Strategic Planning Account Manager in City of London, London

We are seeking a Brilliant Strategic Planning Account Director to join our tight-knit Strategic Planning team – who sit at the intersection of Strategy and Planning, specialising in Behaviour Change briefs for public and private sector. In this role, you will lead the development and management of behaviour change campaigns across a breadth of public sector briefs. One day you might be saving lives by encouraging people to donate blood, another you might be preventing people being scammed by fraudsters, and another you might be helping to keep the country safe by recruiting police officers.

The role is diverse, combining traditional media planning with strategic thinking and client management. You will have an opportunity to flex your analytical and creative muscles – from unearthing insights from data to brainstorming. The role will suit someone who is a good all-rounder: a media planner with exceptional client servicing skills and a keen interest in strategy. We actively seek out those with a natural curiosity about people and what makes them tick.

This is a chance to work in a team that really cares about making a difference to the world, supporting each other, and delivering excellent work – with plenty of opportunities to learn new skills and knowledge. You will get the opportunity to work on some huge campaigns, with large budgets working across both digital and offline channels.

About the Agency: MG OMD was established in 1990 as a challenger media agency (Manning Gottlieb Media) that placed craft, trust and performance at the heart of media planning and buying. Since joining Omnicom network’s OMG (Omnicom Media Group) in 1998, we have continued to retain our founding ethos of providing clients with bespoke approaches, unprecedented insight, specialism, security and transparency; helping our clients to use media to unlock their competitive advantage and deliver innovative, effective and award-winning work and campaigns that create difference that matters.

MG OMD is the second-largest media agency in the UK. We are the most awarded media agency in both the history of the IPA Effectiveness Awards and Thinkbox’s TV Planning Awards and have this year been named as Agency of the Year in The Media Leader UK awards, Campaign Global awards and Campaign UK awards. With over 500 employees working across some of the UK’s leading brands including the John Lewis Partnership, Virgin Media O2, British Airways, Specsavers, HM Government, LNER, Sony Pictures and Age UK; it is our people who ultimately make the award-winning difference.

So, true to our ethos, we work hard at creating a spirit and atmosphere that inspires our people to be considerate, honest, and professional whilst also being stimulating, imaginative and inspirational. We want people who are great to work with, fun to be with and who genuinely care; about each other, our clients, our media partners and doing great work.

In return, we provide an amazingly collaborative culture, where open communication and an unwavering commitment to diversity of thinking, diversity of background and diversity of skillsets runs through everything we do. All backed up by the highest standards of training, development and support in the industry; so much so, that we have attained IPA (Institute of Practitioners in Advertising) CPD Gold Accreditation for the 13th year running and maintained our CPD Platinum Accreditation for the 7th consecutive year, showcasing our commitment to continuous professional development. We were also featured in the Sunday Times Best Places to Work in both 2023 and 2024. Our being named is completely based on the opinions and perspectives of our employees which makes the accolade all that more special.