Implementation Planning Associate Director

About the role

We are searching for a talented and enthusiastic individual to join our OpenDoor team as a Implementational Planning AD. This is a full-time position based in London. The Role will report to WPP Solutions Partner and will manage a matrixed team of digital planners, in channel activation and offshore teams. This role plays a crucial part in supporting WPP's mission to deliver consistency, delivery excellence and best in class service for Amazon in every country across its diverse businesses, including XCM, Prime Video, and RMI. The Role is across Amazon Devices, a varied and dynamic portfolio including Amazon Leo, Alexa, Kindle, Kids Tablet and Fire TV. OpenDoor is Amazon's media partner everywhere in the world except North America and Latin America and makes up a considerable proportion of Amazons global marketing efforts. The Implementational Planning team creates an effective link between the Strategy & Planning teams and Activation, data and tech teams. The Implementation Planning Team ensures that comprehensive briefs are developed in collaboration with the strategy and comms teams and ensures that channel specialists meet clients' expectations by achieving campaign KPI's timely and through embedding operational excellence. They are also developing and supporting the delivery of tasks such as reporting output, offer insights and recommendations across strategic planning and agency pitches

Responsibilities

• Strategic Synthesis:
• Day to day leadership of Amazon Devices digital activities, managing all key clients, task management of deliverables and leading the digital planning process for briefs.
• Work with the comms design team to integrate offline and online media into a single integrated media plan.
• Manage all digital aspects of the business through direct line management of Digital cross channel planning, digital in channel planners and digital implementation, social activation teams, programmatic activation teams.
• In this role you will also lead with your directors direct pan regional IO / partnerships buys which focus on deal based pan regional buying i.e. (multi-market IO Twitch, Yahoo, XBOX deals)
• Integrate the expertise of data and technology teams into the day to day planning, activation and operational excellence of Amazon Devices planning.
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About WPP Media 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 our pioneering agentic 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 at scale. Connected through WPP Open and powered by Open Intelligence, clients see exactly where, how, and why their media investment is working. For more information, visit wppmedia.com . 2461 - Implementational Planning Associate Director - GCS ABOUT WPP & OPENDOOR 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 OpenDoor for Amazon . OpenDoor 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 OpenDoor 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 OpenDoor partnership model is built to deliver next level Productivity, fueled by our industry-leading approach to People, Platforms, and Process. OpenDoor spans across all WPP agencies and disciplines such as media, business consultancy, communications and brand strategy, tech and commerce, public relations, and production. OpenDoor'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 OpenDoor, 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.

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