Integrated Planner

Description

Company Description

Lead the Change

We believe that change has become the defining characteristic in today’s business environment. The brands that thrive are those that understand this and are designed to manage, capture and leverage the change in the world around them. To that extent, Publicis’ founder Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet’s spirit is still alive: You have to lead the change, if you don’t want to be led by change.

In a world of accelerated change, the future of a brand and business cannot be predicted precisely, but it can be imagined. Today’s brands compete with new technologies, empowered consumers, shifting public attitudes, brand new contenders and much more. In order to keep their relevance among customers, managing change and uncertainty is a pre-requisite. Creating leading strategies and powerful ideas that allow our clients’ brands to become unique, irreplaceable, in control and ahead is our purpose. In more than 80 countries, our agencies work with a wide range of clients and company cultures. But in our network we all share a common ambition: to help our clients and their brands to be and remain the leaders they want to be, to Lead The Change.

Job Description

Job purpose

The integrated planner has the objective of facilitating ideation across integrated channels for one of our Global clinets’s advertising campaigns. From strategy to creative development, we are looking for a Planner with multi-channel agency experience, big picture thinking, an eye for the detail and a passion for the creative product.

Duties and responsibilities:

Strategy

• Lead and own the strategy and planning for assigned client platforms.
• Work with Media to identify audience segments, passion points and interests for targeting purposes
• Lead and conduct research to identify new opportunities for the client brand idea and campaign development.
• Develop compelling and inspiring creative briefs.

Client & Account

• Partner with account leads to manage key client leads on client Platforms.
• Develop and deliver compelling client presentations
• Identify new opportunities for proactive briefs
• Deliver value for the client & account, ensuring solutions are on brief, and also inspiring, innovative and effective.
• Demonstrate thought leadership, and become a go to source for digital expertise.

Team

• Be a positive, supportive and collaborative team player.
• Keep team updated with recent trends, and developments in comms and digital.
• Identify skill gaps, and training opportunities.

Qualifications

• Agency strategy experience for global brands
• Through the line channel experience with strong digital & social competencies – not just ATL
• Ability to understand complex challenges, and distil them into concise and compelling propositions
• Curious about human behaviour, brands, society and culture
• Interest and ability to leverage data towards relevant and dynamic creative
• Track record of steering creative output, hungry to develop bold work
• Comms planning and messaging experience
• Ability to work in autonomy and with multiple stakeholders
• Understanding of the beer category a plus
• Global advertising experience strongly preferred

Additional Information

This role will be based in Milan with Travel required.