Head of Strategic Planning

About dunnhumbydunnhumby is the global leader in Customer Data Science, helping the world's most ambitious retailers and brands put the customer at the heart of every decision. With nearly 3,000 experts across Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas, we partner with iconic businesses like Tesco, Coca-Cola, Meijer, Procter & Gamble and Metro to turn data into growth, innovation and measurable value for their customers.

Tesco Media Tesco Media is the ultimate media partner to brands. Built on unrivalled customer insight, it’s a media owner with soul, scale, and storytelling power. Tesco Media helps brands and agencies connect meaningfully with customers, drive creative effectiveness, and grow at the point of purchase.

Tesco Media is looking for a Head of Strategy & Planning to lead an established, multidisciplinary function into its next phase of growth.

Our Strategy & Planning function brings together media planning, client strategy and insight to help brands and agencies make better, more effective decisions. The team develops client growth plans, delivers thought leadership and turns customer insight into compelling recommendations that create measurable commercial value.

This is not a traditional strategy role. It is a senior commercial growth leadership position for someone who can connect strategy with execution, simplify complexity and bring teams together around shared priorities.

You will lead a team of 19 across strategy, planning and insight, building the standards, tools and capabilities that enable high-quality client conversations and scalable revenue growth. Working closely with commercial, product, proposition, measurement, research and marketing teams, you will help shape the future of Tesco Media’s client offering and strengthen its position as a leader in retail media.

What you’ll be doing

Lead strategy, planning and commercial growth

Set the vision, priorities and standards for the Strategy & Planning function.

Lead the continued evolution from channel-led media planning towards integrated, insight-led commercial planning.

Balance long-term strategic growth with strong in-year commercial performance.

Partner with commercial leaders to identify growth opportunities and enable consistent, high-quality execution.

Turn client, category and sales demand into clear priorities for propositions, go-to-market activity, product development and resource allocation.

Build scalable planning frameworks, playbooks, tools, category narratives and reusable client growth models.

Strengthen client and agency partnerships

Lead the strategic planning approach for major clients, including annual and multi-year client growth plans.

Develop service models that meet the needs of different client groups, agency partners and emerging opportunities.

Help commercial teams create more strategic, insight-led client conversations.

Identify opportunities to grow existing partnerships and develop new revenue streams.

Ensure that client and agency needs are clearly represented in Tesco Media’s commercial strategy and development roadmap.

Champion insight and effectiveness

Embed customer insight throughout planning, strategy, proposition development and external market narratives.

Develop a programme of trend-led and category insight that strengthens client conversations and elevates Tesco Media’s market position.

Work with measurement and insight teams to turn effectiveness learning into practical planning principles, commercial evidence and compelling client stories.

Develop automated tools that improve planning quality, consistency, speed and scale.

Ensure that recommendations are grounded in evidence and connected to measurable client outcomes.

Build an effective and scalable operating model

Establish clear ways of…