Our client, a global media agency is looking for a Group Planning Director.

Responsibilities:

• Lead scoping, staffing, operations, and service delivery across their accounts.
• Strategic and operational eye to continually evolve ways of working ensuring we create strong client relationships, exceeding expectations while maximizing efficiencies.
• Clearly articulate the agency’s positioning, matching our capabilities with client needs to grow existing clients and pitch for new ones.
• This leader keeps communication flowing, objectives aligned, and operations efficient.
• Strong understanding of performance marketing to translate clients’ business goals to detailed media programs and metrics.
• Create strategic frameworks which address client needs and the larger audience and business context, using research and insights to create a path forward.
• Embraces and encourages a culture based on teamwork, collaboration, and intellectual curiosity. Motivate, lead, and grow the skill and ability of internal teams, with a focus on accountability.
• A best-in-class account leader who assists in interviewing, hiring, training, mentoring, developing, and evaluating team members across the agency.
• Develops scoping, staff plans, and commercial models across their accounts to balance client needs with team professional development goals and agency profitability
• Acts as the main contact for most senior client leads, learning more about their business beyond media to proactively identify additional value and capabilities we can bring
• Accountable for ensuring strong operations, processes, and standards across accounts
• Participates in all-agency meetings, communication, training, and culture building
• Works closely with the Chief Strategy Officer to identify additional opportunities for new products, new agency capabilities, and new business opportunities

Qualifications:

• Strong digital expertise and ability to create informed POVs and market trend reports
• Exposure and experience with linear / traditional media planning and execution
• Ability to combine disparate media plans, tactics, and initiatives into an overarching account strategy and measurement system
• 8+ years marketing, media, or advertising experience
• Experience growing and developing client businesses and agency talent
• Growth and development of account teams and agency planning and account management disciplines
• Client feedback, trust, satisfaction
• Growth of client’s business and our agency’s engagement