Senior Manager, Planning

About the Role: This is a pivotal and exciting role working on one of our agency’s newest skincare clients. This is an amazing opportunity to join a newly formed team tasked with driving best in class planning campaigns across markets. Focussed on Comms Planning, this role is responsible for helping to drive the agenda for this global brand and ensure that media plans are delivered through excellent implementational planning in local markets. In this role you will be a core part of the wider global team. You need to be comfortable looking at & understanding a media plan and you need to have an innate curiosity & desire to make the work strategically excellent.

About You & the Role:

• Comms Planning Management: Build comms planning strategies that will enable the client to achieve (& exceed) marketing objectives for specific campaigns. Ensure effective delivery of the strategy across key cluster markets applying and challenging established planning principles, client and data insights. Be comfortable writing and presenting media planning documents to senior stakeholders. Understand and be close to all campaign tracking and evaluation, in order to feed insight into future planning as well as tracking performance and informing ongoing optimisations. Be the implementational planning expert who understands and can advise on the best use of channels across paid media. Be comfortable talking to clients about the connection between channels across paid, owned & earned media. Support wider team on ad-hoc media projects and thought pieces. Deliver fully integrated planning and team collaboration across disciplines; on and offline media, influencer, commerce, and build strong creative agency partnership. Be regularly in touch with media partners to understand new innovations in the market and receive new audience insights.
• Interpersonal / Attitudinal Skills: Have an innate curiosity and a willingness to share ideas, thoughts & insights with the wider team. Develop a strong working relationship with colleagues & nurture positive team spirit. Take pride in everything you do and really care about delivering great work. Recognise when to escalate a potential issue to senior colleagues or seek a second opinion from the wider team. Great attention to detail and a high level of numeracy – spot it first! A positive ‘can-do’ attitude and approach.

About the Agency: At OMD EMEA, we strive to deliver on our promise of ‘better decisions, faster’ for our clients, partners and all 6,000+ OMDers across our region every day. As part of the world’s largest media network, our business is staging experiences for consumers who have more choice and less attention than ever before. The key to the process is empathy. Empathy to see the world through the eyes of the consumer, to recognise the needs of our clients and to identify aspirations of our talent. Learn Fast, Act Fast. To help navigate the road to a ‘new normal’, learning from, and acting upon data signals at scale and speed is crucial.

Be Your Best: We want everyone to make the most of the opportunity to shine and showcase your talents and we are happy to make adjustments in the recruitment process so you can be your best. Please discuss any specific requirements with your dedicated Talent Team member or if you would feel more comfortable, you can email us confidentially to let us know how we can support you.

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at OMG: At OMG, our vision is to be an agency where difference is valued and everyone is able to thrive in a culture of equality, inclusion and belonging. We are committed to providing a truly inclusive environment that reflects today’s society, where everyone is able to bring their true selves to work, and where diverse voices and backgrounds are valued, heard, and well-represented.