Senior Research & Planning Manager

Michael Page (UK); Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 70,000

Job description

• Opportunities like this don't come up often in the North!
• Shape brand strategy for some of the UK's most well known brands

About Our Client

We're proud to be working with this award winning brand agency who produce high level creative strategy for their clients across a range of industries within the UK and internationally. With impressive client referral rates and industry leading employee retention, they've also created a truly fantastic place to work.

Job Description

As a Senior Research and Planning Manager, you'll be joining a well established Planning team, led by the agency's Planning Director. Ultimately, you'll be responsible for using your intuitive nosiness to get under the skin of your client's businesses and commercial goals in order to develop impactful strategy. You'll be working with clients who have complex business issues to help guide their future success.

• Senior stakeholder management and engagement with business leaders
• Internal stakeholder management
• Research planning and delivery through qualitative methods such as focus groups and panel interviews
• Competitor analysis

The Successful Applicant

The successful candidate will have proven experience within a similar Planner or Brand Planning role. Candidates from a brand research background would also find this of interest. Ideally this experience is from the creative agency industry or a consultancy working with multiple client projects.

• Natural nosiness
• Highly commercially astute (demonstrable at interview)
• Problem solver

What's on Offer

You'll join a really well established team with bags of knowledge and passion - an amazing opportunity to soak up what they know!

• Competitive salary
• Flexible hybrid working
• Industry leading benefits