Advertising account planner

Location: Gurgaon

Experience: upto 10 years

Organization: Leading MNC in internet/ eCommerce

Job Description:

- Responsible for creating the communication strategy for an advertising campaign.

- Targeting the right audience, as well as setting the tone and message of the campaign.

- Responsible for writing the formal brief and for providing the ideal environment for creative development.

- Combine market data, qualitative research and product knowledge within a brief to enable the creative team to produce innovative ideas that will reach consumers.

- Involved in working with a number of clients at the same time, and will need to identify the specific business needs for each one.

Tasks may include:

- liaising with clients to identify specific business problems and develop ideas;

- communicating with colleagues within the agency, such as creatives and account managers, in the process of developing a campaign

- gaining a comprehensive context for advertising strategies by analysing a wide range of information in great detail, including demographics, socio-economics and the market for the client's product and market share;

- commissioning research from outside organisations to inform advertising strategies, using both qualitative methods, such as focus groups and structured interviews, and quantitative methods, such as demographic profiling and questionnaires

- running research groups

- finding an 'angle' on a specific product or service on which to base an advertising campaign

- researching the product or service to be advertised, which may involve gaining technical or specific knowledge;

- reconciling the differences between consumers' current perceptions of the brand and the way the client wishes the brand to be perceived

- meeting the client to learn the background of the brand and advising on possible approaches to the target market

- providing the creative team with a clearly defined brief that contains concise information on the product, audience and strategy

- presenting conclusions and ideas to clients and other agency staff

- analysing and interpreting customer response and sales data to evaluate the effectiveness of the campaign.

This job opening was posted long time back. It may not be active. Nor was it removed by the recruiter. Please use your discretion.