Strategic Planning Senior Manager

Agency:

Hearts & Science

Job Function:

Media

Job Subfunction:

Media Planning and Buying

Job Description:

Hearts & Science International | Omnicom Media

Who We Are

A global media agency delivering connected, emotionally intelligent media through a proactive, boutique International service.

We Are On A Mission

To turn change into competitive advantage for our clients—moving beyond superficial data to unlock the power of emotional connection. As Agents of Change, we help brands harness shifts in culture, technology, media and consumer behaviour to drive growth beyond borders.

How We Work

Our clients receive a high‑touch partnership that integrates the best of Omnicom’s reach, breadth and capability—making it easier, better and faster for brands to grow internationally.

What We Deliver

We identify growth audiences, orchestrate integrated media experiences and create predictable value worldwide. Powered by Omnicom, our ‘Heart & Science’ approach across audience creation, experience planning, digital, data, partnerships and operations, we deliver synchronized, value‑creating activation centrally and in collaboration with our local network.

The Role:

Senior Strategic Planning Manager

You will deliver clear, focused strategic planning recommendations for International clients and support in the improvement & evaluation of local market strategic planning output. In an era increasingly defined by the impact of technology on consumer and marketing behaviour, you will deliver progressive solutions that create success for clients leveraging the latest marketing techniques and opportunities.

As an Agent of Change, you will bring energy, curiosity and emotional intelligence to every interaction. You help turn complexity into clarity, data into meaning and ambition into action. You champion our clients’ vision, anticipate their needs, and ensure our strategic planning work is two steps ahead.

You operate as a core part London‑based International team, working in close collaboration with International and local strategic planning experts.

Responsibilities:

Client Delivery & Relationship Building:

Build a close, proactive working relationship with client and agency stakeholders

Translate clients marketing challenges and briefs into clear and compelling recommendations

Strategic Planning:

Work with the Strategy lead and other region teams to deliver compelling response to briefs

Brand campaigns, product launches, seasonal campaigns, annual recommendations, always-on solutions and e-commerce

Best practice guidelines, campaign playbooks, specific techniques (eg. Attention Planning)

Develop the systematic use of agency platforms and capabilities to add value to client recommendations

Leverage new Omni capabilities and agentic solutions responsibly to add value to solutions and improve productivity

Audience definition and insights:

Develop audience recommendations, using syndicated and digital data-sets

Deliver growth mapping – identifying sources of business and the solutions to unlock them

Work closely with digital specialists to use platform and 3rd party audience data to enrich audience definition and insights and also, how to translate audiences into activatable segments

Identify the right balance of audience and ‘personal’ communications and work with specialists to convert theory into action

Centralised Activation & Hub Coordination:

Work closely with central activation teams to translate strategic planning into implementation plans for activation

Evaluate the effectiveness of the strategic planning in activation and appropriate measurement (eg. For audience solutions, customer-journey based targeting, contextual / cultural impact, personalization)

Evaluation & Reporting:

Define and calibrate measurement frameworks and KPIs in coordination with Marketing Science and digital experts

Provide insights and persuasive, client-facing narrative to performance – linking results to strategy and the client’s business objectives

Network Elevation:

Work with the International client team to develop and deploy strategic recommendations and guidelines

Define evaluation criteria and evaluate market recommendations

Collaborate with market planning teams to improve their narratives, capability utilization and efficacy of their local recommendations

Project & Workflow Management:

Keep client teams up to date with developments and project status

Manage projects and client deliverables in a timely fashion to achieve deadlines

Innovation & impact:

Identify innovation opportunities and test / learn / scale solutions to address client challenges / priorities

Work with agency experts to develop and evaluate specific opportunities; eg. Partnerships, media 1sts

Create case-studies, under-pinned by performance results for internal sharing and industry-facing awards

Relationships:

Primary (day‑to‑day): Client strategic planning function and relevant teams

Internal: Strategic Planning functions across the agency. Client Experience and digital specialists

Network: Work in close collaboration with local agency teams – a go to point for planning support

Omnicom’s policy requires employees to work in the office for a minimum of three days a week, unless additional in-office days are directed by their agency or manager. Our objective is to increase this requirement over time, and many of our agencies as well as Omnicom’s corporate group already require five days of in-office attendance.

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