Digital Planning Director (12 month FTC) - Biddable

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Job Description

Salary - £70k + great benefits

Location: London

One of the world’s leading network agencies is currently hiring for a Digital Planning Director to join their talented team and work across one of their largest and most exciting clients!

This role will be joining their regional Digital Planning team and unlike some global roles, you will be hands-on with digital campaign planning whilst operating strategically. It offers the opportunity to work on one of the agency’s most digitally advanced clients and join one of the most strategic and creative teams in the industry.

As Digital Planning Director, you will get the opportunity to play a pivotal role in highly innovative, award-winning campaigns for a household name.

The team is ideally looking for someone from a strong biddable background, who has been in platform previously but also has strong planning experience, or a digital planner who has lots of experience of working with activation teams.

Key Responsibilities:

  1. Develop best-in-class digital plans with innovation at their core.
  2. You will be responsible for the digital planning of 2-3 markets.
  3. Spot opportunities to drive innovation and utilize new formats and solutions.
  4. Build an annual plan biddable media framework to drive the client’s media strategy.
  5. Develop strong relationships with the client and key stakeholders.

Your Background:

  1. Extensive experience of biddable channel planning and ideally hands-on knowledge of biddable campaign execution.
  2. Strong interpersonal skills to allow you to develop strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders and be a trusted point of contact for the client.
  3. A true passion for digital media with a focus on biddable channels.
  4. Strong written and spoken communication skills to allow you to create compelling presentation materials that tell a story.

To find out more, please apply or reach out directly at - / 07385 298 644

Pivotal is an equal opportunities employer and we encourage applications regardless of beliefs, or any other protected status as required by applicable law.

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