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Planning Director

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Major Players Limited

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United Kingdom , London

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Salary:

70000.00 - 80000.00 GBP / Year

Job Description:

Major Players are partnering with a reputable, full service creative agency to recruit for a Strategy/Planning Director for a 12 month contract, to start in February 2026. This is a key hire for the company - you will be an influential member of the leadership team, charged with helping the agency grow and nurture its commercial client roster, working closely with client teams, the Head of Strategy and reporting to the MD, to deliver best-in-class thinking.

Job Responsibility:

  • Demonstrate a strong ability to distil and translate learnings into deep audience first, data-driven insights and integrated, strategic narratives
  • Write influential briefs, leading to fresh, disruptive, and impactful work
  • Be up to date with innovative research techniques and trends to integrate into the planning process
  • Create strategic content and door opening narratives for bespoke new client approaches, working on pitches and converting wins
  • Write pitch-winning decks across a broad range of briefs: purpose, brand and product
  • Influence clients and build lasting relationships
  • Turn successful work into effectiveness case studies that win awards, based on solid marketing theory and models
  • Build and maintain lasting and memorable relationships with clients and stakeholders
  • Develop new relationships as well as organically growing business with existing accounts

Requirements:

  • At least 8 years of strategy experience, ideally with experience working in an independent agency setting
  • Broad experience in Brand (Strategy, Design, Campaigns), Product Marketing and Direct response
  • Proven experience delivering strategy and campaigns across a broad range of projects with stand out, memorable creative - ideally award-winning
  • Proven experience working on pitches and new business
  • Team management experience – you will nurture and grow the team with multiple direct reports
  • Excellent communication skills and strong gravitas and creative flair
  • Be able to challenge and disrupt the ideation and creative process
  • A problem solver
  • A self-starter, entrepreneurial and resourceful
What we offer:
  • Hybrid working, 3 days per week, Tuesday to Thursday
  • Open to a 4 day working week or 9 day fortnight

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
January 24, 2026

Employment Type:
Fulltime
Work Type:
Hybrid work
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