Associate Director - Media Planning (Hiring Immediately)
OUR COMPANY
Initiative celebrates diversity in an inclusive environment where all of our 6,000+ strong talent across 90+ markets feel seen, heard, and valued. Our vision is to create not only a better media company, but also a better media industry, and maybe even a better world.
We believe in the power of media to reshape our industry and orchestrate a brand’s entire consumer experience, by balancing both what unites people and what makes them different. When brands unite people in culture, they build Fame, and when brands connect individuals to their unique journeys, they build customer Flow. Media responsibility is at the forefront of everything we do, whether it’s creating media plans that reflect the diversity of our communities, promote brand safety, and foster sustainability.
Our agency celebrates diversity in an inclusive environment where all of our 6,000+ strong talent across 90+ markets feel seen, heard, and valued. Our vision is to create not only a better media company, but also a better media industry, and maybe even a better world.
We make a promise to our people that we double down on seeing, celebrating & elevating all the things that make you, uniquely you. And just as we do for our brands and clients, we connect our people to the journeys that matter in building a meaningful career.
There are four I’s in Initiative and these represent our core values and behaviours.
➢ INDIVID[YOU]ALITY – you bring your genuine and unique self to and into the work, every day.
➢ INSTINCT – you’re tuned in and armed with intelligence; you have a bias for action – shit happens when you’re around.
➢ IMAGINATION – your ability to imagine and bring to life the ideas, solutions, and the future of Initiative, makes us THE create media agency in the world.
➢ IMPACT! – you care deeply about the impact you have on our clients, their customers, our community, the media landscape and our world at large.
DISCIPLINE OVERVIEW: COMMUNICATIONS DESIGN
Communications design is the discipline and practice of crafting how a brand idea will be delivered through communications across an owned, earned and paid ecosystem in order to achieve a desired behavioural outcome.
Initiative’s Communications Design team is creating the future of planning. Borrowing skills from User Experience, Digital, Public Relations and Content, these media professionals are responsible for curating how people connect and participate with brands through culturally rich ideas. Instead of considering the experience of a brand in components (media / channel planning), Communications Designers think about brand experience in totality (ecosystem planning) ensuring every encounter is useful and impactful.
The Communications Design team dynamically brings brands to life through their actions.
- They Are experts in consumer and communications behaviour, and how changes in behaviours are creating new opportunities for connection
- Lead the creation of the dynamic ecosystem approach to deliver a strategy
- Work with partners (media, creative, technology, platforms, Specialty Business Units) to curate how a brand should connect within culture
- Lead the identification of the right audiences to address how to meet business goals, and guide the quantification of connection encounters holistically
- Champion innovative, forward thinking activities that help brands create value with their audience.
ROLE OVERVIEW: ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, COMMUNICATIONS DESIGN
This is an exciting opportunity to work with Intuit across the EMEA region. The account opportunities include:
- £60M investment across 10-12 markets. The focus is on the UK as the largest priority market with the opportunity to support the client on further expansion across EMEA.
- The client is looking for our strategic advice on how to recalibrate investment across markets, as well as a new approach to managing brand and demand marketing in order to deliver a step change in the perception of their business
- Business that is centrally managed, planned and bought - with local support where necessary
- Work in close partnership with the performance strategy & planning team to provide full funnel, brand to demand campaigns
- Previous B2B experience is preferable, but not essential
As Associate Director, you are responsible for managing the process of creating impactful communication plans across the full ecosystem of media channels. This is across the full end-to-end process from the production and application of accurate and insightful consumer, cultural, media and market intelligence, to the selection of channels including usage of tools such as OESP Planner right through to the post campaign analysis.
You are the day-to-day contact and lynchpin for the client and the internal team. You will lead the planning across disciplines to ensure everything is operating smoothly, accurately, and on deadline. You should be an authority on your client’s business to the agency and an authority on Initiative and the SBUs to the clients. You should work with partnerships, media vendors, and your communications design team, you ensure that new opportunities are identified for innovation and test and learn programmes.
In this role, you are responsible for the management of junior team members including appraisals, goal setting and performance management, ensuring that the next generation of brilliant communications designers are effectively supported, trained and develop]]> <
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