Media Planning Manager

Job description

What’s important to you in your next role?

Are you looking for a position where you will be encouraged to fully utilise your current digital and offline media planning knowledge, whilst being challenged to develop new strategic centric skills and prepare and plan major pitches for current and prospective clients?

If you are then we would like to hear from you.

We’re Smithfield, an award winning independent media planning and buying agency. We specialise in Brand Response and Performance Media, so we love analytics and measuring and reporting on business outcomes for our clients.

Working for us you will have full budget accountable and work closely with our clients to build media plans that align with their marketing objectives.

With a project management mindset, you will be expected to build proactive working relationships with clients, serving as their primary point of contact for media planning and strategy.

Utilising data and analytics to measure campaign performance you will provide your clients with insights and recommendations to optimise media plans for improved results.

You will have an audience centric approach to media planning and be encouraged to stay up to date with industry trends, media consumption habits, and emerging technologies to inform media planning strategies.
In short, you will be one of the agencies “go to” people for all things media strategy and planning.

The role will also present you with the opportunity to develop your people management skills as you will manage and coach a small team with the brief of developing their planning skills.

The Package

Workplace pension after 6 months
Free agency lunch each Wednesday
Free fruit, tea, coffee, soft drinks
24 days holiday per annum
WFH 2 days per week
Annual Xmas Bonus paid (depending on agency performance)

The Agency

Media Agency


What you can expect from Smithfield

• A passion for what we do and delivering outstanding service to our clients
• Being part of a team, with all opinions heard
• Regular review to enhance your career progression
• In-house and external training programmes
• Exposure to all media channels and client sectors
• Regular social events, including the Christmas trip!
• Workplace pension
• Agency lunch each Wednesday – gives everyone the chance to get together and chat
• Free fruit, tea, coffee, soft drinks