Associate Director, Planning

Los Angeles, CA (On-site)

$100K/yr – $120K/yrSenior Level6+ years expFull time

Posted 3 months ago

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Job Summary

Lead media planning and team direction at a global agency, owning client work, strategy, and mentorship.

  • Must-have: 6+ years in media planning with client leadership experience
  • Must-have: proven ability to build strategic frameworks tied to business goals
  • Standout: strong client relationships and cross-functional leadership

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Provide excellent client service by being responsive, accountable, and detailed oriented
  • Present media plans, post analyses, and other deliverables to clients
  • 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 product created by team of direct reports
  • Provide higher level of insight and analysis to campaign performance - drawing insights and actions from data
  • 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
  • Bring proactivity and leadership to the clients and the team
  • Be the voice for creating great work

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Communications, Advertising, Media and/or related field
  • Minimum 6 years of experience in media planning that involves broadcast and OOH planning
  • Deep experience working in and leading integrated team
  • Experience with innovative or custom program development
  • Ability to make operational and investment recommendations and decisions
  • Be passionate and want to lead and inspire a team of soldiers
  • Must love close relationships with clients and be able to identify and run towards the future and not simply deliver “the ask”
  • High level of competency in Account Management and client service
  • Professional presence; can lead a team by example
  • Excellent presentation skills
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PHD

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

Founded in 2006
London, England, GBR
5K employees (1,376 in marketing)

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