Media Planning Manager

Offline specialist? Have a strong planning background? Come join a team of experts here at UM, and work on a fantastic set of clients.

What's in it for you?

• You'd be working with a global media powerhouse
• We work with progressive and ambitious clients who want industry-leading work.
• Experienced and capable teams to accelerate your career.
• Industry leading leave entitlements including; Birthday Leave, Extra annual leave days and up to 16 weeks Paid Parental leave.
• Use of automation and robots to free up staff from repetitive manual tasks
• Family Inclusive Workplace
• Hybrid working policy including remote international opportunities.
• Agency perks including; culture clubs, breakfast, health and wellbeing initiatives, employee assistance programs, etc.
• Ongoing L&D opportunities

The role

As a Planning Manager, you will be responsible for driving the day-to-day media planning across paid and non-paid channels ensuring required deliverables are achieved, working closely with the client leads, strategy, trading and performance teams to ensure we're hitting client outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

• Leads and develops all media recommendations and media plans in collaboration with the client, trading and performance teams ensuring they deliver on the briefed business outcomes.
• Supports the Group Director, Client Director, Planning Director and Investment Director by managing the day to day workflow;
• Drives a collaborative approach with all UM departments including specialist BUs (search, social and addressable) to develop best in class media solutions.
• Ensures a strong relationship with all media partners to remain across key/upcoming opportunities and trends;
• Oversees financial process alongside the Investment Manager to ensure monthly invoicing is in-line with the plan.
• Leads Planning recommendations (in collaboration with Investment Managers) for day-to-day campaign optimisations to ensure delivery against business outcomes.

Who you are

• Someone who remains up to date with all Australian and global market trends and has an educated point of view of the impact it has on their client's business and/or approach to the planning craft.
• You have extensive experience in planning across all channels with a particular focus on traditional channels.
• Works with the Planning Director to create a positive and motivating work environment.
• Effective communication and collaboration with the Client team to ensure recommendations are in-line with client expectations and deliver on briefed outcomes.
• Has a clear demonstration of problem solving skills and comes solutions ready.
• Competent skills in creating best practice and market leading implementation planning responses, working in conjunction with the Planning Director. Ensuring that our clients are delivered future focused recommendations that take into consideration projected market trends.

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We value unique backgrounds and experiences to encourage and celebrate diversity. First Nations people, those identifying as LGBTQ+, people of all ages, people with disabilities, and people who are culturally and linguistically diverse are encouraged to apply. Our aim is to create a workforce that reflects the community in which we live. We further acknowledge there are unique barriers for trans & gender-diverse applicants. Please reach out to to discuss any concerns in the recruitment process you may have.

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