Planning Operations Executive - London, United Kingdom - Starcom

Starcom

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Company Description

Starcom is the Human Experience Company; we believe that our clients' competitive advantage lies in understanding people better, and acting on that understanding faster than the competition.

The future lies in bringing together media, creativity and data to create powerful experiences that will drive faster growth.

We are the flagship Publicis Media agency to do this through our Power of One client teams that span clients such as Stellantis, P&G, Samsung, P&O and Visa.

We work differently to most agencies and base many of our models on consultancy ways of working to build a more agile workforce in this hybrid world.

We complement our account teams with Squads - small teams that work for a short period to solve a specific brief.

We hold cross discipline Sprints to crack client briefs at speed. These processes are designed to fuel high performance and fast results through collaboration.

Even in this most challenging period, Starcom has had an exceptional 12 months. We have welcomed brilliant clients such as Stellantis, Ferrero, Axa, KP Snacks and E.ON into the fold. Our client satisfaction scores are among the highest in the market, significantly above agency norms.

We place a huge focus on our team and have driven flagship D&I and L&D programmes within Publicis Media; our goal is to help every individual reach their fullest potential and we encourage everyone to make "Brave Plays" in how they approach their work and their own career development.

As a result, we have an exceptionally energised and committed talent base, all of us proud of our welcoming and supportive culture, as evidenced by our recognition as one of Campaign's Best Places to Work in 2021.

Starcom operates in over 100 markets across the world.

We have very close ties to our global HQ in Chicago who encourage learning and sharing best practice with our colleagues around the world.

We are part of Publicis Groupe.

Job Description:

Department Summary

One Team Stellantis (OTS) is our integrated agency solution for the exFCA and exPSA brands within Stellantis, the world's fourth largest OEM.

Stellantis has an array of the world's most exciting car brands and with a continued shift to electrification coupled with identifying synergies within their marketing operations, this is a fantastic client to work on to help them unlock growth in a platform world.

The Planning team within OTS are the guardians of our relationship with the Stellantis brands; Abarth, Alfa Romeo, Citroen, DS, Fiat, Jeep, Peugeot, and Vauxhall.

We are deeply immersed in their business, acting as a highly valued and influential extension of their brand marketing teams.

We drive the strategic direction of media and wider communications, working closely with our Strategy, DDT, Performance, and Investment teams to deliver industry leading automotive solutions.

We put great emphasis in landing our powerful Human Experience proposition through the use of intelligence-led systems and data

In one sentence:

it is our collective job to deliver brilliant work, seamless operational management, and ensure that the work we deliver for our clients and our agency is profitable, enabling long term partnerships.

Role Summary

We are looking for an energetic passionate Planning Operations Executive (entry level), for our Stellantis account based in our Starcom Planning team in London.

This role would suit an individual with great organization skills, who is good with numbers and who is also able to think outside the box and be proactive in finding solutions for local challenges and solutions where required.

Although the role is within the Planning team, the job will require frequent communication with our internal finance team, Global Starcom team, our wider resource team based off-site and our internal buying teams.

Responsibilities include:

Work with Starcom Planning team to identify and ensure wider Stellantis team and new joiners are aware of the finance process and are adhering to the gold standard process in place as well as ensure training is set up as and when needed.
Maintain relationships with the Stellantis Planning team across all brands to deliver financial accuracy across the account.
Become proficient at using key systems including Mediaocean, Clutch, IPS, Power BI.
Join and prep for prebilling meetings and assist in resolving unbilled queries and work with the Planning and Investment teams to ensure spend gets reconciled on time.
Work with the individual brand teams to ensure PO tracker is updated when POs are received.
Maintain accurate records on the shared drive and filing of all relevant documents within set folders.
Ensure budgets on the central Stellantis System match up with annual laydowns and are updated when activity is reconciled.

Skills & Experience
This person should be highly motivated with key attention to details and numbers - an effective communicator ensuring they identify what is required