We help brands make BOLD MOVES

Nowadays, brands want rapid, spectacular growth and they expect media to deliver it.

Clients used to give us media briefs that said “deliver 80% awareness” or “give me an impactful Christmas campaign.”

Now we hear

“Take me from 4th to 1st in my category”

“Help me grow 10% in a market declining 10%”

“Make me the most loved brand in my industry”

These are huge asks of media, that can’t be met through tweaking the media plan of two years ago.

Decades of advertising research prove that without a big change, large brands stay large and small brands stay small.

This is why Zenith help brands make BOLD MOVES.

Bold moves are big, brave changes to media strategy, delivering more impact for brands and more value for consumers.

Bold moves are backed up with a solid forecast – they are a better path to growth.

Bold moves build a partnership – we believe in this approach so much we link our growth to your success.

Bold Moves bring bigger ROI

This approach works for our clients, our people and consumers – it’s why we are recognised as the UK’s best media agency.

The Zenith UK Planning department are looking for an experienced Planning Manager to work on one of their flagship accounts, Coty.

Coty is a leading Beauty business and has worked with Zenith since 2016. They are fast paced and have ambitions to be the number one beauty business in the world. Coty is split into 2 divisions, Luxury Fragrances, and Consumer Beauty.

This role will specifically be working on the Consumer Beauty arm of the Coty business. You will be working on brands such as Rimmel, Max Factor and Sally Hansen.

Planning Managers at Zenith UK are crucial to our agency’s growth and development. They are collaborative, tenacious, inventing and experts in client servicing and media, people management and helping shape and evolve the brands we partner with.

You will work closely with the Planning Director on the day-to-day management of the account, as well as broader strategy, planning, investment, and specialist channel teams within Zenith. You, as the Planning Manager, will have ample opportunity to own campaigns and projects, ensuring exciting and challenging work to drive the brands development.

You will be responsible for and contribute to high profile media campaigns for your clients, owning the process from initial briefing, to planning and activation, to post campaign analysis – and everything in between.

Other responsibilities include:

• Presenting to clients and internal stakeholders
• Planning cross channel media strategies
• Working closely with internal specialist activation and strategy teams to ensure work is delivered on time at a high standard
• Utilise planning tools in order to develop meaningful and insightful campaign ideas

What you need:

• You will have experience working within a Media Planning position, ideally with another media agency.
• Excellent project management skills
• Planning brand led campaigns across a variety of traditional and digital media channels would be ideal.
• You will have had a client facing position previously, and comfortable dealing with clients at all levels.
• Experience using planning tools such as TGI, GWI, Google Trends etc

What we can give you

We have a fabulous benefits package, some of which are outlined below. For more information, please contact us!

The classics:

• 25 days holiday increasing to 30 days after 5 years’ service plus bank holidays
• Pension up to Reward Level
• Life Assurance
• Group Income Protection
• Enhanced Parental leave packages

To make life a little easier:

• Summer Fridays
• PMWOW, our flexible working programme
• Season ticket loan
• Cycle scheme
• Café Marcel - our on site subsidised cafe

The added extras:

• Birthday day off
• Recruitment referral bonus scheme
• Technology, shopping and local business discounts including Westfield
• 2 days of volunteering leave per year
• Agency social events

Looking after you:

• Headline – our Mental Health Programme
• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
• Eye care support
• Discounted gym membership
• Weekly wellbeing activities (ie. yoga, massage, mindfulness session

At Zenith UK, we believe that fostering an inclusive culture where all talent can thrive makes our company stronger. It enables a greater idea exchange, which fosters innovation and creativity, and enriches our perspective. We are committed to Publicis Groupe’s wide variety of talent engagement and inclusion programming, and encourage our people to take an active role in continuing to drive positive change within our agency.