EssenceMediaCom | Planning Executive

Description

• Support the Client Lead by providing expertise on Planning
• Provide insight and analysis to the Client Lead to support the development of data driven strategic recommendations for the client

• Develop strong relationships with clients
• Work with wider teams (including performance marketing, biddable and programmatic) to ensure regular reporting that serves the client’s needs.
• Act as a client contact for the assigned categories and countries and forming close relationships with the client to become the face of EssencemediaCom in front of the client

• Coordinate & complete annual plans for all brands for the assigned categories. Turn business objectives into comms objectives and define clear KPIs for each brief
• Develop the brand’s communication strategy, working in partnership with Agency’s strategists, the other teams within the region / globally and with clients
• Develop consistent excellent plan recommendations for brands in the assigned categories & related Operations staff to deliver outstanding plan execution & operational excellence
• Forge solid working relationship with the internal team at MediaCom and GroupM, developing multi-channel plans and responses to client briefs with the other colleagues/teams (if applicable).
• Ensure strong collaborative communication internally and with all other agency partners so information is efficiently and effectively shared (with digital and buying)
• Help drive innovation that is founded in clear audience insight
• Develop strategic recommendations in conjunction with rest of the strategy team
• Review Consumer insight and competitive reports interpretation and key learnings (aggregate and integrate research data in the plans)
• Use The System
• Complete planning reports accurately and on time
• Collaborates closely with buying/implementation teams within the company as to maintain a campaigns delivery throughout the year within agreed KPI’s (e.g. reach objectives)

• Identify opportunities within the client for incremental growth
• Support the Client Lead in providing insight and case studies for New Business Pitches

• Participate in workshops, training sessions and team building events.
• Deliver best practice day to day project management.
• Proactively build relationships outside of the immediate team.
• Demonstrate a business sense and a commercial understanding of profitability.
• Financial control of client’s business in conjunction with Account Manager (payments, invoices, reconciliations, PO tracking etc.)
• Demonstrate an understanding of the media and technology developments that influence performance planning and clients’ business.
• Be an advocate of continuous improvement, enthusiastic and positive with a “Can Do” attitude

• Product: outstanding plan execution & operational excellence. KPI TBC
• Client: satisfaction, retention, and growth, contributing to a high score for strategy and activation planning in agency evaluation. KPI TRR score
• Commercial: client profitability. KPI Client profitability target
• Personal development: positive My360 feedback from manager, peers, and clients.

• 1+ years of experience on a similar role
• Ideally Degree educated in a business, numerical or analytical degree e.g. economics, mathematics, statistics, or engineering 
• Numerate and analytical 
• Bilingual preferred; Japanese and English; with fluency in one language and basic communication skills in the other. 
• PC literate (Excel, PowerPoint, Word)
• Demonstrable strong planning skills and experience
• Experience in implementation planning 
• Proven record in the relevant sector with category management experience 
• Evidence of being able to influence and manage client stakeholders at the relevant level
• Analytical skills to identify consumer journey planning 
• Target orientation e.g. very results driven, ability to work effectively to targets
• Good customer relationship management experience