Strategy and Planning Lead (Nordics)

We’re looking for a digital native with experience delivering integrated, omnichannel media plans in the Nordics market, with a passion for driving innovation and creativity which delivers results. You will be responsible for leading the planning for your dedicated client, and liaising with our Digital Centre of Excellence and local activation planning teams to develop cohesive, locally relevant plans. We want someone who has a passion for working with clients, developing relationships externally and internally, and has a wealth of hands on planning experience.

You will work with the most integrated and connected EMEA cross-market planning team and have high level of input in regional strategies and well as leading local planning.

Requirements

• You have 7+ years of advertising / media planning experience, majority gained in the Nordics market
• You have experience managing a global organisation spanning across multiple time zones
• You are highly motivated, organised and entrepreneurial
• You recognise the value in working as a team
• You are energetic and willing to thrive in a high growth organisation
• You have strong agency & brand relationships
• You have great communication, consultative selling, problem solving and negotiation skills
• You strategically use data and insights to advise client planning recommendations
• You have a deep understanding of the digital ecosystem and trends around digital, programmatic, and relationships with local publications
• You have experience in FMCG, beauty or luxury categories

Responsibilities

• Define local planning recommendations across a portfolio of beauty brands, adapting the regional strategy with local insight and media market nuance
• Lead and coordinate campaign planning process end to end,
• Build strong relationships with activation teams and work hand in hand on key briefs
• Keep up to date with market media landscape changes and prepare updates for clients
• Implement/lead/coordinate post campaign analysis, identifying learnings to feed back into regional and local planning
• Maintain high levels of communication and transparency with management, cross-functional teams, and business partners internally and externally.

Benefits

Our benefits include, 24 days holiday a year (increasing by 1 day/year to a max of 30 with every year of service), a day of birthday leave, 1/2 day off before public holidays, 1/2 day off for Christmas shopping, early finish Fridays, free breakfast and subsidised lunches, pension, life assurance, enhanced parental leave and access to Perkbox.

Equal Opportunities

Assembly is an advocate for equal opportunity in the workplace. We are committed to ensuring equal opportunities regardless of race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability and gender identity. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know