Planning Manager

A. OVERVIEW OF THE ROLE:

A Planning Manager provides an ideal environment for strategic & creative show development. He/ She liaises closely with Project Leader & clients to ensure that the creative & efficient delivery of event show well meets clients' expectation.

B. ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

1. Planning:

- Working closely with client/Project Leader to deeply understand & identify client's briefs.

- Preparing, presenting & selling strategies, communication plans, creative concepts & execution plans to clients.

- Being capable to add values to the daily job to control the strategic direction, communication plan, creative concept & execution plan.

- Evaluating ideas in the internal review sessions.

2. Show Development:

- Guiding the team to develop storyline of performances, video clips, visuals following the show contents.

- Direct/instruct the art direction for creative & film designers to ensure the quality & consistency of art & project concept.

- Instruct & supervise the external show producers/specialists to develop event concept & bring it to the real show on stage.

- Reviewing all final results & suggest improvements if required.

3. People Management:

- Leading, inspiring & driving the team to generate outstanding & efficient concept, engagement activities, etc.

- Developing the team by coaching & training team member to improve skills.

- Building the teamwork spirit; making evaluations of performance of the staff.

- Contributing in internal working process improvement.

4. Studying:

- Research and study new trends or innovative case studies in Advertising & Communications that have been done locally or globally.

A. QUALIFICATION & EXPERIENCES:

- Bachelor’s degree.

- At least 3-year experience in the same position in Event & Activation industry.

- Experience across various marketing disciplines, e.g. events, activation, sales promotion, digital is an advantage.

- Solid working experience in one of leading below the line agencies.

B. SKILLS:

1. Soft skills:

- Good time management & organizational skills.

- A positive & strong leader.

- Possess excellent presentation skills.

- Excellent troubleshooting & solution-finding skills in terms of staff & projects.

- Aesthetic, adaptable, tenacious, systematic, innovative & insightful.

- Analysis, Problem Assessment: Strong Computer and Analytical Acumen and able to data mine and secure relevant information, identifying key issues and relationships from a knowledge base, relating and comparing data from different sources; Critical thinking that utilizes logic to link through ideas into strong and in-depth strategies

2. Competency skills:

- Having solid knowledge of branding, marketing & technical trends.

- Good written skill, particularly in relation to proposals & presentation.

- Good English in verbal & written communication.

- Creativity: Thinking out of the box

- Having own style, clear attitude & point of view.

- Business acumen

- Having experience in good managing integrated Marketing campaign.

- Having result-driven mindset with attention to detail.

- Being passionate & driven in everything you do & filtering that approach through the teams & the organization as a whole.

- Ability to manage client’s expectation & deliverables.