Planning Account Executive

PLANNING EXECUTIVE

Epsom / London

Description

Who is mSix&Partners

mSix&Partners is one of the **fastest growing media **network** in the world**. We have marked the chapters of our expansion with new client relationships: TalkTalk helped us open our doors in the UK, Toyota enabled us to grow into EMEA and EA has strengthened our presence and offering in APAC and North America. Today over 50 offices and spanning 5 continents and this role of Planning Director is key to our continued growth and success

**We take our clients and people Further Faster.**

As a joint venture between independent agency network The&Partnership and GroupM, backed by WPP, we offer our clients the best of both worlds. Because of this unique structure, we create new operating models that integrate agency functions and often embed our people into our clients’ marketing teams. Our ability to come together with our clients, regardless of whether co-located or working remotely, has proven critical to our success.

**The way we behave - Honest, Energetic and Pioneering**:

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Honest**:we build trusted relationships through openness, focus & clarity
- **Energetic**: we meet people with warmth & positivity. We say ‘yes, and not ‘yes, but.’
- **Pioneering**: we drive forwards, looking for new technology, new ideas & new sources of growth. We are driven to look for the next innovation, to meet our clients’ challenges

We are known for delivering great award-winning work for our clients. We have continued to win industry accolades throughout the last year whilst also celebrating our people’s achievements who have also seen individual industry recognition.

We have been awarded the **IPA CPD Gold accreditation **in the UK** **for continuous professional development of our people for 3 years in a row, and in 2022 we won the **IPA CPD Platinum accreditation** alongside a small group of agencies. We have won Campaign’s Best Places to Work 2022, which recognises mSix as one the best employers in our industry, showing our commitment to our culture of learning and our focus on the professional development of all mSixers, in order to become **the most important place in their careers.** **In 2022,** **we also won** **Digiday’s** Best Workplace in Young People’s Careers.**

**The Role**

m/SIX as part of The&model allows us to work closer than ever before with our clients. Toyota and Lexus see The&Partnership as a true business partner helping them to navigate the media landscape and deliver outstanding communications plans. We approach every brief with the business challenge, developing solutions that are rooted in audience insight and deliver real business outcomes.

The Planning Executive is a core liaison between media, creative and client teams. They support the whole team in delivering first class communications plans and assist in managing the day to day running of the client account.

**Role Responsibilities**

As a Planning Executive, you will need to:

- Work with and support the Account Manager in planning across all channels
- Support the team with administrative and operational tasks
- Keep P.O. Tracker up to date and ensuring both purchase orders and plans are provided for all activity for accurate billing and financial bookings
- Provide client point of contact for day-to-day queries
- Have a good understanding of client’s business and industry sector, and the challenges facing them
- Attend and present regularly at client meetings on a variety of different topics
- Circulate agendas and status sheets, plus other material required in advance of meetings
- Capture and circulate meeting minutes
- Keep up to date with media industry news and share with wider team
- Keep Synthesis updated on a monthly basis. Reconcile historic campaign spend and update with future spend forecasts and provide regular reports to line manager
- Coordinate reporting requests, working with specialists and other team members to ensure quality and consistency of output
- Support EMEA team with adhoc requests
- Have a good understanding of the media landscape
- Know and be able to articulate our agency vision, behaviours & values
- Responsible for collating and distributing client newsletter on a bi-weekly basis
- Work closely with the creative team and develop an understanding of their tools and processes
- Analyse and prepare competitor spend and audience insights reports
- Support the creation of post-campaign-analysis reports
- Liaise and develop relationships with key media owners to build an understanding of what services and products exist

**Reporting into**:
This role directly reports to: Planning Director.

**Core Competencies and skills **required**
- Proactive & Enthusiastic - A positive attitude and approaches every task with passion who takes the initiative and develops solutions and volunteers or creates opportunities to expand your experience and positively impacts those working at m/Six.
- Thoughtful - Able to demonstrate