AV Media Planning Assistant London 2023

This exciting new role is an entry-level position within our AV team, focused on supporting executives and managers in their day-to-day tasks and campaign development. The key qualities sought in candidates for this role include organisation, a willingness to learn, and an interest in media.

All our entry level roles at dentsu are open to everyone including college leavers, Graduates and career changers.

What is AV?

AV refers to anything you can hear and watch via electronic media, think TV, radio, online video, cinema, podcasts and more. There are two parts to an AV role, our role is on the planning side of AV:

• Planning - which is the specialist planning to consider the most effective channels for your target audience.
• Buying - which involves liaising with production managers and media owners to buy advertising space.

About the day to day

You will have the opportunity to learn from experienced team members and gain hands-on experience in the media industry. Your responsibilities will be to deliver best in class AV planning across all campaigns, whilst also demonstrating that you are a first-class operator that sets a high standard: showing robust organisation, diligence, productivity and commercial acumen.

• Start to build relationships with internal and external partners.
• Complete team administrative tasks to a high level and with 100% accuracy.
• Supporting the team to provide high-quality implementation and innovative media solutions in response to briefs from comms planners and/or clients.
• Ensure that we are delivering campaigns to planned campaign targets.
• Review previous activity, providing clients with detailed breakdown of results and opportunities for improvement of future activity.

About you

• Highly numerate and analytical
• Calm under pressure and able to deliver work to deadlines.
• Decision maker.
• Problem solver.
• Great communication skills with internal and external stakeholders and clients.
• Great attention to detail – Ability to ensure 100% accuracy across all planning and commercial processes for yourself and your team.
• Ability to prioritise workloads for yourself.
• Proactive attitude to work and career development.
• IT literate – competent in Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint, and able to pick up new systems as necessary.

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

Working with us

Joining dentsu, you’ll join a team of 48,000 people. It’s an opportunity to produce career-defining work. Along the way, you’ll team up with inspiring colleagues and encounter a richness of clients, cultures and experiences. We offer exciting challenges, memorable experiences and opportunities to shape your future.

Inclusion and diversity

We’re proud to be different and that starts with our people. We believe in equal opportunities for everyone. We won’t define people by their race, gender, sexual-orientation, age or disability. Individuality is what makes us great, we want everyone to bring their full self to work and create something amazing. That’s what we care about. So, whether you’re joining us, or looking to move to a different part of the business, we work hard to make sure we create equal opportunities for everyone.

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.

A bit more about Dentsu

Dentsu is a modern marketing solutions company. Our mission is to help clients navigate, progress, and thrive in a world of change. Businesses rely on our integrated network of agencies and specialized practices to champion meaningful progress through creative, media, commerce, data, and technology.

Part of Dentsu Group, our global network comprises 66,000 diverse people in 143 countries, who are dedicated to teaming for growth and good. Some of our award-winning agencies include iProspect, Carat, dentsu creative, dentsuX, Isobar and Merkle.

We are champions for meaningful progress, and we strive to be a force for good—for our people, for our clients, for the industry, and for our society. We keep our people at the center, creating space for growth, understanding and learning so they can thrive.

We embed diversity, in our mindset, in our solutions and in our teams to empower an inclusive, equitable and culturally fluent environment. Building this culture within our teams makes us better collaborators with each other and with our clients, driving better outcomes for all.