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About the role
- Planning Director responsible for client business growth through strategy and media planning. Join Croud, a leading digital marketing agency in London.
Responsibilities
- At Croud, Planning Directors are responsible for growing our clients’ businesses by matching incisive strategy with the plan to deliver it.
- That requires strategic smarts, a detailed knowledge of media and media planning and the ability to build transformative partnerships with clients.
- They form part of the leadership structure of our Client Teams, tasked with delivery against commercial objectives and leading strategic thinking and innovation for their clients.
- Client Retention & Growth
- Work closely with senior client stakeholders to identify and solve key marketing challenges, as well as internal collaboration with other teams at Croud to produce strategy with broad buy-in and media plans.
- Steer Croud’s relationships with key clients and build a deep understanding of the commercial drivers of their business.
- Be responsible for every stage of the campaign planning process: interpreting a client’s objectives, creating measurement frameworks, writing incisive strategy, building testing methodologies and diagnosing performance.
- Lead on annual planning for key clients: set strategic direction for the year ahead, socialise it amongst Croud teams and client stakeholders and build the plan for putting it into action.
- Lead on all cross-channel media planning, ensuring that investment decisions made on behalf of clients are rigorously informed by all the available data.
- Collaborate - and provide direction to - the activation teams, ensuring all plans are complete, accurate and innovative.
- Responsible for audience, market and competitor intelligence projects, ensuring that work is insightful and actionable.
- Deliver complex marketing problem solving; turning solutions into strategies to present back to clients.
- Contribute to your Team’s understanding of a client’s category, brand and audience. Create repeatable and distinctive ways to share that information with the wider Croud team and ensure that the way we present is always as client-centric as possible.
- Commercial & KPIs
- Drive revenue for Croud through existing account growth and contribution to business development.
- Act as an important contributor for pitches: work with Planning Partners on setting the pitch strategy, determining the narrative and creating a framework for other contributors to use.
- The potential to act as part of a Team Triumvirate, delivering against the outlined KPIs.
- Ensure all Strategy & Planning work is delivered according to budget.
- Build strategic relationships with senior stakeholders, acting as counsel for key decisions about marketing investment.
- Drive client-centric solutions that exceed expectations and deliver tangible business value.
- High-Performing Culture, Team Collaboration and Inclusion
- Manage a Planning team within a client hub, including line management of one or more Planning Managers.
- Ensure all Strategy & Planning work delivered to clients is of the highest quality and market-leading.
- Contribute to a culture of continuous development within the Strategy & Planning team and help to advance our product and offer to clients.
- Give feedback on requirements for training, working with Planning Partners to ensure availability of required resources.
- Represent Croud at industry events, public speaking and thought leadership.
- Be a champion of Croud's values and culture, fostering a positive and inclusive work environment.
- Represent Croud with integrity and professionalism both internally and externally.
Requirements
- Demonstrable in-depth experience as a Planner or Account Director. We’re open to candidates from comms, media or digital planning backgrounds, or who currently work in strategy roles
- Experience of campaign planning that has driven demonstrable results for clients
- Experience in CPG and/or Multi Brand Retail a bonus, but not a requirement
- Extensive experience of presenting to clients and ’selling-in’ ideas, and of working closely with senior stakeholders to understand their business objectives
- Hands-on experience of key digital marketing platforms is preferred. These include (but are not limited to) Google Analytics, Google Ads, Facebook Ads Manager, DV360
- Hands-on experience of industry planning & insight tools is a nice-to-have. These include (but are not limited to) TGI, GlobalWebIndex, SimilarWeb
- All the essentials: Excel/GSheets, Powerpoint/GSlides
Benefits
- Croud operates a hybrid working model with a minimum of 3 days a week based in our London office and the remaining days from home if you wish.
- Croud offers a clear path to progression for all members of staff.
- We are committed to offering development opportunities alongside a support system of regular performance reviews.
- The opportunities are endless!
- On completion of the three-month probation period, every employee is eligible for the benefits listed on our careers site which include:
- Sabbatical: Paid sabbatical at 7 years with an option to take it unpaid at 5 years
- 25 days holiday a year
- Discretionary annual performance based incentive
- Sale commission
- Recruitment referrals bonus
- Health & Wellbeing contribution
- 2 Recharge Days each holiday year
- Ride to Work scheme
- Railcard Season Ticket loan
- Home office chair and home office screen
- Free fruit, breakfast cereals, snacks and tea & coffee in the office
- Enhanced Primary and Secondary family leave as well as extended Parental Leave and Shared Family Leave
- Life insurance and income protection
- Medical Cash Plan
- Pension
- Curated 3rd party learning platform as well as access to Croud Campus (our bespoke learning and development platform)
- Peer to peer recognition scheme 'bonusly'
- Team off-sites/regular socials
- Year-round holiday parties
- Flexible working options
- Standard hours are from 9.00am to 5.30pm, there’s flexibility if agreed in advance with your line managers (it may also be necessary on occasions to work outside of these hours).
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