WPP Media
Implementational Planning Exec
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Implementational Planning Exec
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 our 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, our clients see exactly where, how, and why their media investment is working.
For more information, visit wppmedia.com.
Purpose of the Role
The purpose of this document is to help prospective team members better understand the responsibilities for the position of Media Executive at OpenDoor, WPP’s bespoke global operating model for Amazon.
About WPP & OpenDoor
At WPP, we’re constantly reinventing the future of creativity across an ever-expanding spectrum, combining unparalleled talent, resources, and skills to provide an integrated solution encompassing communications, experience, commerce, and technology.
Over the past decade, WPP has developed a dedicated global client practice aimed at accelerating impact for its largest clients by delivering the best of WPP. Each specialised team is custom-built to address a client’s unique needs and challenges, ensuring seamless access to tailored capabilities.
That’s why OpenDoor has been established for Amazon. OpenDoor represents a unique convergence of WPP and Amazon’s strengths, leveraging their respective expertise and forward-thinking visions. At both WPP and Amazon, every project is an opportunity to explore possibilities—anything and everything is open to innovation. Our team thrives on challenges, embraces learning, strives for growth, and can’t shy away from stretching limits.
The OpenDoor partnership model drives next-level productivity, powered by unparalleled standards in people, platforms, and process. Our capabilities span across all of WPP’s agencies and disciplines—media, business consultancy, communications and brand strategy, tech and commerce, public relations, and production.
OpenDoor’s values are rooted in Amazon’s 16 Leadership Principles as well as WPP’s founding values of Open, Optimistic and Extraordinary. When WPP’s Creative Transformation merges with Amazon’s customer-centric approach, we extend boundaries and build future possibilities.
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By joining OpenDoor, you not only align with an elite cross-functional team supporting one of WPP’s top five global clients, but also commit to a relentless drive for continuous improvement every day. Working the unconventional way on Earth's most ambitious opportunities, you’ll push the envelope in marketing, technology, media, business, and creativity.
About the Role
We are seeking a talented and enthusiastic candidate to join our OpenDoor team as a Media Executive. This is a Full-Time position based in London. This role plays a pivotal part in supporting WPP’s mission to deliver consistency, delivery excellence, and best-in-class service for Amazon across global markets, including XCM (Business Growth division), Prime Video, and Gather’s Relaunch of Routines Media Institute (RMI).
Responsibilities
- Plan, execute AV/Print/Audio campaigns across channels for assigned clients, ensuring deep operational knowledge of these campaigns.
- Handle day-to-day media buying and transaction management, guaranteeing exceptional delivery standard, accuracy, and pace.
- Collaborate in implementation phases by utilising OpenDoor workflow tools to support proposals, prioritizing flawless execution and right timing.
- Plan, optimise, and report on campaign delivery, aligning with strategic campaign objectives and commercial expectations.
- Developing high-quality and precise media plans with strategic insights, backed by actionable recommendations and accurate reporting or proof of delivery.
- Exhibit a profound comprehension of media excellence standards and proactively apply best practices and innovations.
- Work effectively with planning teams, clients, and media partners, ensuring fluid collaboration and transparency.
- Interpret data at multiple stages—** campaign planning, reporting, and strategy**—for agile decision-making.
- Ask the right media-oriented challenges and gather relevant considerations to support successful campaigns.
- Support print and audio investments by aggregating client research, competitive insights, and relevant frameworks.
- Develop a comprehensive understanding of media strategies and the business outcomes for each tactic.
- Adhere to instructions diligently to meet client needs.
- Compile case studies and gather insights to inform media partner selection.
- Attend relevant meetings to grasp the product needs, capabilities, expectations, and KPIs.
- Continuously learn metrics critical to assessing product performance relative to client needs.
- Define and align performance measures and KPIs to ensure products maintain excellence against client-agency expectations.
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Qualifications
- Experience in media knowledge is highly desirable.
- Ensure financial and commercial accuracy, with emphasis on reconciliation and tasks that bolster net working capital, plus efficient resolution of challenges and discrepancies.
- Bonus Points:
- Prioritise tasks based on their relative importance.
- Apply judgment for efficient time and resource allocation, balancing competing demands.
- Successfully manage multiple tasks concurrently, delivering targets with minimal mistakes.
- Maintain accuracy in work output.
- Implement tools to ensure efficiency and minimise manual drudgery.
Benefits of OpenDoor
- Unparalleled Access – Engage directly with one of the world’s most forward-thinking and influential companies.
- Mentorship & Training – Grow under guidance from top professionals at WPP and Amazon.
- Cutting-Edge Technology – Utilise industry-leading tools and platforms, including WPP Open.
- Data-Driven Environment – Cultivate analytical skills aligned with data-driven decision-making.
- Global Impact – Be part of a team that influences the future of marketing on a global scale.
Equal Opportunity Employer WPP OpenDoor is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity in its workforce. We take pride in fostering an inclusive environment that promotes independence of thought, equality, respect, meritocracy, collaboration, and open-level dialogue. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability.
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How to Apply
Express your interest by submitting your resume and cover letter to contactoformation@wppmedia.com
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