PHD London is a top 10 media planning and buying company owned by Omnicom and part of a growing PHD network.

A pioneering approach sits at the heart of the company and drives everything we do. Our mission is to pioneer the quality of thinking and execution within all communications. We were included in the Sunday Times top 100 companies to work for list in 2005, because of the above and a commitment to making PHD a great place to work.

Every year the company completes a ″cultural audit″ and without fail a significant finding is that PHD is the ″nicest″ company people have worked for. We seem to have more than our fair share of decent, nice people who look out for each other. All of this combined, explains why in 2005, we were given the unprecedented honour of agency of the year by all three trade titles.

Likely Candidate:
Our media manager candidate is likely to have around 3 to 4 years experience of media planning across all media channels. Their experience should also include an element of people management and ideally they will have ″trained up″ a graduate. The candidate should have a rounded expertise gained from taking care of the client's budget. He or she is likely to be working in a ″full service″ media agency or could be a very well rounded client or media owner. They should be able to demonstrate tangible examples of innovate thinking at interview

Job Summary:
-Looking after 2 or 3 accounts
-Responsible for 2 planners/media assistants

Areas of Responsibility:
-First point of contact with day to day clients
-Work with media group manager/media director to formulate strategy
-Originate media plans
-Work with buying teams, creative agencies, research companies and 'PHD group companies'
-Managing client's budgets
-Management and development of direct reports

Personal Training Promise:
-Media skills development
-ETNA training
-Presentation skills training
-Self awareness coaching (Myers Briggs)
-People management training
-Client management training
-Time management
-Appraisal training