Senior Vice President, Planning (CPG Client)

Media Planning Director

Spark Foundry was built during the most transformative time in the history of advertising and marketing. We deliver everything a traditional media agency has to offer and have grown into one of the world's most successful agencies by helping brands evolve their marketing by leveraging identity, commerce, artificial intelligence, and more to connect with people. Transformation is part of our DNA. Spark Foundry's start-up spirit delivers high-touch approaches and a never-ending desire to challenge the status quo. Combined with Publicis Media's powerhouse soul leveraging connected data assets, advanced AI applications, and investment clout, we "Bring HEAT to Brands." No other agency possesses the expertise that we do to address today's most pressing challenges to drive business transformation through media.

Responsible for generating strategic media initiatives and leading all aspects of media planning for key client account.

Responsibilities:

• Developing, implementing, and executing strategy to define the future direction of Client business
• Actively listening to Clients and continually identifying opportunities to lead thinking
• Team leader for Client interaction fostering positive relationships
• Identifying key target insights based on Client brief necessary for formulating communication strategy
• Evaluating composition of a wide range of media vehicles to determine which would most effectively reach the target audience
• Effectively communicating and soliciting agreement of best opportunities for Client
• Ensuring the quality of work for all Client deliverables
• Serving as key resource for local markets in defining media strategy and media plans
• Supervising, training, and developing staff (managing workload, delegating, and managing projects and resources, performance management)
• Developing process improvements and best practices to ensure consistency, flexibility, and efficiency resulting in solutions that meet or exceed Client expectations
• Serving as leadership and content development coordinator for all Client presentations
• Ability to cross sell interagency products and services
• Collaborating with business intelligence/analytics, data and investment teams to identify consumer learning needs and drive consumer insight generation, analysis/interpretation

Qualifications:

• 10+ years of relevant experience with progressive levels of responsibility and business acumen in marketing and communications and team management
• Must have online and offline media experience. Offline experience will be TV, Print, Radio, OOH. Online experience will consist of Display, Search, Social, and Mobile, and Content Marketing.
• Fluency with Media Tools and solid understanding of Digital Planning tools
• Proven experience and success in presenting plans to Client and influencing top level Client decisions
• Demonstrated critical thinking skill and strong problem-solving skills navigates effectively through difficult issues, builds required consensus to drive business needs and results
• Excellent leadership, management and motivational skills
• Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills effectively presents formal POV internally and externally
• Excellent organizational, interpersonal, and quantitative/analytical skills
• Strong Client presentation skills and business writing skills
• Demonstrated expertise in strategic planning and Client relations
• Detail oriented and proven ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment. Critical assessor of talent builds and motivates high performing teams
• Able to direct long range planning and the development of programs to maximize organizational resources
• Design and manage projects, resources, stakeholders, participants, and deadlines
• High results orientation and able to effectively juggle and prioritize many competing demands high tolerance to effectively manage change

Compensation Range: USD $180,215.00 - USD $268,905.00/Annually. This is the pay range the Company believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting. This role may also be eligible for bonus or incentive compensation. Consistent with applicable law, compensation will be determined based on the skills, qualifications, and experience of the applicant along with the requirements of the position, and the Company reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time.