Associate Director, Planning

The role

You will supervise client implementation and communication with clients and agency teams. You will lead planning work, coordinate with global marketing teams, and manage 360 media planning deliverables.

What you will do

• Maintain day-to-day contact with clients and agency teams on your area of responsibility
• Oversee development of objectives, strategies, plans and presentations
• Supervise the group in interpreting competitive and other research data
• Train and evaluate Supervisors, Managers and Associates on the team
• Act as liaison between internal teams and partner vendors to ensure media performance
• Understand and integrate client and creative agency research into plans
• Package strategic frameworks and engagement ideas for client presentation
• Assist in crafting selling strategies
• Oversee the client implementation team, including staffing and workload
• Ensure integration of work between creative and media

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in advertising, marketing, business administration or communications, or equivalent professional work experience
• 5-8 years of account planning or related media/communications planning experience, with team leadership and management
• Experience facilitating ideation sessions
• Excellent strategic thinking
• Good client relationship skills, including presenting to senior-level clients
• Experience working across multiple communications disciplines, including digital
• Fully conversant with major desktop research tools and qualitative research techniques
• Excellent quantitative skills, including analytical ability and math proficiency
• Ability to manage a team and prioritize multiple assignments
• Genuine curiosity about clients and their business

Benefits

• Competitive medical insurance
• Group retirement plans
• Vision and dental insurance
• Significant paid time off
• Preferential partner discounts
• Employee mental health awareness days
• Access to global WPP Media and WPP networks and learning
• Employee resource groups and in-office events

Before you apply

• Applicants not selected for interview will not be contacted

About the company

WPP Media is WPP's global media collective, bringing together media, data and partnerships. It is an equal opportunity employer.