Senior Associate, Planning, GCS

WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands. With exceptional talent, trusted data and intelligence, and world-class partnerships – all united by ourpioneeringagentic marketing platform, WPP Open – we help clients navigate change, capture opportunity, and deliver transformational growth.

WPP Media is WPP's AI-driven media operating unit, bringing together media, data, and partnerships to deliver creative personalisation nected through WPP Open and powered by Open Intelligence, clients see exactly where, how, and why their media investment is working.

At WPP, we’re constantly reinventing the future of creativity on an ever-broader canvas, bringing together unrivalled talent, resources and skills to provide an integrated offer of communications, experience, commerce and technology.

Over the last decade, we have developed a dedicated global client practice with the mission of accelerating WPP’s impact for our largest clients by bringing them the best of WPP. Each team is custom-built around a client’s specific needs and challenges, providing easy access to the right capabilities. And that’s why we’ve built Open Door for Amazon
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Open Door is a unique integration of the best of WPP and Amazon – building on their respective strengths and visions. Whether at WPP or at Amazon, every project is an Open Door on new possibilities. Anything and everything can be an opportunity for our people to drive impact – for them to innovate, learn, thrive, and occasionally fail too.

The unique Open Door partnership model is built to deliver next level Productivity, fueled by our industry-leading approach to People, Platforms, and Process. Open Door spans across all WPP agencies and disciplines such as media, business consultancy, communications and brand strategy, tech and commerce, public relations, and production.

Open Door’s values are built from Amazon’s own 16 Leadership Principles , and WPP’s core values of Open, Optimistic and Extraordinary. Together, when WPP’s Creative Transformation meets Amazon’s next-level customer centricity, our people come together to challenge and impact what’s done today and build a better future.

By joining Open Door, not only are you joining a cross-function team partnering with one of WPP’s top five global clients, but you are also taking a step to challenge yourself and the world around you every day, working in the most unusual way on some of Earth’s most ambitious opportunities in marketing, tech, media, business, and creativity.

We are searching for a talented and enthusiastic individual to join our Open Door team as a Planning Senior Executive. This is a full-time position based in London. This role plays a crucial part in supporting WPP's mission to deliver consistency, delivery excellence and best in class service for Amazon. This role is part of the XCM EU Regional Hub team.

XCM is Amazon’s Cross-Channel Marketing division, delivering all communications for , including large tentpole campaigns such as for Black Friday and Prime Day. Open Door is XCM’s media partner everywhere in the world except North America and Latin America. XCM is the largest business division within Amazon, the WPP Open Door team supporting them in its biggest growth regions across Europe, India, Australia, Middle East and South East Asia.

• Contribute to the development of comprehensive media plans across various channels, aligning with client objectives and budget.
• Conduct in-depth research and analysis of target audiences, market trends, and competitive landscape to inform media strategies.
• Develop DE+I planning and carbon conscious media strategies.
• Utilize media systems and tools, including WPP Open AI platform, to generate insights and optimize…