Senior Planning Executive

• Support the team in delivering excellence in media planning and client servicing
• Support the planning process, particularly research
• Produce competitive reviews and target audience analysis
• Manage media plans under line manager direction
• Build rapport with relevant media owners
• Support the smooth day-to-day running of client business
• Understand clients’ challenges, categories and competitors
• Lead responses to smaller client briefs with senior support
• Coordinate client status meetings and maintain accurate, timely status reports
• Build collaborative relationships with Goodstuffers
• Manage workload, expectations and deadlines
• Support the team and adapt to changing daily demands
• Maintain financial accuracy across clients
• Enter bookings promptly and accurately
• Manage purchase orders, invoicing and finance queries
• Complete weekly timesheets accurately and consistently

Requirements

• Previous experience in a client-facing role, managing day to day communication with clients
• Good knowledge of the fundamentals of media best practice
• Experience operating across all main media channels in a planning capacity
• Comfortable working in a fast paced environment with a detail-orientated approach
• Exceptional client servicing skills and ability to manage various stakeholders across a range of brands
• Collaborative relationship-building skills with internal teams, including investment, insight and data
• Excellent written and oral communication and presentation skills
• Strategic and creative mindset with ability to address client objectives inventively
• Passion for media and communications
• Desire to continually learn and develop planning and client servicing skills
• Creative, analytical and numerical ability
• Ability to manage workload, expectations and deadlines
• No educational credential explicitly required

Core Competencies

Demonstrates strong client servicing and media planning capabilities, with a focus on building collaborative relationships and managing multiple stakeholders effectively. Possesses a strategic mindset and a detail-oriented approach to deliver accurate media plans and financial management.

Highest-signal resume keywords

• Client-Facing Experience
• Media Planning Best Practices
• Stakeholder Management
• Communication Skills
• Analytical Ability

Hard Skills

• Media Planning
• Competitive Review Production
• Target Audience Analysis
• Financial Accuracy Management
• Purchase Order Management
• Invoicing
• Timesheet Management

Soft Skills

• Client Servicing Skills
• Collaborative Relationship-Building
• Detail-Oriented Approach
• Creative Mindset
• Adaptability

Industry Keywords

• Media Channels
• Client Briefs
• Status Reports
• Fast-Paced Environment
• Communication Strategies