Associate Director, Planning

About the role

• Agency: PHd
• Job Function: Media
• Job Subfunction: Media Planning and Buying

About the role

PHD is a global communications planning and media buying agency network delivering smart strategic thinking and creative innovation for the world's leading brands. Brilliant media thinking is in our DNA.

A culture of thought-leadership, creativity and innovation has seen us grow from a challenger agency in the UK, to a global leader with over 6,000 employees in over 100 offices worldwide.

We combine the latest industry insight with the best creative minds to produce planning innovation and create award-winning work for some of the world's largest advertisers.

Finding a better way is our ethos and sums up how we approach everything - from a new client brief to the way we work.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Communications, Advertising, Media and/or related field
• Minimum 6 years of experience in media planning that involves broadcast and OOH planning
• Deep experience working in and leading integrated team
• Experience with innovative or custom program development
• Ability to make operational and investment recommendations and decisions
• Be passionate and want to lead and inspire a team of soldiers
• Must love close relationships with clients and be able to identify and run towards the future and not simply deliver "the ask"
• High level of competency in Account Management and client service
• Professional presence; can lead a team by example
• Excellent presentation skills
• A thorough understanding of marketing communication channels (including digital)
• Auto experienced required

Responsibilities

• Provide excellent client service by being responsive, accountable, and detailed oriented
• Present media plans, post analyses, and other deliverables to clients
• Manage, mentor, and motivate direct reports to encourage their professional development while providing daily supervision and guidance
• Manage workflow, deadlines, and interactions with strategy team, creative partners, clients, and other external teams
• Responsible for all work product created by team of direct reports
• Provide higher level of insight and analysis to campaign performance - drawing insights and actions from data
• Set the tone and strategic direction of the team; built around growth and application of learnings
• Build sound strategic frameworks that ladder to client business goals
• Bring proactivity and leadership to the clients and the team
• Be the voice for creating great work
• Understand and direct multiple user touch points that can influence creative and messaging strategies
• Own consumer insights and inspire tactical representations of strong, clear media strategies
• Manage planning resources
• Maintain communication and develop strategic partnerships with key partners - clients, partner agencies, peers, etc.

• $70,000-$125,000
• To the extent permissible by local law, Omnicom's policy requires employees to work in the office for a minimum of three days a week, unless additional in-office days are directed by their agency or manager.

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