Senior Planner
- Employer
- Leo Burnett
- Location
- London
- Salary
- Competitive
- Closing date
- 28 May 2024
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- Discipline
- Advertising
- Specialism
- Planning & Strategy, Digital
- Sector
- B2C
- Business Type
- Agency
- Seniority
- Manager
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full-Time
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Job Details
Within Leo’s planning department, you’ll be part of the agency’s “first creative department” - the place where all our populist creativity starts. To assist you in your role, you will be provided with oversight from a Planning Partner and our CSO, and support from a Junior Planner, as well as our agency’s insights department.
Specifically, we’ll need your help with:
What Skills We’re After:
Creative
Culture
Commercial
Client
Qualifications
Creatively driven - outstanding creativity will be your biggest motivator.
Diplomatic - must be able to work with stakeholders, serving their interests whilst also protecting those of the agency.
Open - must have strong interpersonal skills, able to listen to and work closely with your teams, creative department and clients.
Rigorous - naturally comfortable with understanding and basing thinking in multiple complex data sources.
Ambitious - they will be a pro-active strategic practioner, constantly raising the bar on their own creative output.
Good - Leos people are good people. They are understanding, grounded, humble and kind people. The successful applicant will be this sort of person too.
Additional Information
Our Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion
Diversity and inclusion are a core part of our DNA at Leo Burnett. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture that encourages, celebrates, and supports our wonderfully diverse employee group irrelevant of their age, gender identity, race, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability or ethnicity. Diversity and inclusion fuel our creativity and innovation, it enables us to be closer to our people and audiences. We will continue to strive to create a culture and environment where everyone feels empowered and more importantly comfortable enough to bring their full, authentic selves to work.
We are committed to providing reasonable adjustments for employees with disabilities and for candidates in our application process. If you need assistance or adjustment due to a disability, please contact us.
#LI-Hybrid
Specifically, we’ll need your help with:
- Contribute to establishing and a growing account
- Executing campaigns with strategic & creative excellence.
- Defining and embedding rigorous brand strategies.
- Developing strong client relationships.
- Managing the work and development of direct reports.
- Actively contributing to the knowledge and leadership of the planning department.
What Skills We’re After:
Creative
- Must be experienced at developing simple and incisive strategies that have helped to lead outstanding creative work.
- Must be confident writing and briefing creative teams - and have contributed to a few killer camapigns.
- Majority of experience earned within creative agencies.
Culture
- Must be a natural collaborator, inspire and earn trust within the creative department.
Commercial
- Must be able to define, track and report against campaign KPIs
- Experience in brand strategy is a preferred - including brand positioning, purpose and architecture.
Client
- Must have routinely presented to and collaborated with your clients
- Category experience not necessary, but experience with big clients is a plus.
Qualifications
Creatively driven - outstanding creativity will be your biggest motivator.
Diplomatic - must be able to work with stakeholders, serving their interests whilst also protecting those of the agency.
Open - must have strong interpersonal skills, able to listen to and work closely with your teams, creative department and clients.
Rigorous - naturally comfortable with understanding and basing thinking in multiple complex data sources.
Ambitious - they will be a pro-active strategic practioner, constantly raising the bar on their own creative output.
Good - Leos people are good people. They are understanding, grounded, humble and kind people. The successful applicant will be this sort of person too.
Additional Information
Our Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion
Diversity and inclusion are a core part of our DNA at Leo Burnett. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture that encourages, celebrates, and supports our wonderfully diverse employee group irrelevant of their age, gender identity, race, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability or ethnicity. Diversity and inclusion fuel our creativity and innovation, it enables us to be closer to our people and audiences. We will continue to strive to create a culture and environment where everyone feels empowered and more importantly comfortable enough to bring their full, authentic selves to work.
We are committed to providing reasonable adjustments for employees with disabilities and for candidates in our application process. If you need assistance or adjustment due to a disability, please contact us.
#LI-Hybrid
Company
Leo Burnett brings the power of populist creativity to its clients in order to drive brand growth. Leo himself once said, “At the end of the day, we are just people talking to people”. The ability to speak to large numbers of people and move large numbers of people to act, has never been more important. We understand the art and science that goes into creating populist advertising that appeals to the mainstream.
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