Planners are the backbone of our operations and the glue between strategy, reporting and Ad Operations.<\/p>\n
\tOur clients relay on us to provide well thought-out media schedules that bring the strategic direction to life and work closely with the strategic team
\n\tOur planners know how to calculate reach, set costs, volume-metrics and KPI targets.
\n\tPlanners track budgets, raise CE\u2019s, produce and update media schedules.
\n\tPlanners need to be able to run reach curves and calculate CPM rates across the relevant platforms.\u00a0
\n\tOur planners work closely with the Ad Operations and campaign management teams, ensuring that the plans they build are correctly set-up, executed and optimized by the campaign manages. For this reason, planning needs to work hand-in-hand with the campaign managers.
\n\tOur planners will brief campaigns into the Ad Operations workflow management tool, ensuring our campaigns are tracked and managed from briefing to reporting.\u00a0
\n\tPlanners need to have a solid relationship with media owners and manage direct campaigns with care and precision.
\n\tCampaign managers need to ensure that their Google, Facebook and Twitter certifications are kept up to date – in line with Publicis training requirements.
\n\tOur clients and teams need to be kept up to date with the progress of all campaigns, so our planners need to be 100% on top of their portfolios and ensure that status sheets and progress reports to kept up to date and verbally reported back on in regular status meetings.\u00a0
\n\tPlanners at Starcom need to work closely with our digital analytics and strategy teams to deliver reports on time, every time.
\n\tOur clients expect value at every corner, so our planners need to remain hungry to negotiate value for every client in every opportunity.
\n\tOur Media Investment team rely on our planners to keep an accurate record of media investments and forecasts through our media planning and budget management tools \u2013 MEPlan and Powerhub.
\n\tOur Power of One teams and creative agency partners need our planners to deliver chase lists on time, every time and engage with our traffic managers to ensure creative delivered on time.
\n\tOur planners are required to meticulously follow our internal Buying, Ad Operations and Power of One account processes.
\n\tWe actively seek strategic talent with the personality, \u2018smarts\u2019 and attitude to manage multiple work streams and multiple stakeholders.\u00a0
\n\tStarcom wants you to grow and thrive in an environment that demands strategic excellence.\u00a0
\n\tIn return, we provide a culture where everyone\u2019s opinions count, where your ideas and inputs are valued and where you are given the autonomy to push yourself as far as your ambition leads you.
\n\tEvery person on our team is asked to chip in on birthday reminders, organizing social events and keeping an eye out on content opportunities for our social media pages.<\/p>\n
Responsibilities<\/p>\n
\tThe Digital Media Planner is expected to be data driven, insights lead and a creative thinker, who strives to make meaningful impact on the business.\u00a0
\n\tThis role demands confidence, presence and the skills to make a meaningful impact. Never just taking and executing orders, Starcom Planners are expected to direct, inspire and add value at every turn.
\n\tA high level of collaboration, a willingness to teach others and a real desire to push the boundaries is what will be expected.
\n\tIn addition, this role requires a high degree of accountability and responsibility over the digital media investments we are entrusted to manage. \u00a0
\n\tSome working outside the standard working hours may be necessary. \u00a0<\/p>\n
Daily Activities:<\/p>\n
\tCreating CE\u2019s
\n\tSending CE\u2019s to clients
\n\tManaging CE\u2019s
\n\tSending CE\u2019s to buyers for PO tracking purposes
\n\tDrawing up media schedules
\n\tDelivering Media schedules
\n\tObtaining Media Schedule approvals from clients
\n\tCreating Chase Lists, delivering chase lists to creative partners and Power of One partners
\n\tChase outstanding creative
\n\tBriefing campaigns into Ad Operations
\n\tCompiling and delivering Proof of Life documents.
\n\tAttend internal meetings with strategists, Ad Operations and Traffic management
\n\tFollowing up on the status of campaigns in Ad Operations
\n\tMaintain a good relationship and understanding of Medi Owner platforms
\n\tMaintain good relationships with the campaign management and Ad Operations teams<\/p>\n
Qualifications<\/p>\n
\tGoogle Fundamentals of Digital Marketing
\n\tGoogle Analytics
\n\tGoogle Ads Video
\n\tGoogle Shopping Ads
\n\tGoogle Display Ads
\n\tGoogle Ads Search
\n\tFacebook Blueprint Planning<\/p>\n
Additional information<\/p>\n
Experience:<\/p>\n
\tAt least 3 years of digital media planning experience<\/p>\n
Hard Skills:<\/p>\n
\tAble to effectively project manage
\n\tNumerically strong and analytically able
\n\tStrong communicator with effective interpersonal relationships across team and clients
\n\tAdvanced IT skills including Microsoft Word, best-in-class Power Point, Excel, Outlook and web-based applications.
\n\tThe ability to synthesize and reduce different inputs to create a well-considered and accurate representative view.
\n\tEnglish fluency and language skills for effective business writing
\n\tStrong presentation skills
\n\tSolid data interpretation and analytics skills
\n\tBe able to exercise strategic principles and structured thinking to tackle business development projects assigned by client
\n\tBe able to select appropriate frameworks, tools and approaches to use in solving client problems
\n\tDevelop strategies that interpret cultural and social trends as well as data relevant to client business<\/p>\n
Soft Skills<\/p>\n
\tIs open to constructive feedback and challenges accordingly.
\n\tIs effective at building relationships and working as a team
\n\tShows leadership and decision-making ability
\n\tManages change well \u2013 adapts and remains flexible to business priorities
\n\tAbility to collaborate without ego as well as work effectively independently
\n\tIs willing to transfer skills and share knowledge openly
\n\tAbility to self-start and self-manage
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