Position Summary

The Senior Planning Manager is responsible for delivering a best-in-class planning product by blending the science of our planning tools with your media craft experience to drive the day-to-day connection planning across paid and non-paid channels ensuring required deliverables are achieved. 

Be part of a passionate, collaborative and high energy team, working closely with Strategy, Integrated Planning, Trading and Performance teams to ensure we’re delivering upon client business outcomes.

 

Job Responsibilities


Leads and develops all Creative Connections Recommendations and Connections Plans in collaboration with the trading and performance teams ensuring they deliver on the briefed business outcomes.
Incorporation of UM proprietary planning tools, such as Growth Accelerator, into the planning recommendations. 
Manages and leads planning outputs across all channels; working with strategy, trading and special business units. 
Supports the Planning Director and Group Director by managing day to day workflow;
Ensures team WIPs (Planning/Trading) are scheduled and actions allocated responsibilities post WIP.
Drives a collaborative approach with all UM departments including BUs to develop best in class media solutions. 
Ensures a strong relationship with all media partners to remain across key/upcoming opportunities and trends;
Builds strong relationships with media and performance leads
Participates in agency and group Planning initiatives ensuring best practice.
Supports Planning Director in major client planning projects across client alignment – e.g. Screens Optimisation.
Oversees financial process alongside the Senior Trading Manager to ensure monthly invoicing is in-line with the plan.
Leads Planning recommendations (in collaboration with Senior Trading Managers) for day-to-day campaign optimisations to ensure delivery against business outcomes


 

Desired Skills & Experience


5+ years experience working across media planning and execution of all channels (offline skew) with experience in team management and strong understanding of the Australian media landscape.
Someone who remains up to date with all Australian and global market trends and has an educated point of view of the impact it has on their client’s business and/or approach to the planning craft
Effective communication and collaboration with the Client team to ensure recommendations are in-line with client expectations and deliver on briefed outcomes.
Has a clear demonstration of problem solving skills and comes solutions ready. 
Competent skills in creating best practice and market leading implementation planning responses, working in conjunction with the Planning Director. 
Ensuring that our clients are delivered future focused recommendations that take into consideration projected market trends.
Lives and breathes the Planning craft and has an inherit nature to continue learning and development within the craft
Exceptional presentation skills with more senior clients, media partners and internal UM and Mediabrands stakeholders. 
Has a positive portrayal of the Planning craft internally to build presence of the discipline. 
Develops strong relationships with clients (specifically the media and performance leads)Has had exposure to Google Analytics or DMP’s in current or former roles


 

Salary range between $95,000 & $105,000 including Superannuation.

Working across one of the most innovative and exciting clients in Australia, with iconic campaigns spanning branding and performance marketing, this role is the opportunity to improve systems and operations to build better workflow for the Optus team.
This client is leading the way with their 1st party data approach, working with sophisticated technology solutions to provide best-in-market advertising solutions.
As Media Campaign Reporting Manager, you are responsible for identifying areas of automation within the teams reporting requirements and assist the teams in creating a concise brief on what is required for automated templates or solutions.
You will work with the Partnerships and client leads on client facing reporting requirements and assist in delivering and identifying ways to streamline manual inputs for greater efficiencies and uniformity across the client group.

Key Responsibilities
• Support training requirements and areas of automation for internal systems and tools to ensure efficiency and best practice within UM teams around tools and reporting.
• Lead a positive and motivating work environment while mentoring team members to produce best practice skills through training and automation solutions.
• Ensure reporting templates produced, where appropriate, are streamlined for ease of sharing across other teams to improve and consolidate reporting methods across the agency.
• Produce and deliver Optus monthly analytics report requirements for all media activity including MROI and DOMO across both consumer and SMB business.
• Provide monthly budget reconciliation and expenditure reports, as well as quarterly spend profile overviews.
• Monthly checks on invoice loading, ensuring accuracy of data and teams are adopting the agencies best practice guidelines across both offline and online.
• Work closely with Orion to deliver accurate reports and summaries to clients and internal teams.
• Become a UM expert in implementing a system to share knowledge and skills of producing best practice reporting templates and solutions.

Who you are
• Previous experience working within the media industry to understand how changes may impact on the way teams need to operate is highly desirable
• Solid understanding of the full media landscape, across both offline and online channels
• Strong reasoning and analytical skills
• Effective communication to detail
• Exceptional numerical and problem-solving skills
• Efficient time prioritisation and task management skills
• Ability to manage multiple projects and various team expectations and deliverables.
• Team player with strong personal skills, working with variety of team.
• Superb technical and expert knowledge in tools and systems.

What's in it for you?
• Opportunity to grow your skillset and branch into different areas e.g., Media planning, data and analytics and growth through systems and the reporting team
• Minimal client contact in your day to day
• Align with a global media powerhouse
• Birthday Leave
• UM offers up to 16 weeks Paid Parental leave for the Primary Carer and up to 8 weeks for the Secondary Carer.
• Annual Leave Reward Days
• International Remote Working policy
• Sydney office redesign & perks
• Inclusive and collaborative company culture
• Hybrid Working
• Wellness initiatives – gym, meditation sessions, EAP
• Culture initiatives – clubs, social drinks, regular events, ping pong/pool tables
• Local/global mobility
• Ongoing L&D opportunities

Be part of the future everyone is searching for. Apply to join the UM Australia team today.

Salary ranging from $70,000-80,000 inclusive of superannuation.

UM Australia is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are encouraged to apply.