Role: Planning Manager (Europe) Agency: PHD Europe Office: London Reporting: Global Digital Planning Lead PHD Europe have an exciting opportunity for a talented digital media planner as we roll out a new global digital operating model for one of our prestige PHD Worldwide clients, Diageo. Playing an important part in the transformation of our digital media operating model to systemise progress against Diageo’s media opportunity. THE ROLE Thinking globally, acting regionally, the Digital Planning Manager (Europe) will play a key role to delivering the consistent performance of sufficient, effective media. Ensuring known global best practice and technical enablers are scaled in every market to maximize efficiencies globally. Key to this is increasing data centricity and guideline adherence in digital planning within the European region. Reporting to the Global Digital Planning Lead for Diageo and working closely with PHD and Diageo’s European digital hubs. Aligning on methodologies and best practice for digital planning to unlock more efficient and effective media plans. Including, but not limited to: Reach and frequency optimisation across biddable platforms. ‘Omni-media’ (cross-channel) programmatic strategy. Development of digital data tactics and performance insights into strategic planning use cases. Application of sufficiency guidelines within planning (e.g. always on Search). Aligning digital partner activation best practice to econometrics and attribution measurement. Increase the use of Omni (Omnicom’s proprietary tools) for data informed planning use cases. Support new, scaled measurement opportunities (e.g. attention optimisation, carbon measurement). A key responsibility is to run the regional governance program for digital planning, with the objective to support local teams with the tools they need to make more data led decisions during media planning. Ensuring consistent best practice planning and advancement of global Diageo transformation expectations, such as continued growth of biddable channel investment and omni-media programmatic media activation. Utilise Omni for automated governance and consistency in application of data led planning. Development of local/regional business cases for progressing the maturity of digital planning (e.g. ROI evidence for always on Search investment, or the optimum frequency in digital platforms). Partnering with measurement leaders and digital platforms to develop methodologies or carry out testing to validate recommendations with business impact. Working closely with local market agency teams as media plans are being developed, to support data led decision making. Tracking progress against the global transformation agenda and KPIs, this role is responsible for driving maturity in the use of digital and specifically biddable media. Responsible for working with regional and global procurement to capture efficiencies for digital optimisation efforts. The right candidate will; Have an opinion on the European media market and Diageo’s positioning within it A strong understanding of the media landscape, they will develop an in-depth knowledge of the alcohol ad policies, Diageo’s brand suitability guidelines. Have experience in local market planning and ideally multi market Whilst this individual will not plan media directly, they will be responsible for interpreting local media plans and elevating the work consistently against the global transformation agenda priorities. Be highly organised with attention to detail. Diageo have extremely high standards for alcohol advertising regulations, media supply chain transparency and brand suitability. Maximising transparency of governance tracking to a complex structure of stakeholders requires clear, direct communication and organisation. Be a natural collaborator and leader Work and collaborate with internal teams (Global, regional and local markets) as well as external (client, consultants, contractors, partners). You will need to liaise with different teams in different parts of the world to make this role work. The right candidate should be: Passionate about the pace of change in digital media Have a point of view on the media industry. The ability to simplify the complex A great project manager A clear, concise communicator ABOUT US WHO WE ARE We are a growth-focused media and marketing communications agency, driven by innovation and creativity. Our founders saw a bright future where smart thinking and clever planning could help brands grow faster than their competitors. PHD Global Business is focused on delivering communications strategy, planning and activation for regional and global brands –working closely with the rest of the PHD network around the world. That’s more than 100 offices across 74 countries. 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