Media Planning Academy (Planning Executive) London 2022

MediaCom are excited to announce that we are now accepting applications for our Planning Executive summer Academy 2022.

What is the MediaCom Scheme & How does it work?

Have you been looking for that perfect opportunity to start your career journey within media advertising industry? If you are passionate about advertising and are keen to learn more, this might be the perfect opportunity for you. MediaCom’s rotational scheme lasts 18 months and is designed to give you exposure to multiple media channels and work with some of the most exciting clients out there. We will also support your learning and development journey by offering a range of learning programmes, as well offering the opportunity to study a Level 3 Digital Marketing qualification, data fellowship or project management, giving you valuable skills and creating specialists. And don’t worry at all, this will be completed during working hours and extra study time will be given.

Planning Executive (The role)

The role of the planning team is to define the brand challenge & opportunities, deliver brand, category & consumer insights to create effective strategies and plans that deliver against the client briefs. To be bold, brave, different, innovative and pioneering with their recommendations and take ownership & pride in their work. The role is also to liaise with the clients on a day to day basis and manage all client expectations which includes co-ordinating the delivery of work from the specialist areas within Mediacom and the wider agency/GroupM and reporting back, gathering learnings and delivering metrics. The overall purpose of delivering excellent, effective campaigns, successful business metrics and happy clients

4 best things about the job

1. The people – you’ll work in a very supportive and ambitious team with a range of backgrounds, skillsand experiences to learn from
2. The work – you’ll do industry leading, big brand, strategic planning, with genuinely award-winning potential in almost every brief
3. Your development – we’ll support your learning and development ambitions, with opportunities to learn from other teams in the agency, as well as the departmental specialist that you will work with every day
4. You have the opportunity to gain a further qualification in either Digital Marketing or Project management through an external training provider.

Measures of success

In 3 months you will

• Have cemented excellent relationships across Mediacom
• Be a valued team member and respected by the client
• Be contributing to delivery of end-to-end campaignplanning
• Owning financial processes and the handling of invoice queries for the team and account
• Ensuring internal documentation is kept up to date,inclusive of weekly client status reports
• Have met several key media-owner representatives to understand their offering

In 6 months you will

• Have direct oversight of components of paid media campaigns
• Increase your understanding of investment trends, andgain better understanding of the client’s mediaobjectives, KPIs, parameters and metrics
• Demonstrating the ability to build solid relationshipswith key stakeholders through positive daily interactions
• Develop an understanding of our clients’ needs
• Add value to the team culture and processes

Responsibilities of the role

• Contribute to the development and delivery of planning work for smaller briefs
• Be a planning support for BD for key projects
• Lead ad-hoc client requests
• Develop good relationships with other departments that work on the account
• Competitive reporting, develop interesting insights and ensure accuracy for any reporting that is required on the account
• Own all the financial processes (PO tracker, actualisations, resolution of queries etc)

Where you’ll be at the end of your first year to 18 months

We expect you to be focusing on your development plan for promotion to Media Planner as you will have mastered the basic functions of the business and will be pushing to take on more responsibility. You may have also completed your project management qualification.

What we’re looking for in you

• Highly organised and administratively competent, with strong attention to detail
• Eagerness to learn (this will include proactively booking own training sessions)
• Determined, inquisitive and curious approach to problem solving
• Ability and desire to work in a fast-paced environment
• Good working knowledge of Excel and PowerPoint
• Excellent communication skills – verbal and written
• Great team skills and the ability to work hard and have fun
• Passionate about media!!

*Although we cannot make guarantees, we welcome conversations about flexible working for all roles at MediaCom London*