Director, Integrated Planning

Kelly Scott Madison

Kelly Scott Madison (KSM) is a leading media marketing agency that helps great brands connect with customers in meaningful ways. We leverage technology, media, content, and data to get the job done, and get it done well. It’s an amazing and transformative time at our agency.

https://ksmmedia.com/


Position Details

Director, Integrated Planning
Job
Full-time
3/18/2021
Chicago Illinois
Chicago, IL

We’re looking for an Integrated Planning (IP) Director to inspire teams, build Client businesses and move our agency forward. This is a high-profile role with a seat and voice at the leadership table. As a strategic visionary with masterful relational skills, you will set your Client’s strategic direction, integrate teams across disciplines and ensure that our tactical plans and executions come to life in a meaningful way. You’ll drive Client profitability and manage staffing and budget planning. You’ll also play a key role in organic growth and new business. Are you ready? Let’s do this…

The ways you will make an impact:

  • Champion Client’s business objectives and advocate for the strategic vision in tactical planning 
  • Integrate IP with the broader KSM team, ensuring synergy between the tactical plan and execution, as well as cross-client solutions and knowledge sharing 
  • Demonstrate superior knowledge of cross-channel media strategy and planning, as well as an intimate understanding of investment solutions, media analytics/insights, and measurement 
  • Identify organic growth opportunities through new technology, emerging media, market trends, and KSM products 
  • Oversee audience development, channel role planning and allocation 
  • Leverage KSM products/intellectual property to uncover insights and deliver on the tactical plan 
  • Cultivate trusted Client relationships and model our client-first mentality; deliver as a creative thought partner with a vested interest and deep understanding of the Client’s business 
  • Manage Client profitability, staffing, resource and budget planning 
  • Play an active role in new business opportunities; impress prospective clients with your strategic prowess and interpersonal aptitude in presentations 
  • Develop junior team members through direct feedback; inspire, empower and continuously raise the bar to yield ongoing progress 
  • Contribute to agency thought leadership

Experience you should bring:

  • 10+ years of experience in media (preferably integrated); key role as Client leader on national/regional business 
  • 5+ years leading and developing others

Who you are:

  • A razor-sharp strategic visionary 
  • An ego-less high achiever with unwavering integrity; decisive, purposeful, and results-oriented 
  • A masterful collaborator and communicator with a high EQ 
  • An inspirational leader; the room is better because you’re in it 
  • An entrepreneurial bold builder; always innovating, tinkering, stepping up and speaking up


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