Junior Planner

We're searching for a new Junior Planner to join our Strategy & Planning team.

The right person will already have at least two years agency-side strategy experience under their belt, and be ready to put this into action and grow with us...

A day in this role will involve:

• Working with clients to understand their needs and help develop the right communications strategy for their target audience
• Analysing and extracting findings from consumer, brand and market research to support brand + communication strategies and creative briefs
• Project managing and helping facilitate quantitative and qualitative research, analysing and debriefing results
• Supporting and championing the creative development process, including briefing and enthusing account and creative teams
• Gathering data and preparing feedback reports on the effectiveness of campaign
• Keeping up-to-date with macro + micro trends and insights, and industry news + views
• Taking the lead on projects with the support of the rest of the team
• Helping other agency teams like social, digital and PR, with input into their strategies and campaign

Requirements

The right person will:

• Be curious and open minded
• Ask questions and listen well
• Always be on the hunt for new insights + human truths
• Fascinated by human behaviour, social trends, cultures and how ideas influence people. Be able to show experience of analytical and strategic thinking
• Understand how to apply creative thinking to business problems.
• Champion guiding brilliant creative work to meet the brief and committed to nurturing work that does so.
• Be numerate and able to understand, analyse, interpret and use complex and varied sources of data and statistics.
• Be a persuasive communicator
• Be comfortable working with research to draw the relevant conclusions.
• Relish spotting emerging trends and be curious about ideas and new ways of looking at the world.

Benefits

We believe everyone matters.

But, this is a job ad and we get how it needs to work. Other benefits include:

• Competitive salary based on your experience.
• 20 days annual leave and 8 days national bank holidays plus extra time gifted around Christmas (based on full time working hours).
• Your birthday off.
• Time off to volunteer for local charities to give back
• Christmas and summer parties, on us
• Whatever computer, software, books and other materials you might need.
• A healthy budget for training, conferences, and other qualifications you might be interested in taking.
• Regular team social activities like axe throwing, crazy golf, bowling, going out for drinks and a curry.

If this all sounds good to you, please get in touch!