Associate Planning Director

Job Title: Associate Director – Digital Planning, Client Servicing & Strategy

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Job Summary:

Associate Director – Digital Planning, Client Servicing & Strategy

Key Responsibilities:

Digital Strategy & Planning

• Lead the development of holistic digital marketing strategies across paid media, content, social, programmatic, and performance marketing.
• Leverage consumer insights, data analytics, and platform trends to build innovative, audience-first campaigns.
• Translate client objectives into measurable KPIs and data-backed digital plans.

Client Servicing & Relationship Management

• Serve as the senior point of contact for digital strategy and execution for assigned clients.
• Build and maintain strong client relationships through proactive communication and strategic consultation.
• Lead client meetings, digital reviews, strategy presentations, and business growth discussions.

Campaign Execution & Optimization

• Oversee campaign planning, execution, and performance tracking across platforms (Google, Meta, Programmatic, Amazon, LinkedIn, etc.).
• Collaborate with performance, media, content, and creative teams to ensure integrated delivery.
• Analyze performance metrics and deliver strategic insights and recommendations to clients.

Team Leadership & Collaboration

• Mentor and guide a team of digital planners, account managers, and analysts.
• Foster a collaborative culture with internal cross-functional teams including media, creative, data, and tech.
• Ensure team delivers work on time, on brief, and on budget.

Key Skills & Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Marketing, Business, Digital Media, or a related field.
• 8–12 years of experience in digital planning, client servicing, or strategy roles, preferably in an agency environment.
• Strong knowledge of digital platforms (Google Ads, Meta Ads Manager, DV360, Amazon Ads, etc.).
• Proven expertise in digital media planning, performance marketing, audience segmentation, and attribution, digital full funnel strategies
• Excellent communication, client-facing, and presentation skills.
• Experience with analytics tools (GA4, Adobe Analytics, Tableau, etc.) is a plus.
• Leadership experience and ability to manage multi-disciplinary teams.

About Havas India

Havas India gathers the expertise of 20 agencies and specialised divisions across 3 verticals: Havas Media Network – Havas Media, PivotRoots (integrated digital), Arena Media, Havas Media Tribes (out-of-home), Havas Market (e-commerce), Havas Play (sports, entertainment & content), Havas Programmatic Hub (programmatic trading desk), Havas Analytics (data & analytics), Socialyse (pure play social media), and Havas Play Gameplan (sports marketing); Havas Creative Network – Havas Worldwide India (creative), Havas People India (talent communications & employer branding), Havas CX India (customer experience), Think Design (UX/UI), Shobiz (experiential marketing), Shobiz Exhibits (exhibitions) Conran Design Group Mumbai (branding & design), PR Pundit Havas Red (PR), and Prose on Pixels (content-at-scale); Havas Health & You – Havas Life Sorento (health & wellness communications). With its unique Village model, it is an integrated network present across 3 Villages in Mumbai, Gurgaon and Bengaluru, and regional offices in Kolkata, New Delhi, Hyderabad and Chennai, with over 2000+ professionals and associates.

Here at Havas across the group we pride ourselves on being committed to offering equal opportunities to all potential employees and have zero tolerance for discrimination. We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome applicants irrespective of age, sex, race, ethnicity, disability and other factors that have no bearing on an individual’s ability to perform their job

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