PHD EMEA is looking for a dynamic Global Director of Planning to work on the international business for a large FMCG / CPG company. We’ve recently refocused the role of the global media team in partnership with the client, leading to this opening.
We are seeking a planning director with a clear POV on media and who’s not shy about jumping in and applying their knowledge alongside the brand goals to help local or hub teams make their media strategies and plans bigger, bolder, and more effective. You are a highly organised and driven individual with proven media planning experience, ideally working directly in a local market but with multi-market experience (or an ambition to gain it).
You will be leading comms planning excellence by bringing together evidence and ideas to create compelling guidance for marketers and the local agency teams, developing the planning framework for the media teams to use to develop detailed tactical media plans. You will work closely with regional and market agency media teams to ensure integrated plans are produced that achieve briefed KPIs.
You will be a key contributor as these brands make the case to continue to invest in brand marketing, while ensuring full funnel connections through to eCommerce sites. Your work will be pivotal in leading these brands to think about media in new and different ways – as they look to make an impact using humour and striking media placements in categories where product purchase is on autopilot.
You will speak with our global clients on a weekly basis; and work closely with the creative agency of record, which is co-located in our offices. Key contacts within Omnicom Media include the strategy director, the business director, planning teams in local regions and markets as they develop through the line channel plans, and our eCommerce specialty division. While you won’t have a direct report, you can leverage support from the Account Manager and you’ll help develop team members by mentoring their strategic and planning skills development.
In addition to global responsibilities (70% of your time), 30%
Based in London, with regular collaboration with clients and agency stakeholders in London, Thailand, Colombia, and Chicago, this role is suitable for someone with the ability to work flexibly across time zones. Regular travel is not required, but we do ask our teams to be in our Bankside offices three days a week and ad hoc when we have in-person meetings with our UK-based global clients.
About the Role:
- Demonstrate a blend of logic and magic; capable of thinking laterally where required, playing an active role in “creative” conversations with clients and creative agencies, but also able to think literally to shape robust implementational planning requirements with our specialist teams/markets
- Can identify and manage creative / innovative media opportunities that are born out of the strategy
- Are persistent enough to get them signed off, and resourceful enough to bring them to life with either our colleagues in PHD Global, with our regions and markets, or with our media partners
- Is motivated to create work that has the potential to win awards and can spot briefs that have award-winning potential within them
- Can create compelling presentation materials that get the plan signed off first time, a research project signed off, or further trust with clients when closing the loop with a Quarterly business review (QBR)
- Has strong interpersonal skills and can effectively manage complex tasks with multiple stakeholders, with a bias to seeing solutions, rather than identifying problems
- Has the desire to make an impact not just on their agreed assignments, but across the agency-at-large – be that contributing to new business, or new ways of doing things across the agency
About the Agency:
PHD is a growth-focused media agency driven by innovation and creativity.
Founded in London in 1990, we were the first media agency to offer strategic and creative planning at a time when the industry was about buying cheaply and quickly.
Our founders saw a bright future where smart thinking and clever planning could help brands grow faster than their competitors.
Over the many years that have followed, we have continued to build on this defining ethic — with our evolution shaped by a continual investment in thought leadership. And we continue to ensure that our capability and approach evolve in line with changes in media, data, technology, commerce, society, and legislation.
Today, with over 100 offices in 74 countries, we continue to create remarkable campaigns that lead to remarkable growth – using the extending canvas of data and technology.
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Omnicom Media Group UK Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Omnicom Media Group UK and has not been reviewed or approved by Omnicom Media Group UK.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Leave allowances include 27 days’ annual leave plus a birthday day and options to trade holiday. Additional “summer Fridays/recharge days” help widen time‑off options.
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Flexible Benefits — Hybrid working with a typical three‑days‑in/two‑days‑remote pattern and defined core hours supports flexibility. Work‑from‑anywhere allowances and 2–3 WFH days are also referenced in the UK context.
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Healthcare Strength — Private medical insurance, life assurance, and an Employee Assistance Programme are part of the core package. Mental wellbeing support, trained Mental Health First Aiders, and a subsidised gym further reinforce health coverage.
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OMG UK delivers transformational experiences for consumers, clients and talent. Powered by the Omni marketing orchestration system, OMG connects best-in-class capabilities that enable our full-service media agencies OMD, MG OMD, PHD and Hearts & Science to deliver more relevant and actionable consumer experiences, more productive and proactive client experiences, and more collaborative and rewarding talent experiences. We are enormously proud of our Agency and Network of the Year accolades, including most recently, PHD named Adweek’s Global Media Agency of the Year, MG OMD named Thinkbox TV Planning Agency of the Year, and OMG Unite named Media Agency of the Year at the Leadership and Diversity Awards. We are committed to providing a truly inclusive environment where everyone is able to bring their true selves to work, diverse voices and minority communities are valued, heard and well represented, and where everyone is able to thrive in a culture of equality, inclusion and fairness.
