R4 Advertising
Junior Media Planner
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Company Description
R4 Advertising is a media trading, planning, and activation agency focused on delivering real value and measurable outcomes for brands. The agency plans around genuine audience behavior and trades media at scale to protect performance and control cost. All value created through trading is returned to clients, with a commitment to clarity, accountability, and transparent media economics. R4 Advertising operates across the UK, USA and Europe, partnering with ambitious brands that expect their media investment to work harder and smarter. The team is driven by trade discipline, audience intelligence, and precise activation to make media work the way it should.
Role Description
The Junior Media Planner role exists to support the delivery of accurate, audience-led media plans while developing the skills required to operate as a fully-fledged planner within a performance-led agency.
Working closely with Media Planners, Media Traders and the Activation team, you will support the creation of media plans, manage data inputs, liaise with media owners and ensure planning outputs are accurate, timely and commercially sound.
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This is a development role with clear expectations, structured learning and defined progression.
Qualifications
This role is suited to candidates early in their media planning career who are detail-oriented and eager to learn.
You will need:
- 1-2 years’ experience in a media agency, in-house media team or relevant placement
- Basic understanding of media planning principles
- Interest in audience-led planning and real-world media behaviour
- Strong organisational skills and attention to detail
- Confidence working with numbers, spreadsheets and schedules
- Ability to work to deadlines and follow defined processes
- Clear communication skills and willingness to ask questions
- Comfortable working within systems and workflows
- You must be reliable, organised and open to feedback.
What You Get
This is a proper entry point into media planning, built around learning the craft the right way.
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- A clear development role within a performance-led planning team
- Hands-on exposure to real media plans, live briefs and active campaigns
- The opportunity to work closely with Media Planners, Media Traders and Activation teams
- Structured learning across audience-led planning, data inputs and commercial accuracy
- Experience using industry planning tools and datasets
- Clear expectations, defined processes and support from senior planners
- A visible progression path into Media Planner and beyond, based on capability and consistency
- Exposure to how media trading, planning and activation connect in the real world
Optional / Progression-Led Upside
Earned through accuracy, reliability and growth.
- Fast-tracked progression for high performers
- Expanded planning responsibility across larger briefs and accounts
- Exposure to national and international campaigns
- Long-term career development within a trade-led agency
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