planning the swoosh

Wanted: Mid-weight Planner to join the team at W+K London.

Accounts to include Nike UK, Nike Football Global, plus one other of our splendid clients, yet TBC.

The Best Job in The World?

It’s not on an Australian island, granted.

But if you’re into creative communication, strategy and sport, there probably aren’t many better jobs than Planner on Nike at W+K London (we’re massively biased of course).

We’re looking for an amazing strategic thinker to, amongst lots of other things, come help conceive and bring to life the next generation of ideas in the footsteps of Write the Future and GRID.

We’re not absolutely sure what type of person we’ll hire for this job. But we do know a few things:

They’ll probably be around three to four years in. They’ll have worked in strategy before, but might not have spent all of their career thus far as a ‘planner’. They’ll be able to hold their own in a meeting and be ready to run with a piece of business. They’ll have an interesting point-of-view on life, not just advertising. They’ll get sport. They’ll be massively passionate about what they do. They won’t obsess about talking about stuff, because they’d rather be doing stuff. They’ll be a nice person to have around. They’ll be awesome.

Most importantly, they’ll be ready to do the best work of their life.

Sound like you?

If so, we invite you to answer the following questions. Feel free to do so in any way you see fit. Once you’ve answered them, please email to graeme.douglas@wk.com by 5pm on Monday 1^st November 2010 (although any earlier would be wonderful). We’ll take it from there.

• What's the biggest myth in our industry?

• Define an insight.

• Define an idea.

• What is Planning?

• How will W+K be making money in ten years?

• Tell us something interesting.

• Which piece of work do you wish you'd made, and why?

• What's your favourite piece of Nike work from anywhere in the world, and why?

• What's the biggest issue facing football?

• What does Just Do It mean to a kid today?

We know that’s a bit of work. But we hope that it’s worth it. Of course, if you do have a bash at this, we promise that we’ll give you feedback, whatever happens.

Finally, no head-hunters, please. It’s nothing personal.