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Director, Planning

LondonFull-time2026-09-25 → 2026-11-12
Hybrid

Core

Lead Wavemaker planning output for specific clients, driving unrivalled work through strategic media planning, storytelling, and commercial solution selling.

Role type

Senior IC media planning director

Builds

Media strategies, planning responses, and commercial solutions for client campaigns

Domain

Advertising & Media Planning

Required skills

Strategic thinking, stakeholder management, campaign management, storytelling, idea creation, comms planning, commercial understanding

Preferred skills

Advanced industry knowledge, coaching junior team members, managing escalations, developing new solutions

Technologies

Media tools, data sources, measurement frameworks

Responsibilities

Lead planning output for specific clients, manage senior client relationships, manage planning team objectives and reviews, build relationships with media owners, articulate strategic approaches into media behaviors, drive visibility of the planning team within the wider agency

Seniority

Director, strategic leadership & team management