Manager, Media Planning, UK

Location: London, United Kingdom; hybrid approach with teams in the office around four days a week. This is a UK-based role and requires the right to work in the United Kingdom.

Company

hirify.global is WPP’s AI-driven media operating unit, combining media, data, partnerships, and the WPP Open platform to deliver personalized marketing at scale.

What you will do

• Plan exciting, award-winning campaigns across relevant media touchpoints.
• Define audience approaches and specify how to build and target audiences in addressable and non-addressable media.
• Validate audience strategies to ensure the defined audiences can be reached at the required scale.
• Design connections ecosystems and plans in collaboration with channel specialists.
• Manage campaigns day to day as a key liaison between clients and channel specialists.
• Design measurement and testing frameworks to inform, measure, and optimize campaigns.

Requirements

• Broad understanding of all media channels and confidence discussing their role within a communications strategy.
• Interest in both brand and performance campaigns.
• Strong knowledge of audience planning tools.
• Ability to draw clear media insights and implications by connecting outputs from different insight systems.
• Passion for media and understanding of what makes an effective media campaign.
• Confidence presenting with passion and conviction.
• Ability to work collaboratively with the immediate team, wider department, and channel specialists, leading by example through presence and contribution.
• Excellent attention to detail and accuracy in outputs, with the ability to meet deadlines.
• Proactive commitment to improving personal knowledge and broader skill sets; open-minded, flexible, and challenger-minded.

Culture & Benefits

• Culture focused on collective leadership, transformational creativity, trust, growth, and development.
• Inclusive environment supported by employee resource groups and frequent in-office events.
• Opportunities to build professional connections and learn across global hirify.global and WPP networks.
• Competitive medical, group retirement, vision, and dental insurance.
• Significant paid time off, preferential partner discounts, and employee mental health awareness days.
• Equal opportunity workplace with accommodations or flexibility discussable during the interview process.