Planning Director

The purpose of this role is to manage a team of media planners and assist the Planning Partner on a day to day basis. This is to ensure that their teams are delivering plans that deliver against client objectives whilst balancing agency trading objectives.

Job Title : Planning Director

Job Description : Introduction

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.

It’s this different perspective that makes us stand out from any other agency. It’s why we’re a long-term partner for our clients.

Purpose of the Role

As the Client Planning Director, you will be one of the key architects of delivering industry-leading integrated client planning and service, working with the Client Partner, for one of our newest and most important brands within the agency. In this role, you will be a key contributor to multi market, multi channel campaign planning and workflows across Sage Campaigns.

You will be a key lead for response to briefs, campaign innovation and experimentation, holistic campaign activation and insight. You will work in partnership with internal Dentsu activation teams, our Sage measurement & insight team and operations. You will be responsible for client satisfaction scores and supporting commercial opportunities for cross-dentsu growth.

Key Responsibilities

• Owns relationships with mid-level clients on a day-to-day basis, deepening the client relationship to ensure retention and growth, and guarantee satisfaction
• Identifies business development opportunities – use knowledge of dentsu products and services to influence and contribute to innovative, ambitious and value driven solutions
• Brief and manage internal teams to deliver on client requirements
• Define the role of media across channels in line with the strategic plan ensuring consistency of planning process
• Keeping up to date with industry developments across the wider media landscape
• Digital expertise across all channels
• Showcase iProspect’s planning expertise across the industry, through thought leadership pieces or case studies.

Key Skills

What we offer

This is a permanent role. The team is based from our London office on a hybrid working basis. As well as a competitive salary, you’ll enjoy a benefits package that you can tailor to your needs which includes :

Inclusion and Diversity

Our diverse and inclusive culture enables our employees to bring their whole selves to work and be proud of doing so. For us, this is the foundation for great innovation which, in turn, generates better outcomes for our people, partners and communities. This is why we encourage applications from people with disabilities, and of all ages, nationalities, backgrounds and cultures.

We are happy to discuss flexible and agile approaches to working for all our roles – we can’t promise we will be able to offer you everything you want or need but we do promise to discuss it with you openly and honestly. If you have any reasonable adjustment needs arising from a disability or medical condition to fully participate in the recruitment process, please discuss this with our recruitment teams.