Associate Planning Director

Chicago, IL (On-site)

$70K/yr – $125K/yrMid Level6+ years expFull time

Posted 5 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own a client-led media practice focused on driving growth through insights, budgets, and cross-functional team leadership.

  • Client Leadership: Own relationships, present plans, and translate data into strategic recommendations that move client outcomes.
  • Campaign Discipline: Oversee budgets, billing, and end-to-end deliverables with a focus on local media and cross-functional collaboration.
  • Team & Strategy: Guide direct reports, set growth-minded direction, and build frameworks tied to client goals and stakeholder partnerships.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Be responsive, accountable, and detailed-oriented as a primary client relationship holder
  • Present media plans, analyses, strategic recommendations and other deliverables to clients
  • Maintain complex monthly budget and billing documents and deliver clear, client-facing documents to facilitate client approvals.
  • Manage, mentor, and motivate direct reports to encourage their professional development while providing daily supervision and guidance
  • Manage workflow, deadlines, and interactions with strategy team, creative partners, clients, and other external teams
  • Responsible for all work products created by team of direct reports
  • Provide higher level of insight and analysis to campaign performance. Draw insights and actions from data to advance the client’s business forward
  • Set the tone and strategic direction of the team built around growth and application of learnings
  • Build sound strategic frameworks that ladder to client business goals
  • Maintain communication and develop strategic partnerships with key stakeholders – clients, partner agencies, peers, etc.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Communications, Advertising, Media and/or related field
  • Minimum 6 years of experience in integrated media planning.
  • Expertise in developing fully integrated media strategies and plans, with emphasis on local media (broadcast, digital, and social)
  • Auto category experience preferred
  • Experience working in a cross-functional team environment
  • Ability to make operational and investment recommendations and decisions
  • Passionate and eager to improve processes and workstreams
  • High level of proficiency in Account Management and client service. Experience developing close relationships and serving as a valuable partner to the client.
  • Excellent presentation and written communication skills
  • Ability to manage, track, and clearly report complex budgets.
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Welcome to PHD.Powered by our next-generation network, PHD’s advanced thinking - Intelligence. Connected. - combines data, technology, and human expertise collaboratively to achieve greatness.This is how we are one of the world’s most awarded media agencies, and currently ADWEEK’s Global Media Agency of the Year.We have around 6,500 people in 81 offices across 74 countries, all connected in one platform, Studio. Studio, which launched in 2018, allows our account teams, planners, and strategists worldwide to collaborate to create online campaigns, producing 70,000 unique ideas from across the agency, together.This is how we transform experiences.This is how we move brands and businesses forward.www.phdmedia.com

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