Media Planning Assistant

3 days ago

York, United Kingdom Forward And Thinking Ltd Full time

**Media Planning Assistant**

Location: Market Weighton

**Salary**: Salary to be discussed at interview stage - based on experience

**Job Type**: Permanent

**Fantastic Opportunity at Forward and Thinking**

Forward & Thinking are a media buying and digital marketing agency. Our team has a combined experience of more than 100 years in the advertising industry. From outdoor advertising, video/TV productionto pay-per-clickdigital campaigns. We’re a close-knit team of highly enthusiastic individuals that live by our values.

**The Person**:
If you are a graduate or just eager to learn, have a passion for marketing and want to start your career within a media agency, we’d love to hear from you.

**The Role**:

- You’ll be a key player within the Forward And Thinking team, working alongside media channel experts and our client obsessed sales team to fully understand client objectives and their marketing strategies.
- Media planning: understanding the buying process across the full media channel mix, cross examining briefs, requesting availability schedules and drawing on industry insight data, to produce campaigns that maximize impact and achieve results.
- You’ll need to be comfortable working independently on briefs for a range of clients, week on week and working to short deadlines.
- Adaptable with well-considered decision-making skills, always taking into account the benefits of each media channel, allotted budget, audience targeting, and overall campaign aims.
- Building and maintaining relationships with suppliers.
- Attention to detail and precision is a must when budgeting, flighting media channels and compiling presentation documents.
- **Requirements**:

- Proactive, adaptable & organised approach to accomplishing tasks.
- Committed to delivering the best possible results for clients.
- Strong English language and written communication skills.
- A ‘can do’ attitude - You will work across a large array of sectors and briefs, so enthusiasm and willingness to adapt is a must.
- Basic experience of marketing and working in a client or customer facing role.
- Competent in the use of Microsoft Excel, Word, Powerpoint and Gmail.

**Benefits**:

- 25 Days holiday (pro-rata)
- 3pm Friday finish
- Birthdays off
- Regular team events
- Hybrid working
- Great scope for career progression in a fast-growing organisation
- Continual personal growth learning opportunities
- Employee of the quarter award
- £250 - Employee referral bonus
- Free Perkbox Account - with monthly flexi points to spend on us Giving you 24/7 access to over 4,000 perks/benefitsplus Mindfulness, meditation & easy to follow HIIT & fitness videos

**Job Type**: Permanent

**Benefits**:

- Referral programme

Schedule:

- Holidays
- Monday to Friday
- No weekends

Ability to commute/relocate:

- York: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

**Education**:

- Bachelor's (preferred)

**Experience**:

- Marketing: 1 year (preferred)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in York

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