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Shopper Strategist, London, £60000 - £70000 per annum

With an international footprint that spans over 50 offices in 25 countries, globally they're known for the same thing. Yet here in London, the team in this large integrated agency are ready to shake things up and do it all a bit different, you know London style! First bit of London style business is to hire a Shopper Strategist to join a team of top notch people; here you can expect a collaborative bunch who really are bold and determined to make an impact. The Shopper Strategist will act as the primary point of contact for retail/shopper briefs that come through from the clients. In this role you will define strategy, help develop briefs that go on to inspire the consumer. As part of the role, you must lead the development of the use of the shopper journey model within the agency and be one who goes above just responding to client briefs, by identifying opportunities to develop clients brands and business. Unearthing insights that lead the development of truly creative work across multi-channel campaigns, the Shopper Strategist will sit alongside the Social Media, Integrated and Digital Strategists and work in a partnership to deliver on project briefs. You'll do well here if you're a Shopper Strategist who is able to show creativity and deliver solid insights gathering experience from previous roles. You'll also need a clear history of helping to deliver innovative and effective strategies for high profile clients across the retail and FMCG spaces. If a passion for advertising, brand communications, digital, social and all its manifestations burns deep in you and you come with a clear vision of how shopper and retail needs to work within an integrated communications strategy, then you'll really enjoy what's on offer here.

Experience Planner, London, £60000 - £70000 per annum

If you enjoy working in a vibrant & diverse environment with a group of colourful and unrelenting industry professionals, who all share a commitment to outstanding work, then you'll fit right in here. Delivering digital product strategy and service design, they conceive and create digital objects, applications, services, tools, utilities, campaigns and websites that have a material business impact for their clients. Looking to stay as intimate as they possibly can with the intended audience, this recognised creative digital agency maintains a start-up feel while serving a very reputable portfolio of major global clients. With ambitious growth plans over the next 12 months, the Experience Planner role will be expected to deputise for the Strategic Planning Director as necessary and mentor new members of the team. The Experience Planner will need to be an excellent problem solver, love complex problems, possess very strong client facing skills and be a confident communicator with clear thinking and a well-organized approach to planning. Highly collaborative with a passion for technology, you'll be adept at communicating technical issues to non-technical people effectively and demonstrate extensive experience in developing digital responses to complex client problems across all digital media. With experience using a range of techniques to stay as close as possible to the clients target audiences to derive insight about their needs, expectations behaviours etc, the Experience Planner will come with a deep understanding of digital Interaction, significant creative agency experience and be familiar with primary customer research. If your a strategic thinker with a deep understanding of digital Interaction and significant experience in digital then this Experience Planner role is the next step in your career - get in touch now.

Strategic Business Director, London, £90000 - £120000 per annum

An outstanding insights based brand consultancy is looking for a strategic Business Director to join the team. The agency has some truly tasty clients and are big in the game. This opportunity will be snapped up quickly just down to how outstanding the clients they work with are and what incredible experience the right candidate will get. The role will entail developing and implementing ongoing marketing plans to promote the brand and to generate opportunities in Europe as well as overseeing infrastructure levels to ensure superior customer service while meeting revenue and margin goals. The Business Director will also be responsible for setting up the internal business development team. The right candidate MUST have pharmaceutical / healthcare experience as these will be the types of brand the Business Director will be dealing with. The candidate must also have strong planning skills and the ability to demonstrate a strong entrepreneurial mindset and build business. If you have these qualities then get in touch ASAP!!

Digital Planner, London, £40000 - £50000 per annum

How would you like to work across top notch accounts for an award winning digital agency? Or maybe you'd like to be part of a team that work in collaboration with their clients and are truly seen as business partners? This creative agency is looking for a talented Digital Planner with real entrepreneurial spirit who's hungry (and very able) to take on more responsibility and be part of the growth of this dynamic, innovative and fresh thinking digital agency. They hold the digital key to some of the UK's biggest brands successes and YOU have the opportunity to play a part in their continued success. As the Digital Planner you will plan the direction of major campaigns and looked upon to bring creativity to the role. . With your confidence in presenting to clients, your ability at nurturing relationships with internal and external specialists will all see you succeed in this role with flying colours. There is a real possibility for growth within the role, both from autonomy with your accounts to speedy promotion prospects, so the Digital Planner must be one who seeks to be the very best they can be. Your passion for digital will be clear from the success of your thinking (and your eagerness to prove it) and your innovative ideas, giving your clients the confidence to continue to work with this head turning, popular and creatively led top agency. The agency maintains a fun and vibrant atmosphere with great employee benefits and a competitive package. To be considered for this role you must have previous planning experience within another top performing digital agency. If you think this sounds like the role for you, then get in touch.

