Planning Manager

At iProspect, a dentsu company, we’re not just any global digital-first end-to-end media agency. We believe all advertising is about performance, and all advertising can and should build brands today, and in the future. We apply a performance mindset to all media to accelerate brands. We identify the opportunity at the intersection between brand & performance marketing, unlocking maximum effect to ensure every penny doesn’t just drive commercial success but drives positive change for the brand too.

This Planning Manager role will be working with retailer Abercrombie & Hollister across their EMEA markets. This core role will encompass responsibility for much of the day-to-day running of the account, from feeding into comms planning client responses, to ensuring financial process is accurately executed. This role will sit within the client account team and be responsible for day-to-day management of campaigns, including liaising with channels and the client ensuring we deliver against the set KPIs. The role will report into one Planning Director, supported by and directly line managing a Planning Executive.

What the role will be doing:

• Delivering a seamless experience for our clients, taking responsibility for key client deliverables, leading key elements of day-to-day activity and campaign planning.
• Supporting the Abercrombie & Hollister Planning Director in using iProspect’s planning process to develop end to end campaign planning and liaising with our activation teams to ensure first class planning and seamless activation.
• The Planning Manager is involved in execution of campaigns right from the initial media planning phase all the way through to the campaign wrap up reports.
• Ensuring the day-to-day client deliverables & requests of our clients are met, delivering best in class service for our clients.
• Delivering on the critical ‘brilliant basics’ of accuracy, timeliness, and consistency for our clients in all of the outputs we deliver for them.
• Working with the Planning Directors, the client and alongside the activation teams to ensure our financial management for Abercrombie & Hollister is sound, with a PO for all bookings and activity correctly billed on time.
• Clearly communicating with internal and external stakeholders around deliverables and deadlines, whilst contributing to and championing a positive and healthy team culture.
• Directly manage the planning team members below you (Planning Executive) and take responsibility & care for their career development.

THE PERSON

Regardless of background, a Planning Manager at iProspect needs some specific traits to succeed. They must be curious and passionate about the clients’ businesses they work on, showing clear knowledge for the categories they operate in and challenges they face. They must possess a desire to always be looking for a better more effective way and a willingness & bravery to try something new, experimenting & innovating to drive greater future success for our clients and ourselves. They should be great at building strong and lasting relationships with clients fostering trust and partnership. The right person should also be comfortable presenting to clients and be fluent when presenting or speaking to groups internally and externally. A strong, personable & respectful collaborator, they should be great at working with others in iProspect and across the dentsu network to develop brilliant client solutions together. They should be tenacious and driven to pursue excellence in everything they do. They should display a determination to deliver their best work and should be keen to develop themselves and their skills. The ideal personal values we’re seeking for this role on Abercrombie & Hollister include; inspiring, practical, collaborative, pragmatic, social, agile, and an upward leader. The Planning Manager should have a good understanding of media and advertising, with 2+ years’ experience of working on integrated marketing campaigns, primarily across above-the-line brand and performance clients.

LIFE AT iPROSPECT

We operate an open and inclusive hybrid culture that promotes collaboration at every turn, but also supports flexibility. Whilst we encourage teams to physically come together on average 2-3 days a week at either our office, clients offices or their partner agencies, we trust everyone to work in the best place for the tasks that as a team need to be delivered on any given day. In iProspect London, we try to ensure we come together as a full agency in the office on Thursdays and encourage everyone to arrange their diaries to minimise virtual meetings on Thursdays so they can focus on real life face to face collaboration & connection.

At 09:40am every Monday, we come together virtually as iProspect UK and share what’s on our radars for the coming week, any wins, project & media news updates and it’s a great opportunity to rally people around to celebrate & learn from teams’ great work & experiments too.

On the last Thursday of the month we come together in our London All Agency meeting to celebrate & share great work, highlights from our great clients and crucially celebrate our great people & their milestone moments both professional and personal.

There’s always something going on for you to get involved with through iPro or the wider dentsu network. Ranging from team picnics and sports days in our neighboring Regents Park, charity bake-offs & wear it green days, wellness activities, competitions, special events celebrating our achievements, or just one or two down the Queens Head & Artichoke – we’re always keen to bring together the iProspect crowd in multiple ways. And we’re always looking for ideas, so don’t be afraid to make suggestions.

We pride ourselves on creating a development culture. We have tonnes of resources, learning programmes and events available for you to grow your career and get the best out of your iPro experience, from our dentsu University to global leadership training programmes.