Group Planning Director B2B

We are looking for an experienced Group Planning lead, who will need to be naturally ambidextrous. With a natural authority in the room, you need to be able to switch effortlessly between business development (leading big, complex global pitches) and bedding in new client opportunities (to ensure we are set up for success and have the right talent and the right approach from day 1). The B2B area of the business is experiencing an influx of new opportunities since we became part of the Accenture Song family a year ago. We are looking to add to the senior team to help ensure we are embracing these new opportunities in the right way and to add even more expertise to our team at senior level.

Responsibilities

• Actively straddle across different departments and agency ways of working.
• Strategic oversight across multiple briefs, accounts and business units.
• Lead the development of new thinking and ideas.
• Identify opportunities for client growth.
• Be a thought leader and contribute to the agency profile.
• Mentor fellow planners, helping them identify opportunities to extend their skills.
• Line management.

What you need to succeed

• An ability to independently navigate the unknown.
• A brief builder, who can work hand in hand with a Client Services Lead.
• A natural authority in the B2B space.
• Confident and charismatic leadership style.
• Strong core strategy skills - journey planning, targeting and segmentation, messaging platforms, insight and proposition development.
• Ability to draw on consumer insight and analytics to form a strong, convincing story.
• Good judge of creative work.
• Good understanding of effectiveness methodologies.
• Good collaborator and delegator.
• Excellent presentation skills.
• Good facilitation skills.
• Proven new business track record.
• Commercially astute.

Personality

• Substantive, authoritative and credible, but understated.
• Adaptive and flexible.
• Passionate about communications.
• Good interpersonal skills and emotional intelligence.
• Collaborative.

What we give

We believe in the power of a strong culture that puts people at the heart of everything we do. Our guiding principle is simple: Be the best you can be and the rest will follow. You’ll have the chance to learn from passionate, talented colleagues and mentors. Exciting and varied client work with as much opportunity as you can handle. And a hugely sociable team to get to know.

Great benefits package, including:

• 25 days holiday (increasing year on year to max 30 days)
• Christmas Closure, Birthday Day and Volunteer Day
• Flexible Bank holidays
• Flexible Hybrid working
• Pension, Life Assurance, Eye Tests, Flu Jabs
• Purchase Holiday, Taste Card
• Cycle to work and Electric Car Scheme

We have a calendar of social and charity events throughout the year, there’s always something going on. Join us and join in. We make noise. We laugh. We share. We welcome new ideas and new people.

Who are TMW Unlimited?

The TMW story is born out of the many successes we’ve created for our clients over the past 30 years, and now encompasses offices in London, Bristol and Reading, with clients all over the world. We create ideas that move people. We believe that ideas should work everywhere and that brilliant results are what really matter.

What we value

• Give a Damn: We care about each other, our clients and our work.
• Be Brave: We believe in challenging each other.
• Stay Curious: We actively seek out the new and the unusual.
• Take Pride: We are open, accepting and inclusive.

We are an Equal Opportunities employer and welcome applications from all sections of the community.