Planning Assistant

Want to build upon your knowledge and forge a career in one of the most exciting and dynamic areas of Media Marketing? Dentsu X delivers growth through fully integrated solutions and are powered by Dentsu Group’s best-in-class media, data, technology and content capability. Across the world we work hand in hand with our clients’ other agencies, and tap into our vast landscape of innovators, from tech giants to upstart startups. As a Planning Account Assistant, you will be responsible for supporting the delivery of the strategic media plan & client servicing on a selection of exciting brands within the portfolios of HEINEKEN UK and McCormick EMEA, Polestar and William Grant and Sons. We welcome new joiners from all backgrounds; you can be freshly graduated, straight out of college, fancying a career change or just looking for a new opportunity! You will have a burning passion for partnering with clients, external agencies, as well as internal teams within dentsu to foster great relationships and deliver innovative and impactful data-driven media plans that grow your clients’ brands. You will immerse yourself with the clients to understand their business challenges and objectives, acting as a business advisor to your clients – you will truly be an extension of their marketing team! At dentsu x we have co-created our values so we can behave authentically: Curious and collaborative
Resourceful and flexible
Respectful and right-minded
Fun and friendly Job Title: Planning Assistant Job Description: Your Key Responsibilities Will Include:

• Work collaboratively with all internal teams at dentsu to deliver high quality plans and effective work.
• Build strong relationships with your client counterparts and their creative agencies to help deliver innovative media plans whilst demonstrating outstanding client service.
• Immerse yourself in the clients’ business to intimately understand their challenges, objectives, external economic environment, competitors and relevant partner agencies. By getting under their skin we will understand how we can help their business grow.
• Support the Planning Account Manager to challenge and probe client briefs. Take total ownership of small briefs all the way through to activation, whilst assisting your Account Manager with larger briefs.
• Work with the Planning Account Manager to deliver excellent client service.
• Day to day management of campaigns and clients will require you to be highly organised.
• Confident user of all dentsu and non-dentsu tools to deliver ad hoc insights and planning recommendations as and when requested.
• Support on 1 wider agency workstreams such as: clients, people, work, product
• Work with the Account Managers to oversee budgetary control and management.
• Set high administrative standards for the team – you will be the backbone of the operational ways of working so your attention to detail needs to be exceptional.
• Work closely with our Global team to ensure all requests have been completed on time by the wider team.

About You

• Interest in media planning and marketing
• Enjoys building relationships
• Confident communicator
• Exceptional attention to detail
• Ability to multitask and deliver in a high-pressure environment
• A curious and proactive attitude
• A good understanding of Excel and Powerpoint
• Ability to take ownership of projects
• Willingness to learn and ask questions
• High standard of administration and financial diligence
• Forward thinking and confident in expressing a point of view
• A friendly and positive attitude

A little more about dentsu: We are dentsu. As champions for meaningful progress, we help our clients to win, keep and grow their best customers with best-in-class services and solutions in media, CXM, and creative. With more than 46,000 dedicated specialists teaming across 145 markets, our ‘8 ways’ shape and guide the way we do things here, so that, together, we can achieve the ‘never before’ for our clients, for society and for each other. Proud of difference: We are proud to be different, and we know that starts with you. You will not be defined by your race, gender, sexual-orientation, age or disability, but by your thinking and actions. We want you to bring your whole self to work, because leaving nothing behind, helps us stay ahead. About our benefits: We offer everything you would expect from a large company – like 25 days’ holiday plus your birthday off – and a few additions, like 2 paid volunteering days each year to support charitable causes and 3 wellness days per year. We also provide pension contributions, life assurance, private health care, income protection, critical illness cover, travel season ticket loans, a cycle to work scheme, free eye tests and a whole host of great local and national discounts from leading retailers that you’ll have access to as an employee. Youll have a hybrid working schedule where you can flex your start and finish times. Want to learn more about working at Dentsu – check out our hub: https://unlocking-culture.dentsu.com/careers/entry-level-hub Location: London Brand: Dentsu X Time Type: Full time Contract Type: Permanent