About the job

About WPP Media WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands. With exceptional talent, trusted data and intelligence, and world-class partnerships – all united by our pioneering agentic marketing platform, WPP Open – we help clients navigate change, capture opportunity, and deliver transformational growth. 

WPP Media is WPP's AI-driven media operating unit, bringing together media, data, and partnerships to deliver creative personalisation at scale. Connected through WPP Open and powered by Open Intelligence, clients see exactly where, how, and why their media investment is working.

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Planning Executive

About WPP Media WPP is the creative transformation company. We use the power of creativity to build better futures for our people, planet, clients and communities. For more information, visit wpp.com.

WPP Media is WPP’s global media collective. In a world where media is everywhere and in everything, we bring the best platform, people, and partners together to create limitless opportunities for growth. For more information, visit wppmedia.com

About WPP OpenDoor At WPP, we’re constantly reinventing the future of creativity on an ever-broader canvas, bringing together unrivalled talent, resources and skills to provide an integrated offer of communications, experience, commerce and technology. 

Over the last decade, we have developed a dedicated global client practice with the mission of accelerating WPP’s impact for our largest clients by bringing them the best of WPP. Each team is custom-built around a client’s specific needs and challenges, providing easy access to the right capabilities. And that’s why we’ve built OpenDoor for Amazon. 

OpenDoor is a unique integration of the best of WPP and Amazon – building on their respective strengths and visions. Whether at WPP or at Amazon, every project is an OpenDoor on new possibilities. Anything and everything can be an opportunity for our people to drive impact – for them to innovate, learn, thrive, and occasionally fail too. 

The unique OpenDoor partnership model is built to deliver next level Productivity, fueled by our industry-leading approach to People, Platforms, and Process. OpenDoor spans across all WPP agencies and disciplines such as media, business consultancy, communications and brand strategy, tech and commerce, public relations, and production. 

OpenDoor’s values are built from Amazon’s own 16 Leadership Principles, and WPP’s core values of Open, Optimistic and Extraordinary. Together, when WPP’s Creative Transformation meets Amazon’s next-level customer centricity, our people come together to challenge and impact what’s done today and build a better future. 

By joining OpenDoor, not only are you joining a cross-function team partnering with one of WPP’s top five global clients, but you are also taking a step to challenge yourself and the world around you every day, working in the most unusual way on some of Earth’s most ambitious opportunities in marketing, tech, media, business, and creativity. 

This is a fantastic opportunity to join the team as an Implementational Planning Executive within the UK local team.

As Implementational Planning Executive, you are critical to the local delivery of this ambition; working closely with the manager and Directors across all lines of business, you will be a key interface for our clients and lead planning projects from start to finish, acting as the conduit who brings together our specialists to deliver exceptional work.

You will support in the day-to-day running of the account, ensuring flow and accuracy of work and that the campaign management process follows best practice. You are across all communications, managing day to day workflows and finance to deliver best practice account and workload management, alongside upskilling yourself in the UK media marketplace and plans. The Implementational Planning function is a key function, pulling together media experts in locally activated channels (AV, OOH, Audio, IO-led digital) to create multi-channel plans with adherence to client briefs, alongside data-driven narratives.

You will build a strong relationship with EU Hub contacts and become a trusted partner – being the conduit between local and regional teams. With a strong focus on implementational planning, this role is ideal for an individual who has in-channel offline or online planning expertise, or has previously worked in an activation role, and is keen to broaden their skillset to other channels.

In This Role, You Will: Media planning craft:

• Develop a baseline of media planning knowledge across channels.
• Learn and use media systems and tools including, but limited to, Open, TGI, Pathmatics, AdIntel, etc.
• Run and analyse reports including audience insights, etc.
• Need an inquisitive and curious mindset, wanting to understand and learn more about media planning.
• Build your own knowledge by staying on top of the latest trends and news impacting the media industry.

Campaign Management:

• Learn the fundamentals of effective campaign management including updating schematics, providing media plans to clients, chasing creative, etc.
• Assist with financial processes e.g. PO trackers, bookings, reconciliations, queries.
• Work closely with activation teams to deliver responses and tactical plans.

Effective Communication:

• Update internal and external status reports.
• Coordinate the regular meetings with the client and creative agency and collation of documents for those meetings.
• Work with your line manager to deliver your objectives and goals in line with your role and agency vision.

Skills And Experience

• Strong organisation skills
• Solution focused mindset
• Enthusiasm, curiosity, and a team player mentality
• Self-motivated; an ambition to make the ordinary extraordinary
• A thirst to learn – be that the client’s business, people, brands, industry, trends etc
• An ability to prioritise and delegate
• Empathetic and self-aware
• Strong attention to detail and financial acumen
• Positive, proactive approach to problem solving
• Calm under pressure
• Accurate verbal and written feedback and instructions

Life At WPP Media & Benefits Our passion for shaping the next era of media includes investing in our employees to help them do their best work, and we’re just as committed to employee growth as we are to responsible media investment. WPP Media employees can tap into the global WPP Media & WPP networks to pursue their passions, grow their networks, and learn at the cutting edge of marketing and advertising. We have a variety of employee resource groups and host frequent in-office events showcasing team wins, sharing thought leadership, and celebrating holidays and milestone events. Our benefits include competitive medical, group retirement plans, vision, and dental insurance, significant paid time off, preferential partner discounts, and employee mental health awareness days.

WPP Media is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without discrimination or regard to particular characteristics. We are committed to fostering a culture of respect in which everyone feels they belong and has the same opportunities to progress in their careers.

We believe the best work happens when we're together, fostering creativity, collaboration, and connection. That's why we’ve adopted a hybrid approach, with teams in the office around four days a week. If you require accommodations or flexibility, please discuss this with the hiring team during the interview process.

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We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.