Planning Manager

Overview

We are hiring an Account Manager to join Spark Foundry UK and work on Mondelez, one of Publicis Groupe’s most exciting global clients. This is a brilliant opportunity to help shape campaigns for iconic brands including Cadbury and Oreo, from culturally relevant activations to major seasonal moments. You’ll play a key role in planning and delivering work across the full customer journey, collaborating closely with clients, agency partners and media specialists.

If you enjoy bringing people together, turning insight into action and helping great ideas move from brief to market, this role offers real scope to make an impact.

• Plan and deliver integrated media campaigns across Mondelez brands, including Cadbury and Oreo.
• Build trusted day-to-day relationships with clients, helping them feel informed, supported and confident in the work.
• Bring clear media thinking to recommendations, explaining the rationale in a way that is thoughtful, persuasive and practical.
• Work closely with investment, planning and wider Publicis teams to connect the right expertise around each brief.
• Support the quality and accuracy of plans, proposals and client-facing work before it is shared.
• Contribute to campaign ideas across channels, helping brands show up in relevant and effective ways.
• Support and develop junior team members through guidance, feedback and shared learning.

• Experience in media planning across both traditional and digital channels.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to build constructive client relationships.
• A collaborative working style, with confidence bringing different teams and specialists together.
• Good attention to detail and a clear sense of ownership over the quality of your work.
• The ability to turn client needs, business context and audience insight into practical media recommendations.
• A proactive mindset, with an interest in culture, brands, media and the wider industry.
• Experience supporting others in their development, whether through coaching, line management or day-to-day guidance.

Spark Foundry offers a wide range of benefits to support our employees. Highlights include a pension plan, life assurance and private medical cover, as well as enhanced policies such as reflection days and shared parental leave. Additional initiatives are available when you join.

Publicis Groupe works primarily from the office or our clients' office four days per week.

At Spark Foundry, we are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. We welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, and do not discriminate on the basis of race, ethnicity, nationality, religion or belief, disability, age, citizenship, relationship status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other protected characteristic.

We are committed to providing a fair, accessible, and inclusive recruitment process. If you have any access needs - for example, related to disability, neurodivergence, or a health condition - please let us know. We’ll work with you to ensure the process works for you. Sharing this information will never impact your application.

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