Manager, Content Planning (KOL)

Your Responsibilities Include Lead the planning and execution of end-to-end influencer marketing campaigns across assigned client accounts, ensuring campaigns are delivered on time, within budget, and against objectives. Translate client business and marketing objectives into creator-first strategies that drive measurable business and brand outcomes. Develop influencer and creator ecosystem strategies, including audience segmentation, platform roles, creator tiering, content frameworks, campaign phasing, and amplification recommendations. Conduct research on creator landscapes, audience insights, competitor activity, platform trends, and emerging consumer behaviours to inform strategic planning. Manage creator selection and recommendation processes, ensuring all decisions are backed by data, audience relevance, strategic rationale, and brand fit. Build and maintain strong client relationships by providing timely campaign updates, managing expectations, and identifying opportunities to grow accounts. Collaborate closely with Campaign Management, Strategy, Creative, Media, and Analytics teams to ensure seamless campaign delivery and integrated planning. Analyse campaign performance and reporting, translating insights into optimisation recommendations and best practices for future campaigns. Mentor and coach junior team members, providing guidance, reviewing work, and supporting their professional development. Stay ahead of platform developments, creator trends, and social behaviours, sharing insights and thought leadership internally and with clients. Ensure operational excellence by overseeing campaign administration, maintaining accurate documentation, and ensuring all internal processes, governance, and compliance requirements are adhered to. Support any new business development. Minimum Qualifications 4–6 years' experience in influencer marketing, social strategy, or integrated communications. Strong understanding of Malaysia's creator ecosystem and platform best practices. Excellent strategic thinking, analytical, and storytelling skills. Strong analytical, presentation, and communication skills. Experience using creator discovery and analytics tools is an advantage. Highly organised with strong attention to detail. Advanced proficiency in PowerPoint, Word and Excel. About WPP Media WPP Media is WPP’s global media collective, bringing together world-class media agencies, talent, and capabilities. We partner with clients to unlock growth by combining strategic thinking, creativity, and performance-driven media solutions. At WPP Media, our people and culture are at the heart of everything we do. We believe in strong collaboration, trust, and continuous growth to deliver exceptional results for our clients and meaningful experiences for our teams. Our Core Values We're Open: we build trust and enhance understanding by working collaboratively - across our teams, clients, and partners. We're Optimistic: we adopt a growth mindset throughout our business, embracing change to unlock our collective potential. We're Extraordinary: in pursuit of innovation and growth, we push boundaries and challenge ordinary thinking and the status quo. #LI-promoted Please read our Privacy Notice for more information on how we process the information you provide.