Planning Account Director
hace 5 días
Greater London
The role You’ll join us as a senior member of the Planning team, leading strategy across several high-profile accounts, spanning FMCG (Health & Beauty) and a utlity brand. This role sits at the heart of our brand-new planning team, giving you a rare opportunity to help shape our ways of working, define best-in-class planning practices, and contribute to the culture from day one. It’s an incredible moment to join the7stars as we evolve and innovate, building a future-fit planning function designed to set new standards for the industry. As well as leading the overall media approach, you will closely liaise with the specialists across the business to ensure we develop the right audience, measurement and actvation strategies for our clients driving best in class collaboration. Key Responsibilities • Lead the client team across day-to-day account management & media planning work., • Focus on delivering best in class media planning proposals & maintaining excellent industry leading relationships., • Work closely with Planning BD to share and build your client knowledge that informs great media planning responses clearly aligned to the client's needs., • Responsible for developing the media planning proposal and managing the coordina5on of agency team, i.e. specialist contribution to planning proposals, client meetings and campaign reviews & supporting analysis, • Man marking your equivalent clients; suppor5ng and challenging them as necessary to build a true partnership., • Supporting the BD in shaping & delivering relevant proactive work to Marketing leads which goes beyond the brief and steers the relationship away from becoming transactional., • Champion and integrate agency tools and tech to supercharge planning responses. About You We’re looking for someone who thrives in a free-thinking, entrepreneurial environment and is excited by the chance to shape great planning work. You’ll have: Core Skills & Experience • Strong media planning experience with solid multi-channel understanding (online & offline)., • Evidence of leading client relationships, planning responses and integrated campaign delivery., • Deep understanding of OOH, ATL and digital channels, including partners, processes and strengths/limitations., • Strong presentation, communication and relationship-building skills., • Confidence leading meetings and managing fast-moving workloads, quick turnarounds and shifting priorities., • Impeccable attention to detail and a solutions-first mindset., • Familiarity with tools such as Telmar, TGI, Nielsen, Brand Index and SimilarWeb. What You’re Like • Strategic, curious and commercially minded., • Entrepreneurial and energised by autonomy rather than rigid structures., • Driven to deliver excellent work and excited by big ideas., • Comfortable challenging yourself and others to raise the bar., • Passionate about the role of media and communications in driving business outcomes. About the7stars the7stars is unlike any other agency. The distinction started the day we launched in 2005 when we named ourselves after a pub, but more importantly when we made a promise that we were going to do things differently. And this commitment has stuck with us. It guides how we work, how we think and how we treat one another and can be expressed in a single word. Freedom. Our Freedom philosophy lives across our entire business from people, product and planning. It means we plan & buy media how we want, develop careers how we want, take holiday when we need it, invent tools when we need them, give people a platform to speak up, question and express themselves freely – but more importantly it has allowed us to create an amazing place to work. We have a unique working environment and open structure which encourages personal development through client contact, team work, training, exposure to all media and internal teams – and a “sky’s the limit” approach to your growth within the agency. the7stars is 300 passionate media people that are able to focus purely on creating great work for our clients. If thinking freely and with integrity is your bag, then the7stars is an agency you should meet. Expect: • A flat structure with real ownership from day one., • A collaborative, diverse team of brilliant thinkers., • Freedom to design a flexible approach to your working life., • A business that gives 5% of its profits back into the community., • A place where personal development is encouraged and supported., • A genuinely fun, creative and non-political environment. Benefits A comprehensive package including: • Competitive salary, • Uncounted holiday, • Summer profit-share and Christmas bonus (discretionary), • Hybrid working and flexibility, • Personalised training plan & coaching, • Wellbeing days, • Flexible pension plan, • Optional private medical insurance & cashback plan, • Life Assurance, Critical Illness and Income Protection, • Gym membership, • Enhanced family policies, • “Work from anywhere” allowance, • EV scheme, tech & cycle scheme, • Season ticket loans and expensed Railcard, • Company bar, • New Business Bonus eligibility in year one