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Senior Research & Planning Manager

Michael Page Digital
Posted 10 hours ago, valid for 16 days
Location

Leeds, West Yorkshire LS14 1DZ

Contract type

Full Time

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  • This position is for a Senior Research and Planning Manager at an award-winning brand agency that focuses on high-level creative strategy across various industries.
  • The successful candidate will be responsible for leading the research and planning phases for clients, addressing complex business issues to guide their success.
  • Candidates should have proven experience in a similar Planner or Brand Planning role, preferably from the creative agency or consultancy sectors.
  • The role offers a competitive salary and flexible hybrid working arrangements, along with industry-leading benefits.
  • A minimum of several years of relevant experience is required, emphasizing skills in stakeholder management and qualitative research methods.

This is a truly unique opportunity and offers the successful candidate the chance to own and run the end to end research and planning phase for the agency's clients. These are really strategic projects that consider a businesses whole proposition as well as marketing campaigns.

Client Details

We're proud to be working with this award winning brand agency who produce high level creative strategy for their clients across a range of industries within the UK and internationally. With impressive client referral rates and industry leading employee retention, they've also created a truly fantastic place to work.

Description

As a Senior Research and Planning Manager, you'll be joining a well established Planning team, led by the agency's Planning Director. Ultimately, you'll be responsible for using your intuitive nosiness to get under the skin of your client's businesses and commercial goals in order to develop impactful strategy. You'll be working with clients who have complex business issues to help guide their future success.

  • Senior stakeholder management and engagement with business leaders
  • Internal stakeholder management
  • Research planning and delivery through qualitative methods such as focus groups and panel interviews
  • Competitor analysis

Profile

The successful candidate will have proven experience within a similar Planner or Brand Planning role. Candidates from a brand research background would also find this of interest. Ideally this experience is from the creative agency industry or a consultancy working with multiple client projects.

  • Natural nosiness
  • Highly commercially astute (demonstrable at interview)
  • Problem solver

Job Offer

You'll join a really well established team with bags of knowledge and passion - an amazing opportunity to soak up what they know!

  • Competitive salary
  • Flexible hybrid working
  • Industry leading benefits

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In order to submit this application, a Reed account will be created for you. As such, in addition to applying for this job, you will be signed up to all Reed’s services as part of the process. By submitting this application, you agree to Reed’s Terms and Conditions and acknowledge that your personal data will be transferred to Reed and processed by them in accordance with their Privacy Policy.