About the Role:
PHD EMEA, part of Omnicom Media, are looking for a Senior Planner to join our central Digital Activation Hub (DAH) team. We are delighted to be building a new DAH team to manage biddable digital activation for Europe’s newest streaming service across the EMEA region. The Senior Planner role requires significant hands-on experience in managing one or more of Programmatic or Social channels and having the latest knowledge of the platform across a variety of KPIs. The ideal candidate will be confident in presenting work and ideas to clients and working on educating the junior team on setups, Q&As, optimisations, and troubleshooting. The individual will be part of an international team of 25+ people based in London. This is an incredible opportunity for an individual with a strong programmatic and/or social background to join one of the largest media agencies delivering award-winning work daily
Key responsibilities
Team Management
• Support your manager and Associate Director in guiding the output of a team of 3-6 onshore /nearshore biddable specialists. Take responsibility for your team’s output, acting as an escalation point when required.
• Create supporting documentation & work with junior members of the team across the Hub to upskill them on Programmatic & Social activation and our ways of working.
• Contribute to PHD’s company culture, whether it’s writing POVs, participating in charity events, or sharing your latest Excel trick.
Strategic Account Management
• Lead the day-to-day communication between the agency, our international offices and international client stakeholders
• Work with your Associate Director & Manager to deliver best-in-class media planning.
• Take a brief from planning through to close, working with analysts on insights that can deliver the outcomes our clients expect from us.
• Take ownership of a portfolio of campaigns/ projects and become a trusted advisor for all things digital Campaign Management & Optimisation
• Work in tandem with our nearshore team to deliver campaign activity across Programmatic & Social
• Collaborate with local teams on market- leading data & supply that are described in media plans for flighted campaigns in programmatic & social.
Skills and experience
• Experience working in programmatic or social activation.
• Full understanding of the mechanics of a media plan.
• Be a proactive self-starter with great knowledge of digital marketing principles
• Have a passion for learning new things
• Have strong communication, listening skills and attention to detail
• Have excellent numerical skills and confidence in analysing data using Excel
• Be responsive to feedback
• Have strong organisational skills, being able to manage multiple projects at once
• Strong spoken & written English
• Ability to speak other European languages is desired, but not essential
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.
https://www.phdmedia.com/
Flexible Working
At Omnicom Media Group, we are committed to supporting flexibility for our people while fostering collaboration, innovation, and teamwork. We have a hybrid working model (three days in the office, two working remotely), to ensure that we meet the needs of both our people and our business, balancing the benefits of in-person connections with the flexibility of remote working. Our standard working hours are 9:30 – 17:30, but we offer the ability to flex around core hours of 10:30 – 16:30 to give our people flexibility on how they manage their working day, whether that’s in the office or working remotely. For example, you could start work at 8:30 and finish at 16:30 or start at 10:30 and finish at 18:30.
We encourage open conversations between our people and managers to help navigate high-need periods and individual circumstances. Our goal is to create an environment where people feel genuinely supported to do their best - both in their careers and in their lives outside of work.
Be Your Best
We want everyone to make the most of the opportunity to shine and showcase your talents and we are happy to make adjustments in the recruitment process so you can be your best. Please discuss any specific requirements with your dedicated Talent Team member or if you would feel more comfortable, you can email us confidentially at [email protected] to let us know how we can support you.
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Top Skills
What We Do
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.
