Performance Planning Manager

Overview

We are hiring a Performance Planning Manager to join a collaborative and high-impact team supporting a leading financial services client. This is an exciting opportunity to sit at the heart of performance strategy – bridging brand and activation to drive measurable growth. You’ll play a key role in shaping how multi-channel activity delivers against business objectives, working closely with planning and activation specialists across a connected agency ecosystem.

If you enjoy turning insight into action and influencing outcomes across multiple channels, this role offers real scope to make an impact.

• Lead performance planning across paid media channels, ensuring activity aligns to clear business objectives
• Translate briefs into actionable, well-structured media plans with defined budgets and channel allocations
• Partner closely with planning and activation teams to connect brand strategy with performance delivery
• Shape and contribute to a “growth engine” approach, evaluating activity holistically to improve outcomes
• Apply knowledge across social, PPC, and programmatic channels to optimise planning decisions
• Build clear, engaging client-facing presentations that explain channel strategy, investment, and expected impact
• Manage client communication confidently, setting expectations and navigating changing priorities with clarity

• Experience in financial services or another performance-led sector such as retail, travel, or telecoms
• Strong understanding of performance marketing channels and how they contribute to overall media effectiveness
• Ability to interpret briefs and translate them into structured, insight-led plans
• Confidence in explaining channel choices, formats, and platform differences to stakeholders
• Excellent communication and organisational skills, with a proactive and solutions-focused approach
• Comfortable working in dynamic environments with evolving priorities and deadlines
• A mindset focused on continuous learning, problem-solving, and improving performance outcomes

Spark Foundry offers a wide range of benefits to support our employees. Full details are shared when you join, but highlights include core benefits such as Pension, Life Assurance, and Private Medical cover, alongside enhanced policies like Reflection Days and Shared Parental Leave. You’ll also have access to a range of additional initiatives, including:
Publicis Career Page which showcases our Inclusive Benefits and our EAGs (Employee Action Groups).

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. Guided by our values, we listen with empathy, uplift each other, take responsibility, and embrace change – building a culture where everyone feels seen, respected, and genuinely included.