Media Planner, UK

London, UK (Hybrid)

£40K/yr – £50K/yrMid LevelFull time

Posted 3 months ago

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Job Summary

Own media planning and optimization for client campaigns, turning budgets into measurable growth through clear reporting and proactive opportunity spotting.

  • Strategy & Execution: Build media plans aligned to client objectives and spend wisely across platforms.
  • Partnership & Optimization: Collaborate with media buyers to unlock incremental spend and better placements.
  • Reporting & Insights: Deliver concise, actionable insights with real-time optimisations to drive growth.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Create media strategies and tactical plans that meet client objectives
  • Spend the client's money like it was your own. Take great care and pride with making sure that every pound is spent to the absolute best of your ability and that we are spending budgets in full
  • Provide clear, actionable and concise reporting with strong optimisation recommendations
  • Identify opportunities to grow media spend through maximising existing efforts or introducing new ideas within an existing campaign that would drive incremental media budget
  • Engage with Media Buyers as partners. Work together to determine the optimisations and incremental spend recommendations that would benefit the client
  • Anticipate client questions and needs when writing thought-provoking, digestible key insights for media reports
  • Actively seek out new vendors and identify opportunities that make sense for the agency and for specific clients.
  • Maintain strong relationships with existing vendors while pushing for unique offerings, new placements and capabilities, and the most competitive rates
  • Take great pride in budgeting, pacing and billing management by being accurate and timely media plan management within Prisma
  • Strong partnership and collaboration with the client leads to create joined up media plans and reporting with actionable real time insights and optimisations

Requirements

  • Strong understanding of Google Analytics and the ability to pull reports
  • Our primary media planning tool is Prisma, experience in the platform is beneficial but not required.

Preferred

Benefits

  • Salary range: £40,000 - £50,000 per year, commensurate with experience
  • £200 Annual wellness contribution
  • BUPA health insurance
  • YuLife well being and benefits app
  • YuLife EAP (Employee Assistance Programme) and 24/7 Virtual GP
  • Smart Pension
  • 24 days paid holiday
  • Birthday holiday
  • Hybrid working, 3 days in office
  • 3 additional WFH days per quarter
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Situation Group

Situation Group is an award-winning global collective that champions brand experiences.Our portfolio of companies includes:Situation: Our agency for experience-based brands.Town Hall: Our agency for nonprofit and education organizations.Situation Project: Our nonprofit that serves students through experiences.We collaborate with entertainment, education, and mission-driven brands, including No Kid Hungry, Columbia University, Harvard Online, Madison Square Garden, WICKED on Broadway, The Metropolitan Opera, and more.We believe how we do our work matters just as much as our work—Crain's, Best Companies Group, Cynopsis, Digiday, and Fortune have all honored us with workplace awards.Discover career opportunities at https://apply.workable.com/situationgroup/

Founded in 2001
New York, New York, USA
171 employees (69 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
1.2K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
28.4%
Direct
48.6%
Referral
5.7%
Social
15.8%
Paid
1.4%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~171

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
51 (30% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
4