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    Planning Partner - London, United Kingdom - dentsu

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    Job Title:

    Planning Partner

    Job Description:

    Introduction

    Dentsu is the network designed for what's next, helping clients predict and plan for disruptive future opportunities and create new paths to growth in the sustainable economy. Taking a people-centred approach to business transformation, we use insights to connect brand, content, commerce and experience, underpinned by modern creativity.

    Carat is an important part of our world-class offering, an award-winning media, content and branding agency that uses its peerless understanding of the passions, motivations, and behaviours of real people to bring brands and their customers together. Carat is privileged to work with some of the most eminent companies in the world.

    We're hiring for a Planning Partner as part of our Carat London hub for one of our biggest clients.

    Purpose of the Role

    As Planning Partner you will be responsible for delivering excellence in our communications planning, focusing on driving continuous improvement in the communications work that we deliver for clients in order to deliver better business outcomes and closer, more valuable relationships.

    This role focuses on delivering a brilliant blend of brand and performance activations to ensure campaigns are a success. You'll be dedicated to client business, and responsible for partnering with the broader planning/account management teams, the critical senior client contacts, and with all relevant dentsu capabilities (in particular data and activation) to deliver communications solutions that deliver better returns for the clients' businesses.

    Key Responsibilities

  • Accountable for quality of planning product across relevant brands and clients, making the very best use of our data, tools and capabilities to deliver people-based communications decision making.
  • Driving responses to key business challenges, in partnership with multi-disciplinary teams within Carat and across dentsu
  • Responsibility for developing test and learn frameworks that help clients to evolve their brand building models, capturing and sharing best practice across the agency and the network, in case study format, and using this to win awards and drive reputation.
  • Delivering intelligence and inspiration to our clients that shape their point of view on their business challenges and of dentsu.
  • Maintain an excellent relationship with your clients, ensuring good TRR scores. Specific areas of focus is your clients opinion of our ability to drive consumer understanding and consistent improvements in business value through communications.
  • Mentoring Assistants through to Associate Directors within your team in all aspects of planning – not to deliver it all yourself but to create sustainable value by developing the skills of those around you.
  • Qualifications + Skills

  • Experience in a media planning role with a strong track record of coming up with and delivering innovative campaigns
  • Able to build data-driven decision making and to make the best use of external, client and agency proprietary data sets and approaches.
  • Strong skills in persuasion and selling of your ideas and communications plans to clients.
  • Skilled in mentoring and developing individuals from a wide variety of disciplines, cultures and backgrounds.
  • An analytical mindset, comfortable with data and drawing insights and recommendations.
  • Excellent ability and proven track record of working with clients at a senior level to advise on the strategic direction of their communications and its ability to deliver business value.
  • What we offer

    This is a permanent role. The team is based in our London office but operates under flexible working arrangements. You'll be on site either at Dentsu or with the client 2-3 days per week, with flexibility around client needs.

    As well as a competitive salary, you'll enjoy a benefits package that you can tailor to your needs.

    Inclusion and Diversity

    Our diverse and inclusive culture enables our employees to bring their whole selves to work and be proud of doing so. For us, this is the foundation for great innovation which, in turn, generates better outcomes for our people, partners and communities. This is why we encourage applications from people with disabilities, and of all ages, nationalities, backgrounds and cultures.

    We are happy to discuss flexible and agile approaches to working for all our roles – we can't promise we will be able to offer you everything you want or need but we do promise to discuss it with you openly and honestly. If you have any reasonable adjustment needs arising from a disability or medical condition to fully participate in the recruitment process, please discuss this with our recruitment teams.


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