Manager, Planning
Adelphi Graduate Careers
Summary
As Manager, Planning, you'll support the vision and strategic plan for the account, ensuring success across Work Quality, Client Relationships, Financials, and Team Health. You'll play a key role in planning and executing media strategies integral to their business success and launch industry-leading work that propels the business forward.
Job description
Position Summary
As Manager, Planning, you'll support the vision and strategic plan for the account, ensuring success across Work Quality, Client Relationships, Financials, and Team Health. You'll play a key role in planning and executing media strategies integral to their business success and launch industry-leading work that propels the business forward.
Responsibilities
- Develop and execute strategic cross-channel communications plans for client assignments in conjunction with internal agency specialty teams
- Supervise development and implementation of targeted, innovative media solutions consistent with media strategies
- Leverage performance and measurement insights to inform plan recommendations and optimizations
- Create external briefing documents aligned with plan parameters, objectives and strategies
- Using syndicated research, pull and compile category trends, audience consumption, partner data and competitive activity, to derive strategic trends and insights to inform partner consideration set and channel mix
- Develop relationships and meet with media partners to share client objectives and priorities and stay up to date on latest offerings
- Keep on top of everchanging media landscape to identify relevant opportunities/solutions and develop POVs
- Leverage planning best practices, media acumen, and understanding of client business to steward planning recommendations and conversations
- Prepare and deliver dynamic presentations to showcase how recommendation meets client brief, objectives, and measurement expectations
Required Skills & Experience
- Confident presentation skills in internal and client meetings
- Mastery of syndicated research sources, planning tools, and media math
- Solutions driven with strong trouble shooting skills
- Excellent written and verbal skills
- Well organized and manages timelines with others
- Strong knowledge of industry trends and planning/measurement models
- Understanding of marketing and communications process
- Ability to work autonomously and in a group
Desired Skills & Experience
- 3-5 years of experience in media planning with knowledge of across various channels, national/local scope
- Skilled knowledge of Microsoft Office (MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.)
- Mastery of campaign management, ad serving technology, third-party market research, and cloud-based collaboration tools such as MediaTools, Prisma/MBOX, DCM, Nielsen Ad Intel, Pathmatics, eTelmar, MRI Simmons, comScore, eMarketer, SharePoint, etc.
- Success in managing junior staff and ability to manage up to leadership
Requirements
- Confident presentation skills in internal and client meetings
- Mastery of syndicated research sources, planning tools, and media math
- Solutions driven with strong trouble shooting skills
- Excellent written and verbal skills
- Well organized and manages timelines with others
- Strong knowledge of industry trends and planning/measurement models
- Understanding of marketing and communications process
- Ability to work autonomously and in a group
- 3-5 years of experience in media planning
- Skilled knowledge of Microsoft Office (MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.)
- Mastery of campaign management, ad serving technology, third-party market research, and cloud-based collaboration tools such as MediaTools, Prisma/MBOX, DCM, Nielsen Ad Intel, Pathmatics, eTelmar, MRI Simmons, comScore, eMarketer, SharePoint, etc.
- Success in managing junior staff and ability to manage up to leadership
Company overview
Adelphi Graduate Careers is the graduate recruitment division of Adelphi Group, a leading global pharmaceutical consultancy and healthcare services organization. Founded in 1986 and part of the Omnicom Corporation since 1998, Adelphi Group provides comprehensive strategic support services across the entire pharmaceutical lifecycle. The company specializes in strategic product development consultancy, health economics and outcomes research, real-world disease understanding, market research, medical communications, and post-marketing brand support services. With a global network of offices across the US, Europe, and Asia employing over 1,000 staff worldwide, Adelphi supports the world's leading pharmaceutical and healthcare organizations to improve patients' lives. The graduate program recruits talented individuals across various disciplines including life sciences, psychology, business studies, and health economics, offering roles in research, health economics, client services, and medical writing. Adelphi has been recognized as the 'Top Pharmaceutical Consultancy in Europe 2025' for its innovation and unique contributions to the life sciences sector.