Planning Director

My client is a full service agency in Dubai and they are looking for a Senior Planner/Planning Director

Role:

• Attend meetings with clients to take briefs, interrogate them and scope projects
• Devise brand, communications and/or creative strategies from scratch
• Prepare cogent and compelling strategic presentations
• Write creative briefs and inspire creatives throughout the development process
• Design and facilitate creative and/or strategic workshops
• Work on new business pitches
• Commission and manage primary research
• Interpret qualitative and quantitative data to pull out valuable and actionable insights
• Drive effectiveness of communications through rigorous measurement and evaluation
• Write effectiveness awards entries
• Develop and deliver new learning or insight for colleagues and clients
• Demonstrate a commercial understanding of how clients and agencies make money and develop the ability to “sell in” strategic projects internally and externally

Skills:

• Working in an advertising agency for at least 3 year.
• Up to speed on the latest strategic and creative thinking and best practice
• A lateral thinker and a logical problem solver
• Confident in your convictions
• Able to communicate clear and compelling arguments
• Entrepreneurial
• Pragmatic and good humoured
• An excellent listener and even better collaborator
• Calm under pressure
• Creative
• Curious