Director, 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 marketing platform to deliver personalised media solutions and measurable business growth for leading brands.

What you will do

• Lead planning output for assigned clients and create high-quality, differentiated media work.
• Translate strategic approaches into media behaviours, plans, and recommendations while using insights, data, measurement, learning agendas, and specialist tools.
• Own planning responses, account governance, campaign deliverables, and overlapping timelines.
• Manage senior client relationships, understand business needs, and identify opportunities to drive client growth.
• Manage a planning team of three, setting objectives, providing structure, and conducting regular reviews.
• Develop relationships with media owners, create new opportunities, sell suitable hirify.global solutions, and improve storytelling and output quality.

Requirements

• Advanced understanding of the media industry and future trends, including expert knowledge of relevant tools and technologies.
• Advanced strategic communications planning knowledge across media touchpoints, platforms, frameworks, and future trends.
• Advanced problem-solving ability, including complex analysis, issue resolution, escalation management, and coaching others.
• Advanced stakeholder management skills and the ability to advise senior clients and agency stakeholders through complex business changes.
• Advanced communication skills, including creating clear presentations and materials for audiences at different levels of seniority.
• Expert campaign management skills, including managing detailed deliverables, competing priorities, and multiple overlapping timelines.
• Advanced compelling storytelling skills and the ability to persuade key decision-makers with differentiated communications.
• Expert ideas creation skills, including developing strategies that bring new technologies, innovations, and products to life.
• Right to work in the United Kingdom.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid working with teams in the office around four days a week.
• Access to global hirify.global and WPP networks for professional development, networking, and learning.
• Employee resource groups, in-office team events, thought leadership sessions, and milestone celebrations.
• Competitive medical, vision, dental, and group retirement plans.
• Significant paid time off, partner discounts, and employee mental health awareness days.
• Equal opportunity workplace focused on respect, inclusion, collaboration, creativity, and career progression.