Managing Partner - Media Planning

Join our senior leadership team and play a pivotal role in shaping the future of media planning for our clients. As a Managing Partner, you'll help drive strategic growth, strengthen senior client partnerships and lead innovative media strategies that deliver measurable impact. Working with high-profile brands and a talented team of planners and specialists, you'll help define the direction of our media offering while creating an environment where people and ideas thrive. You'll work hand in hand with the Chief Planning Officer, leading the vision, quality and output excellence across a 110 strong community of planners, with c. 10 senior planning direct reports.

Responsibilities

• Set the strategic vision for media planning, aligning agency goals with client and market opportunities
• Lead the development of integrated media strategies across traditional, digital and emerging channels
• Act as a trusted advisor to senior client stakeholders, building strong long-term partnerships
• Drive new business growth through pitches, partnerships and market opportunity identification
• Oversee media planning operations, including budgets, profitability and resource allocation
• Define and track campaign KPIs, using data and analytics to optimise performance and demonstrate ROI
• Champion innovation, including the use of emerging technologies such as AI to enhance performance and creativity
• Build, lead and develop a diverse, high-performing team in a collaborative and supportive environment

Qualifications

• Senior leadership experience within a media agency environment
• A strong track record managing complex campaigns and high-profile client relationships
• Confidence presenting to and partnering with C-suite stakeholders
• Deep knowledge of the UK media landscape and emerging industry trends
• A strategic, analytical mindset with a passion for measurable impact
• Leadership skills that empower teams and support professional growth

This role offers the opportunity to shape agency growth, influence industry-leading campaigns and develop both people and partnerships at the highest level.

PHD UK is a growth-focused media agency driven by innovation and creativity. It is the reigning Campaign AND Media Week Awards Media Agency of the Year and in March 2026 was named as the most awarded media agency in the World in the annual Warc Media 100 rankings. Founded in London in 1990, we were the first media agency to offer strategic and creative planning at a time when the industry was about buying cheaply and quickly. Our founders saw a bright future where smart thinking and clever planning could help brands grow faster than their competitors. Over the subsequent 3 decades, we have continued to build on this defining ethic - with our evolution shaped by a continual investment in thought leadership and a culture of Ingenuity. Today, with over 100 offices in 74 countries, we continue to create remarkable campaigns that lead to remarkable growth - using the extending canvas of data and technology.

At Omnicom Media Group, we are committed to supporting flexibility for our people while fostering collaboration, innovation, and teamwork. We have a hybrid working model (three days in the office, two working remotely), to ensure that we meet the needs of both our people and our business, balancing the benefits of in-person connections with the flexibility of remote working. Our standard working hours are 9:30 - 17:30, but we offer the ability to flex around core hours of 10:30 - 16:30 to give our people flexibility on how they manage their working day, whether that's in the office or working remotely. For example, you could start work at 8:30 and finish at 16:30 or start at 10:30 and finish at 18:30. We encourage open conversations between our people and managers to help navigate high-need periods and individual circumstances. Our goal is to create an environment where people feel genuinely supported to do their best - both in their careers and in their lives outside of work.