Requirements
- Strong craft skills in media planning
- Proven ability to lead media planning work
- Experience working with FMCG clients
- Leadership by example
- Not satisfied with average performance
- Willingness to challenge the status quo
- Ability to deliver innovative media plans
- Demonstrated passion for media planning and brands
- Innate curiosity
- Willingness to share ideas, thoughts, and insights with team and clients
Benefits
- Opportunity to be part of PHD’s inclusive culture
- Work in an open space where opinions and ideas are listened to
- Ability to bring your true self to work
- Scope to do things differently
Work Arrangement
Remote (City/Region) — Manchester
Team
Structure: Multidisciplinary team
About the Role
- We are looking for a Media Planning Director to join us at PHD in Manchester to support our award-winning work across our FMCG portfolio of clients.
- Planning is a huge part of PHD’s DNA, and the successful applicant will be leading the media planning work on some of the UKs leading challenger brands operating in the FMCG space.
- You’ll be working alongside an experienced and supportive multidisciplinary team with the remit to drive best-in-class media planning, challenge the status quo and deliver innovative media plans that deliver competitive advantage to our clients.
- This role is ideal for a media planner with strong craft skills, who leads by example, who isn’t satisfied with average and who is ready to push the art of the possible in the media space.
- You’ll have an innate curiosity and a willingness to share ideas, thoughts, and insights with your team and clients alike, and will demonstrate a genuine passion for media planning and the brands you work on.
- Here at PHD you have the permission to do just that!
- You will also have an opportunity to be part of PHD’s inclusive culture, an open space where you can bring your true self to work and where opinions and ideas are listened to and there is scope to do things differently.
About the Agency
- PHD UK is a growth-focused media agency driven by innovation and creativity.
- It is the reigning Campaign AND Media Week Awards Media Agency of the Year and in March 2026 was named as the most awarded media agency in the World in the annual Warc Media 100 rankings.
- Founded in London in 1990, we were the first media agency to offer strategic and creative planning at a time when the industry was about buying cheaply and quickly.
- Our founders saw a bright future where smart thinking and clever planning could help brands grow faster than their competitors.
- Over the subsequent 3 decades, we have continued to build on this defining ethic — with our evolution shaped by a continual investment in thought leadership and a culture of Ingenuity.
- Today, with over 100 offices in 74 countries, we continue to create remarkable campaigns that lead to remarkable growth – using the extending canvas of data and technology.
