What we are looking for?

As a Planner at WT, it is your job to understand what it takes to help a client’s business succeed. We do this through a superior understanding of the business, the brand, the audience and the cultural context.

In your role on our global client, you will work with a combination of marketing clients, data experts, creatives, experience designers and management consultants from across the integrated agency.

We’ll expect you to be brilliant at the following:

• Interpreting client briefs and creating inspiring and simple creative briefs.
• Simplifying complex issues into simple, insightful pieces. This includes dense client or research documents, but also complex inputs that can be distilled to an insight.
• Building good relationships with teams across the agency, demonstrating good strategic judgement and ensuring work is on brief.
• Understanding the fundamentals of businesses, marketing, advertising, and brands.
• Proactively inspire your account team and department with ideas and stimulus you’ve encountered in culture.
• Presenting your strategies to your client / internal teams and generally persuading them.

What you’ll be doing

• Support the development of the global brand strategy for our client.
• Work on global campaigns, delivering unexpected and inspiring creative strategy, shepherding the development from the brief through to the final execution.
• Collaborate with Wunderman Thompson’s offices globally to deliver work on the global brand platform in local markets.
• Develop global strategic toolkits and guidelines that are directional, single-minded and actionable for local markets to stay on brand.
• Develop a deep-understanding of the client’s business, competition and consumer becoming the fount of all knowledge for both internal and client teams.
• Identify opportunities to help grow our client’s business.
• Contribute to the department, helping build a creative culture.

Who we're looking for

• An ambitious, curious, and brave human
• Someone who enjoys a good debate and collaborates towards a resolution
• Great presentation skills (obviously)
• A degree of some sort will help us understand your background and point of view
• Someone that’s open-minded and had an interest in others cultures/ international outlook
• Someone who is analytical and can turn various inputs into cohesive and inspiring narratives.
• You’ll have a minimum of 2 years in the industry or roles where strategic thinking was required.

Nice to have but not essential:

• A sense of humour
• Collaborative spirit, willing to share your knowledge and wit with the team.
• A pitch winning idea
• Proactive ideas that we can share with client and the larger agency, to get the nation talking.

What we can offer you

We don’t settle for people who can just do the job, we look for people that go beyond that and always push our thinking to be better than yesterday. We believe that this is what makes our agency a great place to be – a space where you’re never far away from the best minds to learn from.

We want you to be comfortable and proud every day of the week and have created an open and inclusive environment where you can bring your whole self to work. We don’t want you to just fit into our culture, we want your uniqueness and diversity of background to add to it and make this an agency where we all have a real sense of belonging and purpose. We are a community. 

Our focus is on keeping teams connected and engaged whether we're in the office or working from home, putting people’s wellbeing first, ensuring every person has access to our learning and development programme and building an inclusive workplace. We have a weekly ‘Staying Connected Calendar’ which is full to the brim of training you can get involved in, inspiration sessions hosted by external partners to check out and wellbeing classes and tips and tricks to look after your mind, body and soul. From yoga, Pilates, HIIT, hypnotherapy, a Strava cycling group, 1:1 resilience sessions and trained mental health first aiders. To name a few. Within our office we have a dedicated wellness studio and this year we built a brand new learning lab. Here we host weekly lunchtime lessons that supports iLearn, our learning & development portal home to 100s of sessions for you to access. We're also committed to building an inclusive, equitable and diverse workforce driven by our Inclusion Council and Employee Resource Groups; Rise, Unite, Re:think, Noir, Wellbeing and Access all Areas.

Your career development is important to us and should you ever choose to move on from Wunderman Thompson, we want you to be better than when you joined us. Thrive will provide you with the framework and support needed to reach your career aspirations. There really is no shortage of opportunities here for the right person that is prepared to roll their sleeves up, get involved and collaborate with those around them to deliver the best work for our clients and our agency.