Executive, Planning

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2025 - Executive Planning

Role Summary and Impact

Wavemaker positively provokes growth for clients by reshaping consumer decision-making and experiences through media content and technology. Our name is both our mission and our method. We do our best work for brave brands and people who relish being challenged to go further and faster together.

The planning team are the guardians of creating industry leading unrivalled work at Wavemaker. We are the central conduits to all specialists striving to push boundaries and have a positive impact on consumers and brand.

Wavemaker UK is looking for a Planning Executive to join our growing planning team to support the planning team and give your career a flying start in the media industry.

In this role you will:

Media planning craft:

• Develop a baseline of media planning knowledge across channels.
• Learn about DEI planning and carbon conscious media.
• Learn and use media systems and tools including but limited to TGI Pathmatics Wavemaker Architect AdIntel etc.
• Run and analyse reports including competitive 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 your objectives and goals in line with your role and agency vision.

Skills and Experience

Practice Area Knowledge Fundamental

• Have a basic understanding and competence in MS Office PowerPoint and Excel in particular.
• Develops an awareness and curiosity about media and marketing industry including trends and challenges or concepts.
• Researches wider industry and shows ability to summarise information into findings to be shared.
• Develops a broad understanding of industry tools technology techniques and systems as well as application. E.g TGI Adintel Pathmatics
• Can run simple tasks independently and either present to clients direct or package for wider team.

Problem Solving Fundamental

• Asks questions and performs routine or basic analysis to define problems.
• Generates some solutions in own area of work and suggests additional sources of information to further investigate problems.
• Seeks a variety of perspectives and inputs and probes for more information to fully understand the problem and wider impact.
• Provides communication support for troubleshooting issues internally and externally with third parties.
• Develops a broad understanding of industry tools technology techniques and systems as well as application.
• Can run simple tasks independently and either present to clients direct or package for wider team.

Stakeholder Relationships Fundamental

• Has a good understanding of how the agency operates and works with their clients.
• Knows about the clients business and who the key decision makers are there.
• Has good understanding of agency and client and their business goals and challenges.
• Builds a working knowledge of market trends effecting the client (and agency).
• Responds to stakeholder requests in an accurate timely and professional manner and seeks to have a good understanding of client needs and challenges.

Effective Communication Fundamental

• Seeks relevant information to ensure own understanding of complex information.
• Assists team members in the creation of routine communication materials (e.g. policies & procedures guidelines presentations messages).
• Provides accurate information and learns how to simplify complex information.
• Adapts communication style and method to the audience.
• Applies subject matter knowledge to answer technical questions clearly and concisely and limits jargon.

Campaign Management Fundamental

• Learns and demonstrates a concern for what is expected regarding accuracy and thoroughness so that sufficiently detailed information is logged correctly.
• Manages the implementation of campaigns including compliant approvals and finance. g PO and creative trackers
• Delivers accurate reports with basic insights.
• Assesses the relative importance of tasks and activities assigned.
• Applies judgment to make trade-offs on time when faced with competing demands.
• Demonstrates ability to manage several tasks and meet deliverables with minimal error.
• Is responsible for status sheets.

Compelling storytelling Fundamental

• Demonstrates curiosity and asks questions to understand the purpose of different sources in story development and how to build a story.
• Starts to adapt communication style and method to the audience.

Ideas Creation Fundamental

• Demonstrates curiosity by asking questions around communication frameworks plans approaches trends and innovations.
• Demonstrates willingness to input into new projects and ideation sessions.

Comms Planning Fundamental

• Assists in the development of communications frameworks and cross media strategy.
• Supports with data reporting audience intelligence and production of client facing presentations. E.g competitives
• Has basic understanding of media channel dynamics and can discuss how each channel might add to the overall plan.

Life at WPP Media & Benefits

Our passion for shaping the next era of media is powered by our commitment toBe Extraordinary investing in our employees to inspire transformational creativity. We alsoLead Optimisticallyfirmly believingin andChampioning Growth and Developmentfor every individual. This commitment allows WPP Media employees toleveragethe extensive global WPP Media & WPP networks to pursue their passions build vital professional connections and learn at thecutting edgeof marketing and advertising.

WeCreate an Open environmentbuilt on trust and respect where everyone feels they belong and has opportunities to progress. This inclusive culture is fostered through a variety of employee resource groups and frequent in-office eventsshowcasingteam wins sharing thought leadership and celebrating holidays and milestone events. Our comprehensive benefits package reflects this commitment including 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 characteristics. We believe the best work happens whenweretogether fostering creativity collaboration and connection in this open and supportive a hybrid approach with teams in the office around four days a week. If yourequireaccommodations or flexibility please discuss this with the hiring team during the interview process.

Please note this is a UK based role and requires individuals to have the right to work in this location

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