Head of Planning, London, £90000 - £100000 per annum

This fresh thinking, dynamic and energetic agency with very inspiring, talented and supportive people, was awarded 28 industry awards for creativity & effectiveness in 1 year alone. Looked upon by industry people as one of the brightest and most exciting agencies in the market, they're interested in talking to top level planners, who see themselves as passionate, positive, committed and hungry with good sense of humour, for a Head of Planning role. If you are someone that will seize an opportunity, have an opinion, but will also listen and are able to add value at every stage then keep reading; also required is good creative appreciation and a non political, team player approach. This brand spanking new Head of Planning role is for those who want the best for their clients' business, but who also have a strong commercial eye and the ability to win over. As a growing agency of 70 + people, it is important that they maintain a great working environment and believe team development and reward are key to the continuing success and performance of their people. Key sectors to reference ; FMCG, Utilities, Leisure, Travel, Entertainment, Automotive, Retailing and Technology, nearly everything they do has either a digital element or a digital focus, but they approach their work from a commercial aspect and with effectiveness being the ultimate target, they have identified that traditional planning skills rather than pure digital are a better fit. As the Head of Planning, you'll demonstrate strategic leadership experience across multiple communication channels and come with good CRM knowledge as well as an understanding of targeting, segmentation and the data behind it. At this level you must also be able to lead pitches (with demonstrable results) and lead ongoing client relationships (also with demonstrable results), whilst delivering the planning output. A background working agency side with brand development and digital marketing campaign planning experience is absolutely essential - equally you'll stand out as a skilled story teller. Like everyone at this top integrated agency, you like to contribute, take responsibility and have a sense of ownership - here you are encouraged to act like an entrepreneur rather than employee and as a result you can expect to genuinely make a significant difference to the business. Surrounded by a team of passionate, like-minded individuals pulling together to produce innovative, exciting and award winning work, the planning team here have the willingness and enthusiasm for rolling up their sleeves and getting stuck in; Quote ' we have a lot of fun whilst we're doing it'. Worth mentioning is that a desire to measure and prove effectiveness is paramount in planning. With little room for any large egos - they're all in this together and work hard for each other, therefore your attitude and commitment needs to fit with the agency's ethos. If you're ready to chat with a new agency and are interested to know more, get in touch.

Planning Partner, London, £100000 - £130000 per annum

We often hear great things being said about this global agency name and think, "boy I sure would like to work there" Well the time has now come, for you to join a bunch of London's best advertising folk in this multi award winning agency! This top name agency is now looking to bolster up their big planning team by adding a new Planning Partner. This role will lead a size-able piece of business and ensure deep integration with eyes firmly on excellence and results from across the agencies strategy offering. The Planning Partner will work with senior level clients, account, creative and business leads as well as external partners including media, research and other specialist parties. Working in a team of bright, fun and intelligent planners, you'll need to demonstrate strategic leadership and be one who inspires, challenges, and creates innovation as you'll be spending a lot of time together. The Planning Partner will definitely need to be a strong team player with personality and attitude and come with true entrepreneurial spirit - you'll be one who is inventive and not afraid to push the limits when it comes to creating brilliant work. Here in this top 10 agency, you will pilot the strategic development of major campaigns, proactive proposals and thought leadership initiatives and champion the consumer in everything you do for the client. Again as Planning Partner, you will know how to inspire, enthuse and enable people to see your vision, and be one who expects the best, whereby having the leadership qualities to mentor and coach team members and clients to develop their own skills and thinking. Lastly you're a leader, someone people want to do the best for and learn from. Due to the nature of this top level senior role, you must be an accomplished planner with proven ATL experience to be considered.

Planning Director, London, £75000 - £80000 per annum

Known for their award winning work, this top name agency has grown in size and stature and is now on the hunt for a Planning Director. With their love for entrepreneurial types, the agency has a strong creative product and a can do culture, that clients keep going back for. The opportunity to add further Planning rigour to this approach has now come up, as they seek to grow the business, grow its awareness and stature and broaden its client base, and this role will be a key part of this. Their growing presence strategically is demonstrated by successes as finalists in CIM and MAA awards for various accounts. The Planning Director will take on a key role and come with sound common sense, and the intelligence and ability to be a good solution finder and idea generator. You will be joining a strong team of Planners that support the business. What they want is someone who can take on the challenges and opportunities, and be one who can take centre stage for the agency and its list of well known brands. Here they like to cross-fertilise Planning across the three agencies when right, so you will work with varied teams and on varied opportunities. The Planning Director will come with solid agency side experience and rigour with relevant experience in ATL and digital. You will be driven by robust strategies, be a strong strategic guide to both clients and creatives and act as the voice of the consumer - not forgetting that you must also be a compelling and engaging presenter and able to express your thinking coherently. In return, you'll enjoy varied challenges, stimulating debates within the team and with clients and be one who is confident, articulate and persuasive, and really care about the quality of work being created. If you're proven planner looking to step up to a new level of responsibility, accountability and strategic challenge then step right up.

Digital Strategist, London, £40000 - £45000 per annum

Often regarded as London's finest digital agency, this global digital agency offers a thriving atmosphere for their people and helps some of the world's best brands prosper in a digital world. Now due to massive growth they are looking for a Digital Strategist, to join one of London's budding strategy departments. As the a Digital Strategist, you will be expected to create, implement and evaluate brand campaigns and ongoing content strategies, and bring smart social and wider digital media thinking into the creative process from initial strategic and creative development to seeding, implementation and evaluation. In this you will work closely with editorial, creative, UX design teams, as well as taking on a coaching role for more junior members of the strategy team. The Strategist will also work with the Strategy Director and others in the strategy team to define the agency's point of view on key issues and work to make the strategy creative and the creative strategic. Creating and implementing digital strategy for a top retail brand, this requires combination of innovative social media and business thinking alongside the creation, implementation and evaluation of effective content strategies across the brands portfolio. Plugging smart media and channel thinking into the creative process, you will help this well known agency create bigger, better and more effective work. Demonstrating quality thought leadership, the Strategist will work with others in the team to keep agency teams abreast of developments in digital media and technology usage, acting as an evangelist for innovation within the agency. As the Digital Strategist you will take a full role in the strategy team, developing the skills of more junior members of the team, and making the team more knowledgeable about innovations in digital media and service design. With great standing in the industry, they seek is an exceptional team player with the confidence and integrity to earn client and internal team confidence quickly and can make plain a passion for and knowledge of technology, emerging media and the Internet. If this sounds like you, then get in touch for more details.