Planning Lead

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At WPP, we’re constantly reinventing the future of creativity on an ever-broader canvas, bringing together unrivalled talent, resources and skills to provide an integrated offer of communications, experience, commerce and technology.

Over the last decade, we have developed a dedicated global client practice with the mission of accelerating WPP’s impact for our largest clients by bringing them the best of WPP. Each team is custom-built around a client’s specific needs and challenges, providing easy access to the right capabilities. And that’s why we’ve built Open Door for Amazon.

Open Door is a unique integration of the best of WPP and Amazon – building on their respective strengths and visions. Whether at WPP or at Amazon, every project is an Open Door on new possibilities. Anything and everything can be an opportunity for our people to drive impact – for them to innovate, learn, thrive, and occasionally fail too.

The unique Open Door partnership model is built to deliver next level productivity, fueled by our industry-leading approach to People, Platforms, and Process. Open Door spans across all WPP agencies and disciplines such as media, business consultancy, communications and brand strategy, tech and commerce, public relations, and production.

Open Door’s values are built from Amazon’s own 16 Leadership Principles, and WPP’s core values of Open, Optimistic and Extraordinary. Together, when WPP’s Creative Transformation meets Amazon’s next-level customer-centricity, our people come together to challenge and impact what’s done today and build a better future.

By joining Open Door, not only are you joining a cross-function team partnering with one of WPP’s top five global clients, but you are also taking a step to challenge yourself and the world around you every day, working in the most unusual way on some of Earth’s most ambitious opportunities in marketing, tech, media, business, and creativity.

We are searching for a talented and enthusiastic individual to join our Open Door team as a Planning Lead. This is a full-time position based in London. The role will report to the Global Client Lead and will manage a team of 5 across EU markets. This role plays a crucial part in supporting WPP's mission to deliver consistency, delivery excellence and best-in-class service for Amazon in every country across its diverse businesses, including XCM, Prime Video, and RMI.

RMI is the reputation management and insight team  RMI marketing division’s mission is to advance Amazon’s reputation by creating persuasive advertising campaigns and empowering the company’s leaders and communicators with strategic insights. Their advertising campaigns aim to improve Amazon’s corporate reputation by raising awareness about positive reputational facts. Open Door is RMI’s media partner everywhere in the world except North America and Latin America.

Responsibilities

• Lead the planning output for RMI EMEA, ensuring best practice planning is consistently delivered from the hub and across all locales.
• Drive new solutions and methods within planning responses, including innovation and tech solutions that will deliver reputational growth.
• Display an advanced understanding of media channels, channel ecosystems and planning best practices.
• Work closely with EMEA Strategy Lead to translate strategic approach into planning practices for specific client briefs and pitches.
• Be an expert in a broad set of internal tools, as well as external tools to build a deep understanding of the consumer, the operating landscape, the client’s business and its specific opportunities.
• Have an expert overview of the media market landscape, trends and maintain media owner relationships.
• Demonstrate strong commercial…