Media Planning Executive

The Planning Executive is a core liaison between media, creative and client teams. They support the whole team in delivering first class communications plans and assist in managing the day to day running of the client account.
Role Responsibilities
As a Planning Executive, you will need to:

• Work with and support the Account Manager in planning across all channels


• Support the team with administrative and operational tasks


• Keep P.O. Tracker up to date and ensuring both purchase orders and plans are provided for all activity for accurate billing and financial bookings


• Provide client point of contact for day-to-day queries


• Have a good understanding of client's business and industry sector, and the challenges facing them


• Attend and present regularly at client meetings on a variety of different topics


• Circulate agendas and status sheets, plus other material required in advance of meetings


• Capture and circulate meeting minutes


• Keep up to date with media industry news and share with wider team


• Keep Synthesis updated on a monthly basis. Reconcile historic campaign spend and update with future spend forecasts and provide regular reports to line manager


• Coordinate reporting requests, working with specialists and other team members to ensure quality and consistency of output


• Support EMEA team with adhoc requests


• Develop knowledge and application of core media tools including AdDynamix, TGI, YouGov & MediaExplorer


• Have a good understanding of the media landscape


• Know and be able to articulate our agency vision, behaviours & values


• Responsible for collating and distributing client newsletter on a bi-weekly basis


• Work closely with the creative team and develop an understanding of their tools and processes


• Analyse and prepare competitor spend and audience insights reports


• Support the creation of post-campaign-analysis reports


• Liaise and develop relationships with key media owners to build an understanding of what services and products exist


Reporting into:
This role directly reports to: Planning Director.
Core Competencies and skills required

• Proactive & Enthusiastic - A positive attitude and approaches every task with passion who takes the initiative and develops solutions and volunteers or creates opportunities to expand your experience and positively impacts those working at m/Six.


• Thoughtful - Able to demonstrate knowledge of the brands, marketplace and media channels and the wider industry to the client and their wider team


• Organised - Able to work on a variety of different tasks at once to a high standard. Able to easily prioritise tasks and effectively self-manage their own workload


• Confident - Able to delegate some tasks to others where necessary, making yourself known positively to the client


• Curious - Takes time to read industry news and keep up to date with trends and industry commentators


• Collaborative - Being collaborative is key as you will need to be able to rally teams around tasks and manage overall team outputs.


• Meticulous - Demonstrates exceptional attention to detail. Someone who will spot the error in a spreadsheet and correct it. Someone who shows utmost pride in their work across every output - whether that's a report, a presentation or email.


What Success Looks Like:

• Positive feedback from the team


• Positive feedback from other colleagues within the agency


• Individual mention in Client Satisfaction reviews and client feedback


• Level of accuracy with tasks


• Low level of outstanding financial queries


• Ability to utilise planning tools and other resources
  
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Job title: Planning Executive
Who are m/SIX?
m/SIX are one of the world's fastest-growing media planning & buying agencies, having doubled in size in the last two years. Our international network now comprises over 40 offices across 3 continents.
We have a unique proposition and ownership structure, which is fundamental to how we operate for our clients. We are majority owned by our partners within The&Partnership, but our joint venture with WPP means that we are able to offer a true 'best of both worlds' advantage. This means a progressive and entrepreneurial approach to business and culture, whilst providing full access to GroupM's market-leading pricing, data and technology assets.
As both The&Partnership and m/SIX we have therefore created new models and ways of working which are leading the industry in defining the agency of the future. This means solutions built bespoke for clients' individual needs, inclusive of all necessary disciplines and working to one bottom line. Creatives, strategist, analysts, investment and production teams working together, with data and technology at the centre. These teams are often implanted directly within the client marketing teams: in the UK we have fully embedded teams at EA, News UK, Talk Talk and Toyota/Lexus. The impact of this has been transformational on our clients' business.
As a direct outcome of this progressive & transformational agenda, m/SIX has one key ambition: to be the most important place in the careers of our people.
Our Values
We are Energetic, Pioneering and Honest. These are specific to us, and reflect the culture of the agency and significantly the behaviours we seek out day to day within the business. We want to encourage individual Energy to all projects, to be Pioneering within our industry, and regularly receive Honest, and clear feedback.
Role Description
m/SIX as part of The&model allows us to work closer than ever before with our clients. Toyota and Lexus see The&Partnership as a true business partner helping them to navigate the media landscape and deliver outstanding communications plans. We approach every brief with the business challenge, developing solutions that are rooted in audience insight and deliver real business outcomes.