Global Account Planning Manager FMCG

PHD EMEA is looking for a Market Engagement / account and planning manager to work on the Global business for a large FMCG / CPG company. Weve recently expanded our remit with the business and restructured our team leading to this opening.

We are seeking a highly organised and driven individual with proven relationship building skills. Working closely with one of the worlds leading FMCG companies in this role you will be responsible for ensuring comms strategies developed by the planning director and strategist land effectively in markets. A huge part of this role is to help ensure market consistency and understanding of approaches to planning and gather evidence of best practice from regions on a regular basis.

The market engagement position will be a pivotal role in driving forward the power of the network in regional and local teams based in Columbia Thailand Taiwan and London. It will be an exciting and challenging position working with some of the industrys leading comms strategists and planners for a dynamic and creative award-winning international client.

Work is fast paced with a very active calendar and close working relationship with the Omnicom creative agency. And it demands a concise transfer from business objectives into comms planning media activation and performance tracking. Also there will be a need to gather and consolidate financial and marketing data so proficiency with Excel and attention to detail is paramount.

You will speak with our clients on a weekly basis as part of a team and work with the creative agency of record; key contacts internally include the planning director the business director planning teams in local regions and markets as they develop through the line channel plans and our eCommerce specialty division. Youll help support the team with their market engagement relationships.

Based in London with regular collaboration with clients and agency stakeholders in London Thailand Taiwan Colombia and Chicago this role is suitable for someone with the ability to work flexibly across time zones.

Key Skills and Attributes

• Must be experienced on channel planning and execution across at least some of the major media communication channels either in a global regional or local media team
• Is a collaborative team player with an appetite for working with and learning from some of the industrys leading strategists and planners supporting on integrated projects across multiple departments and disciplines.
• Must be a credible trustworthy and diplomatic communicator - able to rapidly build a good relationship with the markets assigned to him/her and ensure they are always up to date.
• Is a tight project manager and unflappable during key busy periods where landing market strategy is a priority across the business.
• Has strong interpersonal skills and can effectively manage complex tasks with multiple stakeholders with a bias to seeing solutions rather than identifying problems
• Has the desire to make an impact not just on their agreed assignments but across the agency-at-large be that contributing to new business or new ways of doing things across the agency

About the Agency:

PHD is a growth-focused media agency driven by innovation and creativity.

Founded in London in 1990 we were the first media agency to offer strategic and creative planning at a time when the industry was about buying cheaply and quickly.

Our founders saw a bright future where smart thinking and clever planning could help brands grow faster than their competitors.

Over the many years that have followed we have continued to build on this defining ethic with our evolution shaped by a continual investment in thought leadership. And we continue to ensure that our capability and approach evolve in line with changes in media data technology commerce society and legislation.

Today with over 100 offices in 74 countries we continue to create remarkable campaigns that lead to remarkable growth using the extending canvas of data and technology.

Working

At Omnicom Media Group we are committed to supporting flexibility for our peoplewhile fostering collaboration innovation and teamwork. We have a hybrid working model (three days in the office two working remotely) to ensure that we meet the needs of both our people and our business balancing the benefits of in-person connections with the flexibility of remote working. Our standard working hours are 9:30 17:30 but we offer the ability to flex around core hours of 10:30 16:30 to give our people flexibility on how they manage their working day whether thats in the office or working remotely. For example you could start work at 8:30 and finish at 16:30 or start at 10:30 and finish at 18:30.

We encourage open conversations between our people and managers to help navigate high-need periods and individual circumstances. Our goal is to create an environment where people feel genuinely supported to do their best - both in their careers and in their lives outside of work.

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