Overview
We are hiring a Planning Business Director to lead planning across one of our most high‑profile UK client partnerships, Haleon, on a 12‑month fixed‑term contract. This role plays a central part in bringing together strategy, media, creativity and data to deliver work that drives meaningful business outcomes. You’ll take ownership of direction, raise the bar for planning quality and help shape how we work across the UK and Ireland.
What you’ll be doing
- Owning the overall planning direction for the UK Haleon business, ensuring work aligns to business and marketing priorities.
- Acting as a trusted senior partner to Haleon stakeholders, offering clear thinking, challenge and strategic guidance.
- Leading key planning moments such as annual planning and QBRs, focusing on insight, clarity and momentum.
- Bringing together teams across planning, media, digital, commerce, investment and strategy to deliver joined‑up solutions.
- Maintaining high standards of planning quality, stepping in to unblock challenges and manage risk when needed.
- Improving ways of working through collaboration, test‑and‑learn thinking and continuous improvement.
- Connecting strong UK planning into NEU and global conversations so ideas travel further and land with impact.
Skills we’re looking for
- Strong experience in planning or media strategy, working across brand and performance activity.
- Confidence managing complexity, with the ability to balance multiple brands, stakeholders and priorities.
- A collaborative leadership approach that provides clarity, direction and support to teams.
- The ability to communicate ideas clearly and influence at a senior client and internal level.
- Commercial awareness, with a clear link between planning decisions and business outcomes.
- Curiosity and adaptability, with a solutions‑focused mindset.
- A genuine commitment to inclusive, open and collaborative ways of working.
Benefits
- Pension
- Life Assurance
- Private Medical cover
- Reflection Days
- Shared Parental Leave
Equal Opportunity Statement
As part of our dedication to create an inclusive and diverse workforce, Spark Foundry is committed to equal access to opportunity for people without regard to race, age, sex, disability, neurodiversity, sexual orientation, gender identity or religion.
At Spark Foundry, we are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. We welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, and do not discriminate on the basis of race, ethnicity, nationality, religion or belief, disability, age, citizenship, relationship status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other protected characteristic.
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