Planning Partner

Group M Worldwide Inc.; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job description

Planning Partner

About the role:

The planning team are the guardians of creating industry leading, unrivalled work at Wavemaker. We are central conduits to all specialists, striving to push boundaries and have a positive impact on consumers and brand.

Wavemaker UK is looking for a Planning Partner to join our growing planning team, to lead the planning community at Wavemaker and drive excellence in our unrivalled planning work.

In this role, you will:

Planning Team leadership:

1. Lead and set the direction of the Planning team with the support and leadership of the Head of Planning.
2. Have a cross agency discipline role ensuring you are championing the Planning team across the agency.
3. Build an external presence on behalf of the Wavemaker Planning team including panels and with other clients.

Media planning craft:

1. Own the Wavemaker Provocative Planning Philosophy, ensuring its cascaded and used across the whole agency.
2. Lead the planning output across multiple clients and across the agency, ensuring agency planning outputs are consistent and can create unrivalled work.
3. Develop thought leadership, landscape and market updates that can be applied across multiple clients, having a clear overview and Wavemaker perspective to them.
4. Lead developing and cascading training/upskilling across the agency.
5. Have a heavy presence with clients to elevate key planning stages/critical projects.
6. Drive new solutions and methods within planning responses, including innovation and tech solutions that will push the industry and discipline forward.

Core skills:

1. Practice Area Knowledge - Expert: Serves as an expert on industry as well as tools and technology and becomes confident using relevant thinking from other disciplines.
2. Problem Solving - Expert: Enables others to see strategic problems that impact the business in new ways by encouraging and rewarding innovative thinking.
3. Stakeholder Relationships - Advanced: Capitalizes on deep understanding of client and agency organizational structures, business processes, strategic objectives, and challenges.
4. Effective Communication - Expert: Owns the delivery of high-impact communications to drive maximum impact.
5. Compelling Storytelling - Expert: Anticipates future strategic business needs and develops rationale for investing in projects or initiatives now to meet long-term objectives.
6. Ideas Creation - Expert: Develops strategies to bring new technologies, innovations, and products to life.
7. Comms Planning - Expert: Leads agency and industry thinking on best practice in comms planning.

About Wavemaker UK:

Wavemaker is a global media agency. We believe there is a better way to grow. By leveraging our deep understanding of audiences, Provocative Planning process and the world’s largest database of purchase journeys, we deliver exceptional growth for clients including Audible, Nationwide, Danone, Asahi and Morrisons.

Unlike traditional linear media planning, our modular approach combines machine learning and human intelligence to unlock, maximize and transform growth for the world’s leading brands and businesses.

A part of GroupM, WPP’s global media investment management company, our 7,650 people across 88 markets are defined by their attitude of positive provocation, which means:

• Deep knowledge of our clients’ business.
• The confidence to challenge what’s gone before.
• The support to go further than we thought possible.

Discover more at wavemakerglobal.com/uk or follow us @WavemakerUK.

We are an equal opportunities employer and support the life choices of our employees.

All GroupM agencies are equal opportunities employers and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, gender identity, disability, culture/religion/belief, sexual orientation, or age.

We support the life choices of our employees, offering generous family and carer friendly policies.