Account Planner - Comms Planning

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Essence Mediacom is a new breed of media agency. Grounded in analytics & insights and powered by data & technology, we believe in the power of media and creative to drive breakthroughs for the world’s best brands. We help clients understand the modern marketing paradox and discover the breakthroughs brands need to win with their consumers. We are designed for the new communications economy — built on data & technology, built for people & algorithms, built around diverse schools of thought, built to test & learn at scale, and, crucially, built to evolve.

We are looking for a comms planner to join the No7 Beauty Company and Boots Opticians team, within The Boots Group. Working across the No7 Beauty Company and Boots Opticians accounts this role plays an integral part in delivering innovative campaigns across all media channels with briefs that encompass both brand & performance planning principles across a variety of categories. It’s a broad account with brilliant variety of briefs & audiences.

The No7 Beauty Company business covers different brands such as:
No7, Soap & Glory, Liz Earle, Sleek, and Botanics. In the role you will work on interesting/varied briefs that require multi channel planning, supporting on delivering brilliant audience insight & source of growth to deliver plans for key categories & campaigns.

The Boots Group has a vision to drive Mass Personalisation at scale & a wealth of first party data so there is an increased focus on data led planning and use of Boots of 1st Party Data in all channels (not only display and social!). In the role you will have the opportunity to really start to understand how we can use data for not only activation but also insight at the early planning stages & ultimately drive innovation.

Working across the No7 Beauty Company and Boots Opticians accounts the Planner will play an integral part of the planning process and will work with the Account Manager and Account Director to deliver innovative campaigns across all media channels. The successful candidate will get to work across the entire campaign life cycle – from strategy to execution.

• The work and the client – you’ll work with clients who see us as an extension of their marketing team and who have a real interest in media and a drive to deliver new and innovative solutions. We’ve sponsored Love Island three times, won awards for our partnership with Reach to highlight Hygiene Poverty amongst school children in the UK, expanded our use of 1st party data from digital into VOD, Radio & OOH, and are continuously developing new dynamic creative solutions within our plans.
  
  There is an opportunity to strengthen your planning skillset by working on a range of different sized campaigns.
• Your development – we’ll support your learning and development ambitions. We have a diverse skillset within the day-to-day team you’ll be working with (including comms planning, implementation, performance & digital, data strategy) which provides opportunity to learn from other specialisms and create integrated breakthrough work. We also work as one WPP team known as “The Pharm” with our creative counterparts at VMLY&R, giving close access to the creative process, PR & creative strategy.
• The people – you’ll work in a supportive, ambitious and fun team who love what they do and want to deliver the best work.

In three months, you would:

• Mastered the basics of the Boots account and the ways of working between all Mediacom teams/departments. Built relationships with and liaised with specialist teams across paid social, programmatic display, PPC, AV & OOH.
• Taken ownership of the plans & laydowns,…