Manager, Implementational Planning, UK

WPP Media · London, United Kingdom

  • Senior
  • Full-time
  • Posted 2026-10-30
  • Confirmed live on 1 November 2026

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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 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.

For more information, visit wppmedia.com.

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Role Summary and Impact

ABOUT WPP & OPENDOOR

At WPP, we’re constantly reinventing the future of creativity on an ever-broader canvas, bringing together unrivalled talent, resources and skills to provide an integrated offer of communications, experience, commerce and technology.

Over the last decade, we have developed a dedicated global client practice with the mission of accelerating WPP’s impact for our largest clients by bringing them the best of WPP. Each team is custom-built around a client’s specific needs and challenges, providing easy access to the right capabilities. And that’s why we’ve built OpenDoor for Amazon.

OpenDoor is a unique integration of the best of WPP and Amazon – building on their respective strengths and visions. Whether at WPP or at Amazon, every project is an OpenDoor on new possibilities. Anything and everything can be an opportunity for our people to drive impact – for them to innovate, learn, thrive, and occasionally fail too.

The unique OpenDoor partnership model is built to deliver next level Productivity, fueled by our industry-leading approach to People, Platforms, and Process. OpenDoor spans across all WPP agencies and disciplines such as media, business consultancy, communications and brand strategy, tech and commerce, public relations, and production.

OpenDoor’s values are built from Amazon’s own 16 Leadership Principles, and WPP’s core values of Open, Optimistic and Extraordinary. Together, when WPP’s Creative Transformation meets Amazon’s next-level customer centricity, our people come together to challenge and impact what’s done today and build a better future.

By joining OpenDoor, not only are you joining a cross-function team partnering with one of WPP’s top five global clients, but you are also taking a step to challenge yourself and the world around you every day, working in the most unusual way on some of Earth’s most ambitious opportunities in marketing, tech, media, business, and creativity.

We are searching for a talented and enthusiastic individual to join our OpenDoor team as an Media Manager. This is a Full-time position based in London. This role plays a crucial part in supporting WPP's mission to deliver consistency, delivery excellence and best in class service for Amazon in every country across its diverse businesses, including XCM, Prime Video, and RMI.

You will have a crucial role within the team, responsible for the delivery of excellence in market media planning, buying and reporting.

For this position, you take a much higher and wider level of responsibility in the planning and buying delivery of your, specialist, media campaigns across your client(s). You will be responsible for a number of key reporting workstream from both a media and finance point of view.

You are trusted to produce accurate work and prioritize tasks with minimum supervision.

While your technical skills remain important, managing requires new skill sets and in this role you will need strong interpersonal expertise. You will work with a variety of other specialists spanning Strategy, Implementation, Investment, Finance & Data Excellence.

Role Responsibility

• Manages the assigned teams to implement media campaigns across AV, Print & some Digital activity (experience in AV essential, others preferable but not a necessity). Applies best practices to campaign management and interpretation of data.

• Acts as the escalation point for issues.

• Manages and takes ownership of workload from start to completion.

• Delivers accurate planning and reporting in line with strategic and commercial objectives.

• Understands the role of the medium as part of the overall campaign and applies smart use of campaign planning or market opportunities. Applies advanced data analytics to understand client challenges and media investment strategies, presenting findings to relevant stakeholders.

• Resourceful in finding relevant data sources where available (third-party data, existing client data) to support recommendations.

• Applies strategic thinking when working with clients and third parties to achieve desired outcomes.

• Takes a lead role in pulling investment and campaign delivery for regular client reporting and has the ability to share insight on the data.

• Gains a thorough understa

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