Planning Director

The purpose of the sales planning role is both tactical and strategic. Tactically, Sales Planners ensure consistency in Future's one-to-one sales pitches and proposals across the global Commercial team -- producing RFP responses and pitch decks. Strategically, Sales Planners are tasked with delivering stand-out proposals that help us win maximum budget/share-of-wallet, with predictable yield and revenue delivery, in programs/campaigns which deliver on client budgets, and meet/exceed client KPIs.

The Head of Regional Commercial Planning maintains quality, consistency, efficacy, and setting best practices across each vertical commercial planning group. You will collaborate with a UK counterpart and partners directly with Trade Marketing, Product Marketing, Ad Ops, Custom Solutions, and Client Success for the successful cascade of process, insights, collateral and product marketing materials to the Commercial Planning team.

Experience that will put you ahead of the curve…

• Management and talent development of multi-tier team


• Strategic and ROI focused -- ability to see things from our clients perspective


• Broad knowledge of media channels, popular tactics, and a pulse on the trends of media


• Experience with modern and evolving content creation and distribution strategies


• Familiarity with campaign evaluation metrics and media buying practices


• Knowledge of analytics and customer management tools (e.g. Salesforce, Netsuite, MOAT, Nielsen)


• Used to working with, preparing and building databases and spreadsheets, for the creation and modification of media plans and templates
  
  We're Future. We're 3000+ colleagues over 250+ brands speaking to 400 million people every month across the globe through websites, events and magazines. We've got ambitious plans that build on our growth momentum and unlock new opportunities and we're looking for talented people who want to be a part of it.


Our Future, Our Responsibility - Inclusion and Diversity at Future

We have a voice and we're going to use it. We promote diversity and inclusion not just in our recruitment processes, but everything we do. We're an equal opportunity employer and we will continue to ensure our recruitment process is free of bias and our workplaces are inclusive, positive, free of discrimination and respecting of all backgrounds and beliefs. Our culture is underpinned by our values and employees - current and future - are treated with respect and fairness.

And to top it all off, not only do we offer unlimited holiday because we trust you to manage your workload and time but we also offer a share in our success whereby every colleague is eligible to join our profit pool bonus scheme - if Future hits their performance targets all colleagues may receive a bonus.

Internal job family level C6

The expected range for this role is £32,000 - £55,000