Planning & Strategy Director - Part-Time (4 Days a Week)

📋 Description

• Lead digital planning across client accounts: social, search, programmatic.
• Include offline channels (TV, OOH, audio) in cross-channel plans.
• Translate briefs and business objectives into cohesive channel recommendations.
• Client-facing ownership from brief to reporting.
• Lead handover from planning to implementation with trading teams.
• Monitor campaign performance at a high level and feed learnings into future planning.

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of media planning in a agency; strong hands-on in programmatic, search, paid social.
• Ability to dive into platforms and understand campaign activity even if day-to-day execution isn’t your job.
• Experience turning client problems into a media plan, not just a channel schedule.
• Genuine interest in strategy and curiosity to learn.
• Cross-channel planning experience across offline channels or willingness to develop it.
• Comfort working in a smaller, independent agency environment.

🎁 Benefits

• A dedicated planning function with its own remit and standing in the agency.
• Structured onboarding (180 days) with regular check-ins and a senior mentor.
• Weekly founder-led mentoring sessions covering skills and personal development.
• Close-knit, founder-led independent agency with awards and recognition.
• Strong social culture with events and team bonding.