Media Planner

Akind is a family of brands working together with the aim of making people and business grow. Headquartered in Stockholm, we currently have operations in six countries, more than 1600 employees and growing. We continuously strive to improve ourselves by providing the best possible expertise to our clients and are now looking for a Media Planner to further strengthen our marketing department.

As Media Planner you will be responsible for the overall media strategy, which includes planning, evaluating and developing the media strategy for all of our four brands within Akind to ensure growth and to meet our business needs. You will be part of our inhouse marketing department and together with an additional Media Planner in the team, be the main point of contact with our media partners in form om external agencies but also direct media partners. In collaboration with media partners you will also support the execution of campaigns through media planning and advisory. As we are currently developing the ways we work within our inhouse marketing department, your experience and input will be of great value to our continued development. As Media Planner, you are our expert, sharing your knowledge within the organization and identifying opportunities for improvement so that we may grow together with you.

Being part of our marketing department based in Stockholm, you will be working with several companies within the group whilst remaining close to the business. Our team consists of knowledgeable people with a mix of experiences and competencies, working together towards the same goals and clients. Our culture is characterized by ambitious and kind people, and we are convinced that it is our employees who are the basis for our growth and development. That is why we put a lot of commitment and resources on both our employees and leadership within the organization.

• Evaluate and develop our channel strategy for different brands with media agencies; campaigns, objectives and target groups
• Planning top of the line media and communication strategies
• Manage communication and collaboration with media partners and/or agencies
• Oversee and evaluate our job boards purchases together with a media agency
• Be the main point of contact for marketing opportunities involving media
• Take part in campaign planning and execution
• Provide media insights and expertise to the marketing department
• Monitor media trends and work proactively on how reach our target audience in new and effective ways.

• 5 years of experience working within media buying, media strategy, and/or marketing strategy
• Deep understanding of the whole media landscape covering both ATL medias (OOH/Print) and BTL (Online video/Social media/Programmatic/SEM) just to mention a few.
• Relevant education within marketing, media or equivalent
• Excellent communication skills, written and spoken English

It is an advantage if you have extensive experience from a media agency or similar, but most importantly we believe you have a passion for delivering business value through insights and strive to work with continuous improvement. You thrive in an international and fast-changing environment with high ambitions and colleagues eager to learn.

For this position we will focus on your potential and the following competences are considered crucial for the role:

• Co-operative
• Responsible
• Taking Initiative
• Results oriented

To all of you who want to achieve just a little bit more.

Welcome home. We reward ambition!

General information

• Start: According to agreement

• Contract: Full-time

• Location: Stockholm

Recruitment process: The first step in the recruitment process is to apply with your CV or LinkedIn, no Cover Letter is necessary. If you fullfill the requirements for the position, you will then receive an email asking you to complete two tests by Assessio. One is a personality mapping which takes about 20 minutes to complete, the other a cognitive ability test which takes 12 minutes to complete. The reason why we use tests is to ensure a solid and fair recruitment process focusing on potential for the position we are hiring for rather than your CV. If you proceed, the next step is a telephone interview and later on a behavioural descriptive interview with Lisette Lind, Talent Acquisition Manager and Carl Jernberg, Media Planner. For our final candidate there will be a final interview with Charlotte Holmlund, Chief Marketing Officer.

As our selection process is continuous and we may move forward with candidates to the next stage of the recruitment process before the application period is over, please apply as soon as possible but no later than the 9th of April.

Akind is a network of specialist brands designed to make people and businesses grow. Our group started as Academic Work, the leading staffing & recruitment company for Young Professionals, and throughout the years we have added new business models through Brights, Crowd Collective and AW Executive Search to be one step ahead and face the needs and challenges of our clients. We are constantly striving to improve, innovate and look for new ways to make the ‘world of work’ better, smarter, and more fun.

Akind’s business is building other businesses. Our vision is to help the companies in our group to outperform the competition. How we support our businesses will vary depending on their needs, challenges, and goals, but we will always be there to help them grow and develop. Our expert functions are at the very core of Akind – we are a family of experts where everyone feels like they belong and support each other. By continually reinventing ourselves, daring to question the status quo and adding new forward-thinking solutions, we want to inspire and prepare people for tomorrow’s workplace.

We want to be the best place to grow, for people at every step of their careers, for companies at every stage of their growth journey, and for brands that make people grow. We are proud of what we have achieved so far, but we are still only in the beginning of our journey.