Planner Buyer

**Job Description**:
Spark Foundry. Famously Effective. Not one or the other, both. Creativity that connects. Rigour that delivers. A magnetic combination. Attracting clients that become advocates and talent, driven to perform.

That is 100% what we aim for. But a vision cannot be realised without the right ingredients.

**VALUES**
- ** Allsorts - **We believe it takes Allsorts to get magical work. Diverse thinkers and diverse thinking. In what we do and who we are.
- ** Art and Evidence - Great ideas are only great ideas if they work. **We believe it takes both Art and Evidence to thrive in the industry today. It’s one thing to dream it but another to prove it and it’s only great if you can do both,
- ** Royalty Makes Loyalty - **There is a return on **treating clients and partners like royalty**. Nurturing clients’ business, listening to their needs and delivering excellence at every step allows us to build lasting and rewarding relationships.
- ** Good Humans - Decency in everything we do**. Be a Good Human, Always. No matter who you are or who you think you are.

**ROLE PURPOSE**

The Planner Buyer is responsible for leading the daily planning and management of client’s communication requirements, working closely with Business Manager or Business Director to successfully run a group of clients

**KEY OUTPUTS**

**Implementation and Media Buying**
- Take responsibility for ensuring campaigns are executed to plan including management and oversight of sub-briefing to enable considered contributions from other specialists to execute the strategy.
- Following the approval of the media strategy, taking the lead on briefing key media partners with developed briefs and assessing and guiding their responses.
- Negotiate with media suppliers, for best possible client outcome, checking in with your manager to ensure value is at parity across the agency.
- Oversee the management of media contracts with suppliers, ensuring they are consistent with the approved plan
- Use the Spark Foundry billing system (Pegasus) to enter all media billings.
- Take ownership of any invoice queries, resolving these quickly and efficiently.

**Account Management**
- Work alongside your managers to deliver impeccable account servicing.
- Demonstrate to clients that we are not only a supplier but a valued Business partner.
- Invest time and energy in understanding your client’s industries and be able to contribute valuably at the table, with client, media partners and internally.
- Demonstrate exceptional client servicing skills, acknowledging client requests, managing response timelines and exceeding their expectations.
- Have impeccable time management skills and ability to adapt to different workflow structures.
- Grow relationships with creative agency partners to ensure media thinking is applied to creative thinking.
- Grow relationships with mid level to Senior media partners to ensure Spark Foundry are at the forefront of the market, both in our understanding of the landscape but also in gaining first to market or beta opportunities.

**Reporting and Insights**
- Maintain an in-depth understanding of research tools and media platform opportunities as they develop and evolve.
- Reporting - conceive, challenge and nuance reports to produce accurate insightful reporting for clients in language they can understand, carrying learnings into future practice. Ensure they are usable and valuable to clients.
- Use Spark Foundry measurement tools to project the impact and performance of strategies on key audiences.

**Team Management**
- Work closely alongside specialist services workstreams to lead and help shape their contributions to ensure they deliver insight-led, strategically sound work.
- Ensure appropriate team processes are in place to support effective campaign implementation, management and delivery. Recommend new ways where you spot opportunities to adapt processes.

**BEHAVIOURS**
- Be punctual and work the hours and times specified.
- Prioritise workload to ensure work of the greatest importance to the business is undertaken with urgency and to a high standard.
- Support and help develop a positive workplace culture. Demonstrate excellent interpersonal communication skills.
- Responsibly manage all business resources within accountability levels.
- Undertake all duties and responsibilities outlined in this job description and all other duties as required by the business.
- Comply with all employment obligations.
- Promptly undertake to complete all reasonable and lawful instructions and directions given. Serve the business in good faith, promoting and protecting the business's best interests.
- During work time, and such other times as may be reasonably required, dedicate all effort to the execution and fulfilment of the duties, responsibilities, obligations and instructions related to employment.
- Demonstrate through own actions a commitment to Health and Safety at work
- when undertaking work or observing others