a hybrid basis, with teams in the office around four days a week. This is a UK based role and requires individuals to have the right to work in this location.

Responsibilities

Develop an in-depth understanding of media channels including where, when and how to use them based on the client brief; Have a skilled knowledge of WPP 650 and industry media planning tools and be able to train other team members; Have a skilled understanding of industry best practices and planning theory; Develop a fundamental knowledge of WPP 650's Consumer Journey thinking; Ownership of campaign activity including briefing teams, collating response, managing client's deliverables, and ensuring accuracy across all workstreams; Work closely with the planning and activation teams to ensure the day-to-day account is run efficiently and effectively; Bring in specialist teams where needed to work on briefs and client questions; Ensure financial management processes are always excellent and met in a timely manner; Become a trusted main day-to-day contact for junior clients, ensuring requests and queries are answered accurately and in a timely manner; Support in managing Planning Executives to ensure they are on track with daily tasks, mentor and challenge them with new projects; Start to develop a proactive problem-solving mindset and flag issues or concerns with Planning Director

Requirements

Practice Area Knowledge (skilled): knowledge of the media landscape, future trends, best practice and challenges; comfortable using or briefing out media planning products, platforms and systems; Problem Solving (fundamental): critical questioning, systematic research and basic analysis to define problems; Stakeholder Relationships (fundamental): understanding of agency and client organisations, business strategy and challenges; Effective Communications (skilled): leading dialogues with internal and external people and presenting to clients and agency meetings; Campaign Management (skilled): managing several projects and campaigns from start to completion with minimal error and accurate reporting; Compelling Storytelling (skilled): building persuasive stories and recommendations from media and industry knowledge; Ideas Creation (skilled): generating new ideas and creative media solutions; Comms Planning (skilled): creating multi-media plans and consumer journey thinking; Right to work in the UK

Benefits

Competitive medical insurance; group retirement plans; vision insurance; dental insurance; significant paid time off; preferential partner discounts; employee mental health awareness days; access to global WPP Media & WPP networks; employee resource groups; in-office events