Planning / Digital planning Exec

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We are looking for individuals from all backgrounds to join our Future Talent Scheme. This includes and is not limited to: School Leavers, College Leavers, Graduates and Career changers

Future Talent Scheme

Our Future Talent Scheme is an 18 month programme and is designed to give you exposure to multiple media channels. You will work with some of the most exciting clients out there. We will also support your learning and development journey by offering a range of learning programmes, as well offering the opportunity to study a Level 3 Digital Business Accelerator or Data Fellowship qualification, giving you valuable skills and creating specialists. And don’t worry at all, this will be completed during working hours and extra study time will be given.

If you are a school leaver joining us a qualification is mandatory. You are able to choose out of the two qualifications on offer.

The Role

We’re looking for confident, inspiring and driven “agents-of-change” as we help our clients achieve growth through intelligent systems thinking. You will produce industry-leading planning work, grounded in audience insight, and incorporate effectiveness learnings to produce a coherent, connected system.

The role of the planning team is to define the brand challenge & opportunities, deliver brand, category & consumer insights to create effective strategies and plans that deliver against the client briefs. To be bold, brave, different, innovative and pioneering with their recommendations and take ownership & pride in their work. The role is also to liaise with the clients on a day to day basis and manage all client expectations which includes co-ordinating the delivery of work from the specialist areas within Mediacom and the wider agency/GroupM and reporting back, gathering learnings and delivering metrics.  The overall purpose of delivering excellent, effective campaigns, successful business metrics and happy clients.

These are what we think are 3 best things about the job…

1. The work: Working with different clients we have the opportunity to shape this journey, working with a client group, including senior stakeholders, who are knowledgeable and keen to add more innovation to their media plans.
2. The team: we are a group who want to work for each other and produce brilliant work, leveraging our position of extension to the clients’ marketing team.
3. Your development – being in such a high-profile team will support your career development ambitions, with opportunities to learn from a multi-disciplinary set of experts along with the most senior members of the agency, whilst working on high profile campaigns.

Who are you?

You are a team leader/inspirer who demonstrates a passion for their craft and a constant drive to expand your knowledge of the communications landscape and your client’s business. You have significant and relevant experience in comms planning, as well as media and measurement knowledge across multiple channels, and a keen eye for detail. You will have strong client-facing skills and the ability to position yourself as a commercially-minded, trusted advisor to clients.

Next steps

• Applications close on Friday 23rd June.
• Screening call W/C 26th June
• An in-person assessment centre in July

About EssenceMediacom Next steps

EssenceMediacom is the UK’s largest planning and buying agency, with over 1,400 employees across five offices in London, Manchester, Leeds, Birmingham and Edinburgh.

We believe in People First, Better Results. This means that through investing in our people’s whole-person wellbeing, careers and capabilities and creating a culture of belonging, we achieve brilliant results for both our clients’ businesses and our own. We champion individuality and diversity in our people through an abundance of initiatives and training, and attract and retain the greatest talent in the industry.

Our mission is to See the Bigger Picture for our clients. We apply our unique ‘Systems Thinking’ philosophy and technology to all marketing levers: media, message and data. As a result, we design communication strategies that deliver short term results and help brands build for the future. 

EssenceMediacom represents some of the greatest brands in the UK and beyond, both big and small. This includes Sky, British Gas, Sony, Boots, DFS, TUI, The Coca-Cola Company, Tesco and Cancer Research UK. Our client work is celebrated at the industry’s most prestigious ceremonies, and we were named Campaign’s Agency of the Decade for 2009 and 2019.

EssenceMediacom is a member of WPP, the world's largest marketing communications services group, and part of GroupM, WPP’s consolidated media investment management arm. As such, we have access to the richest data, most robust benchmarks and most advanced capabilities in the market. This helps us provide comprehensive solutions to all marketing challenges.

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*Although we cannot make guarantees, we welcome conversations about flexible working for all roles at EssenceMediacom London*

What we can offer you

-          Company pension scheme

-          Private medical insurance

-          25 days holiday (increases with length of service)

-          Life assurance

-          Permanent health insurance

-          WPP share options scheme

-          Discretionary bonus scheme

-          Free eyecare vouchers and money off glasses

-          Extensive training and development

-          Corporate gym memberships

-          Cycle to work scheme

-          Interest free travel loan

-          Free breakfast (cereal and fruit)

-          Smart shopper (online discount on a variety of products)

Sounds good? We’d love to hear from you!