GAIN - Media Strategist / Planner

London, UK (On-site)

Salary Not AvailableMid Level3+ years expFull time

Posted 3 months ago

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Job Summary

Own the end-to-end traditional media planning workflow by turning client objectives into actionable plans, backed by audience insight and market trends to guide channel choices, scheduling, and delivery.

  • Media Planning & Coordination: translate objectives into plans, build schedules, and manage timelines and budgets.
  • Audience Insight: leverage data and tools to profile audiences and track media consumption trends.
  • Campaign Delivery & Learnings: support implementation, monitor performance, and translate results into planning improvements.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Support the development of media plans across traditional channels including TV, radio, print, OOH, cinema and audio
  • Assist in translating client marketing objectives into practical media recommendations and campaign plans
  • Conduct audience, market and competitor research to support planning decisions and identify opportunities
  • Help build media schedules, flowcharts, channel rationales and supporting planning documents
  • Work with media owners, vendors and internal buying teams to gather costs, availability and campaign information
  • Support the preparation of presentations, planning decks and campaign recommendations for clients
  • Ensure media plans are delivered accurately, on time and within agreed budgets
  • Use audience data, research tools and industry insights to understand consumer behaviour and media consumption trends
  • Support target audience profiling using tools such as TGI, YouGov, Nielsen, BARB, RAJAR or Route
  • Monitor competitor activity and media trends to inform planning recommendations

Requirements

  • Experience in a media agency, marketing agency or media planning environment preferred
  • Understanding of traditional media channels including TV, radio, print, OOH and cinema
  • Strong organisational and time management skills
  • Comfortable working with data, spreadsheets and campaign reporting
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills
  • Ability to manage multiple projects and deadlines in a fast-paced environment
  • Collaborative mindset and willingness to learn from cross-functional teams
  • Interest in media trends, consumer behaviour and advertising effectiveness
  • Experience using media planning and research tools is advantageous

Benefits

  • Private Medical Insurance
  • BUPA Life Assurance
  • Income protection
  • Employee Assistance Programme
  • Cycle to Work salary sacrifice scheme
  • Tech & Wearables salary sacrifice scheme
  • Octopus EV Scheme
  • Discounts and deals on a range of items from hotels, holidays and hormone testing to cinema, gyms and will writing
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GAIN

Gain is the private markets super app, a connected global platform that replaces fragmented deal stacks with one integrated system for sourcing, research, collaboration, and execution. By combining investment-grade intelligence, AI-powered workflows, and proprietary team knowledge, Gain helps deal teams move faster, reduce risk, and build conviction on every deal.Gain is trusted across more than $1 trillion of private capital, used by 100% of MBB and Big Four firms, and by over 70% of the world’s top 20 M&A advisory houses. The company has been recognised as US Data Provider of the Year (PE Wire), Global Financial Market Review’s Best Use of AI in Finance, one of Sifted’s Top 100 Fastest-Growing Companies, and ranked in the Deloitte Technology Fast 50. Gain operates globally with offices in New York, London, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Warsaw, and Bangalore.

Founded in 2018
New York, New York, USA
432 employees (9 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Google Ads Budget
$8.1K

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~432

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
9 (2% of company)

Funding

Total Funding
$10M
Last Raise
$10M
Undisclosed, 4 years ago

Funding History

  • May 2022
    Undisclosed • $10M

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