Overview

Senior Associate Director – Planning (DFS Group) at WPP Media.

About WPP Media: WPP is the creative transformation company. We use the power of creativity to build better futures for our people, planet, clients and communities. For more information, visit wpp.com. WPP Media is WPP’s global media collective, bringing the best platform, people, and partners together to create opportunities for growth. For more information, visit wppmedia.com.

About EssenceMediacom: a leading WPP Media Brand. EssenceMediacom is a data- and tech-powered media agency focused on analytics, insights, and testing at scale. We help clients win with their consumers and evolve in the modern communications economy.

Role Summary and Impact

We’re looking for a confident, inspiring, and driven “agents-of-change” to help our clients achieve growth through intelligent systems thinking. You will lead and nurture the team to produce industry-leading planning work grounded in audience insight, and incorporate effectiveness learnings to create a coherent, connected system. This SAD role sits within team DFS, a high-profile, dynamic, and diverse account across the UK.

DFS is commercially successful and keen to deliver best-in-class media strategy daily while exploring new and different approaches.

Responsibilities

• Lead and nurture a planning team to deliver industry-leading planning work grounded in audience insight.
• Incorporate effectiveness learnings to produce a coherent, connected media system.
• Collaborate with clients and colleagues to deliver strategic, data-informed recommendations.
• Engage with the broader WPP Media network to leverage best practices and tools.

Skills and Experience

• Knowledge of all media and experience with end-to-end planning.
• A digital-first approach to planning with a fast-growing tech environment.
• Strong leadership that develops talent and builds client relationships.
• Strategic thinking, curiosity, collaborative leadership, and comfort with data-driven and creative ideation.

Life at WPP Media & Benefits

We invest in employees to help them do their best work and support growth as well as responsible media investment. Benefits include competitive medical, retirement plans, vision and dental insurance, substantial paid time off, partner discounts, and mental health awareness days. We support hybrid working with office presence around four days a week; discuss accommodations or flexibility with the hiring team during the interview process.

We are an equal opportunity employer and foster a culture of respect where everyone has opportunities to progress.

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Additional Information

We’ve adopted a hybrid approach; if you require accommodations, please discuss with the hiring team during the interview process. While we appreciate all applications, only those candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.

Seniority level

• Director

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Business Development and Sales
• Advertising Services

Note: This description omits extraneous boilerplate and non-essential postings in order to focus on the role, responsibilities, and requirements.