AV Implementation Director

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 WPP's 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, clients see exactly where, how, and why their media investment is working.

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EssenceMediacom, part of WPP, is a new breed of media agency. Grounded in analytics & insights and powered by data & technology, we believe in the power of media and creative to drive breakthroughs for the world’s best brands. We help clients understand the modern marketing paradox and discover the breakthroughs brands need to win with their consumers. We are designed for the new communications economy — built on data & technology, built for people & algorithms, built around diverse schools of thought, built to test & learn at scale, and, crucially, built to evolve.

We are looking for an Implementation Director to oversee media planning for several clients, including Flutter Group, Tesco and BT. The role centres around ensuring we deliver industry leading implementation recommendations, founded in insight, delivering business results and forging deeper relationship with clients. The candidate will require extensive media planning experience, with a proven track record in delivering industry leading media solutions for clients.

Within this role you will have involvement throughout the entire media planning process, ensuring the comms brief is fit for purpose and ladders back to measurable outcomes, pulling the strategy through into implementation recommendations and ensuring the buying of media stays true to the approach. You will also be responsible for leading the Implementation planning output of the team below you, whilst helping the agency to acquire new clients via new business.