Rock Kitchen Harris Leicester, England, United Kingdom Full-time 2024-09-25

We’re searching for a new Junior Planner to join our Strategy & Planning team.

The right person will already have at least two years agency-side strategy experience under their belt, and be ready to put this into action and grow with us…

A day in this role will involve:

  • Working with clients to understand their needs and help develop the right communications strategy for their target audience
  • Analysing and extracting findings from consumer, brand and market research to support brand + communication strategies and creative briefs
  • Project managing and helping facilitate quantitative and qualitative research, analysing and debriefing results
  • Supporting and championing the creative development process, including briefing and enthusing account and creative teams
  • Gathering data and preparing feedback reports on the effectiveness of campaign
  • Keeping up-to-date with macro + micro trends and insights, and industry news + views
  • Taking the lead on projects with the support of the rest of the team
  • Helping other agency teams like social, digital and PR, with input into their strategies and campaign

Requirements

The right person will:

  • Be curious and open minded
  • Ask questions and listen well
  • Always be on the hunt for new insights + human truths
  • Fascinated by human behaviour, social trends, cultures and how ideas influence people. Be able to show experience of analytical and strategic thinking
  • Understand how to apply creative thinking to business problems.
  • Champion guiding brilliant creative work to meet the brief and committed to nurturing work that does so.
  • Be numerate and able to understand, analyse, interpret and use complex and varied sources of data and statistics.
  • Be a persuasive communicator
  • Be comfortable working with research to draw the relevant conclusions.
  • Relish spotting emerging trends and be curious about ideas and new ways of looking at the world.

Benefits

There is a real buzz, excitement and a family feel about our agency and all 65 of us are passionate about what we do. As a fully remote agency, working from home (or wherever else you fancy), is our standard, but our team spirit and strong culture shines through. We frequently organise meetups to get together, share pictures of our pets and kids, and have that all important face time with colleagues and friends. Above all, after a fulfilling day’s work, people log off with a smile on their face. Looking after each other is what we’re really proud of. We believe everyone matters.

But, this is a job ad and we get how it needs to work. Other benefits include:

  • Competitive salary based on your experience.
  • 20 days annual leave and 8 days national bank holidays plus extra time gifted around Christmas (based on full time working hours).
  • Your birthday off.
  • Time off to volunteer for local charities to give back
  • Christmas and summer parties, on us
  • Whatever computer, software, books and other materials you might need.
  • A healthy budget for training, conferences, and other qualifications you might be interested in taking.
  • Regular team social activities like axe throwing, crazy golf, bowling, going out for drinks and a curry.

If this all sounds good to you, please get in touch!